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November 26, 2012 No Comments

Cyber Monday deal ~ 50% off storewide

Morning friends and HAPPY CYBER MONDAY!!

Our Black Friday deal went over so well that we’re doing it again for Cyber Monday! You can get 50% off every printable item and paper good store wide through midnight tonight. That’s birthday invitations, thank you notes, holiday party supplies, holiday and Christmas photo cards… the hole thing. And that goes for any party supplies… plates, cups, napkins… all of it! Note: It does exclude custom cookie and monogrammed t-shirt orders since those are sold through our party partners.

Shoppe birthday parties – with over 60 birthday party collections ranging from On The Farm Party to Art Party to Science Party you’re sure to find something you will love to celebrate your little one’s big day! Come on over!

Shoppe holiday parties – we have a Santa cookie party, elegant Believe party, Mod Candy Cane hot chocolate party. Come and see!

Shoppe holiday photo cards – high res printable files in jpeg or pdf (your choice). We place the image (send two if you want to see two options), send you a proof and then the final file. It’s quick, easy and you can share on your social media sites, e-mail or print. What ever works best for you and yours! Visit us to see all 23 designs!

Just use the coupon code CyberMonday50 from now until midnight tonight! LOVE you guys and happy shopping!

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BlackFriday50 through noon Saturday!

I slept in this morning… something I never do. I’m a morning person, but I blame it on the triptophan turkey comma I was surely in. Or, maybe it was steam cleaning my carpets at 10 p.m. last night so we could put the Christmas tree up today… what?! Like you’re not excited! {wink}

At any rate, it’s Black Friday and the shoppe, the ENTIRE SHOPPE, is on sale. You can get 50% off every printable item and paper good store wide through noon tomorrow. That’s birthday invitations, thank you notes, holiday party supplies, holiday and Christmas photo cards… the hole thing. And that goes for any party supplies… plates, cups, napkins… all of it! Note: It does exclude custom cookie and monogrammed t-shirt orders since those are sold through our party partners.

Shoppe holiday parties – we have a Santa cookie party, elegant Believe party, mod candy cane hot chocolate party. Come and see!

Just use the coupon code BlackFriday50 from now until noon Eastern November 24, 2012! LOVE you guys and happy shopping!

gingerbread cookie coffee… mmm!

I’m a coffee lover… big time. For me, sipping a great cup of steaming coffee is relaxing. And honestly it’s often my “sweet” treat to myself. In my business I’m often surrounded by goodies and I’d be as big as a house if I indulged in all of them. So instead of nibbling, I sip. {wink}

And now that the holidays are here I’m revelling in the yummy flavors available from Duncan Donuts at my local grocery. See, when I want a cup of coffee while I pour {pun intended} over a new design or I’m in my studio styling a new craft idea, I might not be able to run out to the Duncan Donuts retail location (like 15 minutes away), but I do have time to stop at my kitchen coffee maker! YUM!

I say, tis the season to treat yourself, and you can find all these delish flavors at your local grocery store:

Pumpkin Spice: You’ll fall for this warm holiday flavor again and again.
Mocha Mint: Satisfy that chocolate craving with a warm cup of this minty winter treat.
Gingerbread Cookie: Catch this perfect combination of sugar and spice if you can.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake (with a cup of coffee in your hand), create and celebrate! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

As you might expect, all opinions expressed here are my own. I would have it no other way. And a huge thank you to Dunkin’ Donuts® packaged coffee (available at your local grocery for anyone that wants to run right and grab some) for being my sponsor. I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective.

free printable Christmas gift tags

I’m spreading a little cheer today with FREE Christmas printable gift tags! You know you’re going to need them once you stock up on black Friday. {wink}

The Christmas tag collection includes 11 designs in two color combinations: Habanero Red, Black and Olive Green gift tags and Persimmon, Black and Lime gift tags. And the best part, you can personalize them right inside the high res pdf before you print. (No special program needed. Just Adobe Reader.)

And what’s more, these tags are featured in Kim of The TomKat Studio’s 2012 Holiday Gift Guide.

Soooo many fabulous gift ideas in this year’s edition, as well as recipes and free gift tags from many lovely bloggers I’m blessed to call friends. Here’s a peek at the Table of Contents:

Now DOWNLOAD OUR FREE PRINTABLE CHRISTMAS GIFT TAGS!

