I received such positive feedback from my post about my spa inspired bathroom and a lot of it had to do with the box that Mr. H made for me to keep my lavender in. If you missed that post, you can read it here.
Well, the wonderful comments you left inspired me to create more herb boxes out of wine crates (with a little help from Mr. H)! I don't know if you have tried to find wine crates, but it's not an easy feat. After scouring all of Denver and surrounding areas, I finally found enough to make a few boxes and have opened up an Etsy shop to sell them! I am so excited about this because I've never sold anything on the internet before, not on eBay, not on Craigslist, so this adventure will be really fun for me (I hope).
To celebrate the opening of my Etsy shop I am hosting my first giveaway! If you'd like a chance to have one of the boxes as your very own all you have to do is follow me on the Google Friend Connect (GFC) button on my side bar and leave a comment letting me know what you plan to put in the box. I think they're perfect for herbs like lavender, sage, or eucalyptus but I know how creative all of you are so let me know what you'd put in it! Feel free to leave a comment even if you don't want to enter the giveaway!
The giveaway ends Friday, October 4, 2013 at 7:00pm Mountain Time. I'll announce the winner on October 5, 2013. The box you see above will be the one I'll send to the winner (lavender not included.)
My Etsy shop is called Sweet Inspired Market. You can visit my shop here and on my side bar. Because of how hard wine crates are to find, there are only 5 boxes listed for sale right now but I will add more as I am able.
**UPDATE**-Posted on October 4 at 7:01pm Mountain time:
The giveaway is closed now. Thanks to all of you who entered! I will announce the winner on October 5th. Good luck to everyone!
-Khammany ♥
What's worse than not getting flowers? Getting flowers and finding out they aren't for you! That's what happened to me on Saturday.
I saw something moving on the front porch so I went out and found a balloon tied to a beautiful vase of flowers. I quickly tried to remember the date to see if it was a special date for me...hmmm September 21st, that didn't seem like a significant day for me but I was excited anyway.
Well, it didn't take long to figure out this mystery...the note card read, "Anne and John, Congratulations on your special day. May you have a lifetime of happiness together." Cue the Debbie Downer music "wah, wah". Obviously Anne and John were getting married. The address was correct and I recognized John's name as a previous owner of our house but the funny thing was he hasn't lived here since 2002, and there has already been another owner of this house in between him and us! So the people who sent the flowers knew him well enough to know he was getting married, but not well enough to know he had moved 11 years ago!
While I was trying to justify to myself why it was okay to keep the flowers, Mr. H picked up the phone and called the florist to inform them of their mistake. Gee, what a good guy. Even then I was still hoping they would say, "Thanks for being so honest! You can just keep them and we'll send out a new arrangement to their correct address." No such luck. They told us they'd be back to pick them up. Oh well, at least I got these pretty snapshots while I was pretending they were mine.
I've mentioned before that I am not a seamstress but I can use a sewing machine and sew a semi-straight line. So with those two skills I thought I would try my hand at making a baby quilt!
I was inspired by my friend Jamie who is 8 months pregnant. Last month she was telling me about how she and her husband could not agree on the bedding for the crib and after looking at the photos she showed me on-line, I told her, "Hey, I could try to make you a quilt!" I wasn't trying to decide the bedding choice for them, this would be more of a quilt to lay the baby on in the living room or just to snuggle in. She gave me a very doubtful look but tried to sound positive and said, "Okay...go for it!" She is such a sweetheart and wouldn't say it herself, but I could see it in her face that she was thinking, "Oh gosh, she's going to make me a baby quilt and I'm going to have to pretend to like it!"
We knew the baby was going to be a girl so I went to Hobby Lobby and picked out the fabric you see above. I cut the patterned fabric into 1 square ft pieces for the front and used the pink fabric for the back. Here it is all sewn together! I think it turned out okay for my first attempt at making a quilt!
I thought it would be fun to personalize it so I traced a "g" into some fabric and hand-stitched it on the back. G is for Gianna!
It was so much fun that I'm going to make a quilt for my friend Julie who is due this winter. She's having a boy!
Our front foyer is done in a black and white theme. This past weekend we added two more black and white photographs that I wanted to share with you. Here are close-ups and information on the two additions.
Mr. H took this photo two years ago. I loved it as soon as I saw it. It took two years of nagging encouraging before he finally printed and framed this so I could admire it everyday. Mr. H was leaving work and had to stop to get gas. When he pulled into the gas station he noticed this young man pumping gas into an old Volkswagen Bug that seemed to have been turned into a bit of a roadster. Mr. H knew he couldn't let this shot pass him by so he walked over to the young man and asked if he would mind having his picture taken. The guy gave Mr. H a strange look but said he didn't care. Mr. H quickly snapped a few photos and this one was my favorite. I love the open engine and the young man with his tattoos and sleeveless T-shirt and the way he's just nonchalantly looking off into the street scene. He looks like he could be on a movie set. Speaking of movies, don't you think he looks like Leonardo DiCaprio?
The other addition was taken in Paris. It is a silhouette of someone walking through one of the entrances to the Musée du Louvre. Silhouettes are one of Mr. H's favorite things to photograph and this one happens to be me. He dropped back a few steps behind me to snap this photo. I like how the glass pyramid lines up with the Louvre Palace, blending old with new. The way one side of the gate is open and one side is closed makes it feel like I was granted the privilege to walk through, that the gate was opened just for me.
As you can see from the top photo there is still room for one more photo at the top of the wall. We're still trying to decide on a photo that we love enough to hang there.
If you're interested in closer looks of the other photos, you can visit a previous post about them here. Just scroll down towards the bottom of the post. I hope you've enjoyed seeing the new additions!
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