New birdcage wall art

I have a new 2-color Fancy Birdcage decal available. You can purchase my medium size decal (Approx: 33.5"H x 15.25"W) for only $20.

Room Layout

Thank you to my reader for reminding me of Polyvore. Here's a fun room layout I created using some of my Vinyl Wall Art.

DIY Cookie Cutters

Make your own cookie cutters with this DIY kit. This kit would make a perfect gift for any one who loves to DIY.

Online Window Shopping

I had fun putting together this style board.
Cardigan from JCrew • Headband from BeSomethingNew • Necklace from jemimalumley
Jeans from ae • cami from Net-a-Porter • shoes from Nordstrom • ring from Lisa Hopkins

Winter Mini Digital Kit

New Snowman Digital Scrapbook kit is now available at Two Peas.

Beautiful Dust pan

Have you ever seen a dust pan that is this beautiful?

Studio 5

Me on the set of Studio 5.

Studio 5

If you live in Utah, be sure to catch me on Studio 5 tomorrow morning at 11. I'll be showing you how to make my snowflake banner.

Cute Clock

First I have to say "thanks" to everyone who left nice comments yesterday & sent tips. I really appreciate it. I've actually had my artwork "stolen" several times, but this is the first time I haven't been able to find the company to contact, so I was really frustrated. Anyhow, I've been eying this clock on Etsy for some time now. I love how simple it is. You can choose from a variety of trendy colors as well.

Help? Reward for information.

I found this card while pursuing blogs. This card is sold at Fenwicks on bond street in London. If you notice, the Matryoska doll used on the card happens to be my illustration that someone else has used, and put a snowflake onto. I've been searching the web forever trying to find the company who produced this card so I can kindly tell them not to use my copyrighted illustrations on their future products, but since it looks like it was made in the UK I'm having trouble tracking down the company. If any of my readers recognize this card and could point me the right direction. I would really appreciate it! I try hard to protect my copyrighted images, as I've worked hard on them, and when other companies use them without my permission it ruins my credibility as an artist. I've gotten several emails in the past of people accusing me of stealing artwork from other companies, when in fact it was a larger company stealing my artwork. It is a difficult and expensive process to prove that I in fact created the artwork first, which is why I try so hard to protect my illustrations.
Thanks so much for any help you can provide! I would be happy to send some free vinyl to anyone who can provide me with useful information.

Beautiful Table Setting

I love everything about this table setting by 100 Layer Cake.

Christmas Card

If you're in need of Christmas cards, check out this one for only $1.25 at Cardsink.com.

Winner

I put all the names of everyone who blogged, face-booked, or twittered into a bowl & picked a winner this morning. The winner is jen! Thanks to everyone who participated. Jen, send me your mailing address and I'll send you a stamp & some vinyl.

Giveaway

Here are the rules for the giveaway...

1) Post my snowflake tutorial as shown below (with pictures) to your blog. Be sure to include a link to either this blog or to this website, then leave a link to your blog post in the comments below.

2) for another chance to win, post a link to my blog or this website on your facebook or twitter account, then leave a comment below with your facebook or twitter account name.

I'll pick a winner on Wednesday, December 2nd.

I guess you'd probably like to know the prize? The winner will receive a Little Owl stamp & a bundle of vinyl decals.

DIY Snowflake Garland

UPDATE: You can now find this tutorial and downloadable pattern HERE on my new blog.





This snowflake Garland is very inexpensive and easy to make. You will need some "Stiff Felt" in white or your desired color, some ric rac or ribbon, sharp scissors, a hot glue gun, sequins, and a needle with thread.

Update:  1)PATTERN & TUTORIAL is now on my New blog!
2) Cut out the paper snowflakes for a pattern.
3) Trace Pattern onto some stiff felt.
4) Cut snowflakes out of stiff felt.
5) Use a hot glue gun to glue sequins or embellishments to the center of each snowflake.

6) Using white thread, hand sew each snowflake to ric rac or ribbon to make your snowflake garland.
7) Find a fun place to hang your garland and enjoy!

UPDATE: Pattern and tutorial are now located on my NEW blog. Thanks!

