Very Late Holiday Post

I just wanted to post this picture of some sweet holiday treat packages I made for my co-workers at Christmastime.

Send money for a new camera.

 I made caramel sea salt brownies from A Cup of Jo. (Delicious and addictive. I made 4 batches.)

Then I popped each brownie into a glassine bag and stuck that inside a brown paper bag that I had stamped. I got that cute stamp from Michaels on clearance. Score!

Then I tied the whole thing up with some bakers twine and called it a day.

I was the hit of the office. For a few minutes a least.

I have a fun Valentine's Day DIY coming up in a few days. I just need some good light to take photos so they aren't as poor as the one above.

Oh, Rifle

I have declared my love for Rifle Paper Co. in the past, but Ms. Bond has recently come out with a beautiful line of fabric with Villa Nova, so here's a few more Rifle products I am loving right now.

The fabric... swoon. This floral is gorgeous, but there are also some cute geometric prints as well. I would put any of them in my home.


The 2012 Botanical Calendar. I asked for (and received!) this for my birthday. It definitely brightens up my little gray cubicle.

This set of notebooks. I strongly hinted (suggested?) that these would make a great Mother's Day gift. And this cute little vintagey message pad. Would also be cute in my cubicle.

Halloween Treat Bags

I had this whole post all typed out MONTHS ago and somehow Blogger lost it and I was too tired to type it again. But here we go...

I made little treat bags for my co-workers, mostly because I wanted to use my heat embossing wand.

Each person got a personalized bag, Brains in a Jar, an eyeball on a fork, smaller bag of chocolate eyeballs. I made a cute tag and attached to the eyeball on a fork. I wish I could have found a nice treat bag to stick the eyeballs in, but I had to make do.

Pictures were taken at work with my phone, don't judge. Like I usually have such great pictures.

Bag tutorial here, Brains in a Jar recipe and tags here, eyeballs on a stick (Oreo truffles) here.

Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous

Oh man, I am so in love with these notebooks from Inky Co.
The colors! The patterns! Right up my alley. Love.

Baggage

Love this bag for me:

and this one for little Aggie:

Fall Fashion Inspiration

This lovely photograph (The Pause that Refreshes by CarolynCochrane on Etsy) is so inspirational to me for my fall wardrobe. Pretty, spare and such lovely hints of plums, greys and ivories.

Etsy store is up!

After a year of procrastination, my Etsy store is up and running. Check it out - link is on the side.

Pendleton Love

Canvas Messenger Bag
Yakima Camp Blanket

Wildwood Wrap Cardigan

Kindra Tall Boot

Twinkle, twinkle

I adore these star charts from Brainstorm. On my wish list.

Sheets

I need new sheets. Which should I get?

or

Both are from West Elm and I would get the aloe/white version of either because that is what is on sale.

Next up: Dining room curtains. The excitement never ends!

Looking forward to...

Cracking open these books that I just received in the mail.

They both have some great projects that I'm excited to try out. I'll keep you updated!

A Lovely Loft

If you haven't seen it yet, I wanted to turn your attention to the Sneak Peek over at Design*Sponge today.

The loft is a converted 1800's plow factory in Atlanta. There are over ONE THOUSAND panes of glass and is now used by the owners as a guest house and photograph studio.






What a beautiful space. It's not a place I would feel comfortable living, but I think it is just a dream to look at.

Currently Loving...

Currently loving gray with pops of color.

All That Glitters

Can Confetti System please decorate my life?

Beautiful Books

So, I know these have been out for a while, but I wanted to turn your attention to them in case you didn't know.

Penguin recently came out with a set of clothbound classics for children (we have a set of their "adult" classics), which are available exclusively at Anthropologie. Unfortunately, they are not available online any longer, so RUN to your nearest Anthro and pick some up for your neice, nephew, son, daughter, brother, sister or inner child. I'm definitely going tomorrow to see what they have left.

Available titles are:

The Secret Garden

Anne of Green Gables

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Peter Pan

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Wind in the Willows

Belle & Boo

Speaking of adorable...

Last May, the husband I went to New York, where I couldn't resist loading up on paper goods. Of course!

One of the things I brought home was a simply adorable notebook by Belle & Boo, with this insanely cute illustration.


The reasons I love this notebook are three-fold:
1. Duh, it's adorable.
2. Bunny!
3. The husband and I like to imagine that this is what our future daughter will look like.

Back to the present, I stumbled across the Belle & Boo site and fell even more in love with their products.

Seriously thinking I may have to get these for a future Christmas card.


There are way too many cute things on their site, and I think I would take every one. But I will leave you with one last image to melt your heart.

Swoon

It's holiday card card time and I still have not picked mine out - a must-do this week! For now, I am just feasting on the eye candy of Disney illustrator Ralph Hulett's gorgeous Christmas cards.

I wish, wish, wish these were for sale today. They are too precious for words.

Holiday Wreath

I really love this hand-made felted wreath form West Elm, but unfortunately, it's out of stock. I think my next project will be figuring out how to craft a similar looking one for myself.


What holiday crafts are you making/have you made?

Mission Accomplished!

(In Bob Saget voice-over)

Kids, you may remember me mentioning Gallery 360 in past posts. Back in July of 2010, I had just entered the Red Hot Art Fair with my friends Maria and Tricia. The first day, I was approached by a woman who owned a gallery/shop and was interested in my book wreaths for a holiday display. What fortune!

Seriously, I felt so lucky to have the opportunity and over the next few months made more wreaths as well as lots of holiday ornaments. Some days I worked hard, lots of days I didn't do anything, so there was a mad rush the last few weeks to get finished.

I managed to get done in time and now my hard work is waiting for you to admire it. But if you can't get down to 50th and Xerxes (or just don't want to) I thought I'd post a few pictures for you to see what all the fuss has been about.



Here's some of the other beautiful work in the same nook as me:

Darling ceramic ornaments


Pretty pottery.
The most gorgeous folded book sculptures. I die.

If you have time, please go check out Gallery 360. They have great gifts throughout the shop (I'm jonesing for a pretty wooden spaghetti measure.)