After work last night, I was exhausted.  I just wanted to lay on the couch under a blanket and watch some  movies on Funnel’s Xbox that I had queued up through Netflix.   As I started my movie, my hands felt empty as I lay there.  I needed to do something – sew, knit,  journal.  I was rummaging [...]

A heart garland I made from some fabric and lace scraps:

(( it’s beginning to look a lot like Valentine’s Day! ))

 After two weeks of waiting, the house is ours.
 
It won’t officially be ours until the endish of May, but for all intents and purposes ((and assuming we can jump through all the hoops that await us)) it is. 
We should be living in our little house, in our little neighborhood, in Pataskala, Ohio in just over a [...]

Confession:  I LOVE Pottery Barn Kids.
And no, this isn’t baby fever talking.  I am not day dreaming about a baby’s nursery, or a little girl’s room.  I want to buy stuff from there for me!   
I was on someone’s blog and they had bought a pretty cool lamp from there, so I decided to check it out.  [...]

Mondays can be dreadful.  And my Monday today was especially so.  Then I came home and was googling something,  (I don’t even remember what) and this came up on my image search:

Something inside of my heart leaped, and I may have let out a little squeal.  My Monday just became a little bit better. 
Without a [...]

Some wonderful Valentine’s Day inspiration I found on etsy:

((Etsy sellers from top: heartspeak, able & game, armato design & press, Earmark, OceanDreamsStudio, Eartha Kitsch, Mia Nolting, bunkleberry studios)).

The last couple weeks, I have been consumed with far-away places.  I find myself daydreaming about Europe, googling airfare and spending way too much time on flickr looking at beautiful photos of beautiful cities. 

((my post-it-note Paris art.))
I was in the mood for Paris last night, so we watched Amelie.  I know Amelie’s whimsical, saturated Paris is [...]

As I was looking for some inspiration for my quilt, I found the most amazing fabric designer: Amy Butler.  Not only is her fabric gorgeous, but she has a bunch of beautiful photos on her site for inspiration, plus there are free patterns to download!
Some of her quilts:

I would like to find a place that [...]

I’m thinking that my next big project is going to be a patchwork quilt.  I’ve never made one before, and I want to try it because it’s such a practical thing to make.  I’ve been looking through a lot of really beautiful patterns, but really, I just want to find a pattern for a simple [...]

Yesterday, Funnel and I went thrifting.  We hit four stores and at the very last one, Funnel found this amazing, distressed, shabby-chic, orange desk that had just been brought in the day before.  He showed it to me and we talked about how we didn’t have room in our apartment for it, but then we decided [...]