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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
It’s our last day in Williamsburg and we’ll be back on the road to West Virginia in a few hours. Tomorrow will be all about cooking good food, eating good food, hanging out with family, and watching the dog show. (We all have weird family traditions and watching the dog show happens to be ours.) [...]
This is a super great recipe because it’s easy-peasy and so very good! You can use pretty much any fruit combination that you’d like, but this time around I used two beautiful Granny Smith apples and a pint of perfect blackberries. Apples and blackberries are so great this time of year. Plus, this could be [...]
I love wrapping presents. That might sound funny, but it’s true. For me half the fun of giving a gift is wrapping it up nice and pretty. Lately, my favorite material to use is brown paper, because it is just so useful and because it feels like a blank slate. It can easily be dressed [...]
As promised, here is the second installment of my Renegade Craft Fair day. I found a few perfect gifts this year: a pair of beautiful votives from Julie Dye Craft for my sister, a cute notebook for my sister-in-law and a print (that I’m using as a birthday card) for Joel. I couldn’t resist these [...]
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