October 2010

candy corn frozen yogurt

this year i feel like i’ve not paid attention to the fact that halloween is like in two days. um normally i’m chomping at the bit to get my hands on pumpkins by like sept 30th…and yet here we sit on oct 29th and i’ve still not bought one single pumpkin to carve. i have […]

before and somewhat after

this last week was spent in chaos as the house kept unraveling a little more with each box being opened. but i have an end in sight now. at least all boxes except for 5 have been unpacked and done something with two of the other boxes are books that need to go in the […]

winners of the vintage pearl giveaway

2 winners were selected via random generator each will recieve a $75 gift certificate to go towards anything they would like at the vintage pearl: #12 the meador family who said: I love the dainty names necklace! I have wanted this necklace for so long!! Come on random number generator….PICK ME!!!!!! and #389 debbie who […]

giveaway: the vintage pearl

the vintage pearl is our sponsored giveaway this month. you need to check out what erin is offering 2 V and Co readers. seriously you don’t want to miss out. click here to read more and enter to win.

confession

i sewed today. yeah i did. even though to get to my material and to get to my cutting board i had to climb boxes and i had to shove on more than one occasion “mount stuff of junk” from one side of the room to the other just to get something accomplished. and you […]

sneek peek: office slash sewing room

well, it’s official. i have my very own first EVER bonafide sewing slash office slash lets see how much sewing and crafting crap i can cram into a room all to myself. we signed papers on wednesday and we officially recorded as sellers of our last home and as owners of our new home on […]

sneek peek

my old dining slash kitchen area looking a lot more “moving organized” in this picture than what it really looks like right now well i really can’t write much as i am in a time warp continuum of this black hole called “moving just down the street.” but here’s a snip-it of my new kitchen […]

guest post: yo yo pumpkin by praiseworthy

Thanks, Vanessa, for hosting us today! We’re excited to share this stuffed yo-yo pumpkin tutorial from our Praiseworthy blog to all of you. Enjoy! So this is a continuation of my post last week, since I already professed my favoritism of pumpkins. For some background, a couple of years ago, I took a ferry ride […]

hello, goodbye

this month is one big huge month of hello goodbyes. i didn’t realize how many things have been creeping up on me that are about to change or have already changed. and then add selling a house and moving into another one. well here’s a few of my hello goodbyes: *hello to a new bed! […]

a little spill-age

one of my next projects is made out of this line. i’m super excited about it, i can’t wait to see if it turns out as cute in real life as it did in my head and in my sketch book. i’ve been working on it…sloooooowly…everything over here creative has been put on the “slow […]