Goodbye 2012: A Roundup & A Thank You
I cannot believe the year is over! So many wonderful things have happened and I am so excited to see what 2013 has in store! Yikes! This blog has come to mean so much to me and I’ve worked so hard to make it a place where people can come to feel inspired to create [...]
DIY Tinted Champagne Flutes
This project is a part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. New Year’s Eve is just around the corner. Do you have your resolutions in order? Do you have your toasts prepared? I always love ending the holiday season at a good New Year’s Eve bash. My parents always have a big [...]
Merry Christmas To You
Merry Christmas, my friends!!! As I type this, it’s a blizzard outside here in Idaho! I was so worried that we wouldn’t have any snow today. It’s a Christmas miracle! I hope you have a wonderful time with your families and friends and that every blessing comes your way! I’m taking tomorrow off, but will [...]
DIY Gold-leafed Greeting Cards
This project is a part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. You did it. It’s Christmas Eve and you forgot to send out cards. Or maybe you didn’t forget, but you were too busy saving lives. That’s what happened to me. Luckily, these cards are sooooo easy. So easy it hurts. These [...]
24 Merry Days – The Giveaway of The Season
The time has come! Remember when I posted a few weeks ago about a magical giveaway-juggernaut called 24 Merry Days? The time has come for The Proper Pinwheel to host the giveaway! I was so thrilled when Audrey of This Little Street asked me to be a part of something so fun! If you haven’t [...]
Giftwrap Galore: Tissue Fringe, Reindeer Pom Poms, Downloadable Tags & More
This project is a part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. With Christmas less than one week away, it’s time to get crackin’ and get wrappin’. Wrapping presents is one of the things I look forward to most during the holiday season. You can basically slap anything festive on a box and [...]
Anthropologie-inspired Golden Logs
This project is a part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. This is one of my favorite holiday projects so far. I was perusing through Anthro one lunch hour (like I usually do!), and happened upon the most beautiful log candles that were gold. The entire thing was wax, but it had [...]
Holy Holiday Cookie – The Stained Glass & Cut-out Edition
This project is part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. We are just loving cookies around here. From the spritz cookies this morning, to these fun stained glass beauties, there is a cookie here for everyone. Take the sugar cookie dough (recipe here) and make fun cut-outs and decorate your cookies like [...]
Holy Holiday Cookie: The Spritz Edition
This project is part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. I’m a baker, and I’m an eater. I will spend hours/days in the kitchen slaving away over hot stoves to make delicious holiday treats. Sometimes I eat those treats. Sometimes I don’t. It must be the people-pleaser in me. One treat that [...]
Recipe: World’s Most Delicious Toffee
This recipe is part of The Proper Pinwheel’s holiday series, Mission: Merry 2012. Toffee. Toffee. Toffee. I make you every December. And every December, you make people fall in love with me. Even strangers on the street want some of this. (The toffee, you sicko!) This is by far my most prized and cherished recipe. [...]








