It's the little things...

like "closet" organization.




My shoe and dress collection were getting a little out of control and the dresses were just about taking over mine and Kevin's shared closet so I decided to take a chance and order a garment rack. (I bought this one in case you're curious. It's awesome for the price!) I say take a chance because the only place it would fit is in my craft room, a room I've been fighting with myself to keep ONLY work related things in but to my surprise I absolutely ADORE the way it looks in my craft room. It's so so so pretty to look at and I love seeing all my beautiful dresses displayed. 


Organization makes me one happy little lady!
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It's the little things...

like feeling a caterpillar walk all over you!

After checking out my fingers and hand he walked up my arm and hung out a while before I decided I couldn't handle the tickles anymore and placed him back on a leaf.
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It's the little things...

like a sleepy Squid who can barely keep her eyes open...

It's been far too long since I did a "It's the little things..." post. So many that I think of posting are cat related (hey, I really like my cats, okay!) but I couldn't resist posting this one because for one - Squid never gets enough love from me on the blog. Two- how sweet is she!?!

Every morning when I wake up I head to the couch to try and catch a couple extra winks of sleep before Kevin goes to work and I head to my office and every morning Squid comes over, greets me with a dainty little half meow and curls up with me. It's really hard to not fall back asleep when you have a warm purring kitten on your tummy. She's the best!

Hope you all have a fabulous Thursday!
xoxo

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Paper Portrait by Cameron

I think one of my favorite things about blogging is meeting all kinds of new people from around the world. Earlier this year I met Cameron of Cameron + Whitney and boy oh boy, he is talented. He did a small series of paper portraits of bloggers, and I might have squealed a little when I saw mine!


 He included so many fantastic little details including my facial piercings, my braces, and all the colors in my hair! Here are some detail shots;





I'm not sure what my favorite part is but if I had to pick it would be that Squid is on my shoulder, and that her face is dead on. She has that exact same upturned mouth, and permanent grumpy look!

He was even nice enough to send it to me to keep after he was done photographing it. I'm on the hunt for the perfect frame. I feel kind of weird hanging a portrait of myself in my own craft room but it's too awesome to not display it.

Be sure to check out his blog, Cameron + Whitney (Ps. He's having a giveaway for a print of his fabulous work, but hurry it ends on the 16th) and his etsy shop!
xoxo

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Pressed Flowers. Part 2.

I thought it was time to share some more photos from my flower pressing book (you can see the first batch of photos here). I still really love flower pressing and I've been doing lots more lately since I've actually started to remember!! At first I kept forgetting that I had the notebook but now my second though when I see a cool leaf or flower is to grab it for my notebook (first though is always "take a picture")







Aaaand my favorite! I've pressed quite a few more mushrooms since I discovered it was possible and these ones turned out the best. I love the arrangement and the other little leaves I added along side.


It's just about time to buy a new little notebook, this one is pretty stuffed full of flowers, leaves and mushrooms. It's bulging and it's hard to find a page that isn't filled.
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It's the little things...

like catching a jar full of lightning bugs!

....and finally figuring out how to make a GIF in photoshop (even if your first two attempts were backwards! :P )

I hope I never get too old to think that catching lightning bugs is one of the best things to do a warm summer night. Kevin and I had so much fun running around catching them, I can't wait to do it again.

I took a sick day today, which made me feel completely lazy but I guess it was somewhat successful because other than feeling slightly better now, I also managed to get my inbox about half way cleared out, write up a few draft posts, edit a bunch of photos and learn how to make a GIF in photoshop!

I hope you're all having a great day!!
xoxo

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Pressed Flowers!

I have a new favorite hobby...pressing flowers.


 It all started when I found this pocket sized moleskine at Borders. It was on sale since Borders was closing down but I had no use for it since I already have a million other notebook that I write in for a week then forget about. (please tell me I'm not the only one who does this?!) The next day while walking through the woods I thought of the perfect use, to press flowers in! Since there was only one left at Borders I figured it would be gone by the time I went to buy it so I just ordered it off amazon.

For some reason this is ridiculously fun and way more addicting then I ever imagined. I pick nearly one of everything to put in my little notebook. I love flipping through the pages of collected flowers, and leaves and seeing how they've changed. Here are some of my favorites;





And one that was just a test that I didn't think would turn out at all but for obvious reasons became my absolute favorite...


A little tiny mushroom! I didn't think it would end up acceptable at all, I figured it would just rot or something but it's so perfect. I plan on putting many many more mushrooms in my notebook!

Does anyone else press flowers?
xoxo

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It's the little things...

like finally figuring out how to improve your packaging and getting a new stamp in the mail!

