and, today I curated my first treasury.  It’s all about being in the right place at the right time.  I just happened to be there when the magic number appeared and a place opened for me to enter in a title.  I spent the next hour searching for items to add, but it was fun.  [...]

Garth got a bee stuck in his helmet on the way home from Alabama the other day. It’s certainly not the most exciting thing to happen in recent days, but it’s the only thing that I doodled about on my Sacrament meeting program.
I’m packing this morning for Spokane, WA. I’ll be visiting my family [...]

We both love sparklers and long exposure times. This was bound to happen sooner or later.

Totally worth the handful of bugbites that I got on my legs that night!
xo elle

1. laura gibson & sean ogilvie, 2. Ice cream day dream, 3. Vinton, Iowa – Surrounding Area, 4. The Photographer, 5. Fred Astaire, 6. À votre santé Smoothie, 7. Wish You were here (in Venice), 8. Dread Spread 1, 9. ~ Viva’s daisy ~, 10. dVan, 11. WebLicious, 12. Le Maître des Noms – [...]

The dozen radical ties purchased for a quarter each (and the foam letters for cheapy cheap too!) today on the Pensacola Tour de Thrift.

The Saturday afternoon bicycle trip that ended up being a tour of the closest thrift shops, a reason to use Garth’s camelback, and a contest to see who could squeeze the most [...]

one week closer to being caught up!
There’s much going on  in the Laura and Garth Plouzek world right now.  Garth just got back from Scout Camp.  We’ve got a youth temple trip (to Birmingham!), girls camp, multi stake youth conference, and a visit to my family in Spokane, WA, to play in Hoopfest ‘08, all [...]

My little baby of a store is humming along quite nicely. I’ve got a great stash of bow ties listed in my shop for Father’s Day, and etsy has my lion bow tie listed in the Father’s Day Gift Guide.
I’ve also been featured in two amazing blogs, iCraft, and the stupendous DripLaur (a fellow [...]

I used to be really worried that everyone would be like me. I hid my ideas. I was stingy with praise and encouragement if someone was doing something similar to me. I felt this sense of urgency to be the first, the best, the most genuine.
I was wrong of course. I [...]