BLOG GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!!!!

Super easy giveaway- all you have to do is join to be a follower on my blog and post any sort of comment under this post and you'll receive not one, not two, but THREE bars of my Nag Champa soap!!!



Let's give it until the first and I'll announce the winner!

I mean, come on, who doesn't want to smell like a hippie?

new stuff

I finally took the day to make some new wallets.... not that I don't love making clutches, but lately I've been feeling like I'm working in a sweatshop. I wanted to share some of the new wallets with you all. I'm really excited about Amy Butler's second run of her Full Moon fabric!




And another one that I just finished up:



Next up will be some more birdie wallets and maybe some new wallets from Heather Bailey's Nicey Jane line. Man, I love her!

Ah Ha!

When I was telling you about my workroom (which is now a huge mess again), I mentioned that I couldn't build a fire in my fireplace to save my life.

Well, I got motivated today..... or at least wanted to put off work and decided to make another try at a fire. Here are the results:





Pretty nifty, huh? AND I didn't need a man's help at all (or youtube's help, or google's help). Yep, I'm just that good!

my new love

I cannot get over how much I love love love this necklace.



You can find it here, but I'm hoping that no one gets to it before I do!!!

the workroom

So I've been threatening to clean up my workroom for months now so I could post up some pictures of it. Once I get into work mode absolutely everything is in disarray. And it's scary. So I finally decided to take a few pictures of it so ya'll can get a little peek at where I work. Or try to work.




Fabric and random things that I "need". Like I definitely needed that cupcake pillow from Nomi. :)






My tiny spot where I sew and sketch, and the fireplace that I insisted that I would use "like, everyday.". Do you know how many times I've used it? Once, the other day. And it turns out that I cannot start a fire to save my life. Oh well....

I planning on setting up all my old books above the fireplace. I've found the perfect bookends to buy here. Aren't those perfect??

laci needs to reopen her etsy shop....

My friend, Laci spins the most incredible yarn! I was so excited when she decided to take up this new craft so I could get my yarn through her. My yarn shop in town (where I used to get my handspun and organic yarn) had closed down, without giving me ANY notice, a few months earlier. So I was really (probably overly) excited about it. To my complete and utter dismay, she closed her etsy shop just after a few months.

BUT

at least I can get her yarn here

I just got in a new hank of yarn from her today- which was such a nice surprise since it wasn't just bills in the mailbox.



Isn't that just yummy looking????

Now, I feel that it is my duty to bug her like crazy to re-open her etsy shop. Who's with me???

FINALLY!!!

I waited and waited and mulled over it for weeks.... but I finally broke down and bought a sweet little doll from Evangelione's shop on etsy!

Her name is Audrey and she is adorable



and I figured, why now get a little bow.....



I have no clue if it's for the doll or for a "real" person.... maybe it will give me some incentive to grow out my hair (which I keep wanting to do, but give up when it gets to that weird in between stage).

I am so excited that Valentine's Day is right around the corner. I love making little Valentine's Day mail boxes with Layla and this year I convinced her that we should make valentines for her class instead of getting store bought ones. Etsy has a tutorial on matchbook valentines, so I think we're going to make these and fill them with little conversation hearts!!



I think that they'll look so sweet and all the little girls in her class will love them!! I'm so glad that she's finally at that age where we can start crafting together.

On another note, I have fabric.com pulled up in another tab..... I'm trying to justify buying 70.00 worth of fabric.... hmmmm....