Support Handmade: Mother's Day Gift Ideas

1 // I Love You Mom Card from Quill and Fox

2 // "I Carry Your Heart With Me" Hand-Stamped Bracelet from The Vagabond Studio

3 // Mom Coffee Cozy Cover from Knotwork

4 // Antique Copper Cabochon Necklace from It's Priddy

5 // Choose Your Color Kitchen Art from Pen and Paint

6 // Coral & Mint Mini Ruffle Clutch from Marine Parents

7 // I Love You Mom Engraved Pencils from The Carbon Crusader

8 // Stately Love Custom Coffee Cozy from Homespun Happiness

9 // Banana Nut Bread Soy Candle from Pure Joy Soy Candles

10 // Family Tree Wall Decal from NouWall

11 // Silver Cuff Bracelet with Brass Flower from The Flowered Fox

12 // Herbal Tea Gift Set from Kyra Botanica

13 // Pink Shabby Chic Hair Comb from Jewel Salem

14 // Porcelain Woodpecker Cup from Jessi Van Gundy

15 // Healing Lavender Peppermint Scrub from Stella Kenton Body Shop

What are you getting your mother?

Goodbye April ~ Group Giveaway & Sponsor Round-Up

My fantastic April sponsors have come together for a gorgeous giveaway!  There will be four winners, one for each prize shown above!  Each prize is open to different locations-so click read more to read the following sponsor and prize info for each listing and then enter the giveaway! 

Girls Chase Boys {Musical Mondays & Giveaway}

What is Musical Mondays?

Musical Mondays is a weekly linky party where we share a song we're into for the week, and talk about why we like it-or why it effects us.  Along with talking about music, I host a (usually) month-long music related giveaway. 

This week's song:

Girls Chase Boys

by Ingrid Michaelson

[Chorus]
All the broken hearts in the world still beat
Let's not make it harder than it has to be
Ahhhh it's all the same thing
Girls chase boys chase girls
All the broken hearts in the world still beat
Let's not make it harder than it has to be
Ahhhh it's all the same thing
Girls chase boys chase girls

I'm a little bit down but I'm not dead
There's a little bit more that has to be said
You play me now I play you too
Let's just call it over

[Chorus]

Chase girls chase boys, Chase boys chase girls

I'm a little bit home but I'm not there yet

It's one to forgive but it's hard to forget

Don't call me I wont call you too

Let's just call it over

[Chorus]

I've got two hands

One beating heart

And I'll be alright

Gonna be alright

Yeah I got two hands

One beating heart

And I'll be Alright

Gonna be alright

[Chorus]

Aahhh it's all the same thing girls chase boys chase girls

This is such a fun song, and did you know it's a gender-bending homage to Simply Irresistible by Robert Palmer?  I love that-I love gender bending neutrality and fun makeup and costumes.  Plus it's a catchy and fun little song!  

What are you listening to this week?

Please grab the button and link up your Musical Mondays post in the linky!

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Now for the Giveaway

Enter to win an MP3 copy of All the Lights Out by Ingrid Michaelson (sent from Amazon)!

This giveaway will run from Monday 3/31/14 to Monday 5/1/13 at 12AM.  It is open worldwide.

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Live It, Win It, Do It {The Weekly Round-Up}

♥ Kaitlyn at Wifessionals is exactly right with her post about how sometimes blogging is like Junior High school because people try to compete.  It's not a competition.  We should be supporting each other.

♥ Miss Melanie Grace from Live Steamy is celebrating reaching 3,000 likes on Facebook by giving away three of her gorgeous light-up bottles!  Don't miss it-go enter to win one! 

♥ Leanne at Join the Gossip shared a fun DIY for making your own Glitter Champagne Bottle!  

♥ Kelly from Messy Dirty Hair shared a post about how you're worth the wait.  Yes, she's talking about sex, and as recently as a month ago I may have disagreed that guys that wait actually exist.  But I've recently had my faith in men restored a little.  (Another story for another day)

♥ If there is anything I could work on more, it's time management.  Bre from Peacoats and Plaids is luckily sharing some tips for working on it-and it's soooo useful! 

