whimsy bits: my first giveaway!!!

some exciting news on this cold and dreary day (at least in lexington it is!)...

i'm having my first giveaway for my etsy shop over here. so excited to see how many people want to win. and thanks elise for hosting the giveaway.

head on over ASAP to enter, you have until next tuesday (the 13th)!

homemade gift exchange

remember my guest poster, jennie, from willow bean studio?

well the homemade gift exchange is officially over and i received my gift in the mail yesterday!!

isn't that navy and green clutch to die for?

i just LOVE it. i of course love the colors because navy is a staple of mine and green is my fav color. and my fav combo of colors ties with navy and green and navy and yellow. and the print on that green fabric is so now!

thanks again jennie!

also here's a little peak at what i sent jennie...

(hopefully she's received hers and is not seeing it for the first time on here!)

i had so much fun doing this exchange. i hope to do it again in november, just in time for the holidays!

crafts: craft cart reveal

so here is the post i did over at not so homemade.

sometime in february i got this cart for FREE!! i love free stuff, don't you?!

anywho, i took my sweet time (about 6 weeks!) figuring out what to do with it, and came up with this...

see that ugly blue and those gold wheels? yuck.

i primed the cart first.

then sprayed it with blue ocean breeze (my new spray paint addiction).

next it was time for those wheels to get a little makeover. i used basic black spray paint on those babies!

i could've stopped there but i wanted a little more pizzaz!

so i bought this great black and white striped fabric.

i sewed a ribbon in coordinating colors to hide the raw edges at the bottom.

then i used hot glue and felt to add some pink strings to tie up the panels.

here's a pic of the finished panel down.

and here's my cart all loaded up with crafty stuff and fabric!

i loved doing this project and once i got started it didn't take me too long to finish. maybe four hours total and since the cart was free and i had the spray paint i only spent about $20.

what do y'all think?

linking up to these:

blog hop: not so homemade

OMG!!!

i'm so giddy right now, i could squeal. (oh wait, i just did!)

today i'm doing a blog hop.

you can find me here.

i couldn't be more happy about my first blog hop and i can't thank courtney from not so homemade for allowing me to invade her blog for the day.

believe me you're gonna wanna check this out, it's the reveal of my craft cart!