Category: Pretty stuff

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Stuff I’m Loving…

right this minute…

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1. All these cool pumpkins from our very own garden

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2.  This happy little shopper getting comfortable in the cart

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3.  A pan of English “Flapjack” candy-granola-type stuff that was fabulous until I burned it. Dang puddle.

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4. Seriously cute baby hair

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5. Holiday Herbal Tea in Sugar Plum Spice flavor just in the nick of time

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6. Tweedle-Dee and the Noodle

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7. Strawberry Peanut Butter M&M’s…can I just say…W.O.W.

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8. A rainy backyard on a sun-shiney day

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9. Rainbows that obediently follow the rain

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10. A brave kitty watching the sunset from a very wet deck

And so we see—all is right with the world.

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Classy Halloween Treats

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Ever dream of being so pulled together during the holiday season that you not only pass out Halloween treats to the neighborhood kids–but to the neighbors themselves? And to top that off, what if the the snack bags looked…well…stunning?  Sound impossible? Well, not now…

Here’s how to do it.

You’ll need:

Clear cello bags

3/4 inch black or orange ribbon

Printable address labels

Halloween treats (We made our famous popcorn ball recipe without shaping them into balls)

Fill the cello bags with whatever Halloween goodies you’d like. Seal them with tape or a twist tie. Wrap the ribbon around the middle of the bag and secure with a square knot.

Click on this Classy Halloween Labels link to print off some fabulous spooky labels of your own. Be sure to type your own name below the “Happy Halloween.” Load your printer with Standard 1″x 2-1/2″ address labels and push print. Stick them on and pass out your pretty stuff. Or you can run them off on heavy paper and use them as tags–either way—

be prepared for lots of clapping…

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and rightly so.

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Rumpelstiltskin

There’s a magic feeling about…

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pretty colored string.

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a pile of it…

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a spool of it…

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or a carton of it.

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Doesn’t really matter because it’s always the same with ambitious stuff like string.

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It wants to do more than sit on the shelf or on the spool or in the box.

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It wants to BE something…

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or a lot of somethings.

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Either way—I like to believe it’s the wish of all miller’s straw…

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to be spun into gold.

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A Country Quilt Fair

…at the Springville Art Museum.

For a limited time…only.

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No rides. No farm animals. No cotton candy—or food of any kind on the premises, thank you. But somehow still a fair none-the-less.

By now…you should know how we feel about fairs…any sort.

We lovvve them.

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I couldn’t stop looking at this one. It’s my favorite in the whole building. It was sewn with gold thread and sparkled like there was dew on all the leaves. So beautiful.

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This one, “A Very Hungry Caterpillar”  was the babies’ personal favorite. They tried to eat it.

I’m not kidding.

So we had no choice but to go down the street and find…

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Fresh. Peach. Shakes.

Also for a limited time only.

It couldn’t be helped.

After all…it was a fair.

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Beauty

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People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

– Salma Hayek