TO ANYONE THAT IS SOMEHOW VIEWING OUR BLOG RIGHT NOW. WE ARE NOT OFFICIALLY UP AND RUNNING. WE ARE STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION FIXING GLITCHES. FEEL FREE TO LOOK AROUND BUT COME BACK SOON TO VIEW THE FINAL PRODUCT! THANKS EVERYONE!

What's a Christmas Boutique

Ok, I like to consider myself a pretty crafty and creative person. I love boutiquing, flea markets, arts festivals, museums, scrapbooking and countless of artsy stuff. But my mother brought something to my attention today that I have never heard of before in my life. A Christmas boutique. Apparently it's this awesome tradition that I have never heard of where you open your house to the public and have out various items for sale. The intention is to entice customers to come through and stock up on gifts for Christmas. Not only did my mother introduce me to this wonderful and profound tradition she suggested that Madeline and I give one a shot. Now, I know she is my mother and is basically obligated to love and adore my every move but I actually feel like she is starting to love our creative ideas and looking past the fact that I bring back a new piece of furniture to fix up every other day. Anyways, I sat doing the math in my head while feeling both flattered and incredibly overwhelmed. A Christmas boutique? I can only assume that means December, and it's already almost October. So Madeline, we have less than two months to put together an inventory that people would actually want to buy. Oh goodness!

I hope that by Christmas I'll be able to say that Mother really does know best.

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Fabulous Cork Boards


My friend Jen and I have known each other since who knows when. We grew up together at LGCS. Although we have always been a year apart... so we've never really had the opportunity to really get to know each other. We've been going to church together, and just so happened to have a summer class together. Jen knew of my creative side and how I love refurbishing things, so she did hesitate asking for help refinishing and corking some beautiful frames... here's some pictures of the progress! I loved how they turned out in her cute purple room!

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Road to Cricut

If you haven't heard of the Cricut yet than you obviously don't spend enough time browsing the paid programming available between 2 and 4 in the morning. Either way, the Cricut (correction the Cricut Expression) is an amazing tool that will simply our lives in more ways than we can even begin to fathom. It is a personal electronic cutting machine that can basically do anything. I guess this would count as giving away one of our crafting secrets but it's all paper crafting you could do with a razorblade, but in probably 1/100th of the time. This little diamond in the ruff has helped us to decide exactly where our next two whole paychecks will be going to. Prepare for an update. I'm sure we will be raving about it and posting project samples in no time.

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Friendly Frames

I spent this summer sprucing up from frames as "for no reason" presents for some of my buddies and as of now I don't have any more that I plan to sell on etsy but who knows maybe later we will use these as inspiration for more frames. Enjoy!






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