Making Monday 26

Welcome to another fun Making Monday link party.


This is a party 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, be inspired to make something new, try a yummy new recipe, and most importantly make new friends!
This party is hosted by Gracie and me, 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!

This is what your hostesses have been up to lately:

Gracie designed and built a really great Work Bench combining the features of two she liked into one that will work for her at a fraction of the price of the two she patterned hers after.
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Lori shared a lovely short story, When Queens Ride By, that reminds us of the importance of a woman's presence and influence in the home. Read it and be encouraged that all you are doing is noticed and making a difference in the lives of those you love.

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Now it's time for some awesome features chosen by Lori:

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#1. Stephani at Behind the Camera and Dreaming visualized a sturdy low-to-the-floor bed for her toddler. With a bit of time and hard work she and her husband built one great Toddler Bed. The whole room is so adorable.
#2. Jodi at Country Road Abode shares her 3-ingredient recipe for Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix. I'm definitely going to be trying this because I'm liking those three ingredients and no coffee creamer!
#3. My laundry room needs a cute Laundry Sign like this one shared by Leslie at Tally Tales. Check out her easy to follow tutorial.
#4. What little girl wouldn't love to have this snuggly Dolly Bed for her baby to sleep in? I agree with Terri at A Creative Princess, giving a baby doll in a bed is so much lovelier than the box.
Thank you ladies for sharing your talents with us last week. Everything was simply amazing and we look forward to seeing what you bring this week.
There you have it! If you were one of the lucky features PLEASE grab a button and share it with some friends.

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And don't forget if you didn't make it as a feature this week to check out the Pin board and to keep linking up, next week could be you! 

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Project upon project, adventure upon adventure

I'm a bit exhausted from all the crazy. whew.

I tend to tire myself out a good bit. I don't "technically" have a job, I don't go to the gym, some days I don't even leave the house, and Lord knows I'm not a clean freak who spends hours ever day cleaning. So why in the world do I feel like I'm going non-stop??

Well I've decided that because I don't HAVE to do anything I tend to take on a lot of projects. I make list upon list upon list, never really finishing any of them. I'm productive, but I've decided my creative brain has gone crazy with no "real structor" and it is on over drive all-the-time. I mean at the moment I have 2 ETSY shops? Why might you ask, oh well because I've had one for a while and I really like everything in it and the other was a new project I thought I could take on with my cousin.

I love them both and I'm totally gonna pursue both hardcore because how rad would it be if instead of having to go to work every day some place that didn't really feed my creative side, I could just wake up put on some leggings and fun boots to head out to my studio for some painting, jewelry making, blog writing, ya know what ever fit my fancy for the day. swooooon.

All this to say, here is an introduction of ANOTHER, yes another, project that will hopefully be semi-long term :)

So, Bohemian-ish was inspired by 1. both of our bohemian/eclectic styles. We enjoy being bright, bold, different, and showing our creative side through what we wear 2. the childrens book "ish" by Peter H. Reynolds. If you haven't read it, do it now! Here is a video link to a reading of it (link)

Basically we wanted to be free to be who we are and remind the world that it is ok to be a mix of styles, or no set style at all! Just be ish!!

What we are planning on doing is to have different lines of jewelry. So far we have 1 line called "Forever-ish". Hopefully these 4 designs will be our go to designs and something that everyone can relate to. But we plan on bringing in different styles and giving them that "ish twist"!


We have only been going for about a week, we have a couple sales, some awesome friends helping us promote, and we are trying to keep from overdoing it on the social media :) Y'all know thats a challenge for me!

So please check us out and share until your little heart is content.
Facebook / ETSY / Instagram / Twitter


Jewelry making is rad, and I don't know why it took me 23 years to learn that.

Any advice on how to help a creative mind settle on just one (or a couple) of ideas to pursue, my brains getting fried??

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