tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89046310319708817002024-03-13T02:25:56.341-04:00Coastal Plains LivingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957632309643948415noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8904631031970881700.post-41669726152263638112014-04-06T12:46:00.000-04:002014-04-06T12:46:19.521-04:00Long time no see!!Hello! It's been forever since I had anything special to post about on here! Lots of things have happened since my last post on here!<br />
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The hubs and I both went back to school, getting our nursing degrees! We both went to work, really feeling like we were doing what we were meant to do! Two years later we have moved to Georgia! We are so blessed to have the opportunity to live near my Dad, step mom, and little brother and sister. It's been a transition, but I am so excited to have a great new house that is a total blank canvas for me!<br />
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I will be posting on all the fabulous projects I have planned and can't wait to update with everything I hope to accomplish!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957632309643948415noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8904631031970881700.post-56891714375142841672009-12-10T22:19:00.000-05:002009-12-10T22:19:10.120-05:00I've been a busy girl!<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know! It's been a while since I posted, but I swear I have a really good excuse! I've been working like mad to get my list of homemade gifts done! And let me tell ya! It's a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LONG</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> list! </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever since I started reading blogs (about a month or so ago), I have been keeping an idea book of things I'd like to make, or try. It's ridiculous how many things are in there! I've got a whole folder saved in my bookmarks of tutorials and ideas. Well this year, I decided to put some of those ideas to work for me!</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm sure none of you will be surprised when I tell you that this is a lean year. I'm sure it is for a lot of people. We have pared down the number of gifts we're giving the kids and I'm really excited. We decided to do 4 main gifts for us. Something they want, something the need, something to play with and something to read. Then Santa will come, but he too is bringing less gifts. I've also got a HUGE family, that I feel the need to get something for. I am one of 5 kids, and while that's not that big of a deal, the fact that my youngest siblings are 10 and 5 is. Parker and Lily are 10 months and 1 day shy of a year older than my youngest two, respectively. It's so much fun to find things that I know they'll love and get them for them. I feel like I'm spoiling them! And since I didn't grow up near my sister and my brother and his wife are never having kids, I'm totally in "Auntie" mode with them!</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So anyway! I'm rambling! We're doing handmade gifts for Christmas this year. Not all handmade, I'm not there yet! Maybe one day, but today is not that day! In the meantime, I hit the idea book and found a few things that I wanted to make to give as gifts.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'll start with this one! I found this tutorial on <a href="http://soyouthinkyourecrafty.blogspot.com/">So You Think You're Crafty</a> a few weeks ago. If you're not following this contest you really should be. It's amazing the things these ladies come up with! </span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a Cozy Car Caddy by Jill at <a href="http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/">Homemade By Jill</a>.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is a table I got at a yard sale for $2. I had been looking a table for the kids to eat at for a while and couldn't bring myself to spend the $40+ dollars for the ones I'd seen. So needless to say I was super excited to find this little treasure. Unfortunately it was a mess!</span><br />
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If you haven't been to Shay [B]'s <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/shealynn?page=1">Etsy shop</a>, run, don't walk there right now! She has some of the coolest designs and I have been drooling over them for weeks!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So go! Check out Shay's goodies and check out Vanessa's great ideas! Vanessa is also doing So You Think You're Crafty for the next few weeks. It's a design challenge (sort of like the Project Runway of crafting, I LOVE IT) featuring 10 very talented designers. You can see the challenges and designers and vote for your favorite <a href="http://soyouthinkyourecrafty.blogspot.com/">here</a>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I ran to Walmart after church today and picked up 2 yards of Muslin and a roll of freezer paper. I already had the spray paint I wanted to use, and that's all I needed! It was super easy!<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957632309643948415noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8904631031970881700.post-79130318774192358172009-11-09T23:10:00.001-05:002009-11-09T23:11:25.905-05:00Inexpensive Holiday Wreath<div style="text-align: center;">In years past, Brent has always been the one singing Christmas carols in July. The thought of crowds and shopping was enough to send my anxiety in a tailspin! So usually around October 31st, I would go out into the back yard and bury my head in the sandbox. Well not this year! I am so getting my craft on and now I can hardly wait for Christmas to come! I already have visions of sugar plums dancing in my head!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">So in preparation for this holiday season, I was perusing the ninety or so blogs that I like to follow and I came across <a href="http://littlenannygoat.blogspot.com/2009/10/ornament-wreath.html">this little number</a>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">I started at Dollar Tree and picked up these. I got 4 sleeves of each color and ended up having about 15 ornaments left over. Each sleeve was $1 and the roll of ribbon was $1.<br />
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