This weekend was a mash-up of frantically finishing up projects and finals, decking the halls, a sushi date, a sink overflowing with used coffee cups, carpet cleaning chaos, and a Christmas tree. Our very first real-live Christmas tree. I love it! We bought it off of a pair of adorable Boy Scouts and brought it [...]
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 [...]
Once upon a time, I spent an entire afternoon creating the perfect Christmas Winter Playlist for this week’s Music Monday. I then got too distracted by hanging lights and garlands that I completely forgot to post it! This year I wanted a mix of Christmas favorites and music that I connect with winter. It’s a [...]
‘Tis the season for gift guides and there have already been lots and lots of good ones this year! I’ve posted about Es’s stunning (I mean it is seriously GORGEOUS!) Gifting Magazine and I love Grace’s shopping-free gift giving post, but I still wanted to do a little series of gift idea posts. So here’s [...]
I am so glad that I didn’t set foot in a single large store this Thanksgiving weekend. The thought of being mashed up in a frazzled crowed under fluorescent lights trying to reach things that don’t really have anything special about them? No, thank you. Instead, we spent our last day in West Virginia with [...]
I just wanted to get in a quick, albeit late, “Happy Thanksgiving!” to all of my American pals. For a lot of people today (Black Friday) means lines and crowds and spending lots of money at the mall. Sure it’s fun to do once or twice, but I think that buying handmade and local is [...]
I really meant to have this post up last night but then, to make a long and boring story short, I sewed a few pieces of my homework (a yoked bodice) incorrectly and had to practice my salty language tear out a bunch of stitches and start again. Saturday, the day before the great sewing [...]
Today is my 26th birthday and I’m ashamed to say that I started the day feeling awfully sorry for myself. I’ve been sick all weekend and Joel is at a conference this week. The words “sick and all alone on my birthday” clanked around in my brain and each well-meaning friend’s Facebook post added to my [...]
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