H + H featured on BE @ HOME

Yippee! When I was contacted by Kim from BE @ HOME, an interior design & home decor blog,  I was so excited that these lovelies wanted to do an interview of little old me and my shop.  So go ahead, get your stalk on and find out a little more about me HERE. Don't forget to have a look-see and see all of the other great finds they have around there. 

Stash away a bit of time...you'll need it.

Garland DIYs

Hello Lovelies! I made the crazy decision at the last minute to NOT bring my laptop on our little adventure to visit the inlaws.  So, if you've been wondering where I am... But, I had to pop on and share this little lovely with you. Sharon, of Cupcakes and Cutlery, sent me a preview after she made a tester of this lovely little garland. It was amazing!  It's totally weather proof, which is hard to find in the party world...rain, wind...bring it ON! Of course, since it's from Sharon it's mega freaking awesome! Oh, did I mention you can make oodles for like a BUCK? Go see her lovely DIY HERE!

But wait...there's more.  If you haven't seen it already...over on The Sweetest Occasion is my DIY for the original Hank + Hunt RUFFLED GARLAND. I promised I would share the secret recipe and I delivered.  It's super easy but it takes patience and a bit of time.  But, I promise you it's worth it! Enjoy!  

**if you love them and would like me to make them for you...just shoot me an email or convo me in the shop!**

Little bits of AWESOME (and GIVEAWAYS GALORE)

First course of business.  You might have noticed I haven't given my full focus this week...I shot (and reshot) the beginnings of my printie collection for the shop.  Hooray for printies! aka Printables.  I've been meaning to share these with you for a bit...but various technical difficulties...needless to say, the printies are here! (Notice the fab cupcake stand I bribed my hubby to make me, yes my hunk made that from a hunk of metal for me...and now YOU)

SHOP HANK + HUNT

My entire inspiration for the collection is simplicity.  After hunting fabric shops and papery stores, and never finding the right sized gingham or stripe in that certain shade I wanted...I figured I could just make it.  So I did. Simple and modern colorways, in plain pretty patterns, ready to mix and match. The awesomest (so not a word I know...) part is that now, I have patterns that can be any shade or tint or mulit-color WE want. Period. I didn't want to provide more children's printables, there are experts in that loveliness (LOVE THE DAY and ANDERS RUFF) or more gorgeous wedding suites (BLUSH PRINTABLES and GO AGAINST THE GRAIN), still already experts in that field of loveliness...I just wanted simple ones.  Little bits to accent the already fabulous plethora of printables. 

There are two sizes.  Cupcake and Mini pages (above).  The cupcake page comes with 12 standard cupcake topper flags and 6 pennant shape flags.  Mini comes with teeny little cupcake topper flags, one big bunting shape, and six little bunting shapes.  Mix and match the two to make garlands or double them up on extra tall sticks.  At $5 a pop...you could have them ALL.

**GIVEAWAY** First go to Monday's RAINBOW OF INSPIRATION POST and enter to win cupcake toppers from MOI!

THEN...go enter to win this photography package of AWESOMENESS....

Alrighty...The ONLY reget from my own personal wedding, was not hiring a photographer.  We had a friend fo the family who was technically a photographer and it was...ok.  I think one of the most importante elements of a great day is hiring a photographer that KNOWS the awesomeness that you want to capture...SO...I'm always a bit jealous when I see fabulous wedding pictures.  I was amazed when I saw these little stills of loveliness over on Postcards and Pretties. But DO YOU wanna win an ENTIRE wedding photography package from the AMAZING photogs 13:13 Photography? Go NOW to Postcards and Pretties and enter to WIN.

This, I Celebrate

One my my all-time favorite ladies is Emily from Potter and Butler.  I find her truly inspirational and sweet to boot.  And her fledgling shop o'eyecandy, by the same name, has been all over since it's lovely little debut in October.  I am mildly obsessed with Emily, is it wierd I did a happy dance for her when I heard her Gracious Garlands are in the March issue of Brides?  So, when she asked if I wanted to sponsor a THIS, I CELEBRATE podcast, I said "Heck, yeah!" These podcasts are the words of wisdom, inspiration, and goodness straight from the lovely lips of party extroidinaires. Brilliant and entertaining. So, pop on over (here) and get an awesome discount code for any goodies in the shop and check out the goodie (above) I'm sending to this week's "Celebrator" (is that a word? maybe not, but they have a ton to celebrate) Cineca from Dreamin' N Details.

SHOP UPDATE - NEW ADDITIONS

Hello! I hope your weekend was wonderful.  I was very productive with only a few set backs.  I might have killed a computer...ok, yeah. I killed it, so I have no new printables for the shop. I almost cried.  Ok, yeah. I did cry. The goodies to come are fabulous! I am tooting my own horn and I LOVE them.  I have an ikat pattern and a Missoni insired flame stitch pattern, as well as gingham, stripes (vertical, horizontal AND diagonal,) and they are all wonderful.  Sitting pretty on my d drive...that I can't get to right now...because I killed it.

But today is not lost...I just uploaded a bunch of the felt flags and toppers in the shop, complete with swanky new banner.  So, go have a look-see, enjoy and stay tuned because there are lots more to come...

**UPDATE** here's the link to the shop...