Play Ball!

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I’ve been working on a “quiet book” for my nephew’s Christmas present. So far, I’m lovin‘ how it’s turning out.

Here’s one of the five pages I have done so far.

It doesn’t look perfect by any means. In fact, I kind of like it that way. All my pages are hand sewn and I sort of just made up the patterns as I went.


On this particular page, it’s set up so that he can stick his hand in the mitt, and also take the baseball off of the snap and put it “into” the mitt like he’s catching the ball. I think he’ll love this page!

I have a feeling that once this quiet book is all completed, I’m going to have a hard time giving it away. We’ll see!

What I’ve been up to

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I hope you all had a great weekend!

Sorry I haven’t posted at all the past few days. I just got a new computer, so I’m working on getting pictures up and running on this one. My old computer is completely trashed, and I’m not sure if I’ll be able to get the pictures off of it…Dang.

Besides playing around on my new computer, I’ve been crafting a lot (crafting my pants off, I guess you could say!) Mainly, I’ve been working on a calendar. Let me just tell you, my hands HURT. I really have bruises on my thumb and finger from holding scissors too much. Ouch!

Button Pillow

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This is my first attempt at making a pillow, I think it turned out pretty well.

(try to ignore the fact that there’s still hot glue on the buttons…I’ll peel it off, don’t you worry! It just needs to dry a bit more.)

I would have liked to make the buttons into a cute bird or something, but I just couldn’t make the shape right. So, my husband and my first initials went on there. Can I hear a collective “awww“?

I think this pillow will go great in our new apartment. I can’t wait to decorate that place. It needs a lot of love.

Any ideas on how to make a dumpy apartment into something great? I’ll be brainstorming a lot, that’s for sure!

Sugar Scrub (literally)

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A few weeks ago, I decided that I wanted to try making a sugar scrub for myself. So, I looked all around google, in search of the perfect scrub for me.

Here’s what I found:
1/4 C brown sugar
1/4 C white sugar
1/2 t cinnamon
1/2 t ground ginger
1/2 t ground cloves
Oil: olive oil (or other oil)
(recipe found here)

I was a huge fan of how it looked and smelled (delicious).

…Then, I used it in the shower. It scrubbed pretty well…. But, it would NOT come off my skin. We’re not talking just the oil here, people. The mixture of spices actually stuck to my skin! I looked (and smelled) like a freaking cookie. Great.
So, I had to scrub twice to get it all off. Not to mention, I ended up having to scrub my previously clean shower to get all the gunk off.

I will say, though…My skin felt amazing after that! Does it look darling in those little Ikea jars? Yes. Was it worth all the clean up? Probably not.

I’m still on the hunt for a good homemade scrub. Or, maybe some bath salt? We’ll see. My mom gave me the cutest jars to use… Now, I just need the perfect thing to fill them with.

I’ll keep you updated.

Also, I am adding this post to Hooked on Houses “hooked on…” party tonight.
Right now, I’m hooked on finding the perfect jar filler. I’m also hooked on nurturing this new blog of mine. I could spend hours and hours decorating it.
I feel like I should also mention that you guys made me feel so loved yesterday at the “grand opening” of my blog. I never expected to get any commenters this early on, let alone six followers! You guys are great, and I’m definitely hooked on making new friends through this blog!

Feel free to leave comments and suggestions. I love hearing from you guys.

Ps. I always feel like I won 1st place at a marathon or something when I hit spell check and realize I made no spelling errors (minus that face that they’re claiming “commenters” isn’t a word, pfft. Here is is)! That doesn’t happen often.