When I was a little girl I could never, ever find anything with my name on it. Stickers. Stamps. Mugs. Pens. T-shirts. Nothing. Alexandra back in the 80′s wasn’t exactly a top 10 baby name list qualifier so any stickers…
This month I experienced my first copy and paste blogging experience. What’s that? It’s when someone copies all your photos from a tutorial you have done for a DIY or a project, pastes them into a blog entry on their…
Hunter. A name that has become an epidemic in the closets of women around the world since the day Kate Moss threw on a pair at Glastonbury back in 2005, sales went through the roof and suddenly a rain boot wasn’t…
I don’t tend to share a lot of recipes on here but when I do it’s because they’re either A) really easy to do or B) taste really good and are really easy to do. My younger daughter has shown…
My name is Alex and I am an embroidery hoop addict. If I see one at a Thrift Store, I have to buy it. Exhibit A. What makes it even more ridiculous is just over a year ago, I had…
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are probably the two major holidays of the year that I can’t make a card better than my kids can. That is, once you have kids, you understand that nothing (and I mean nothing) that…
Oh yes. Yes I just wrote that. And I mean it. I haven’t posted in awhile which is very abnormal for me. What happened however was pretty simple. One day I woke up to do my usual routine of breakfast…
It happens to every blogger at some point. It was bound to happen to me. The dreaded creative block. You know when you get into a mood where you want to make something but you have no idea what to…
So how’s this for a vintage Disney find at our local Salvation Army? Fifty cents got me Walt Disney’s Giant Story Book published by Purnell (1969). It’s far less about whether or not this is worth anything financially than how…
I apologize to everyone out there that can sew in their sleep. I am not that person. I would like to practice more on my sewing machine but that would mean every time I wanted to sew, I’d have to…
Old slide projectors, campaign chests and some really great sideboards. Not to mention a pair of red skis that I should have put up on my wall. Here’s what I ran across this month. Let me tell you. Out of…
For ages now I have seen and done stamped washer jewelry. Necklaces. Keychains. Pendants. I still love how it looks and I wear my own stamped washer necklace with my kids birthdays every day. But lately I’ve been feeling like…
This weekend we’ve got some friends coming over. So naturally I raided our non-existent liquor cabinet (I say non-existent because we don’t have a bar in our home or dark mysterious wine cellar) to see what wine we had to…
It’s Day 1 of March Break and you’ve already reached for the Advil and your wine. Spring is supposedly coming in 2 weeks and there is still 3 feet of snow in your backyard. Operation “Occupy Your Kids with Crafts…
Just in case you’ve never checked my About Page, I am a complete Star Wars nerd. When I was a child I had a ton of Star Wars toys. Figurines. Books. I was obsessed. Never mind Barbie, I wanted the…
Vintage and thrift store lover. IKEA addict. Displaced city mom transplanted to the 'burbs. Reluctant baker. Aspiring gardener. Nikon fiend. Welcome to my little corner of the internet. 
