Better Homes and Gardens

I'm just so excited to have been contacted by Better Homes and Gardens to ask if they can publish one of my ideas in this months "Color Issue". Of course I said yes!

Here it is!

That's me! # 29!

Page 72

The majority of ideas were from interior designers, I was one of only two plain ol' readers whose decor advice was highlighted.

Happy day!

Crafty Poppa

I found this blog after I had flipped through Kirsty, a daily fascination, which slid me down a slope to The Mother Huddle because they had a fun post about business cards (another ephemeral obsession) which then swooshed me through a worm hole over to Say Yes to Hoboken where there were just TOO many ridiculously fun posts to even begin to discuss here...

SO...so I finally rolled up on Made By Joel written by an artist who likes to do little crafty projects with his kids. Last time I checked, Dads + crafts + kids = awesome.




Paper animal finger puppets:

Stuffed dolls & animals:

Sleeping bags for your little frogs, I mean, little frogs to nap too, right?:

And THIS!

A ZOO blanket!

You've got some lucky kids Joel!

Return to Sender: Address Stamps

How great would these return address stamps be for newlyweds?

You can find them, and many more here and Paperwink.

A little sweeter than those freebies you get in the mail, dontcha think?

A Wedding Invite

I have to confess, there must be about 100 wedding invitation websites bookmarked on my browser. I'm not sure that I want to admit exactly how many hours per week I spend flipping through these websites, however, I'd imagine that if I spent that time writing, I probably could have completed my own multi volume encyclopedia collection by now. So yeah, I was pretty sure that I'd seen every clever idea out there.

I was wrong.

Instead of the standard 5 plus piece wedding invite suite, this one was made of 3 simple pieces, a paper Save the Date, the Main Invite Envelope (a DVD sleeve) and the Main Invite (a DVD). All pieces were designed by the groom. If I've ever seen an invitation suite that oozes "labor of love", this is surely it.

Save The Date:

Photo Credit: howdesign.com

Video Invite:



If your invites mean as much to you as these obviously did to this couple and make your guests smile as much as this one made me smile, ya done good kid.