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Over dose of Etsy

 
Think ::

You know I love, love Etsy. I look at everyday.  So this news was exciting for me, so I had to share. 

PicClick has a Etsy browser - truly eye candy. 

You can search up at the top and watch the things you love most come together.  The above shot is taken of my search, Pink::Vintage::ribbon.

It is actually kind of fun to think of new searches and see what the screen shot looks like.

This would make a darling card to print out and give to your friend on their birthday.  Here is one for you.

Ohio State Search

or how about someone who loves vintage shoes.  See how I snuck in Happy Birthday in all the search bars. Ok this is kind of fun.  Now I am even more obsessed.

Happy searching.  Let me know what you try.

Pink ::

Cleverly Going Green

Think ::

I am so not green.  In skin tone or environmentally.  I am not proud of it and I am working on it.  I guess I better be, I am moving to Colorado for crying out loud.  I think I may have to take some community classes before they let me move in my neighborhood.  (hey guess what? I think we may have found a house... more to come, don't want to jinx it)

With it being St. Patrick's Day and all I thought I would share something green, both in color and  for the environment.

I purchased this Scout "Bin There" because they were on sale and everyone cool in my neighborhood has one.  They keep them in their trunks and put things in it to take into their house.  Only the lucky few have a garage that is connected to their house and they are all in the back here so there is a lot of street parking.  My garage is now full of craigslist finds that need to be painted, so my car is also now on the street until we move.  (ask Mr. Pink how happy he is about that, not so much)

Anyway tonight I was "Making Groceries" (that is what they call going grocery shopping in New Orleans, I can say that because I lived there) and purchasing all the green items for the lunches on Wednesday.  I decided to just carry my "bin there" with me and just put it in my cart.  Our grocery store has a personal scanner that you carry around and scan your own food and bag as you shop.  It is awesome, but puts baggers and checkers out of a job.  So, 
as I shopped I just filled in my cute, damask, green, printed bin and saved on a ton of bags.  So yea, I am getting Green.  Just in time for the holiday.

Happy St. Patrick's Day.

Pink ::

 

and if I could magically buy a bag for each of us from their new summer line I would buy us both the ones below.  Guess which one is mine?  Check out their site here!  I love these bags!

Sweet Thing!

Think ::

Can you believe how lucky we are to have such wonderful people read our creative conversation everyday?  It always makes me happy to see our visitors stop by.
We also have been very lucky to have a few websites share our ideas for their readers and they always do such a good job of giving us credit (they know we love that)

One Pretty Thing

,

UCreate,

TipJunkie 

have all be en really good to us by telling the world about us.  Thanks Gals. 

So the other day while searching on their sites I found a new site called Kara's Cupcakes.  I soaked in her tutorial on making these cupcakes out of sculpty clay.  The girls and I made rings and a ton of pendants for her to give to her swim coaches "because they are so sweet!"  I took a photo in front of my beautiful blooming pink hydrangas - are they not lovely.

Anyway you may enjoy making these treasures with your little Think!

and the Jonas Brothers???? What I talked myself out of buying $100 tickets in the nose bleeds for their concert this summer because I LOVE them but also love Mr. Pink's budget even more and you say you didn't even know their songs.  Oh the pain.  Next time you get free tickets to something amazing like that call me - Delta will get me there in a jiffy.

You are great and amazing in case I have not told you in awhile.

Pink ::

Virtual Shopping

Think::

This winter weather is just making me crawl the walls.  I managed to finish the girls Valentine Advent calendars but did not manage to take a photo to show you in time to make one for little Think.

Tonight Mr. Pink took the girls to the big indoor water slides and I ventured out to the mall to make final Christmas returns.  I don't know if you know this about me but every year I dislike mall shopping more and more, it just seems so overwhelming.    Any who I thought I would share with you some of the finds I found on my mall journey this evening.

This photo does no justice to the beauty of this kids swim suit.  It is white eyelet spandex, I know who has heard of such a fabric?  You just must see it if you have a Janie & Jack store in your area.  It has four rows of ruffles on the bum on the back.  It is darling.  Did you know Janie and Jack go up to a size 7 & 8 on-line.  I didn't buy it but am still debating.

 
Crate and Barrel had this awesome heart in heart pancake mold.  you will have to click here since I can't borrow the photo off of their site.  (C&B I love you so much I am still giving you free advertising)

Hannah Anderson had a wicked sale rounder in their store and I found this Thermalite jacket (not that you need coats where you live -Lucky!) for only $20.00 (regularly $98) and a size 10-12 dress for $12.00 for my oldest pink. She is not a fan of the color pink but agreed to wear it to church but not school.
You should check out their clearance spot on their site.  They also have a darling eyelet white dress in their new spring line if any eavesdroppers a good beach photo dress.

I was also able to drool over the new Vera Bradley fabrics at one of the stores in the mall.  This is my new favorite pattern , Hope Garden.  This is their new small lunch bag, so if you ever want a savvy lunch bag this is it.  (I don't suggest buying one for the little unless you strap it to her waist.  Ours got stolen at school last year)  Vera made a new laptop bag that is AMAZING and on my new wish list.

I love charm bracelets, love love love them.  For my birthday my parents gave me one of the new Brighton Charm bracelet with a charm for all the states I have lived in.  Too bad for them I have lived in 10 states so it was an expensive birthday present.  Good for them that they don't make a charm for Montana or North Dakota - what?  people in Montana and North Dakota wear Brighton jewelry too, all 300 of them.  So I am anxiously waiting for those 2 states to be released.  I went into Brighton to pick up my watch that was getting a new battery and had to share it with you.  I don't think it I had when we lived by each other but I have now had it for 4 years and I just love it.

