Rustic Stand on the Frontier of Craftiness

Who likes my title?  I thought it was pretty clever and thought about it during my most genius-idea producing time...the shower of course!  You may be wondering why it is so clever and lucky for you I am about to tell you.

A few weeks back I was contacted by Charley Cooke of Cooke's Frontier (ah, there is the key to my awesome title) to do a review and giveaway of our cupcake stand from our Etsy shop.  I was super excited because I had always seen bloggers doing giveaways and I always wondered how they teamed up with these people to give away the items, and lo and behold it was happening to me!

Charley did a great review of our cupcake stand and came up with so many cool ideas for alternative ways to use the stand - fairy themed parties anyone??  She also did a really awesome mockup for Halloween, go check it out HERE to see more pictures and some other super cool ideas.  And duh, if any of you out there want to win this stand for free don't miss the super easy opportunity over on her blog when you are visiting.

Thanks for stopping by!

Erin

Feature Craft: Earring Hanger

A few months ago right around the wedding, I read a post over on I Heart Organizing about a fun and crafty earring hanger.  About a month ago I showed it to Michael and of course his response was, "I can make that".  And make it he did!

It was pretty simple to make with some decorative radiator grating, some wood, and some dark stain that we had from a previous spice rack project.  I think that I might change the color of the frame eventually but for now it works well for what we have in our room.  He also used a 5 x 7 frame to make me a smaller one from the leftover grating to put next to my bed.

How genius is that?? Now when I take off my earrings at night, I don't have to worry about them falling off my night stand.  After he made me one, we had a few friends and family members show interest so we decided to add it to our Etsy shop.  Head over and check it out!  

We've Been Published!

Or at least our wedding photos have :) Our wonderful photographers, who own Living Story Photography, submitted our wedding to a wedding blog, Savvy Deets Bridal, and we were published yesterday!  Go here to see the post featuring Michael and I and the awesome handmade decor that Michael (and I) made.  As an avid blog reader who got started when I was planning my wedding, I was so excited to see our wedding out there in the blog world!  I always wondered how those weddings were chosen to be featured.  Yay us!  Thank you to SDB for allowing us to have our small moment of fame and for having such an awesome site to help out future brides - if you are planning a wedding or looking to in the future, be sure to check out what they have to offer!