And then hop over and enjoy the entire The TomKat Studio Holiday Gift Guide!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate! Happy Holidays everyone!

share the joy with World Market

The holiday season, the season of giving, is officially here and I couldn’t be more thrilled to share that World Market is already in the spirit and wants you to be too! More details below about how you have a chance to win and give, but right now I want to share what the fabulous people at World Market let me do! {giddy}

There is a local charity here in Columbus called Buckeye Ranch. Among it’s many services, it offers residential housing to young children that are suffering from abuse, mental issues, and more. As a mom of two healthy happy little boys, my heart bleeds for these children. (By the way, if you’re in the central Ohio area, Buckeye Ranch has an adopt-a-family program this season and are in need of items big and small.)

So when World Market asked if I’d like to shop the store and give away my finds to a needy charity, I jumped at the chance. My boys and I are bakers. We love to get in the kitchen and let the flour fly. We have fun, but not only that we talk. And we giggle. We’re gigglers. But for many of these little ones, fond holiday memories are not recent, if ever at all.

So my youngest and I decided to create a basket of baking supplies for the children at Buckeye and Michelle, the administrator we worked with, assures me that our goodies will make it to several of the houses on the ranch. {Due to the nature of the charity we weren’t able to take photos of the actual gift giving, but I assure you there were smiles!}

These are just a few of the goodies we picked up! My guy had a blast browsing the isles and I knew if he loved the items the kids at the ranch would too. (I practically had to wrestle the big gumball tube away from him… I think Santa might have to bring one of those to our house!)

As much as he loved the gumballs, I loved these collapsable icing bottles. Genius!! I’m always tapping mine on the counter to get the icing to the tip… not anymore! Plus, these are great for small hands. We had to have several of these.

Oh, and the ornaments at World Market are beautiful… and sparkly! We picked this little glitterly Santa ornament up to embellish our gift basket, but we had to pick up another one… Santa in a space ship… {grin} for our own tree.

I also fell in love with this stripe mixing bowl and the Cookies for Santa platter. Those will be gracing my home this holiday season. So much cuteness in World Market! By the way, this picture doesn’t do our haul justice. There was just no way to get it all in one shot. {happy dance}

And what is a gift without a card?! So my little guy broke out the construction paper, scissors, glue and pencils. He made the sweetest card. Simple, but oh so sweet. I must have taken 40 pictures of him (no worries, I’ll save those for family) trying to cut out the perfect heart.

I hope you’re inspired to give this holiday season. I know I personally have the bug now!

And World Market wants to help get you in the spirit by hosting a Share The Joy Sweepstakes! Join them on facebook and enter to win the Share The Joy Sweepstakes now!

You can also connect with World Market on Pinterest, Twitter, Google+ and Instagram! Happy Holidays everyone!

This shop is part of a social shopper marketing insight campaign with Pollinate Media Group™, but all my opinions are my own. I’d have it no other way here in my little corner of the world!

Thanksgiving kid craft ~ make a turkey

Chatting over at Kellogg’s Snackpicks.com this week about keeping your kiddos busy on Thanksgiving Day with easy and fun turkey craft ideas and treats! (Free Thanksgiving printables can be downloaded at the bottom of this page!)

This is an easy personalized turkey placecard idea and I share on Snackpicks how to make this fun project take longer than 3 minutes (don’t you think some crafts are just too short!), keeping your little pumpkins entertained and excited to be part of decorating the Thanksgiving kids table!

Join me over at Kellogg’s Snackpicks.com for more Thanksgiving Day kid activity ideas, and some very fun Thanksgiving kid treats from me and other fabulous bloggers.

And don’t forget to download our FREE Thanksgiving party printables ~ beverage tags, beverage wrappers and “pick your own” pumpkin sign!

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

how to monogram a pumpkin + video

Ever carve a fabulous pumpkin or make an adorable pumpkin craft only to have the darn thing whither up on you?! I have! But not this year.

JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores has Funkins! You know, the foam pumpkins that look so much like real pumpkins that you almost forget they’re not. Yep, those.

Well I wanted to monogram a pumpkin for my mantel, one that I could use year after year, so I gathered a few supplies with the help of my friends at JoAnn.

And guess what?! JoAnn wants to give a lucky reader a bit of holiday crafting help too! At the bottom of this post I’m giving away a $50 gift card to JoAnn Fabric and Craft Stores to buy anything you like. {giddy}

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own monogrammed pumpkin just in time for your Thanksgiving guests arrival:

Funkin pumpkin from Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores
Martha Stewart Crafts hole punch (mine has three sizes to choose from, I used the largest size)
Print out of your initial (I used Word and tested a few sizes on my pumpkin to see what worked best)
Tape
Optional – Martha Stewart Habanaro and Metallic Copper Craft Paint

And here’s a little how to video tutorial showing how you how to make a monogrammed pumpkin and while you’re there, subscribe to my new youtube channel:

Giveaway ~ How to enter:

I’m using Rafflecopter for this giveaway. To enter, you can either login to the widget below with your Facebook account or with your name and a valid e-mail address. Rafflecopter will draw a winner via random.org when the giveaway is over and the name will show at the top of the entry box. I’ll also send the winner a congrats note via the e-mail provided. Good luck!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

Thanksgiving kid activity: thankful tree

My little ones NEED fun things to keep them busy on Thanksgiving Day because the rest of us congregate in the kitchen a lot. Not always cooking… more like nibbling… as my mom cooks.