Anyway nothing too exciting but just surviving the winter.

Mall Rat
Pink::

Superman is having a birthday, I guess I should make dinner

 

Think::

Today is Mr. Pink's birthday and we are having a Sookerman (as littlest Pink likes to say) Party. It is fun to finally have a boy themed party around here.

Since it is Sunday and his birthday, I really feel the need to make a nice dinner.  So I ran straight to one of my favorite items in my home.  A few years ago the author of Chez Moi sent me one of her custom recipe boxes chock full of some of her favorites.  I have never made anything from here that is not just wonderful!  Today I am making the Zesty Lemon Chicken, Winter Salad and Broccoli with blue cheese. 

Michelle, is a brilliant chef and has a knack for collecting great recipes.  Wouldn't you love to have one of these boxes in your home too?  Well, the good news is you can.

She has a new (ok new to me) wonderful website with some her finest recipes.  The beauty of her new site is that it is categorized  by ingredients as well as dishes.  This way if you have a bunch of spinach in your house and want a recipe to use it up you just click Spinach and voila!

Let me know what you think of her new site
Pink::

Thanks Michelle,I think you are just 2clever and I am exited to have these to add to my darling pink recipe box!

 

Clever Clicks

Think::

Over the break I had my mother in law try to teach my to crochet for the 4th time - yes the 4th time.  I think I am chalking crocheting up to something I just can't do.  My muscles were all tight, my heart was pounding and (though she doesn't know) I am almost starting crying.
So, you can only imagine when I found this pattern online the other night how sad I was that I didn't get the crocheting bug.  Look at this pattern for a "Wrapple". I am so in love with it.

These are my ideas for the use of this pattern (if I knew how to make it)

• make one to give to a teacher on the first day of school
• make a bunch and wrap them around fake apples to put in a darling basket to give as a graduation gift to someone who is going to be a teacher
• give as a gift to someone with some headphones - implying a apple ipod - then when they figure it out give them the ipod
• give your neighbor some homemade applesauce with one of these on top

Thanks April from Pukashell for giving me permission to use your darling apple photo and crochet pattern on our 2clever home.  We think you are just 2clever.

I also must tell all you cute and clever eavesdroppers (which we love and are grateful for) that this is not the only clever item on her site. You can buy premade (ahh relief to me that may never learn to work a needle and yarn) on her site.  Give her a click today!

Pink::

Clever clicks

Dear Think::

I am really not writing this to you but to any eavesdroppers out there. Since you are a computer, graphics wizard you won't really need this website for the holidays.  But for anyone else - you might love this if you don't already know about it.

Picnik is a photo editing software program that is online and FREE!!  You can do almost anything with their free service that you have always dreamed of doing with Photoshop.  So if you want to give your Christmas card photo some santa hats or change it to black and white you can do it here so easy!
 It is how I changed my marathon photo to make it look I was finishing in the snow.  Funny huh.

Also since I am sharing great sites.  Pandora online radio is free and AWESOME.  We have it playing Christmas music all day long.  I love it.!!

enjoy.

Pink::

Oh so sweet and funky!

note SJ's peanut butter lips

Dear Think::

A few months ago I hosted a trunk show for a specialty line of children clothing.  It is a new company of two girls living their dream.  The name of the company is Sweet Funky Vintage. 
It is pretty amazing.  You get to design every bit of the clothing or pick any of their pre-made designs.  I just got the order in and oh my! 
The clothing all came in these darling pink boxes and tied up with string
(ok ribbon, but I couldn't resist the Sound of Music line)
My girls went nuts over them and had to dance and twirl in their new skirts.
I loved how well the outfit matched with my awesome lime green 60's couch (garage sale $30)

As well as my "new to me" yellow couch.  (goodwill $50 and it is in mint condition- yes you will drool on your next visit)  Do you like my pillow I made in the middle from a old chenille blanket I got in New Orleans?

Anyway if you get a chance you should hop over to their site.   I will say as cute as the site is there is nothing like touching and see the handmade clothes in person!

Sweet Funky Vintage shop click here

Talk soon
Pink::

Gobbling Good Mail

Dear Think::

Have you ever heard of Good Mail?  Oh my  - let me just tell you about my friend Jill.
I met her in the dorms at college my freshman year (almost 20 years ago).  She has always sent creative and clever Good Mail.
She defines Good Mail as:

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Good Mail /gʊd/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[goo d] /meɪl/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[meyl] adjective, noun & verb

1. tangible generosity
2. thoughtfulness in action
3. delivery of happiness

Can be hand delivered (express good mail) or mailed via USPS, UPS, FedEx or online delivery. It is the process of acting on a nice thought, reaching outside oneself, being thoughtful, generous and kind. Guarantees a "natural high," smile, and slight giddiness in both the sender and the receiver.

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Because of her I have sent more mail and also received Good Mail.  I am not great at always sending Good Mail but I sure do think about it a lot.  Today when I was at the $Dollar$ Store (more to come on that) I found these little packs of Thanksgiving essentials to put in some cards.  I felt great to send out some Good Mail - Jill is right it is a natural high.

Jill sells these Good Mail labels to announce the Good Mail on the outside of any envelope or box.  They are great and I love using them. 
If you want some or want to send some as gifts here is her online store
Clever Click Here for Good Mail Queen

Happy stamp buying
Pink::