Shop: Holiday Tea Towels are Here

All tea towels are approximately 18" x 24" and made from 55% linen and 45% combed cotton.

Multi-Colored Christmas Tree Ornaments

Pretty Ribbons in Pink, Red and Green

Holiday Folk Flower

Blackbirds Baked in a Pie

Memorial Day Weekend 2012

Memorial Day weekend was a lazy one for me, but Abe and I managed to get out of town for part of Saturday and Sunday.  Our friends and their new baby were visiting family in Connecticut and were kind enough to invite us to join in the fun.  It was a good taste of reality to hang with a 5 month old baby for a couple days, both Abe and I left realizing having a baby is going to be a lot of work...I thought they slept a little more.  But after talking with Adriana (the new mom) I realized I'm prepared as much as I can be and the rest we'll just figure out come November.

Our friend's dog Chloe is Lily's BFF and both of them were in Dog Heaven USA with all the land, woods and giant lake with bull frogs. The humans spent most of our time watching the dogs wrestle and swim.  The best part was knowing we'd all leave with an exhausted dog. The rest of our time we played with baby Ben, ate amazing home-cooked Brazilian food, talked babies, drank non-alcoholic beer (well, I did at least) and swam in the pool.

Congratulations to Jaime and Ezra!

On the Friday before Christmas Eve, while they were packing their bags for the weekend, Ezra and their dog Wesley proposed to my little sister.  Needless to say, it was a very exciting Christmas weekend filled with extra celebration!

Jaime is my little sister, best friend, and I love her more than anything in the world.  When she introduced me to Ezra it felt like he was meant to be part of our family (not to mention that we also love his family).  I feel so lucky that he'll be my brother-in-law. 

Free Holiday Gift Tags - Print Your Own!

I'm kicking off the holiday spirit with a free download for print-your-own gift tags! There are 8 designs to choose from and will the a lovely touch to your beautifully packaged gifts this season.  Here is a link to the .pdf file that you may download and print at home.  If you'd like to browse my other gift tag designs please visit my Etsy shop.

1. Print sheet on cardstock and use the gray dashed lines as a cutting guide to cut out the tags
2. Use a paper puncher to punch out the holes
3. Thread twine or ribbon through the hole and attach to your gift!

 This free download is for personal use only.  Feel free to share, but please don't sell this artwork or any products made from this artwork.  Thanks!  Happy Holidays!

Thanksgiving in Olympia, Washington

The husband and I just returned from our trip to Olympia, Washington to visit his family and friends over Thanksgiving.  I feel lucky to have married someone from the Pacific Northwest so I have an excuse to go there as many times as I want for the rest of my life.  This time we did a lot of hanging out with family and friends, watching football, and drinking micro brew beer and awesome espresso.  We took a red-eye home, which was kind of painful (no sleep, lots of turbulence) but worth it because we didn't lose a day to travel.

hiking; Pyrrharctia isabella; delcious West Coast tacos from Ramirez Mexican Store; Occupy Olympia; prepping Thanksgiving dinner with a Guiness; machiatto from Batdorf and Bronson; Abe trying out a Baby Bjorn; shuffleboard at The Brotherhood; Aunt Linda's favorite kind of cranberry sauce; ooogity boogity!