tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74239275818735128912011-11-28T11:24:37.891-06:00Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15709735035298421154noreply@blogger.comBlogger2811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7423927581873512891.post-91430084866127380672011-11-15T11:26:00.000-06:002011-11-15T11:27:07.994-06:00

We are low on chenille right now! Please note that your order may be sewn up with minky fabric if we are out of chenille. Our loss is your gain! Use coupon codes MAKEITMINKY or MAKEITTERRY to save 20% by having your order sewn up with minky or terry cloth for a limited time!

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A supermom put together this superhero treasury last night while trying to get her superbaby to sleep. ;)

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I just added a bunch of bibs to the sample sale in my Etsy shop. Click here to see all the bibs offered! some minky bibs added too! regularly $8 each, on sale for $6 and don't forget about the New Year discount code - enter HNY2011 during checkout for 11% off of your order!

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Thank you to fellow Etsians DevinPrather, summergirl80, appletreeboutique, HandmadeWhimzy, cthings, and AveryLane for including our bibs in their treasuries this past week!

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My oldest's half birthday falls on my birthday, so there's always a lot of cake and cupcake baking around this time of year. :) She told me she wanted to make these cupcakes, and I silently squealed for joy. These are so much fun to make. So messy, so fun. Sprinkles and fondant for that extra punch o' sugar I'm sure her teacher was thrilled about! Colby's new favorite color is no longer pink

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hahahahahahahahahaha (I ordered one)okay I love this too:

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I took inventory of our fabrics, patterns and bolt-ends and have been busy listing them in our fabric shop on Etsy. Lots to go, but progress is being made! ;)new EtsyNameSpace.Mini(5579277, 'shop','gallery',4,3).renderIframe();

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I love Texas-Ware as much as I love Pyrex. The same night we found the chocolate chip cookie bowl, we also found a set of Texas-Ware speckled cups and saucers.I was surprised at how many Texas-Ware mixing bowls we found too (think Rachael Ray's garbage bowls), but they were all priced at $30-$40 each. You can find the bowls on Etsy and eBay too. I reeeeeaally want one, I'll have to stalk them for

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a package of goodies arrived from diybangles.com this morning:time to find the mod podge and wood burning tool!

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I love me some vintage Pyrex. Especially this bowl:My mom has the exact same bowl, and hers is the one we always mixed up batches of chocolate chip cookies in. And served up a meal of spaghetti cabayero in. So I knew when I saw the same bowl last night for $12.50 at the antique mall, I had to buy it. Happy early birthday to me!It was like deja-vu a thousand times over washing the bowl in the sink

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SimandCharlieDesigns is the Etsian behind this very cool idea for curating a treasury. She found 4 head shots and then created complete outfits for each of the girls. Love this idea! Kind-of like fashion plates, Etsy style. I have a feeling it's going to start a new treasury trend. (side note: just emailed my mom to see if she still has my fashion plates set...I'm hoping they didn't meet the

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I have a love/like relationship with brownies. I love the box mixes. And up until this point, I've only liked all of the from-scratch brownie recipes I've tried. Box mixes = yum! From-scratch recipes = eh. I don't want my brownies to taste like Texas sheet cake, or to taste like they came from the school cafeteria. Or maybe the brownies I'm remembering from the school cafeteria were actually

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Thank you to BlueTurtleCrafts for including our Moo bib in her January 11th - Milk Day treasury.

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We go through paper napkins like water. Each night after supper I'd make a mental note to look up cloth napkins, but with a million and 2 distractions I'd forget about my mental note.Until yesterday!You can find gorgeous handmade napkins on Etsy, and I'm sure the big box stores all carry them. But I needed a lot. So I went to Sam's Club. They had 8-packs for just under $8.00.But leaving them

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thelogchateau, PRINCESSDESIGNS and tinacraft added our bibs to their treasuries this week :)

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In honor of 2011, use coupon code HNY2011 during check-out for 11% off of your entire order.This New Year discount is good on both Etsy and our website!

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I sent my sister outside to ask my husband where the propane torch was. I had asked Santa for a kitchen butane torch after making these cupcakes for the first time last week, but Santa forgot. He did remember to bring me good cocoa powder though (brownie points for Santa). My husband didn't like the idea of me and my sister in the kitchen with a torch, so he toasted the marshmallow topping

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WiggysStuff added our Little Drama Queen bib to their See You in the Funny Papers treasury. :)

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threesistersharvest added our Heart to Heart bib to their newest treasury!

