Tumble Rose Aline Skirt by Stunning

Tumble Rose Aline Skirt

Wedding Planning Excursion to Creative Papers Online

Hunky was a good sport for this whole adventure!

Hunky Fiance's Family is friends with Susan, a woman who owns and operates a huge handmade paper warehouse in Ann Arbor, MI. It is a mostly online business called Creative Papers Online - although the web address is handmade-paper.us - She does do some business out of the warehouse - which is awesome!

10' Racks of paper - each holding a different handmade sheet...

Hunky Boyfriend, Rachel, Hunky's Little Sister Laura and I had the opportunity to visit the warehouse just before the new year in search of inspiration for Wedding color scheme and invitation ideas. What an overwhelming and fabulous time it was!

Hunky & Laura searching for the perfect wedding paper

Susan's Daughter's name is Anna - I took that as a great sign when I found my name while setting out the paper samples I had selected.

Feeling accomplished and overwhelmed with all of our choices.

Now it's time to make some choices...

The only thing I know for certain is that one of our colors will be silver.
Head on over to Creative Papers Online and let me know what some of your favorites are - You will probably come out with about a million just like we did!

Judy's Hobby Baby Shoes Giveaway

I am very excited to announce this week's giveaway from Etsy shop: (My apologies for posting later than usual - but stay tuned tomorrow to hear why...)

JudysHobby

After you learn a little about Judy and her craft you'll have the opportunity to enter to win these adorable baby shoes that she crocheted:

You can win these sweet little baby booties - Size 0-3 months

JudysHobby is a sweet little Etsy shop owned by, you guessed it, Judy! She is a stay at home mom of two boys who adores crocheting. Her shop is full of lovely crocheted items that are fairly priced.

What an adorable sweater for a baby girl :)

Judy learned her craft at a very young age. Currently she loves to create baby clothes - specifically girl's clothes and since she has two boys Etsy allows her to share her beautiful garments with baby girls all over the world!

This little tank is so dainty and perfect for summer!

Judy finds her inspiration on line and in books. She enjoys selling on Etsy as she loves to share her creations with people.

How can you win these lovely booties? Read on to find out!

How to enter to win those beautiful crocheted booties:
(Please have all entries be in separate posts - this makes it easier for each of your entries to be counted!)

1) Follow this blog - leave a comment.
2) Go to JudysHobby on Etsy and heart her shop - leave comment.
3) Go to JudysHobby on Etsy and choose your favorite item - leave link in comment.
4) Blog about this giveaway - leave link in comment.
5) Tweet about this giveaway - leave link in comment.

This giveaway will begin at noon 6/14/2010 and will end on 6/20/2010 at noon. The winner will chosen from a random number generator and will be announced in a post Sunday evening.

p.s. If you are entering I will be checking to make sure that you aren't cheating - so don't cheat.

Country Soaps by Marlene Giveaway

Drum Roll Please...

I am very excited to announce my very first sponsored giveaway:
countrysoapsbymarlen

Marlene is the mastermind behind countrysoapsbymarlen and she is a wonderful woman who is very talented when it comes to her goat's milk products. Not only are her products beautiful, but they are functional, fairly priced, and made with great attention to detail.

^ Berries & Pears Goats Milk Soap

Marlene is the very busy mother of 11 children, (some of their adventures are shared on her blog, http://thegrahnhomestead.blogspot.com/). She stumbled upon goat's milk products when some of her children got into raising goats - which produced a lot of milk. This caused Marlene and her children to become very creative making cheese, ice cream, yogurt, and now beautiful soap and bath products. Marlene and her family create and test the products themselves which are made of 100% goat's milk.

^ Cucumber Mint Shampoo Bar

countrysoapsbymarlen is becoming quite a successful little shop. Bar soaps are the most popular item in stock and there are a multitude of fragrances. I got really excited when I found the soap of the month club. For either 6 or 12 months Marlene will send you a new bar of soap, this also includes one wooden soap dish.

^ Unscented Body Lotion

Marlene is an Etsy shop owner who is very committed to her craft and pleasing her customers. She finds inspiration in comments and suggestions that she receives. Etsy has been a challenge for her as it is for many, now a shop with over 300 sales, it took countrysoapsbymarle 8 months to make her first Etsy sale! Now she is a frequent vendor at Farmer's Markets and she may soon have her products featured in local WI stores!

^ Soap of the Month Club - for 6 Months!

Now that you've learned a little something about countrysoapsbymarle I'm guessing you really want to be her friend, oh! and you probably want to try some of her products. Well, here's your chance!

For your chance to win $15 to countrysoapsbymarle this is what you can do:
There are 6 chances to enter:

1) Go to countrysoapsbymarle and pick out your favorite item, heart it, then post the item here.
2) Give Marlene's shop a heart, post that you did so here.
3) Tweet about this giveaway and Marlene's lovely shop, post link to tweet here.
4) Blog about this giveaway, post link to blog post here.
5) Follow this blog, mention in post.
6) Purchase from Marlene's shop, receive awesome wedding favor free gift with purchase, and post link for transaction here.

This giveaway will begin at 8 am 6/7/2010 and will end on 6/13/2010 at 8 pm. The winner will chosen from a random number generator and will be announced in a post Sunday evening.

p.s. If you are entering I will be checking to make sure that you aren't cheating - so don't cheat.

Last Day Of House Sitting!!

Yay! Today is the last day of house sitting. Let me tell you, nothing can scare someone more than an answering machine with a tape that starts rewinding at 2 a.m!! So, as I lay there WIDE awake and afraid to move I thought about how I get to move back to my apartment this afternoon!!! I am very excited! I start classes again on Monday, so I am thinking the amount and frequency of my posts will decrease... Sorry to my 12 loyal followers!

I am posting some photos of the items that I have listed and renewed recently. They are all links to my site! I get to go home and package items today!! yay!! Everything will be shipping tonight, if I get home before 7, or tomorrow if I don't.

List of weird things that happened to me yesterday:

* Took my cousin to Panera and sat next to a man who was having dinner with his sister, he turns to her and says "Would you like to see me dressed as a temptress?" -I struggled with keeping in my giggles as both of them were in their later years!

* I think I have moved from babysitter to nanny since I have been here house sitting and taking care of my cousin for 6 days. At her music class last night I talked to another "nanny" she told me all sorts of random things about the people she sits for my favorite being "The mom is 37 and the dad is 60... It's gross I know... but their kids are cute."

* Also heard a random child's name... a little girl named "Jackiffer"... They called her Jackie... I think when you say the name it sounds like a swear word or a fowl action.

* As I sat in special needs music class with my cousin I was handed a tambourine and then asked if I was my cousins mom... I am 20... Adrienne is 23... I stink at playing the tambourine.



*** And for those of you who are shoppers, JCrew and Victoria's Secret are having GREAT sales!!! If you have some gift cards or any extra money after Christmas I would suggest stopping by those stores and websites!