Making Monday #12

SAY WHAT?! It is November 3rd already?! Goodness me October flew by way fast and now I've got another busy month leading up to Christmas. And yes I am already planning for Christmas, call me crazy. But before I get to far ahead of myself,

Welcome to this week's Making Monday link party!

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Where you can find fun new creative ideas and tasty recipes shared by amazingly talented people. Every Monday bloggers stop by to link up their posts and share with all you party goers. By joining in {both bloggers and non-bloggers} you will discover new blogs to follow, be inspired to make something new, try a yummy new recipe, and most importantly make new friends!
This party is hosted by Lori and I, and your projects will be shared on both of our blogs. We love that you're here and we love featuring you on our social media so be sure to follow us so you can see if your post gets shared!
We also pin to our Making Monday pinterest board and we'd love to have you follow along! This is a place you can find projects from all the previous parties too so it is like a party every day! 

Wanna know what your hostesses have been up to lately? Check out these links: 

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Cream of Crab Soup from A Bright and Beautiful Life

Now Lori and I have made more changes, I know I know things keep changing. But it is for the better! We have both been feeling a bit overwhelmed with the busyness of our fall schedules, and getting ready for the Holidays. So as much as we both liked picking our own features each week we needed to simplify our lives a tad bit. That means that form now on we are going to have the same features on each blog but each week will rotate who picks them. 

This week our features have been chosen by Lori of A Bright and Beautiful Life.   

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#1. Cara over at The Craft Dictator made this cute Thankful Sign using paint color chips, a wooden placemat, and a few other supplies. I'm loving the colors and texture and I think it looks so cute hanging on her sign post {it would look great on a door, too}. #2. I love wraps like this Chicken Caesar Pita. Robyn at Robyn's View recreated this sandwich after one of her favorites at a Mediterranian restaurant near her workplace and she says hers is just as good as the ones made at the restaurant. #3. Right at this moment I'm not sure if there's anything that sounds much better than these Ballpark Pretzel Bites served up with mustard. Rebecca at Living Better Together shows us how to make them and they look pretty darn easy. She also gives us a couple of other ideas for serving them. #4. Erin at Elizabeth Joan Designs is sharing some free napkin ring, place card, and placemat vintage Turkey Place Setting Printables. And she has put together a neutral Thanksgiving table that is so pretty. #5. Oh, Mrs. Tucker brings us Russian Tea Cakes Done Right. Traditional tea cakes & caramel. Enough said. Check them out. #6. With it's sausage, veggies, and beans, this Super Easy Italian Sausage Soup looks perfect for cold fall/winter evenings. Cynthia at Feeding Big puts this soup together and has it on the table in about 45 minutes. What's not to love about that?


Thank you all for linking up this past week! I know it is a bit of a bummer not having two sets of features but we promise to keep picking some of the most awesome of the already totally awesome links to share with you each Monday!

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And if you didn't get featured don't get down! We loved seeing everything and look forward to new projects each week. Please don't hesitate to share a link or button so other people can join us :) 
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Here are a few things to remember when getting ready to link up! 

Thanks for coming, now lets PAR-TAY! 
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October Round Up!!

Whew! October was gone way to quickly this year! For feeling like I've got nothing to do I sure was busy this past month, I've been doing a lot that I already shared here but a lot of the stuff that kept me really busy I haven't had a chance to share. So, here is a quick round up of a few things that didn't make it on the blog yet.

This month was full of weddings! I was able to help with a few friends getting married and really loved contributing my talents to help make their dream day happen :) This is a mantel I made out of side lights for a door way that I found at a thrift shop! Talk about GORGEOUS! I got them before I knew I was going to be making any kind of wedding props but just couldn't pass them up. Once I was asked to help I knew exactly what I wanted to do with these beauties!

And do you remember my cotton ball garland? I know some of you questioned it and thought it was a bit iffy looking but bam after long hours of sewing cotton balls together I think it added a great whimsical touch to the windows :)





Running off the wedding theme I decided I really liked staging and decorating. A friend photographer and I decided that we should team up and do a staged photo shoot. That way she could build her portfolio and I could start one incase I ever really pursued wedding decorating/coordinating or some sort of staging.

We went real low budget meaning, other than the gas for Mary to get here we basically only spent $25 on the "staged" food. Luckily we came up with something that would work with the ranch as the back drop and me as a model. Using our resources kept the price WAY down and gave us the flexibility to do it whenever.

These are a bit blurry but here are some screen shots done by the oh so fabulous Mary of Mary DeCrescenzio Photography. We just did this this week so we don't have any pictures finished enough to really show, but when we do you best believe I'll be writing up a post on it :) We had a blast running around setting up and pretending like we knew what we were doing. 


I've also been a bit busy communicating back and forth with an art center that would like to show some of my work! Earlier this month I was approached by the Rye Arts Center in New York!! They thought my works about chairs where very intriguing and hoped that I would be willing to contribute my work to their up coming spring show all about the anthology of chairs.
Here is an excerpt from the email I received
This exhibit seeks to bring together these artists and their stories into a kind of anthology of chairs.  We have sought out both artists and designers to tell the stories.  Some of the works are meant to function as seats, but many are not, since these are first of all, narrative sculptures.
So, basically I  couldn't be more excited right now! It blows my mind that some one all the way up in New York finds my art to be interesting enough for them to seek me out in hopes of getting my sculpture in their show. I am still learning about some details so thoughts and prayers would be greatly appreciated!!




Last but not least, I became a designer for the Origami Owl jewelry. Basically this means that I got a super cool start up kit in the mail and now have the ability to sell all you fabulous ladies customized jewelry! I'm going to be working on adding a button on my side bar so you can follow straight over to my Origami page and order up all kinds of goodies for Christmas. 

These are a few of the necklaces I got to make with the start up kit. And let me tell you it was more fun than I thought it would be. Sifting through all the charms to pick out exactly what you want is pretty awesome! Now y'all can be on the look out for bundles with Origami and my Etsy shop and fabulous sales on each to get you ready for whatever gift giving occasion you have coming up next.  




That was my month of October. Along with plenty of other things like, football games, DIY projects, ETSY orders, and birthday celebrations. It was a busy month and it feels like November is getting a head start on being busy too! Thank the Lord that I get to choose my busy :) 

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