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a "break" that flew by way too fast!We had our newest addition a few days after my last post, and have been happily adjusting to life as a family of 6 since then. My website and Etsy shop are now both back open as of a couple days ago.Here's the first treasury we've been featured in since reopening:It's been so nice to not have to do anything but cuddle babies over the past two months. And eat

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Your Spot Splatter Splash will need a change of outfit, of course...wait, I meant your kiddo's Spot Splatter Splash will need a change of outfit. There are 3 fashion packs available for the dolls - a yellow robe, a party dress, and a raincoat, normally retailing for around $8 each.But good luck finding one. All the big box stores seem to be sold out. Toys R Us was offering a free fashion pack

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...is already over. Very relieved but a little sad too.There's nothing quite like searching for that hard-to-find Christmas gift that your little one is coveting for Christmas. Lalaloopsy Jewel Sparkles is now safely tucked away.I had been searching/stalking Amazon, Target, Wal-mart, TRU...wherever Lalaloopsy dolls are sold. Even eBay but the prices are outrageous. Of course, the name of the game

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My Etsy shop and website are currently on vacation! Orders may still be placed through my website, but they won't be processed until November 20th.{it's almost baby time!}

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Colby took 2 dozen spooooky aliens to her Halloween party at school today.We got the alien idea from our Hello, Cupcake! book, and they are also the October picture for the Hello, Cupcake! 2010 wall calender. :) So we've been staring at the aliens in our kitchen for the entire month of October.While I was assembling the marshmallow and donut holes for the purple aliens, I had a flashback to

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just to take toasted pumpkin seeds and pumpkin-shaped cookies out of the ovenalthough our Christmas ones have been in year round rotation for probably the last 5 years or so...whoops! these will all most likely suffer the same fate... ...especially because my sushi and jello oven mitts were lifted from my kitchen. To the hot pad heist mastermind: I know who you are. ;)

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Hanging dishtowels are one of my favorite quick projects. One of the littles loved to yank the towel down and leave it on the floor (just like all the littles before her), so hanging towels work out a lot better in our house! At least until they figure out how to unsnap things.Earlier in the year I found this tutorial on Kleio's Belly blog - you can download the template and instructions here.

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Not the burned variety, the bisque variety. These have to be fired yet, but are looking so cute. We ordered 30ish box-type bisque cupcakes from Art Craft Studio in Waterloo, and have been painting them with Mayco Wonderglazes a few at a time. We always love visiting the local paint-your-own place, but this project would have been unimagineably expensive there. These cupcakes were $1.50 a pop.

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A craft that involves candy, a glue gun and duct tape? Yes, please! We totally made a candy corn wreath. A manly man could *almost* make this wreath without getting a demerit on his mancard. Or at least wrap the duct tape around the styrofoam for his wife.I, on the other hand, am trying to resist the urge to spray it down with glitter.You can find the how-to on the Woman's Day Halloween craft

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Artist Stephanie Corfee added the cutest printable coloring sheet to her facebook fan page yesterday. Perfect for the times when your kids come running into the kitchen while you're making supper and say: "Mooooooom can I have a snack?" You can distract them until the spaghetti is on the table with crayons, markers and some printable Stephanie Corfee artwork!The best part of today was...(last

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We brought home a package of Halloween Oreos from the grocery store yesterday. It is so hard to resist Oreos to begin with, but around the holidays it's inevitable that a package or 2 will make it home with us. Especially because the 3.5 year old pronounces them like "ariels" and it's just so darned cute when she asks for one.So after school we turned most of them into the Halloween colored

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Thank you to PrincessDesigns, siblingspecialtees and theshortstop for adding our bibs to their newest treasuries!

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Before we headed inside the store this afternoon we noticed that there was a table set up with quilts draped on it. On the backs of the quilts they were requesting that shoppers add their signatures for soldiers. After the quilts are all signed they will be shipped overseas to soldiers where they can read the thank-yous, signatures and well-wishes. The girls each got to pick out a fabric marker

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Last week hubby tackled a project from the honey-do list - the kids' art wall. We had a blank wall next to the fish tank in the dining room that was driving me bonkers trying to figure out what to do with it. At first I was thinking a huge vinyl graphic something (family tree? growth chart?) but that wouldn't work because of the texture of the wall.Then when school started the girls were bringing

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stampgirl45 added our Juicy Lemon Bib to her Sunny and Lemony treasury on Etsy. Thank you!

