Life is a flow of love

Spring is finally starting to bloom in Iowa! This past weekend I took a trip to Minneapolis/St. Paul to visit family and head to the Minneapolis Textile Center's annual fabric garage sale. The fabric sale was crazy, not only with the amount of fabric that was available to dig through, but in the number of people that lined up in the cold before the doors opened. Despite having to squeeze through aisles that were too narrow, I still managed to score some great finds. I also found a few great fabrics at thrift stores and one fabric shop that was going out of business. I'll share my finds here as soon as I get them washed up. My mug above was a small find from the local university surplus sale today. I found my tea fortune very fitting for Downshifting Week coming up next week. Not only is Downshifting Week about finding ways to live a little greener, but taking time to slow down and enjoy life. I know that I, like many others, easily get wrapped up in work or other projects and don't take the time to slow down and enjoy what I'm doing, or even take time to drop whatever I'm doing and spend some quality time with loved ones. I hope you too will be inspired to spend next week living lightly among your nearest and dearest!

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Our lazy Sunday was spent with Joe watching multiple episodes of The Wire while I took lots of photos and did some updating in the Etsy shop. I'm planning on adding a few items each day to get the stock up in there since our regular website is not yet in a functioning state. I'm off to grab some more tea and head to bed as we're both coughing sickies around here. I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

playing catch up

Last weekend was our 7th (!!) Craft Saturday event and it ended up being a huge success. It was wonderful to see so many familiar and so many new faces come through. It's really starting to feel like there's a small crafty community in Des Moines. So exciting! This whole week has been spent playing catch up. It's amazing how far behind you can get when you're glued to your sewing machine all day for a couple weeks. So many emails to catch up on, blogs to read and errands to run. My poor feet have gotten the run around too (in a good way) as I surprisingly made it to the gym 3 times this week and it's not even Friday yet. I'm hoping our weather will finally turn to spring one of these days. We had a couple warm days this week, but today has been filled with rain, snow, sleet and more rain. I'm ready for warm weather so I can finally wear my new shoes around town. Warm weather also means the start of garage sale season, which I couldn't be more excited about but I'm sure Joe is dreading!

Hearts to you!

I hope you all had a wonderful and sweet day!

I'm sticking with you

Head on over to the Etsy shop of one of my favorite Craft Saturday vendors: Jade Scott Jewelry. She's having a 50% off sale through Saturday on all her gorgeous bits and baubles. I have several of her pieces and can attest that once you get one you will be hooked. Her craftsmanship is outstanding and you can't beat that discount and free shipping. Something from her shop would make a great V-day gift... We typically don't get too into Valentine's Day around here, but I really couldn't resist buying this lovely:

Things I love this week...

Turquoise and brown together. There has been a lot of this color combination around our house lately: These wonderful Charles Harper dishes from Tag: These fun vintage coasters from Etsy seller FatPatch: Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Eames Stamps!

2008 is going to be a great year for snail mail! These stamps look fantastic and I can't wait until they are released. Read more on other 2008 stamps here.