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Share your favorite reads this week!

The point of The Weekly Round-Up is to focus on other people instead of just another post about ourselves.  It's to build better community, share insight into what we love to read, and hopefully introduce you to a new blogger you'll love and adore!  Wanna play along?  Write a post with links to your favorite blog posts from others throughout the week, put the button in it, and link up with us on Sundays!

Take Me Down to Camden Town

This is a sponsored post by me on behalf of Camden Town.  All opinions are 100% mine.

What or where is Camden Town you ask?  Well it's a new start-up online shop with lots of wonderful goodies including clothing for both women and men, housewares, and more! It was created to bring fashion and design to the streets of Camden Town in London.  There are so many lovely things to be seen there, and hopefully for you to take home with you-or order and have shipped to you!

Here are some of my favorite dress designs for women, click on the image to see the listing:

Also, I am completely living for their collection of leggings.  Especially the rain clouds.  Just look at these: 

They also have such fantastic and unique accessories! 

Let's not forget that they have stuff for Men too!  Here are a few things I suggest you men wear: 

Camden Town also offers some seriously awesome art work that you can hang in your home:

There is so much more available!  Make sure to check it out!

April Life & Playing Catchup

This is a quick finger sketch portrait that Rachele from Fat Babe Designs drew of me.  Isn't it darling?  She's so talented-it took her just a few minutes to put together! I loved it so much that when I saw that she's running a special on custom portraits (only $15 until April 30th) I ordered one of those too.  I'm so excited!

I confess that April has been such a fantastic month.  I really have so much to catch you up on and I don't know where to start.  I already shared my birthday weekend and ComicCon wrap up (if you missed it, see it HERE) so I'll skip over that.  This past Wednesday I took the day off of work to go to LaCaille with my roommate and his french class.  Julie and Ortie came along, and then after we went for coffee and chatted.  After coffee Ortie and I went and got pedicures and later that night a bunch of friends came over for RuPaul's Drag Race.

There are also a lot of April birthdays so that requires a lot of celebrating!  At the first of the month we went to the dog park to celebrate Julie's birthday.  After the dog park we went to dinner at a delicious Chinese place, and then we went out to a little hole-in-the-wall bar to drink.  Here is Julie with the absolute perfect gift I got her-Lonely Hearts Club Band Peg People from Makings in Mommyland!  I confess that I love giving the perfect gift.

Then the weekend of the 13th we celebrated Callie's birthday. We all met up at Piper Down and just kept buying her drinks until we got her way more drunk than I've ever seen before-but it was fun!  I was also pretty toasted that night-so I was gratefully not the driver.  It was a LOT of fun! 

I confess that there are some other personal things going on, that started that night, that I'm not quite ready to talk about... But they're good things so far and I'm excited for some interesting possibilities.  

I confess I've finally decided to give up my snake.  While I love her, and she's so beautiful, I just can't take good enough care of her.  I was never a snake person to begin with, so I don't play with her often enough and she's become kind of skittish and scared.  BUT I haven't wanted to part with her because I love her and would worry about her safety.  However, my cousin who is very experienced with snakes is taking her.  That makes me feel soooo much better! 

In other pet news, Pumpkin, the cat that used to be mine but lives with my grandma has to go in for an $800 surgery or be put down.  My grandmother is super attached, and how can you say "don't save it, let it die"?  I'm not that person... I'm really sad for my pocketbook though.  Ouch. Luckily the vet is working with us.

There are still a bunch of giveaways running, and they're all linked in the right sidebar, don't miss them!

Somehow I let myself get so far behind on school... Here I am in the second to last week and I think I'm getting Cs in both classes.  Bah.  I hate it.  But catching up has been impossible.  :(  I really can't wait for it all to be over and I've never been so glad to take the summer off! 

Work is work, nothing really to report here.  :) I just keep doing what I'm doing and enjoying days off!

Health is also the same old story.  I need to do something because I am tired of being tired and fat. bah.

I received some gorgeous April nail mail.  Look at all of these beauties:

I also used I Love Nail Polish Princton (the middle one, fourth from either side) for my last manicure.

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