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On Friday I completed a custom order of all-white bibs for a baby shower. The guests are going to be decorating onesies and these bibs with fabric paint for the new arrival - such a cute idea! We did a mix of the three sizes I offer, and used cream and white chenille as well as yellow and green minky for the backings. The momma-to-be isn't a fan of pink so we stuck to gender-neutral colors. :)

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Fellow EtsyKids member PrincessDesigns added our Apple Dot Bib to her Orange All Around treasury!

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So my momma loves Halloween and Rod Stewart. I don't know what/who she loves more. I am always amazed at what you can find on Etsy. Who. Knew.Rod Stewart album Halloween Candy Dish from mosaichick on EtsyHer birthday is veryclose to Halloween, so it's her favorite holiday (and she passed her love of Halloween onto me). When she turned 50 last year we had a Halloween-themed bday party for her,

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In case you haven't noticed, Pumpkin Spice Lattes are back at Starbucks! It's kind of hard to miss - seems like everyone and anyone are posting status updates on facebook about them. There's even a fan page for them! :)Reading all those status updates made me want one, of course. Crave one. But being pregnant and living a 25 mile round-trip away from the nearest Starbucks put a damper on my

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Thank you to StagnantGypsy, BeGratefulShop, Childish Thoughts and ladesigns2 for adding our bibs to their treasuries!

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Paperlili got me in the Halloween mood as she's been blogging bits and pieces of Halloween craftiness and decor for the past couple weeks. The one that made me go "ooooooh I need to do that" were the blingy black pumpkins. They were lovely, sparkly...and we all need an excuse to use glitter glue every once and awhile. So we printed off some coupons for Michaels and drove away. Luckily the

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Two Laurie Wisbrun print bibs just added to our website!(also available on Etsy here)(also available on Etsy here)

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for any retro/vintage-inspired kid print...so here are two new retro/vintage-inspired kid print bibs :)Sweet Stuff (also available on Etsy here)Fun Times (also available on Etsy here)

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I found a bunch of sample bibs in my sewing room over the weekend, and just listed them in groups on Etsy. They are on sale for $5 per bib (regular retail is $8 each), in groups of 2, 3, 4 and 5. Click on the picture and it will take you to the Etsy listing for that group! :)

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The stack on the left are bibs that are soon-to-be added to our website! I just snapped pics of each of them, hoping to get them edited and listed over the next couple of days. They are being shipped off (along with the stack on the right, over a hundred total!) to the fall Barn Festival in Hastings, Nebraska.

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custom order for bibs 3" longer than our standard size

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on an engine! When we find the old pick-up the husband's going to fix-up for me, I know what color scheme I want now. If you can't find your own bomber to take the seats out of (haha), from what I'm told there's a guy on killbillet.com that makes them, or you can make similar style seats out of kegs. ;)

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Thank you to JoBead for adding our Baby Genius bib to her Labor Day treasury!

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My hubby's all-time favorite dessert is Black Bottom Pie, like his Granny used to make. When I got the Crazy About Cupcakes book over a year ago, inside was a recipe for Black Bottom Cupcakes. I thought it was too good to be true - we found out that while they shared the same name they aren't exactly the same result, but veryverygood. Definitely in our top 5 favorite cupcakes!Have one of your

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Today we received a fun package of pretties from Tobi of Ivey Handcrafted.  I ordered the clippies for our soon-to-be-taken/long-overdue family pictures, and couldn't be happier!  Now I just have to finish their dresses. :)

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Etsy seller daintyblooms added our Citrus Disco Dot bib to her I Stop For Polka Dots treasury. Her Etsy shop is full of hair clips and accessories, like these pretty blooms:

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is what the girls have been on waiting for these fabric panels to arrive!We found the sweet modkid ragdolls after browsing Patty Young's blog here. They have been oohing and ahhing over her Life in Plastic, It's Fantastic! post about the Barbie exhibit at the Indianapolis Children's Museum (okay I've been oohing and ahhing it too, I still love a Barbie).On the sidebar of the blog she had a link

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Love her, love her fabric! She featured a couple pics of the tank shirts I made with Sis Boom fabrics on her blog today.I almost burned some Twinkie cupcakes in the oven because I was so excited and had to write home to mom and dad (er, email).

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a *couple* boring classes in college - thanks IA State Daily!Now part of my only "me time" during the week is when the new issue of People magazine arrives and momma gets/attempts to sit on the couch and spend 5 minutes doing the crossword puzzle. :)Thank you to Purple Elephant Designs for including us in your treasury!

