oobiebean & dolly excitement!

i am so excited to have scored a custom slot with oobiebean&dolly for my tula accessories!!  i love their work and can't wait to get it all back!  of course, i haven't even sent the wrap scrap in yet, so i am a tad ahead of myself.

i have asked them an embarrassing amount of questions, including whether they can make a little elephant lovey similar to one i saw from another momma's facebook post (awesome work Jen Hemann!.  here they are!

i was going to try and make one myself before i got this spot with oobiebean!  but now i'll see if they can re-create it.  their work is so amazing, i'm sure they can!

anyway, i don't know how long it takes, but soon(ish) i will have my accessories for this beauty!!  (the tula, i'm not that vain)

a christmas diy!

i just love pinterest.  i love getting holiday inspiration and i try to accomplish at least one or two of my favorites.  well, i completed my first of the season!  i absolutely adored the look of these white christmas ornaments from bazar & co with festive words and stars on them!

white christmas boules collection

i knew that i could turn this into a diy with some plain white christmas ornaments and a paint pen!  i love the writing font as well, so i tried to copy it as close as i could while still keeping it easy and free-handing it.

well, i couldn't be happier with the results!!  it took hardly any time at all...perhaps 20 minutes at the most.  i can't wait to put these into a cute little container and display them for the holidays!

i'm tempted to pick up a few more and go to town making a bunch of these babies!  what do you think?

the prized pear

the fabulous Justin, from vivaestelle on etsy, sent me an extra photograph of this delightful pear for my prize winnings from the other week.  we decided that we would offer it up as a prize for an upcoming challenge in our flashmob team.

here is a picture of the lovely picture.  it has such gorgeous and rich red and blue hues in it!!

who will win this fabulous prize?  well, with the talent on the flashmob team, it truly could be anyone!!

crowd tap and free snacks for the kiddos!

i was selected to try out a new product from the Lunchables line of pre-packed snacks through crowdtap.  they are called Lunchables Jr.  they have several flavors and i was able to try out two of them.  the flavors we received were "ants on a log", which contained peanut butter, sun-maid raisins, and honey graham sticks.  delish!!  the second flavor was "very beary crunch", which contained ritz bits cheese cracker sandwiches, strawberry flavored dried apple pieces, and teddy grahams honey graham snacks.  wow!

since i have two girls and only received two snacks to sample, i had my girls try the snacks.  they had a blast trying out the little packages and shared them between the two.  they seemed to enjoy both flavors too!  i definitely hope to get a chance to try out more of the flavors...but i haven't actually seen these in any of my stores yet!!

thank you crowdtap for the chance to try something easy and fun!!

excited for mortal instruments movie!!

i was able to get a copy of the mortal instruments, city of bones book through crowdtap.com as a part of a hosted party in anticipation of the upcoming movie release.  i had already read the book a long while back (i've read ALL of them, including the infernal devices series), but had wanted to re-cap since it had been so long.  i am SO excited about the upcoming movie!!

anyway, i was selected to host a party to discuss the upcoming movie and the book.  so, i gathered a few friends and family together and we talked about which parts of the book we were excited to have up on the big screen!!  personally, i am interested in how they portray the relationship between Jace and Clary.  it is one of those relationships that obviously makes you uncomfortable while reading, and yet you (at least i did) find yourself rooting for them!  so strange.

after some spaghetti and other tasty treats, we talked about casting for the characters and any expectations we had based on our own visuals.  again, i did not expect jace to look as they cast him for the movie.  i don't find the guy attractive at all.  and clary is a bit ho-hum for me too.  oh well.  at least they did well with valentine!!!  woohoo!  i love j.r.m.  overall, regardless of what we had expected, we agreed we were all excited to see the movie and how it came to life on the big screen!

i am more a fan of the infernal devices characters, but the author's humor throughout both series is wonderful and a little dark and just fantastic.  i hope it comes across in the movie too.

any favorite scenes from the book you are hoping to see?  have you read the series?  magnus is a favorite of mine...how about you?

fp 7/19/2013

as i said before, i had the honor of being featured in a great deal of treasuries as challenge winner for the week.  in fact, we ended up with a record number of entries...close to 200!  it was amazing.  after a wonderful front page appearance on the 18th, i ended up with another amazing front page treasury feature on the 19th!  this amazingly awesome treasury by pamela of pamelajoycedesigns:

jet set romance in winter

pamela make absolutely amazing decor, signs, and pillow covers.  check this one out!!  i love it!

you are my sunshine

fp 7/18/13

i had the pleasure of winning the trendsetting team weekly challenge and so had fellow teammates featuring my "goldmine" necklace in their treasuries for the week.  on the 18th, one of the treasuries graced the front page of etsy!  what a thrill!  here is the beautiful treasury by lynn of marooned jewelry

they had a farmstead

lynn has lovely jewelry in her shop!  like this lovely beauty!

broken china ring