A few days ago an email from Jeska popped into my inbox. I knew something wonderfully lovely would be waiting inside and I was right! Jeska has set herself the challenge of creating a unique matchbox every day for the month of February. She’s doing this to support her Valentine who is running the London [...]
Tabletop Made is a Santa Barbara, CA based, letterpress stationary collaboration between Karis and Sarah. The ladies were kind enough to spare a little time for to share more about their work here today. I’m so glad they did! I’m sure you’ll just love Tabletop Made, too! You can visit their Etsy shop, website, and blog, [...]
I’ve had a lot more free time this month to actually use some of the too-many ideas I have for projects. I’ve had this orange wool for ages. I got it in Williamsburg, VA when Joel and I went back in 2010. I bought a second skein in November of last year and I finally [...]
A brand new year always feels like the right time to do some planning. My poor little Wayside Violet shop was a little stagnant in 2011. I haven’t created any new cozies and, to be honest, I’m surprised that they are still selling like hotcakes. But the lack of freshness is going to change soon, because [...]
There are so many must makes for this time of year and I thought I’d share two of my favorite Christmas recipes today. Hopfully you aren’t in too much of a sugar coma from the sweets that the holidays bring! The first recipe, well, I don’t have a good name for it. Growing up we [...]
Today is my last day of work until the New Year. So exciting! So I wanted to bring in an edible office gift. Lottie + Doof has a wonderful 12 Days of Cookies series going on and day 5 was a recipe from Matthew Rice for Gooey Butter Cookies. Gooey Butter Cake is a St. [...]
I really like today’s Favorites gift guide, because it includes some of my favorite Etsy shops and because it means I can talk about my Christmas card drama. I had myself convinced that I could make my own cards. I’ve made them every year for years, but this year was busy. “That’s okay!” my inner [...]
I’m so looking forward to Christmas break this year! We’re staying home and having Christmas by ourselves for the first time ever. It’s not that we don’t like seeing family, but we’ll both have a week off from work without school. I can’t even imagine the free time. I might sleep the entire week! I’m [...]
Saturday my friend Abby and I went down to the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse to the The 6th Annual Renegade Craft Fair Holiday Market in Chicago. We’re quite the Renegade veterans these days, but I wasn’t prepared for the huge size of the crowd. It was a crazy-good turnout! Maybe I should have been and maybe [...]
I can’t believe December is almost here! I’ve almost finished my Christmas shopping and soon the house will be all cozy and cheery and Christmasy. While checking my list of to dos I realized that I still needed to update the ol’ Wayside Violet shop with holiday info and I thought I’d share it here, [...]
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