Take 10 Tuesday - some stuff you might not want to miss

1. CHECK OUT What Truly 'Wealthy' People Think About Money over at The Artist Farm.

2. READ Designing Sticky Products by the amazing Megan at Crafting an MBA

3. READ Brenda's (Phydeaux) great series on To Hire or Not to Hire over at PaperNStitch.

4. WATCH Planet Green's 100 Places to Remember Before They Disappear

5. SEE OK Go's BRILLIANT This Too Shall Pass video on Ngan's (eNVeJewelry) wonderful blog.

6. TO DO NOW Starting Seeds Indoors is a wonderful post on Design Sponge.

7. LISTEN TO Naomi interview Michael Bungay Stanier who wrote Do More Great Work - loved his idea of separate space for your good vs. great work- I've always naturally done this, if you're not, maybe it is something to try

8. I LOVE Christine Kane and she is offering a free download of her 2 part series How to Turn a Set-back into a Comeback

9. MY OWN slightly boring post for Artisan's Collective on Repetitive Stress Injuries and how not to turn your body into a machine (because it will break)

10. CHECK OUT - some amazing new work over at LilFishStudios that will inspire you!

GIVEAWAY - Gorgeous Kristina Marie Recycled Paper GARLAND As Seen in Martha Stewart Weddings CLOSED

AND THE WINNER IS:
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Carzoo Critters! Congrats Breanna and thank you to everyone who entered!

KristinaMarie is the amazing Etsy shop where the most beautiful recycled paper garlands are created!

Kristine Osborne's gorgeous work was recently featured in Martha Stewart Weddings Spring 2010 issue as a stunning example of an amazingly unexpected way to decorate ceremony chairs.



You will find so many uses for her beautiful paper work! We are so lucky to have one of Kristina Marie's amazing garlands for our giveaway.


WHAT YOU GET:

One lucky winner will receive this Gorgeous Recycled Hymnal Paper Garland Strand in Color - 10 feet / as seen in Martha Stewart Weddings Spring 2010!


HOW TO WIN:

Check out KristinaMarie's shop and leave a comment below with your contact info!

For additional entries:

(5) Twitter this post
(5) Blog about this contest; linking to this post
(5) Follow my blog

Let me know if you have done these things so I can give you additional entries. This contest is open to everyone.

DRAWING:

MIDNIGHT on Sunday, March 28th! Good luck!! CLOSED

Friday Finds - We've Got Spring FEVER!

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1. calypso shirt
2. mushroom log - grow shitakes
3. anna marie horner fabric
4. flamingo
5. marin bike
6. green book marker by yuruliku
7. bird feeder
8. retro chair
9. fish n eddie's glass
10. weber grill

This week's Friday Finds is brought to you by the amazing wedding photographer Kella MacPhee. Thank you Kella!

Whining Wednesday or it's time to live the dream, folks

Now I know it's Wednesday, which is usually a good excuse for me to whine about a few things, but lately I've been feeling much too positive about my future and

(maybe due to this never-ending cold that keeps me from thinking straight)

I find my dreams really reaching for the sky ...

for instance, Dream 1 - I sent my media kit

(yes, I have a media kit- it does contain a picture of Meg Ryan- but I don't think anyone will notice, since you don't really see her around much anymore and no one remembers her real face anyway)

to some magazines and am hoping for a product mention, but what I really want is to be described in print somewhere as being incredibly fit and attractive.

(I mean, other than in something I've written about myself.)

(oh, and maybe if the word 'annoying' wasn't used, that would be cool, too.)

So, the magazine could show a picture of my cork jewelry and say something like, Uncorked's incredibly fit and attractive designer Catherine Ivins ... yadda yadda yadda - there must be some way a clever copywriter can work this in for me.

Dream 2 - The other thing I really want is to be driving at some ridiculously high rate of speed and have to perform some challenging yet delicate maneuver - like swerving to stop a burning, runaway school bus full of orphans or avoid a little parade of baby ducks

(or maybe just once I won't hit the curb when I pull out of the bank drive-thru)

my passenger - perhaps Ben Stiller - he seems like a good sidekick - will be screaming obscenities, partly out of relief and partly out of total awe for my amazing driving skills, but I won't even notice.

Then, I'll park the car, doing one of those amazing swerve into a parking space backwards thing, and we'll get out to go to the station - because we're undercover FBI agents too, I forgot that part - and he'll have to jog to keep up with me

and then he'll kind of slap me on the back and say, "Hey, nice driving back there partner."

And I'll just shrug and say something like, "Yeah, well ... I do what I can."

And then he'll tell me that I look incredibly fit and attractive.

The days when you can extinguish an orphan and help a baby duck back to the pond ... well, those are the days when you're really living the dream, folks.

and I know these dreams are big and bold, but that's just the kind of girl I am ...


1. Searching for Fairy Tales print by This Years Girl
2. Larimeloom's dreamy silk camisole
3. Dreaming print by Corid
4. AKACinders Dreamy Cotton Candy Eco Felt Necklace
5. RoughMagicCreations A Robin's Pearls has me dreaming of spring

Take Ten Tuesday - some stuff you need and some stuff you need to know

A few things you might miss if you don't take a little time out (you deserve it):

1. Join ThredUp and start exchanging your clothes for stuff you might actually wear.

2. Check out Warby Parker Eyeglasses - you buy a pair, they give a pair to someone in need.

3. Read The Art of the Email post from Bakery

4. The Girl Scouts are out and about with their cookies - support them!

5. Listen to Engagement Marketing for Your Crafty Business at my fave craft podcast site Crafty Pod

6. Read Kirsty Hall's post on The Wisdom of Mistakes over at Make and Meaning

7. Watch Keith Loutit's amazing videos over on Vimeo

8. Read Tinahdee's great post for the Artisan Collective- Don't Have a Plan

9. Try this great Reusable TeaBag Tutorial from Ojamiya on EcoEtsy.

10. Watch Sandra Bullock thank her mom for keeping her out of cars with boys - don't we just love her!