Swap Shop, & Blog

I signed up for the Shop Swap & Blog event. It was a lot of fun. My swap partner was Bambu Earth. I received some wonderful Lime Coconut Body Polish along with some Chocolate Chopstick. They both smell so great. They came packaged so nicely too. Unfortunatly I don't have a picture of how nicely they came packaged, as my 2 year old destroyed it before I could make it across the room to stop her.
If you are looking for a nice gift for a friend or family member, be sure to check out Amber's shop and blog.

fixed payment buttons

If you’ve tried to purchase a print or piece of jewelry from my shop the past few weeks. I was finally able to fix the payment buttons. I was stumped at why they didn't work until tonight my husband looked at it and was able to fix it. Hooray! Sorry if you've unsuccessfully tried to purchase something.

Kara's Party Ideas

I met this amazing Party planner a few months ago at a business seminar. She happened to use my chandelier decal at her Halloween party. Check out her blog for fun Party ideas & Pictures!

Winner

Congratulations to commenter number 34! Erika M. said... I love your giveaways! I'm crossing my fingers! Please click Here to contact me & send me your mailing address! If you didn't win, I'll be doing another giveaway very soon! I have a fun winter decor tutorial coming up soon too.

Random drawing for random prizes

I have a bunch of extra vinyl hanging around. Cute little decals. These decals would be perfect for scrap booking, or for putting on lunch boxes, folders, laptops, toy boxes... pretty much anything you can think of. Leave a comment on this post by midnight on Monday, Nov. 16th for your chance to win! Winner will receive an envelope full of my little decals, All in new & perfect condition! Have fun!

Song bird wall decals

We have some new “Song Bird” decals now available. Check them out.

Big sale on Big Decals

If you are interested in adding a little bit of decor to your house in time for the holidays, we've got just the sale for you! We have discounted several of our large decals. We are also offering Free & discounted shipping on U.S. orders over $50. We've added some new decal designs as well.

Newly Designed

If you haven't already, take a peek at our newly designed website. It's needed a makeover for a long time!

Fall Hat Tutorial

I had this $1.50 hat from Wal-Mart laying around. I also had some felt left over from my leaf garland (shown above), so I decided to make the hat a little more fun to wear.

1. Using the basic $1.50 snow hat from Wal-Mart, measure how it will fit onto your head, then cut off the excess area.
2: Cut some petals, little circles, & a leaf out of your felt. They don't need to be perfect (it's part of the charm.)
3: Place pieces onto the hat to get a general Idea of how you'd like your hat to look.

4: Stitch your pieces onto your hat. I used the left over gold floss from my leaf banner to stitch the flower onto my hat.
5: Finish your bottom edge. I plan to fishes the bottom of the hat off with a simple stitch using a thin yarn.

NOEL holiday necklace

I will be adding a few necklaces to my Etsy shop this week. The pendants & charms I used are my original illustrations & I only have a few of each of them, so get them while they are still around. They make great gifts, or would be fun to wear to a holiday party.

Fixed link

The link to the PDF pattern below is fixed!

Autumn Leaf Garland Tutorial

1: Click Here to download my Leaves Pattern PDF file.
2: Print the file, then cut out the leaves.

3: Trace Leaf shapes onto felt. I chose felt in 4 different fall colors. I used a white pencil to trace the leaves onto the dark felt colors.

4: Cut leaf shapes out of felt.

5: Using an embroidery floss, stitch the leaf veins onto each leaf.
I used a gold colored floss which I thought was a little thick, so I pulled 3 strands out of the floss to make it easier to stitch. You could save some time, and use a gold glitter glue or fabric paint to make the leaf veins instead.

6: Decide how you want to place your leaves.
7: stitch leaves to a rick rack or ribbon.

8: Hang your new Thanksgiving garland and enjoy!

Happy Halloween!

More cards

Using the Paris stamp set.

Using the Little Owl stamp.

5 new stamp sets

I'm excited to let you all know that we have 5 new stamp sets now available over at My Cute Stamps. Be sure to check them out if you have time.

Spooky pankcakes

If you haven't seen them already, head over to Not Martha & check out all the cute & spooky pancakes.