The Shop

Save Some Green

Everything in my shop is 20% off today! If you’ve had your eye on some stationery, the new pocket mirrors, or anything else, today would be a great day to head on over to Pink Loves Brown.

Offer ends midnight CST 03.17.08. Cannot be combined with any other offer.

Pocket Mirrors!

I’ve added some adorable scalloped pocket mirrors to my shop!

Scalloped Pocket Mirrors, $6.50 each, from Pink Loves Brown
There they are with the sketch that inspired the design, which was on the very first page of a new sketch book. Sometimes I actually skip that first page… I want so badly for it to be [...]

P.O. Box 1268

I can’t find my shrinky dink paper (woe is me!). I wanted to make a key chain and take a photo with my new key because I have a shiny new Oak Park P.O. Box. This is what my key chain will look like eventually:

Wondering where to send snail mail (or goodies) to [...]

New Bookplates

Yay! My new bookplates are here!

Retro Curves Bookplates and Don’t Blame Me Book Club Bookplates

Whew!

I have been a very busy lady.
Thursday
The guest room was finished up as well as it could be. I’m going to order the Marimekko Lumimarja fabric for the windows. The friendly people over at Finnstyle are offering me (and you) 15% off until Friday! Just enter “makingitlovely” when you check out.
Here’s the [...]

Ribbon Stand

I reassembled and repurposed a Christmas stocking tree for my studio. I wrap each order from my shop in tissue paper and baker’s twine, and my new ribbon stand will be very handy.

Pottery Barn has a similar (maybe better) item right now: the ribbon organizer.

Penmanship Stationery

The studio is not ready to be shown yet, but I’m very excited about my latest design!

There are matching pins and magnets too. I think they’d make a great gift for a teacher from a little boy or girl… so sweet!
Pssst! Wanna save 15% at my shop? Enter GoodPenmanship at checkout! [...]

Getting Things Done, So We Can Begin

Our next big project is going to be the studio floor. Brandon and I will be ripping out the nasty beige carpet and putting in bamboo. It’s the same bamboo that we used in the bedroom a while back.
The bedroom was our first floor experience, and the whole project took eight days (I [...]