giveaway, anyone?

giveaway, anyone?

I don’t know about you, but I’m always interested in a giveaway. I mean, what’s not to love? Free stuff? Sure!So when eleGala.com contacted me a while ago asking if I’d be interested in sponsoring one on their site, my thoughts jumped back in time to when I was wedding planning and how much I would have loved to win something from my shop (which at the time I had no idea would come into being 1 1/2 years later…

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Grandparent’s Day is coming!

Grandparent’s Day is coming!

In the U.S. it is on September 9  – just around the corner! For my readers in other countries I am curious, do you have a Grandparent’s Day where you live? Some of the most popular gift items in the shop are the 5 x7 and 8 x10 silhouettes. Mommies and aunties ordered them in droves last fall in preparation for Christmas! This year though, we are expecting our Little One to arrive in early November, so I have decided…

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recipes as art

recipes as art

My dad’s mom died in March, and she was an excellent cook as well as a wonderful hostess. She left oodles of handwritten recipes, some that she hadn’t made in years, and some that were family classics. As I was looking through them I was inspired by this pin to frame some of them to decorate our kitchen. {source} I picked up these frames for $0.33 each from a thrift store, and once I had decided which recipes to use…

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{this moment}

{this moment}

(meant to post this last week, but life moves on …) inspired by SouleMama: “{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.”