NEW beautiful Hoops

I'm so excited to *finally* have some new hoop art in the shop for you! I'm working on making a few more designs that I've had in my head for awhile now. So hopefully I'll have even more for you shortly.

But today I wanted to share these beauties with you.

Love Story

Create Beautiful

Teal & Red Starburst

Make Today Beautiful

Ps. i love you

Wish

Blue & Orange Bliss

I'm so excited about these! So excited in fact that I'd like to offer you a special little discount today!
Use the code BEAUTIFULHOOPS for 15% off your purchase today! But hurry, these babies won't last long and the code is only good for a short amount of time! Visit my shop now. ;)

Thanks so much for all your love and support! And I still do custom work too so let me know if there's something you'd like to have!

{Thrifted Thursdays} Week 10

If you are new to this read about it all here. 

This week I'm going to share with you one of the fabulous link-ups from last week and hopefully encourage you to join in with the fun.




Last week the adorable Liz @ Here's to Handy Andy linked up with her thrifted lamp makeover.

Isn't that just super cute? And Liz shows us that your thrifted finds can go beyond just clothing and accessories. Also, don't overlook something just because you aren't sure that you like it the way it currently looks. You can always make changes and turn it into something that you absolutely LOVE.

 

7 days in Instagram

So between the holidays, working two jobs, etsy, blogging, OH and that GroopDealz order of 216 bracelets.....I've been a bit crazy lately. My extreme apologies! BUT.... I did take quite a few pictures via the lovely Instagram. So here's what's been going on....

Rocking cute new clothes at my nanny job

Eating delicious food at the pub {my OTHER job}

 

Enjoying all things Christmas for our very first one living together

We had our first stockings {also first time as Santa}, lego building Christmas morning, berry pie and roast beef in the crock.

And for me.... trying to fill 216 bracelets orders from my GroopDealz offer in just two weeks. 

Also...thinking to myself...WHY did I make them FIVE rosette bracelets? Oy. 

But I do feel SO INCREDIBLY blessed to have sold so many and my packaging reminds me that I'm doing what I love. 

Now if only I could get rid of those other jobs. ;) 

Happy Wednesday.

Love.

So as much as I would love to blame the Blogger outage for my absence; it just wouldn't be fair or accurate. I admit, I have been busy with life outside of the Bloggy world. Boo.
But I am here again and today I would like to bring to you.....things I am loving lately.

FIRST....

I finally got some time to make new items for the shop. I seriously want you to know how happy it makes me to make beautiful little items with my own two hands. And because I am so happy and want to thank you for being so great to me....for the rest of the month of May I am offering you 10% of with the code: HAPPYHEART.


I am also loving the kindness of people lately. You know, when someone sees that you are having a difficult time and does something amazing to help you out or to put a smile back on your face. My "boss" (I use quotations because although she is TECHNICALLY my boss, she's a better friend and when you nanny....the word 'boss' is somewhat weird anyway)....well she surprised me at the end of a hard day last week with this.

I NEVER EVER get flowers so I was pretty thrilled. Thank you again for making me feel special.

THIRD lovely thing.....
My beautiful bloggy friend Gaby (read her adventures in crafting and yoga here) had a fabulous giveaway on her blog for her new etsy shop and I WON! It really is exciting to win giveaways and each time I have; I'm more surprised than the last. But this past week I came home to find this.

Trust me, the cute little headband inside was A-mazing but first I must photograph it on myself (on a good hair day) and send the pic to Gaby and then I will share it here. But you can check out more of her lovelies and get something for yourself from Australia if you visit this shop.

Oh and finally what I am loving today and pretty much all the time is this:

Headband by LifebyHand

We are working really hard lately to be HAPPY. Not that we don't LOVE each other; just that we've been through A-LOT of rough icky times lately and it's hard not to make that yuck the focus of our every conversation and mood. I challenge you to do the same.

Also....DON'T FORGET to enter the May Giveaway while there's still time! And if you already have....do it again! There's many ways to enter and you could always share it with someone you love.

And if you like me.....could you LIKE my Facebook page too? Pretty please? I want to use it to tell you about exciting new things that you may not see here....plus it really needs some love. It's feeling sad. ;)

Thanks lovelies! And Happy Monday!

2 Years & 1 Blankie

Last weekend....

I really wanted to tell you.

How we celebrated. 

This girl.

She turned two.

Isn't she gorgeous?

I'm so lucky to get to be her nanny.

And love on her every week.

And watch her grow.

I wanted to do something special for her. 

So I worked my little fingers.

And created this.

It was an amazing birthday.

And I'm so happy she LOVES her blankie.

And I really love to crochet.

Even if it does make me have "claw-hand"

(as boyfriend likes to call it).