Refining

I'm thoroughly excited about the refinement of my packaging and some new and upcoming offerings in my shop. I hope you love it as well! First here's my new jewelry packaging ~

and here is a sneak peek of something new coming to my shop! Fragrant Inspiring Ring Pillows ~

                           

   I would love to know what you think of these new additions. I welcome any and all comments. :) 

Rolling with the seasons.

I love the holidays, especially Thanksgiving + Christmas.  The weather turning colder is not something I look forward to, however, I am learning to appreciate the unique opportunities it brings with it.  Such as the snuggling under a quilt on the couch while we read our nightly read aloud. Speaking of which, yesterday we set up our Christmas tree solely for the purpose of enjoying the little twinkling white lights while we snuggle up with our good reading.

Another benefit of the colder weather is the necessity it makes one feel to deep clean the house.  I don't know about you but the desire to clean the house waxes + wanes here.  Sometimes we feel all fired up and then the feeling goes away + we do what we must to maintain decent surroundings.  There really is too much to do + to see to spend too much time slaving over work that is so quickly undone ;) At least that is what I have come to believe, lol!

What do you enjoy that is something just enjoyed as the weather turns colder?

A little tidbit of fascinating learning :)

DS brought in a bounty of leaves to press and asked what kind of leaf is this?  I regret I have never taken the time to learn how to identify trees by their leaves.  I'm sure once upon a time, most people knew this basic info.

Perhaps most still do and I missed class that day or week? ;)  However, being driven to help ds quench his thirst for leaf knowledge a googling we went and unearthed this amazing website ~ http://www.oplin.org/tree/leaf/byleaf.html

I hope you all will check it out.  Unless of course, you already know how to identify trees by their leaves ;)
Most of the our current leaf collection are Eastern Cottonwood btw!

Pay It Forward

Hello dear readers, if you are still with me...  Sorry for not being around much ~ you can find me often on twitter and only occasionally here ;)

Have you all heard of Pay It Forward?  Just in case you are unfamiliar ~ Pay it Forward is when someone does something nice for you + you in turn do something nice for someone else.  Its a lot of fun and I hope you will play along :)

Amanda of Little Treasures by Amanda and Selina of Sew it Up who are some of the sweetest + most giving of ladies got this wonderful idea in motion. My fellow friends and Misfit Quilters have jumped on board and how could I not?  I love all the fun + learning these fabulous ladies have added to my life.  So read on to learn how you can join in the fun.

So simple to join in, here’s how:

1. Ill make a little something for the first 3 people who comment to this post. What I make will be a surprise and will arrive to you when you least expect it. Doesn’t everyone love a surprise?

2. I have 365 days to make and deliver it to you. But there’s a little catch, to get a handmade gift from me, you have to play too! This means you take the pledge to send something handmade to 3 of your blog readers. It doesn’t have to be a quilt, just something handmade! Easy right?

3. In case it wasnt obvious in #2, you have to have a blog.

4. Once you comment here, you have to post about Pay it Forward on your blog and keep it going!

This is one of the easiest commitments you’ll make! You can make anything you want. You have a whole year to make it and send it. Simple! Even if you aren’t one of the first 3 to comment on my post, you can still do something nice for someone else by participating on your own blog. I would love to hear about it!  So comment and let's keep paying it forward :)