I've been stressing out over new packaging for a while. It's something I never mastered. Since the beginning I've always packaged my items in plain cellophane bags. When I finally gave the shop a make over I figured the next step was to give my packaging a make over.

I ordered the stamp from rubberstamps.net, which looks totally sketchy but with the recommendation from Katie (via a guest post about product packaging on Leigh Ann's blog) I just went for it. Aaaand I'm so glad I did. My stamp came really fast (ordered the 23rd, got to me on the 26th). I am beyond pleased with it. I just want to stamp everything in sight...and uh, I kind of did.

I also ordered some stickers from moo to use on days I'm just not feeling the stamped doily look. I haven't recieved them yet since moo has a much longer turn around time but I feel accomplished knowing that I'm on the right track to cutesy packaging. No more cellophane baggies ever!!

Well I've got to run. I have a super exciting day planned.
xoxo

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It's the little things...

like catching the Professor making silly faces.

...which will seriously never get old to me. That cat is always talking up a storm. He has the cutest little meow to go along with that precious face.



By the way; sorry for the short and late post today! In case you haven't noticed I normally blog pretty early in the morning but my internet has been out all day (it still is, I'm "borrowing" my neighbor's wifi right now. thanks for not having a password on it guys. ;)). Hopefully it will be back on soon! I have all of this week's posts planned out including the sweater clip tutorial, some peeks at my new clutches, an outfit post and more. 
Hope you all are having an awesome day!!
xoxo

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It's the little things...

like finding your cat sitting like this.

My heart swells with love for this goofball. I feel so lucky to have him in my family.
Hope you all have a wonderful Monday! 
xoxo

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It's the little things...

like a squirrel with a mouthful!


To tell you what he's stealing from me, you'd have to know that I lazily left up my corn stalks from fall. They were tied onto my deck as decoration and in my defence it started snowing really soon after halloween and I didn't have time to get outside to take them down. Buuuut I'm glad, if I had taken them down I'd have never gotten to watch this little cutie take huge mouthfuls of the cornstalks and take them to his nest. What a cutie!
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It's the little things...

like loving work & loving where you work.


...which I was already doing but is now even easier thanks to my newly decorated keyboard! ;)


Isn't it the prettiest thing ever!? It's a happy little surprise every time I open my laptop.


It also came with this for the apple logo on the back. It's really cute when lit up.

The seller I bought it from on etsy no longer has an open shop (despite the fact it was only open less than a month...?) but you can find these keyboard decals here.
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It's the little things...

like watching squirrels play from the back window with the cats.

I love watching their movements, and I love watching them watch me!
(boy, that sounds creepy...)


& one last one...


kiss my butt kitties, you'll never catch me!
xoxo!

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Dear Goodwill,

You always have the best things!


(I was greatly in need of a new trash can in my craft room, I squished my last one by falling on it)
I'm super duper in love with it! Fabric scraps are now actually finding their way to the trash can instead of the floor! ;)
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It's the little things...

...like kitten yawns.

I know, I post kitten yawns all the time but only because no matter what kind of mood I'm in pictures like this never cease to make me smile. I hope they do the same for you!
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It's the little things...

like taking the wig off of my faux deer mount and letting Leaf wear it.

I was trying to get him to rock the glasses and wig combo but he just wasn't having it. Someday Leaf, someday!
Hope you have a lovely Saturday!
xoxo

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The Beach...again.

We braved the snowy roads yesterday and went to the beach to take a walk.

(that's not fog, it's snow blowing!)
It was beautiful! The wind was whipping and all the snow was blowing. I wish the beach was this peaceful in the summer. I love being there while no one else is, it feels like it's some secret place that no one knows about except us. It's hard to believe that in just a few months this place will be sunny, and packed with people.

(poor Kevin was freezing since he had just gotten off work and wasn't bundled. I, on the other hand, was rocking a one piece snowsuit that I've had since I was like 13.)
Right after getting out of the car we realized how icy everything was. The snow was probably 6 inches deep then had a layer of ice on top of it so you could walk on the snow without sinking in (in most spots, the others you just fell in without warning. It's funny the first five times then it gets annoying) After I slipped, fell and slid down the hill that gets you to the actual beach we realized there was no way we'd be able to take a walk like we normally do and just how fun it would be just to slide down on our butts! So that's what we did...


I hope we get a chance to go back and slide on the ice before it melts and next time we have to bring a sled! There are steeper hills at the beach, they just weren't ice covered like this one was.

The beach in the winter is ten times more awesome than the beach in the summer.
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Hmm...

Well I'm glad Kevin got Life for Christmas or else we'd never know about "manmmals".

There are few things that make me laugh harder than typos.
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