Monthly Archives: March 2013

Brick By Brika

Have you heard of Brika? I just stumbled upon it via Pinterest the other day, and I am smitten. Here’s how the first meeting went down:

Sigh. Not another flash sale site. I mean, seriously. 90% of my daily emails come from these kinds of sites; I don’t want one more.

…Oh…. my… goodness. This site is amazing!

So, here’s the deal. Brika is like Joss and Main meets Etsy… a mecca of flash sales featuring curated handmade goods by talented artisans! Um, can you say heaven? You know I love me some curated handmade goods! Plus there are profiles about the artists, so the whole experience feels more personal, or maybe like an online craft show? I dunno, but it’s cool, so you should check it out. Bonus: I got a $15 credit just for signing up… not after I refered people and they purchased items and blah, blah, blah… just for signing up! So, there might be a couple of new art prints and an awesome hand-printed infinity scarf heading my way… maybe…

Weekly Wishlist: Emilie Marian Designs

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Weekly Wishlist. So let me waste no time in introducing you to Emilie Marian Designs! Her Etsy shop features an irresistible array of lovelies, from paper goods to stylish iPhone cases. These are just a couple of my favorite items:

I even had the good fortune to win a set of her stickers:

You can also find more from lovelies from Emilie on her website: FlourishandHope.com

DIY Easter Garland

I really loved how my Valentine’s garland turned out, so I whipped up an easy DIY Easter garland to make my mantel more festive.

I created eggs with felt and a variety of ribbon and the pom-poms with some fun multi-colored yarn. I picked up all of the supplies at my local craft store.

This would be super-cute with felt bunnies or chicks, too!

Here’s a shot of the garland and my Easter-ized mantel:

I think it’s pretty cute! And I love all of the bright, springy colors popping off our white mantel.

Linking up here:

Spring Forward?

Is it really the end of March? If so, could someone please tell the weather patterns to start cooperating with the normal average temperatures and behaviors for this time of the year? I don’t know how much more of this dreary, snowy, rainy stuff I can take. It literally took everything in me to muster my bee-hind off the sofa yesterday, change out of my flannel pjs into sweats (yea, you read that right), and attempt to put together some springy/Eastery vignettes around the house. Who can get motivated for Easter decor when there’s two inches of snow on the ground? At this point, I firmly believe that it will be 35-degrees with grey, cloudy skies for the rest of 2013. Blah.

Anywho, here are a few signs of Spring that I sprinkled around our house…

diy’d washi-tape eggs / framed felt egg / vase via my March UmbaBox

My grandma made the eggs in the foreground – she even personalized one for me <3

Hopefully these little signs of Spring inside will encourage more signs outside. Hopefully.

Absolutely Necessary Unnecessities

If you’re anything like me, then you’ve got pinboards full of unnecessities that you don’t know how you’ll live without. My latest find? This handsome fellow:

by Sugarboo designs via One King’s Lane

I mean, come on! A pachyderm in a bowler cap? How could you live without this? How could you not see it on your sofa and immediately grin from ear to ear? How could you have a bad day, come home, and not have your mood instantly turn around at the sight of this pillow? I know my life would never be the same if this were to make its way into my living room… (ahem)… (Tom…?)

But. It’s $110. Which is an absolute ridiculous amount of money to spend on a throw pillow. Even an elephant-in-a-bowler pillow. At least in my mind.

sigh.