Giveaway Day! Bonus Gift Certificate Added on!

I am happy to announce that I am taking part in the Sew, Mam, Sew Giveaway Day! The BEST part is that there are 2  items I am giving away! One Handmade Item - EarringsOne $10 Gift CertificateWhy? Because I'm generous! I love having giveaways. How does one enter and what exactly will someone win, you may ask. Well look below and find your answer! First, the Handmade...

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I ♥ Snow - Here's a Coupon Code!

Image via creativereview  Hey all! In honor of the first snow of the season, I'm feeling generous and would like to present my readers with a coupon code good for BOTH my Etsy shops! Get 10% off with the code SNOWDAY So shop to your heart's content at Crankheartpony  and PeanurEnvyEnjo...

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Black Friday Cyber Monday Sale

Check out all the shop deals! Ends soon so HURRY! Jewelry     Vintage Decor     Retro Kitche...

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Before & After: Transforming My Kitchen

Its amazing what a little paint can do. Here is Before. Ugly. Hideous. No me gusta. Also, notice the ancient refrigerator. It worked great but couldn't sustain a family of 5.   At this point we painted the walls and took all the doors off the cabinets with the intent of refinishing them. Yeah...we didn't end up doing that. Here we have the south wall, crammed with junk....

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Upcycled Gift Box Tutorial

 One super fast and easy way to wrap up some last minute gifts is to dress up some boxes lying around in the pantry. Here I used some small stamps to create a pattern and used some embossing powder ( just cuz I love sparkly stuff.) What you will need:  Boxes from cereal, crackers, pasta,etc. It can be any size, as long it has no damage or grease spots. Stamps, stamping...

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Tutorials and Free Printables

  Springform bucket at Badskirt Mushroom Pincushion Tutorial at FAntastic Toys  Recycled paper bunting at Making It Lovely Free Printable Holiday Card at MufnInc Printable Christmas Gift Lists at Atypical Type...

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Decorating with Ebroidered Wall Art

Some people may think of embroidery as "old lady art" to keep fingers and joints nimble. They are so wrong! It's quite a beautiful art form that I am currently enamored with. It does take skill - even when you have a pattern guide. I embroider the faces on my dolls and let me tell ya' it is not simple. It is but it isn't. I love the embroidered wall art especially, at...

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HOLIDAY HANDMADE GIVEAWAY by Gifts Define!

Not long ago, I stumbled upon a super cute site with super cute handmade birds, mobiles, party favors, personalized gifts and more. At first I saw the GiftsDefine blog and then their Etsy Shop and it was over. I have a soft spot for uber-cuteness...which I think evolved after having children; I would see things that we're so adorable and instantly want them even for a 1 year...

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Slightly Transforming the Dining Room.

Since we moved in, we've painted, repaired and are slowly decorating the place. Our dining room looks like a marriage between a viking's lodge with a 19th century apothecary. Not exactly my style but my husband has his ideas...We have a large old ornate dark wood table with mismatched viking-ish chairs, coupled with an Admiral from the 40's that we converted into a display...

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Giveaway Winner Annoucement

Keeping track of participants for a giveaway can be a daunting task especially when there are several ways to enter..but I did it and a winner has been chosen! The lucky winner is..... KRISTEN O.  who entered via the Facebook fan page. Congrats to you, Krist...

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Giveaway: Nest Egg Ring!

Yes! It is Giveaway time! This time around I am giving away this loverly silver and blue adjustable Nest Egg Ring. Men - win it for the lucky lady in your life. Ladies-win it for you or a special gal pal. How do you enter? Well, there are a few ways: you pick which one! AND the more ways you enter, the better your chances! 1. FOLLOW: Be a follower of this blog and leave a...

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Giveaway Imminent .

I'm thinking of having a giveaway. It could be handmade, vintage or supplies. I'm still deciding...stay tun...

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Halloween Story not on Halloween

I was looking thru my MySpace blogs (do people still go there?) and I found this post I wrote in June of 2006. It has a Halloween-ish theme and it was fun to relive that - in my mind of course. Enjoy When something screeches across the room and latches on someones neck, I gotta laugh because what is that thing? - Jack Handy Its a Bat And speaking of bats, i have a story....Last...

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Sufjan Stevens, I will see you if its the last thing I do!

Sufjan Stevens mock gig poster by Emilydove on Etsy .................And I missed him yet again! He was here in Chicago and I didn't even know he was even touring - my bad. I've seen all of my favorite music geniuses; Morrissey (many times over), Depeche Mode - even met Dave Gahan, Les Savy Fav, DFA 1979, The Cure, Jamiroquai, U2. The list is probably into the hundreds of...

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Free Moo Cards anyone?

I love free stuff. I especially love FREE Moo business cards! For $6 (shipping) you can get 50 of the most high quality cards - that I've ever seen, anyway- for your business, as tags for gifts, whatever. Moo has a few good ideas for what to do with them. So of course I got some for my new shop PeanutEnvy - which needed some business cards. I love that you have options even...

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My New Shop: PeanutEnvy

For 2 whole years I've been waiting to open this shop! For now I'll be selling these plush Matryoshka dolls til I try out some other patterns I've worked on. I was SO angry to see that someone out there jumped on my idea to make a certain something. An idea I've been sitting on that I thought was so cool which now won't be considered my original idea. I guess its a ya snooze...

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