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This morning I saw a beautiful piece of mosaic art on the Sis Boom Sightings flickr group. Melissa of A Hundred Billion Stars adds some of the most amazing goodies to the group - check out some more of her pics and other fun creations made with Sis Boom fabric here!Since the heat index is 107 degrees, the parks are flooded, and the thought of tackling the weekly grocery shopping in a store where

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Thank you to DaniJoDesigns, Pennamite and tlynette418 for including our bibs in their recent treasuires!

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Since the pickles turned out so well, I was feeling domestic and wanted to try something new the next day. There was a recipe in Fannie Farmer for lemon jelly that was marked with an asterisk to mean "family favorite" and decided this would be a yummy one to try (I've been on a lemony kick lately).a dozen lemons + 4 large applesThinly slice the lemons and coarsely chop the cored apples. I added

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A few weeks ago I told my neighbor I was planning on making pickles from the cucumbers in the garden, and bless her heart if she didn't bring me 2 huge bags of cukes from her garden last week. So now I pretty much had no choice but to walk the walk and not just talk the talk of canning.I found a recipe for Janice Pike's Perfect Pickles in my go-to cookbook (Fannie Farmer: one of the most

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I went a little sew-happy making these shirts over the last few days. They're kind of addictive.

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I spotted this the other day in my contacts' photostream on flickr and have been obsessing over it ever since. This afternoon the girls and I made a batch, and they had a blast. We started with white cake mix and split it into different bowls to dye with neon food coloring. Then I put the colors into separate pastry bags to make it easy for the girls to fill up the cupcake liners.They were so

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I finally had some time today to finish the hems on some back-to-school clothes for the girls. We made them an inbetween size so they'll work as shirts for the oldest and dresses/long shirts for the preschooler. I wanted to sew up a bunch of new clothes for them to wear this summer, but now all of a sudden school is starting already. ;) Where did this summer go?Love these fabrics from Michael

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This morning she drew me a picture of the chandelier I spotted a couple days ago at the antique mall. It's amazing how observant kiddos can be. ♥

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a bunch of patterns and fabrics in our CatyLou Quilts Etsy shop! This week I'll be going through my remnants/fat quarters/bolt ends and will get those added too.

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We spent an hour or so at the antique mall this afternoon, looking for some new old whatevers. I found a chandelier to paint for my sewing room, but it was too expensive. The girls found an old Alice in Wonderland Little Golden book, and it was just right ($2.00). Hubby found an old toolbox to hold some of his old whatevers.But then we spied this bamboo parasol. Not sure just how vintage it

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24 bibs and matching burp cloths for my latest wholesale order. Didn't think I'd be able to get them all done this weekend, but I did thanks to hubby keeping the kids busy washing the truck. :)

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fat new stacks of fabric! Fabric.com had an amazing sale on lots of goodies - Jennifer Paganelli, yummy solid color knits...perfect for some more back to school clothes for the littles.

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This treasury happens to be a "buy and replace" so if you are an Etsy seller and purchase one of the items in the treasury (or anything from any of the featured shops) an item from your shop will be featured next to replace what you purchased.

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I was trying to find some pretty souffle cups for cupcakes in between trying to get my shipping labels printed, and found these aqua/red party cups from TinselandTrinkets. I liked the colors so much that I put together a treasury while waiting for pages to load/reload (our internet is still wonky so it takes foooorreeeevvvvaaaaah to do the simplest thing). Our internet provider was supposed to

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Our Tadpoles in Mustard bib was included in ananemone's Heather Ross Celebration treasury. Heather Ross's take-home goldfish print was one of the very first fabrics I purchased to make bibs with (back in the eBay days). Some of her "retired" oldies-but-goodies are available in new colorways on spoonflower.com here. I turned the pink gnomes into a sweet little pillowcase dress for the girls a

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Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder + new order of cupcake liners + new gigundo pastry tip = good way to end a Sundayour favorite frosting around here is Paula Deen's 7-Minute frostingThe pretty cupcake liners are from one of my very favorite Etsy sellers, HeyYoYo.

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The Barn is having a warehouse seconds sale this weekend, at 80-85% off retail prices. If you live too far away to get there in person, they are offering "grab bags" of either the 16 oz or 8 oz sizes on their website. An amazing deal!

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Thank you to Copeland's Pottery for adding our Solitaire bib to their Card Up the Sleeve treasury. They have a beautiful shop of pottery, including this jewelry box:

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There's nothing better than a classic polka dot! Etsy seller Life in the Sass Lane added our Citrus Disco Dot bib to her EtsyKids are seeing SPOTS treasury.

