happy stuff.

awhile back, i’d posted that my crafting/children’s librarian/bloggy friend, small fox had invited me to be part of an “art exchange.”  i’m pretty sure that the chain ended with me (i can’t really blame anyone for not signing up — i don’t do them myself 99.2% of the time) and so i decided that at [...]

okay, you caught me.  this is another baby-related post, but it’s also a furniture makeover and i am soooo excited about it, i just had to share it with you.  a little back story:  when we started to decorate the nursery, one of the pieces of furniture i knew i wanted to have in there [...]

last christmas, at my parents’ house, we really enjoyed watching the birds at their birdfeeders and mr. happy stuff made an off-hand comment that maybe we should get some birdfeeders at our house.  i’m not sure why this hadn’t occurred to me earlier–we always enjoy watching their birds and we live in a very woodsy [...]

baby’s first hand-knit gift–a toadstool rattle!  a friend of mind from work knit this up for us and i totally l.o.v.e. it!  mr. happy stuff thought it looked like something from mario bros.  i think that means he likes it too.

the other wonderful prize i won from the sew mama sew giveaway day came all the way from australia, wrapped up (inside the mailer) beautifully.  and inside? this super-cute car wrap from lisa at the princess and the monkey.  i love the fabric pockets at the bottom (stoopid winter light–the background of the fabric is [...]

i’m suffering from blogger’s backlog block.  you know–when you’ve got so many things you want to blog about that you don’t know where to start and it just seems so overwhelming that you put it off for just one more day?  well, i’ve got to break through the crust and dive in at some point, [...]

today i learned to my great suprise (and almost embarrassment) that i’d won two of the sms giveaways that i’d entered earlier this week!  i don’t think that i entered more than maybe a dozen or so (and, of course, i only put my name in the drawing for things i really wanted). so imagine [...]

for a long time, i’d been really wishing that i had some of that cute goldfish-in-a-bag print by heather ross and it is soooooo out of print and soooooo highly desirable that i’d pretty much given up hope.  until my common threads friend amber blogged that she had found some.  i took a long shot [...]

whew!  what a week!  my parents, my sister, her husband and their two boys (my super-cute nephews) arrived last sunday evening and stayed through friday morning.  it was a whirlwind of noise, chaos, love, laughter, hugs, tears and it scared my kitties (and possibly my husband) into their hidey-holes.  my talented father spent time working [...]

i like to make “art” but i also like to buy “real” art from other people.  especially when it’s actually affordable.  and that’s why i was thrilled to discover laura george’s etsy shop a few weeks back.  i think one of the blogs i read had linked to her shop and when i clicked through… [...]