Due to an exhausting weekend running the Handcrafted Hoedown for the Holiday’s I’m postponing my gift giving guide post until tomorrow (Monday).  I want to make sure it’s good and just too tired to think about anything right now except what I have to get done.  That being said, if you have any hard to […]

Since I’m in the midst of major preparations for my 3rd Annual Hand Crafted Hoedown for the Holidays I thought it would be fitting to do a themed Thursday on some of the fabulous and fun looking DIY projects you can purchase on etsy.  I’ll start with something for the ‘green’ lover. A DIY Terrarium […]

Here you go! KEYWORDS: harvest owl x 3 love plum teal rustic x 3 peppermint x 2 winter accessories x 2 mustard mint rust recycled   INSPIRED BY: Holiday Decor Eco-Friendly Fashion Winter Holidays x 4 the harvest x 2 miniatures heirlooms {would be a good tag for quilts…} owls mod luck travel a woodland […]

I have an obsession with buying books.  I just love them…ecspecially books with different projects in them.  I recently purchased one with an adorable belt project in it.  I made the first one per instructions (not pictured here) and it turned out great BUT I had to modify a few things to make it easier […]

This week’s Sunday Gift Guide is to help out folks that need to buy people like me gifts.  To know if you need to buy for a person like me I’ll help you out a little. I am an under 30 mom of two little girls that stays home with them and runs her etsy […]

  If you are in the Middleton Area today make sure to stop by my aunt Becky’s Holiday Craft Fair.  I was there yesterday morning and took pictures of the fabulous collection of handmade goods.    Some of the things you’ll see are: hand-crafted fall and winter decorations, fused glass jewelry, fused glass bottles and […]

This is a picture of my husband (Frank and/or Jared) from a close friend of mine’s wedding last May.  She just posted it on Facebook and I just LOVE it!  Maybe that’s weird but aren’t we cute?

My oldest little girl, Cedi is going to be turning three at the end of the month and I just love to dress her up!  I have to be honest, I have a hard time shopping at the ‘normal’ stores at this point…I’ve been spoiled by etsy.  This is a picture of her in one […]

This past weekend I went to the Quilts By Barb Quilt Retreat and I have actually finished one of the projects I started there.  (I started three…what was I thinking?   I know what I was thinking…I wanted to learn everything that they were teaching even though one of the teachers is my MIL and I […]

I was away this past weekend at a quilt retreat held by my Husband’s aunt, aka, Quilts by Barb.  I returned home Sunday afternoon to a baby Capri with some very, very, very blue feet.  My husband’s reply…”It just happened.”  I felt that things could have been worse…the blue will come off and the girls […]