diy - summer succulent garden:

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July 12, 2011



Succulents are always in style. Here's a mini succulent garden, with bunting! This is a fun inexpensive summer afternoon project, and would make a cute gift for a friend.


Here's what you need:

- Cupcake liners
- Scissors
- Small Metal Loaf pan (Found mine at a thrift store for .75 cents!)
- Small Succulents (got mine at the local swap meet, for $1 each)
- Twine
- Potting Soil
- Wood skewer sticks


We'll start with the garland first. So take a cupcake liner and bunch it together.


Poke a hole through - be careful not to hurt yourself on this step!


String twine through the cupcake liner. I placed a piece of tape on the end of the twine, so it could thread through easier.


Continue until your garland is long enough for your pan.



Now tie onto the Skewer sticks and your cupcake garland is all done!


Next, place potting soil into your loaf pan. I filled it up about half way to leave room for the succulent.



Remove succulents and place them in loaf pan.



Fill the remaining part with more soil.


Place cupcake garland in pan and you're done! Now for a finishing touch.


Print out a summer graphic, I used sticker paper so it would stick together when wrapped around. But you can easily use a sheet of paper and just glue it. Cut out and wrap around another skewer stick. Trim down to desired size.


and you have a cute little flag for your garden!




good cheer deal, the hey day shop:

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July 11, 2011

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Always love voucher deals because you can choose whatever you want! This week's voucher deal is from the hey day shop - tons of awesome handmade items and supplies!

Item: $25 for $40 voucher for anything from the hey day shop!
Retail Price: $40
Good Cheer Price: $25

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- Only 20 vouchers available!

- Once voucher is purchased, a one-time only discount code
for $40.00 will be emailed to buyer's PayPal address.

- Your shop credit can be used to cover shipping costs (including international)

- This deal is open to all countries!

- Please be sure to visit the hey day shop and support!

- Click the 'buy now' button to purchase this deal. Use your paypal
account to make payment directly to seller and enter your shipping
information. Then your good cheer will be on it's way!

- If the 'buy now' button is no longer working, it means the item is sold out.

good cheer deal, sparkle thots:

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Wonderful deal for a pretty little bow ring from sparkle thots!

Item: "don't forget" Ribbon ring, your choice of silver, gold filled, or rose gold!
Retail Price: Silver - $35, Goldfilled - $44, Rose Gold - $50
Good Cheer Price:
Silver - $20
Goldfilled - $26
Rose Gold - $30
all rings included free shipping to anywhere!

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- 15 rings available of each color option.

- Please indicate US ring size in remarks to seller. All care and caution will be taken to correctly size the ring. Please contact me if unsure of ring size. Rings are custom made and are non-exchangeable.

- This deal is open to all countries! Free shipping for all customers!

- All packages will be shipped via normal post. Please allow 10-14 working days from date of shipping to reach as seller is based Singapore.

- Please be sure to visit sparkle thots and support!

- Click the 'buy now' button to purchase this deal. Use your paypal account to make payment directly to seller and enter your shipping information. Then your good cheer will be on it's way!

- If the 'buy now' button is no longer working, it means the item is sold out.

happy friday / guacamole:

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July 8, 2011

We have reached another weekend. Have we really already arrived to July? Goodness me. Will time flying ever get old? I wish one of these days, I could just say "This week was so slow for me" But it seems like I'm always saying how the time is flying! Sometimes I wonder what it'd be like to go back to childhood days when summers were long and it seemed like we'd never grow up! ;)

So for today's images, I photographed some guacamole. Random, I know. But I absolutely positively love guacamole as of late, but I have to admit - I didn't always like avocado's. My close friends know I'm kind of a picky eater but isn't it weird how our tastes change? I would have never picked up an avocado growing up, even though there were plenty to be found here in California. Now I can't get enough! It makes for such a great snack too. Do you have any foods like that for you? Foods you didn't like at all but now you like?
I am wondering if my tastes will ever change for other foods I dislike such as onions, pickles, and cheese? I doubt it... but maybe! ;) Well, this weekend we are selling at Renegade SF! Hope you can stop by if you're in the area. Wishing you a splendid weekend dear friends. xo.

collections / show displays:

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July 7, 2011


I've been getting ready for Renegade SF this weekend and even though I've been doing shows for a couple years now, I never get tired of looking at other craft show displays! People just are so creative, I love it. I guess I'd say packaging & display are pretty high on my list of *loves*, what about you? Anyway, if you're in SF this weekend, I hope you'll be able to stop by the craft show!



little winter market via field guided & Myra + Matt


via circle creek home via birch + bird



shauna & stephen seriously have the most legit
displays! via somethings hiding in here


via made by hank


via Jasna Janekovic


Sycamore Street Press display via pinterest.com


Beautiful display by Peg and Awl and The Black Spot Books via indiefixx


This isn't necessarily a craft show display but I think
it'd be great if you have stationery or paper goods to display!
via theknot.com


via christine lovitt



miniature rhino display
(first 2 images via charlottes fancy)


via forest bound

a cake party with friends:

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July 6, 2011

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So Ruby had an idea a while ago to have a cake party. I think she was inspired by this photo or something ;) So we met last week and everyone just brought a cake, it was a lot of fun! Of course we snapped some photos to share with everyone.

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Sweet Lucy breaking out the wine
(actually, no one opened the wine, hehe)

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ahhh, it was such a silly site all of us taking photos! ;) Yea, okay we're a little crazy! That's what bloggers do, right? Sadly, this was pretty much the only group shot we got!

Blogger friends: Myra from double-sidedtape, Linda from parked together, Henny & Lucy from utterly engaged, Lillian from unstitched, Lauren from lauren elise crafted, and of course our host, Ruby from my cakies!

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Ruby pretty much told me to grab whatever from her house to use as decorations so I had a blast searching her entire house and finding cute props to use! Needless to say her whole house is decorated with vintage and could be a shop or something, I love her style!

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Mini pizzas were a perfect addition to our cake party.

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I just grabbed a little slice of each cake and had a sampler cake platter.
It was all quite delicious!

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We had plates and glue to make a diy cake stand for take home 'party' favors.

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Over at the kid's table, Ruby made pepperoni pizza and
play-dough packs for the kids! So cute.

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The only 'pretty' thing we didn't have was a cake cutter/slicer/lifter
thing so we improvised, it was pretty awesome ;)
Soul snuck up behind Ruby while we were taking pics, isn't she so precious?

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Night drew near and we chatted endlessly about blogging and anthropolgie!

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Some after-party photos. We turned around and Hannah (Henny's adorable
daughter) crawled into a bin in Ruby's backyard, so precious!

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We definitely want to have another get together and open it to our local blogger reader's/friend's - anyone up for a party? :)