So this year my boys are going to be decorating part of their own Thanksgiving kids table. First craft up, a Thankful Tree, but instead of cutting out or punching out leaf shapes, they will be rubbing real leaves with crayons and they will be collecting said leaves as well. The reason? I want this activity to take longer than 3 minutes. {grin}

Join me over at Kellogg’s Snackpicks.com for more Thanksgiving Day kid activity ideas, and some very fun Thanksgiving kid treats from me and other fabulous bloggers.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

Thanksgiving Pinterest Party Tonight!

Love Pinterest? Love parties? Need Thanksgiving entertaining ideas?! Join me and several of my blogging girlfriends tonight for a Thanksgiving Pinterest Party!

Here’s how ~ Just follow me on Pinterest and join me tonight at 9pm EST/6pm PST. The party will last an hour and we’re even having a little contest! Just comment and repin using the hashtag #holidayentertaining and be entered to win one of two $50 gift cards! Yay!

Hope to see you there! But if you can’t join tonight, a new party is happening every Tuesday night through December 18! Or check out our pins with the hashtag #HolidayEntertaining

And if you’re not already, make sure you’re following my talented co-hosts!

Kim (The TomKat Studio), Kelly (The Party Dress), Vana (Le Papier Studio), Charynn (Two Sugar Babies), Chris (Celebrations at Home), Jessica (Pen ‘n Paperflowers), Casi (CupcakeMAG), Kori (Paper & Pigtails), Kim (The Celebration Shoppe), Carrie (Half Baked – The Cake Blog) and Maddy (Somewhere Splendid)

See you in a few hours!

Thanksgiving owl acorn craft + freebie

Hello everyone! Deanna of Mirabelle Creations here. With Thanksgiving quickly approaching I had the opportunity to style a kid’s Thanksgiving table for a local magazine and I whipped up these cute little acorn owls to go with my printable Thanksgiving party collection.

These little owls are a fun craft to get you in the holiday mood. And, they’ll be welcomed visitors at your Thanksgiving kids’ table. Or better yet, let your guests make these DIY acorn owls so you can enjoy more time at the adult table. {Hoot! Hoot!}

I came up with the idea while my son was learning to ride his bike. I picked up several fallen acorns while he was practicing and at the time I wasn’t sure what I planned on doing with them, but since I knew my Thanksgiving kid’s table was going to incorporate owls, I decided to transform the acorns into little hoot owl crafts.

Here’s what you’ll need to make your own acorn owls:

Acorns
Felt (in several colors)
Fine Tip Permanent Marker
Hole Punch
Scissors
Craft Glue
Yarn (optional)

Simple DIY steps:

If not already secure, glue the tops of the acorns to the acorn. Several of the acorns I picked up had loose tops. Before beginning to assemble the owls, glue the tops to the acorn. Alternatively, you could remove the tops and set the acorns upside down, so that the bottom of the acorn becomes the top.
Cut out two oval shaped pieces of felt for the wings.
Using a hole punch, punch two white circles out of the felt for the eyes. If your hole punch does not punch all the way through the felt, use scissors to cut out the circles.
Cut out a small felt triangle for the nose.
Starting with the eye, glue felt circles onto acorn. Follow with the nose and wings.
Using the fine tip permanent marker, make small eyeballs in the white circles.
If you want you can glue the acorn owls onto yarn to make the Thankfulness leaves for the tree or for a napkin wrap.

And here’s a quick look at my finished Thanksgiving kid’s table. You can find all of these items and more in my shop, Mirabelle Creations, for only $12 for the complete collection. {Hoot!}

But, I’m also giving away my leaves for a Thankfulness Tree, Owl Napkin Rings, Owl Tags and Thanksgiving Owl Coloring Pages for FREE! You can download them from here:

Free Owl Utensil Holder Pattern
Free Thankful Tree Leaves
Free Owl Fancy Labels
Free Owl Coloring Pages

As always, we hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and CELEBRATE! Happy crafting everyone!