{Gnome} Parade

Have you gnoticed gnomes lately?
Well, I have noticed some fun trends with Martha Stewart crafts and JoAnn's...GNOMES!
Also, ladybugs, mushrooms, and fawns. Cute, cute, cute stuff.

Enjoy this gnome parade from We Heart It!

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These photos make me think about a green, warm spring!!!
I love winter, but I am not very productive....I just want to be curled up on the couch under a blanket.....

~XOXO Gnellie

Custom Planner

Teeeheeee!! I am so glad she liked it!!! I have a single item listed in my Etsy shop, This Little Shop of Mine, at the moment: a custom planner.

I have only sold a couple of these and I don't promote it much simply because I work full time and I do it mainly as a hobby. Anyway, here is what Tame said about her planner:

WOW WOW WOW!!! I just got back from vacation, and this was one of the items that greeted me upon arrival :) It is SO BEAUTIFUL & FUNCTIONAL!! I've already have marvelous ideas for its future :) I can use it as a planner, journal, and project organizer (especially for my scrapbooking), and keep things all in one place (relatively!) Thanks so much for working with me on this creation, and I'll DEFINITELY be back for more items, and next years planner. Without a doubt the most creative & most favorite planner I've ever purchased :) Take care---Tame

In order to provide her with exactly what she wanted, I had her make a list of things she would ideally love to have in a planner designed especially for her:
I love these type of planner journals, especially stickers, patchwork, recycled, etc pages. Would it be possible to add about 4 pages for address/phone numbers, 15 pages for to do/projects, 12 pages for monthly finances/budget, 5 pages for lists (eg. one for books to read, one for movies to see, one for shopping to do, one for presents to purchase, and one for music to listen to), 2 pages for favorite websites, one page for passwords, and the rest of the journal be the monthly calendar page, daily planner sheets, and several pages stuck in for notes/doodles/scrapbook capability?
I really don't care what order the pages come in, what items/collages get stuck onto what, I really do like to be surprised!
Favorite colours tend toward royal blue-purples, burgandy, and orange-red.

Here is a peek at what she received:








Custom-ish Monthly budget sheet. This is printed on the back of each month's calendar page so that the finances for the month can be easily recorded. I tried to leave a bunch of blanks because I wasn't sure what she would exactly need for her personal budget:



Address book

Fun Dividers in Purple:


I added a few little cute stickers, but left the pages open so she could paste in her own pictures and ephemera:






"To-Do" Pages


"Journal" pages



Tame had requested a page for her favorite websites and also a place for passwords....I decided to try to help her keep her passwords private, so I hid the password list sheet under this cute Hambly owl:





Of course there are other surprises hidden throughout the book. I am so glad that she likes it! I had a lot of fun creating it just for her. Thanks for reading! If you are interested in your own customized planner, check out my shop!

{Cupcake} love

I had a fun photo shoot in January with some yummy cupcakes I made. I taught a class about color mixing using frosting. It was super fun and I had lots of leftover frosting so I made up a bunch of funky colors!! I edited my photos with captions...they would be super fun on a card!







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Here are a couple of collages I made with some of the other pictures in the series:




Um, yeah....I took a ton of photos! It was waaaaay fun!! ;-) Hope you are having a lovely Saturday!

Happy Superbowl Weekend!!

Photo flash back!

I am super excited to get together with friends and family for lots of yummy food on Superbowl Sunday this weekend!! I don't know that I will watch the game so much as the commercials, but one fun thing we do every year is make a big game board.

Prior to kick off, everyone must mark their initials beside the team that they think will score first, receive the first penalty, etc. It makes the game very interesting!!

We actually have some money involved so the person with the most correct guesses at the end of the game gets the pot of money...but it would be fun to play with a food/something other than money prize too!! (I haven't ever won....I am not very lucky!)

Click to enlarge!

If you decide to try this out for your Superbowl festivities, I would love to hear about it!! Good luck and have fun! I can't wait for all the yummy food...wings, chili, chips and dips!! Someone better not try to steal any fritos off my plate while I am posing for a picture this year! tee hee!!

I am excited to have tomorrow off of school. I plan to craft all day and hopefully blog a bit too. Bah! Its been too long!! I miss writing and reflecting and posting fun pictures.

More soon, xoxo Nellie

{Bunting} Parade

I just love bunting.

I love the repeated triangles.

Perfect to adorn used car lots, birthday parties and even baby nurseries.
Enjoy this parade of bunting from We Heart It.

Super cool necklace!

Makes me want to have a tent party with lanterns and bunting!

I want a wall covered haphazardly in frames!! LOVE!

So sweet!

Here is a cute nursery decked out in SUPER CUTE owl stuff!! With bunting!

I was searching for 'bunting on Etsy' and I found this BUNTING QUILT! Wowsers!! It is lovely!

Bunting Quilt on Etsy

Fellow style school classmate created this lovely bunting stamp! It is sooo cute!

Sent with Love

On Monday I was searching for some inspiration and I found this great DIY blog...This gal has some neat stuff! She even shows how to make some sweet Valentine bunting! Perfect for this month!!

Maya*Made

For more lovely bunting, check out this great Flickr site: Lobster and Swan's

Also, here is a how-to on making your own felt bunting with ricrac: Bugs and Fishes

Really great bunting template here.

Ooh, here are some of my holga pics featuring bunting.
One is from a local antique shop with bunting on the sign....and the other is the paper 'bunting' that I made for my fireplace on New Years!

Thanks for looking, your comments are always special to me. Glad that I decided to take a minor blogging break this week, I have been super busy with after school conferences at school. I have barely had time to make any crafts! I will be back next week with some crafty goodness and an extra special valentine parade, promise!

If you have made any cute bunting for valentine's day or otherwise, please leave a link in the comments, I would love to see it!

~Hugs, nellie