When did I become a married pregnant lady, living in Pensacola, Florida? I spent an hour last night trying to decide which advent calendar to purchase. Which one will be neutral enough to match the changing decor of our home? What would we put in it? Drawers or doors? It seemed so important at the [...]

As promised, here are the details of my little sale over in my little etsy shop: All bow ties are $25. Regularly $36 All stockings are $15. Regularly $24-$32 Free shipping anywhere. yay! I’m sleepy (and I didn’t even eat any turkey!) so I’m going to take a little nap before I go out and [...]

Some strange twist of nature/luck/karma has landed an item of mine in etsy‘s blog, The Storque, three times in the last 2 days. Seriously. Since there are thousands of active sellers this is quite an honor. =) Can you spot my stocking, apron, or bow tie here, here, or here? =) Strangely enough the articles [...]

Oh Gap commercials, I love you. Fueling my obsession with the Gap holiday sweater, I wandered over to the Gap‘s online store to see this winters lineup and ran into their holiday marketing campaign. Rainn Wilson singing baby it’s cold outside and John Heder dancing like my brother Josh? I’m sold. To get into the [...]

the Hawker belly game, originally uploaded by xoelle. It’s my brother Scott’s birthday today. He’s getting so old. He even owns a truck now. That’s him on the left…he has always been dominated by everyone at the belly game because he’s so scrawny. I love you dude. xo elle

happy things! Laura. =)

the current state of my making place, originally uploaded by xoelle. Here’s what the good old living room looks like at this very moment. I’m in a flutter of Christmas stocking, apron, and bow tie making for the shop, and all kinds of top secret goodies to bring Christmas smiles to those I like to [...]

The rules for Picture Meme: * Go to your sixth Picture Folder then pick your sixth picture. * Hope that you remember the details and write a post about your tag/photo. Girl pals Laura and Stephani both had this posted on their blog and I wanted to do it too, but thought, “what the heck [...]

Ok- so I have a weakness for anything holiday. I like apple cider and Christmas music and cinnamin smelling pine cones. It’s no wonder then that I have had a love affair for several years with the Gap holiday sweater. They are to me the perfect expression of the beauty and warmth and coziness and [...]

9 November 2008 NAS military branch, originally uploaded by xoelle. Happy Sunday everyone. Hugs and Kisses are free today.