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"They're here! They're here!"Last week the girls and I placed an order from the Soapylove website, and that is what I heard this morning when I told them who the pretty brown box the mailman handed us was from (I can say pretty because even the brown box was outfitted in colorful Soapylove stickers).They had stood at the computer, changing minds, changing colors, changing styles for what seemed

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Babble.com featured our Computer Code bib on their Family Style blog today, as part of the Baby Gifts for Future Geeks post. Also featured was this adorable microscope onesie from Nerdy Baby.

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Our friends welcomed sweet little twin boys into the world this week! As soon as we found out their names I got started on some baby gifts. The bedding that they had registered for was uber-cute, so we picked up a package of receiving blankets from the same collection to rework into some soft custom blankets.I cut the receiving blankets (stripes, leaves and animals) into different sized strips

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Thank you to PreschoolDoll for adding our For the Birds in Turquoise bib to her EtsyKids treasury!

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...with lots of frosting too! I think they tried out every star and flower pastry tip I own :)Eat your heart out Cake Boss! Final product after all of their leaf work:We used the Congo Bar recipe from Bakerella, and a yummy buttercream frosting recipe from my Betty Crocker cookbook. It was very very good in a wow this is so rich I can't eat the whole piece good. :)

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How cute is this muffin tin charm necklace from Sarita's Jewelry Box? Pretty sure I need it (update: I bought it). This brush and comb necklace is equally adorable too:Currently the seller is offering 20% orders or 3 or more items for new customers. Get shopping! :)

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Thank goodness Craft Cult has The Vault where you can find screenshots of all treasuries featured on the front page, because I was not up to see the front page of Etsy at 4 am! :)

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Etsy seller MRSBAUBLES added our Tread Plate baby bib to her Treads treasury. Thank you! I love the Tread Plate plate, and I gave hubby one of toybreaker/Cyberoptix Tie Lab's ties for Christmas.MRSBAUBLES' Etsy shop is full of handmade beaded earrings, necklaces and brooches, like these pretty freshwater pearl earrings:

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Lot 116 Photography is having an entire Week of Wow, with 2 or more giveaways each day! Check out the giveaways on the Lot 116 blog, and then head over to Lot 116's facebook page before July 11th to leave a comment under the item(s) you would like to win. Colby Lane Designs is featured as Giveaway #4! We are giving away your choice of 5 bibs (that retail for $8-10) from our website.

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Etsy seller cuspididdly added our Gone Bananas bib to her fun and eclectic "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" treasury.

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Thank you to life in the Sass lane for including our Dogs on Orange Bib in her Orange you glad there's EtsyKids treasury!

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how cute are these guitar pick bobby pins from jenshipthreads??

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The Spring Barn Festival at The Barn in Hastings, Nebraska begins this Friday, May 21st - May 23rd and also runs next Friday, May 28th - May 30th. Our bibs will be there, as well as thousands of home decor items, artwork, children and baby gifts, jewelry, and beautiful Barn Candles of course!A few of the featured items are shown below, and you can view the rest of the sneak peeks here.The Barn

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Our new quilt made with fabrics from Jennifer Paganelli's Bell Bottoms line. She just posted on her blog a bit ago that Casey Scrolls are no longer in print. Yes, I am a die-hard, and am now in full-on hoard mode.I can't get enough of the backing paired with the black binding.and of course, the pink paper doll print at the request of Miss Caty :)I love this Casey Scroll. Okay I love all Casey

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One of our newest quilts made with Moda's Hunky Dory line and a smattering of Amy Butler, Sandi Henderson, Jennifer Paganelli and Disco Dots of course!The quilt is backed with Michael Miller's Kid Cut-Ups in Turquoise. I am still obsessed with aqua/red combos.The binding is made with Jennifer Paganelli's Red Claire Blocks. I've found that lately there is nothing more relaxing then hand-finishing

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strikes again!On the bright side, at least it's not sharpie!The crayon bandit's little sidekick would still rather eat crayons than deface with them, so I know she didn't do it.She left her signature blue crayon in the knee lever hole. Getting brave too - I was a mere three feet away sorting fabric on the sewing table.

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Saturday seemed like a quilty kind-of-a day so I handed the girls a stack of Amy Butler Midwest Modern 2 squares that I'd been holding onto for awhile. They love laying squares out to design quilts, and it always makes for a fun afternoon project. I love how random they are - the only self-appointed "rule" they use is that two squares of the same print can't be next to one another. Other than

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