Let it be a Handmade Holiday

I love what the girls at Frenchie and Flea are doing.

They will be promoting a Handmade Holiday season by featuring Etsy artists and vintage sellers.

I also pledge to buy Handmade or Vintage this Holiday Season.

Don't you agree it makes the Holidays that much more special?

I also pledge to create new and exciting Holiday decor for sale in my Etsy shop and website - I've got lots of ideas in my sketchbook and in the works.

When at the gift show this year, I wasn't inspired to order any of the Holiday Decor the vendors were offering.

Hope I can keep up with production!

Click on the graphic below to meet some new sellers the girls will be introducing beginning Monday...

Oh yea, there are giveaways involved too!

I'm excited!

Happy Halloween!

The last couple of days have been a whirlwind of parades, parties, trick-or-treating and add to that 3 soccer games today! The house is now quiet, the kids are all sugared up and I am done for the day. But before I shut down the computer for the night, I wanted to share these really cute and really quick and easy Halloween snacks that I made for a party.

I got the recipes for the Monster Fingers and HERE and HERE from the Family Fun website.

And the spiders are just chocolate munchkins with chow mein noodles for legs and a little icing for the eyes.

Hope you had a great Halloween!

White Wednesday...Inspiring Rooms

I just grabbed these photos from my inspiration folder for my "White" obsession.

They came from a Swedish site... skonahem.

Visit Faded Charm Cottage for more "White Wednesday".

There's a New Blog on the Block!

Have you heard? One of our favorite magazine editors now has a blog!

And of course it's beautiful....

White Wednesday...Shades of White

I've been so inspired by all of the neutral decorating I've been seeing lately. And I'm finding that I'm so drawn to the calm, serene feeling of Shades of White that I've decided to redecorate my home. We have lots of color in our home now but I'm feeling like it's just adding to the clutter. So, my goal is to Simplify and choose lots of neutral shades and lots of texture so it doesn't get boring. I will be sharing our progress right here on my blog. But don't hold your breath, we're a little slow in the project department......so... I've learned to be patient.

I just put together a few photos of some favorite white pieces in my boutique and I'm participating in White Wednesday over at Faded Charm.

Make sure you stop by for more White Inspiration!

I'm in Love!

How do I convince my husband I NEED these $250 Ugg boots? Help!

Doors of Welcome Party

I'm a little behind with my fall decorating, so here are a couple of pics (from last year) of my front door. I really just like harvest decorating but with 4 kids at home I was receiving some complaints about not enough "scary" decorations. So, we added the huge spider with webs and a little rat under the doorbell. I'm participating in the Doors of Welcome party at Some Days are Diamonds. Make sure you click on the graphic below to visit more Doors!