treasury #2

I just made my second Etsy treasury! I think you can tell I'm already craving the beach. All of this stuff is beautiful, and I hope it gets everyone some good traffic/activity in their stores.

moss house

I've been having a love affair with moss for some time now. I love all the different kinds, the color, the texture. Moss is awesome. So imagine how I felt when I found/read about this moss house project tonight. Check out the pictures below. For more information, see this post on Design Sponge.

ship

I saw this bed in the Pottery Barn Kids catalog and I want it! For Henry, of course. I love how it has a small platform in the bow for play. I think any little boy (and some girls!) would love to have it. Too bad it's $1699. I bet we could make a cooler one cheaper ...

mbgdesigns ... jewelry

New jewelry made an appearance in the shop today. Check it out!

learning numbers

Henry is learning to say some numbers, and we made this video together a couple of weeks ago. I already posted it on Facebook, but I thought I'd re-post here for those of you that keep up with us through blogger.

new look!

The blog has a new look! I found myself preferring the white background of my Senior Portfolio blog, and started feeling like the white letters on black were just dizzying. So I changed. I also chose a template that stretches the text to fill more of the page. Hope you like it!

help haiti

Find this listing in my Etsy store. Every little bit helps, so buy one today!

free furniture

Last semester, I was headed out the door of the building when I spotted a piece of furniture that was out of place in the lobby. It had a sign that said "free", so of course I stopped to look closer. It was filthy and the paint was peeling off of it, but it had good lines and a ton of storage. So I called Ricky and asked if he and our friend Jacob could bring it upstairs. I cleaned the whole thing with bleach, pushed it into the unused portion of our front hallway(biggest waste of space, and the worst part of our weirdo floorplan), and there it sat for months.
At long last, when Winter break began, I finally got around to sanding, re-painting, and adding new hardware to the piece. I already had the paint, and the hardware cost $3. I left the piece in the hallway to dry, but when I came back a week ago, Ricky and I moved it into it's new space in the living room. It now serves as a backdrop to Henry's living room play area, and houses all of our DVDs and CDs inside it's drawers. The surface on top is perfect for displaying Henry's books and some of his favorite wooden toys, and there is room underneath for baskets to stash more toys. Re-arranging made the room feel much bigger, and I'm thrilled at all of the extra drawer-space we have now - we could do away with stacks of DVDs that were piling up around the television, and Henry's space is more organized. The piece isn't perfect, but it was free and I love it, so take a look!

Before - the chest sat in the hallway in pieces:

After - painted and moved to it's new home in the living room:

new arrivals

I have listed quite a few new items in the Etsy shop. I was pretty productive over break - at least as far as knitting goes. I finally got around to using up that fabric yarn I made (mentioned in an earlier post) in some upcycled totes, and I started creating jewelry from stones/shells/feathers that I'm wrapping in copper wire and attaching to crocheted organic cotton chains. I'm excited about the new items, and I am hopeful that they will be popular in the Spring season. A few of my favorites are pictured below.






You can find the beautiful shirts I'm wearing in these images at Urban Revisions.

finally ... the holidays

I meant to blog about the holidays as they were happening ... but some of my good intentions are never realized. It was a busy yet uneventful time. Henry and I went home for the entire break, where we enjoyed a blizzard and we observed all of our usual holiday traditions: decorating the tree, baking Christmas cookies (Henry was able to help this year - pictures below!), sipping eggnog by the fire, exchanging gifts, et cetera. This year, I actually decorated my apartment before leaving for break - it was a glitterfest (holiday glitter picks were on sale at Michael's 75% off before the season ever really got started this year = cheap cheap cheap sparkle sparkle sparkle.) I'm posting some photographs of the highlights below.

i'm one bad blogger

I don't know exactly what happened, but I lost all motivation to blog over winter break. However, the Spring semester has started and I am determined to get back into the habit - especially now that I have to start blogging for Senior Portfolio again. This blog isn't anything crazy or extremely exciting, but it's a good way for me to keep track of all the changes Henry makes and ideas/thoughts that pop into my head, and I've started to miss it. So, tonight I am going to attempt to write a quick burst of short posts that will cover the past month and get me back into the groove. Here goes...