Etsy Shoppin

Hey, just checkin in to let you know that we didn't slip and fall off the face of the earth during all the snow and ice over Christmas. Moving from Boston to Cincinnati has been full of surprises (and the hits keep coming). We're kinda homeless right now as the house we were going be staying in is without heat and water. So it's gonna take a week or so til life resembles anything mildly normal.

Til then I thought I'd show off some of our Christmas Etsy purchases...

This LOVELY linen market bag for my sister-in-law from Elizabeth Bentz. The shop has been open less than a month and already has 20 sales...easy to see why.

Several teas, including this BELGIAN CHOCOLATE tea, from TeaForAllReasons. I didn't get to try any but they smelled DELICIOUS....might have to order some for myself soon!

This AWESOME pair of Tabi Sock slippers made from a recycled sweater for my brother-in-law. If he doesn't want them he's welcome to regift them back to us : )


For the budding artists in our family we got several of these super cute pencil cases and filled them with an assortment of art supplies. Check out the selection, it was hard to choose!



A couple years ago Daniel made a wallet for his brother by ironing/melting several layers of plastic grocery bags together into a single, thick bendy plastic sheet then sewing it together with our sewing machine. It's held up pretty well actually but is starting to wear a little. So we got him this recycled neck tie wallet as an upgrade. There are many more where this one came from so stop by and check them out!


And how cute are these leg/arm warmers! Knotty Baby Wear has over 1000 to choose from!! Crazy! My niece is officially the hippest baby in southern Ohio.  I grabbed an extra pair for my boys and will surely be stopping back for more!

Well, I'm off to spend more time with family. I can't wait to get a bit more settled but in the meantime, we're embracing the chaos. : )

The 11th Day of Christmas

My work is the 11th Day Sale out of Relevant Magazine's 12 Days of Christmas Sale. If you want to support Relevant Magazine and me and Blood:Water Mission at the same time, stop by the Relevant Store today, type in the top secret code "CMAS11" at checkout and I will make sure you get your order in time for Christmas : )

What A Guy

I'm feasting on soup today in light of my recent wisdom teeth extraction---trying to ice my cheek with one hand, pack for moving with the other hand, print the last few orders from my shop with the other hand, take care of Jude with another hand...too bad I'm not one of those multi-limbed Hindu goddesses, that'd make this whole process go a lot faster.

Daniel brought home this cute little red and white arrangement because quote: "you deserve flowers". What a guy : ) I think I shall take him with me.

Bittersweet

We hosted the "Give-Away Soiree" this weekend, giving away a good chunk of our stuff to friends as we prepare to move to Cincinnati in 6 days. (!!!) (we've still got some stuff left--like a microwave, an end table, a floor lamp, a lobster pot, and a VHS copy of "Cool Runnings" with Japanese subtitles...I know, I'm shocked that wasn't snagged right away too! -- so if you're local and are interested speak up)

Don't worry, Jude, you're marked with one of our special "this item is not available" stickers.

Then there was our going-away party, more packing, Christmas shopping on Etsy, meals with friends, and more packing.
Tomorrow is your last day to order from my shop if you'd like to take advantage of the "Buy One Get One" sale. After that I'm closin up shop til after the first of the year.

I'm also getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow (woohoo!) so posts might be sparse over the next week or so with all the packing, teeth pulling, moving, Christmas madness!

NA na na na na na na na NA na na na na na na na BATMAN!

We had Hudson's party this past weekend-- a blur of cake, presents, a Christmas parade, face painting, sword fights, cookie decorating, and broken crayon bits. This was my first attempt at making a layer cake. For the top, I just printed the batman logo out on some printer paper, cut it out with a craft knife, and gently but completely laid it on the icing as a stencil as I poured on the sprinkles.


We tried our hand at recycled chunky crayons....although I got distracted with all the cake cutting and serving that I left the crayons in the oven for too long. They melted all together and came out the same purplish brownish color. Oh well.

Happy 4th, Hudson : )

What. The Heck. Is That.

Yesterday was full of Boston Bazaar Bizarre MADNESS. Thousands upon thousands of people for 8 hours. I sold out of 1/2 my prints 2 hours into it (mostly because I ran out of ink the night before and only had about 1/2 of what I would have liked to bring).

SPEAKING OF BIZARRE, I'm kickin myself for not getting video of yesterday's live entertainment -- Jonny Spaceman. Picture this, I'm sellin stuff, all is well...THEN... this unearthly...whiney...haunting..slightly off-key rendition of Hark the Herald starts bouncing off the walls so loudly that I can hardly hear the customers. "WHAT THE?! " I look up and postioned high on a balcony overlooking the arena like a grand emcee is a man dressed in all silver playing a.... wait...what IS that thing?! Is he just waving his hands in the air?! Why is he gesturing like that?! How is he making that sound?!

A little internet research last night opened up a whole new world of musical geekery I was unaware of. Step aside tuba players and barbershop quartets, the THERAMIN is the new music geek in town. I found Jonny Spaceman himself on YouTube. Imagine hours of this....

We're knee-deep in paper scraps around here-- paper snowflakes to dress our window, paper chains to hang for Hudson's party tomorrow, and my freshly printed art prints drying in preparation of this Sunday's big Boston Bazaar Bizarre. And I've got to get to baking!--cookies for a Christmas event at church tomorrow and cake for Hudson's birthday party!! So this weekend is going to be CHOCK-FULL of prepping, packing, partying CRAZINESS! We're moving in TWO WEEKS! SOOOO MUCH to do!!