May day is lei day! I’m sort of in love with fragrant flowers made into lavish garlands to wear around my neck. They are the first thing I’ll gift you when you come to visit me in Hawaii (and you should), and I sort of insist on Mother’s Day that Garth and the kiddos pick [...]
Entries Tagged as 'craft'
paper lei tutorial
April 27th, 2012 No Comments
hello October!
October 2nd, 2011 2 Comments
The kiddos back in the day as Sally & Moishe. The kiddos as Sally & Moishe in modern times (can you believe how much Ginger has changed in one year!?) Costume season is in full swing for me which means that I am stitching Sally and Moishe in the car everywhere we go, in my [...]
Tags: costumes
making mexican hot cocoa
December 13th, 2010 8 Comments
Hello there friends. I heard that it was National Hot Cocoa Day (did ya’ll know that there’s a food holiday everyday? I didn’t. but now I’m thinking that a year long celebration is in order!) and by some chance Garth and I were working on our mexican hot cocoa recipe last night (it was a [...]
Tags: edibles. recipe · making · tutorial
Christmas advent calendar almost-tutorial
December 1st, 2010 4 Comments
Happy December! Golly, I look forward to this time all year. There are so many things that I love to do- baking tons of cookies, gingerbread houses, drives (or bikes rides) to look at the holiday lights, shopping, sipping hot cocoa, cuddling in cozy blankets with people I love and watching my favorite holiday movies, [...]
Tags: chrisrmas · craft · tutorial
black friday weekend sale
November 26th, 2010 2 Comments
It’s here! I only discount my items once a year and this is the weekend! Ya’ll have until late Monday night to snag all the bow ties you can handle from the shop at just $25 each. Awesome. And, if you’re in the Atlanta area the Indie Craft Experience is having a pop-up shop for [...]
Tags: business · sale · xoelle
the countdown
November 24th, 2010 No Comments
hello there friends! I know, it’s been a while. I have a stack of blog posts in my mind to write but have just been so short on time. It is a good thing that life is keeping me so busy that I don’t have time to blog about it- I mean, it’s all about [...]
Tags: business · newsletter · xoelle
new journals/gallery night/market saturday
November 19th, 2010 No Comments
Have I mentioned yet that I’ll be at the Port City Market in November and December? I will. We’re on the corner of Palafox and Main Saturday mornings from 9am-1pm. I’m starting a clearance bin to try to lighten some of my inventory before my move to Hawaii. The market will be operating (and I’ll [...]
Tags: busniess · journals · market · xoelle
anatomy of a garden gnome costume
November 15th, 2010 8 Comments
I know that Halloween is long gone and it’s time for Christmas-ie things, but the accident really screwed up my to-do’s and I am just now getting around to finally doing a proper costume post. So, without further excuses, I present to you the fabulous gnome family costumes. We chose these costumes because we thought [...]
Tags: costumes · halloween · making
the completed pile
October 28th, 2010 1 Comment
4 costumes to make and just about 24 hours remaining. This is my little pile of completed pieces. I wanted to photograph the pile of things that I still need to complete, but they are spread out all over my making room- one is on my lap at this very moment. Can you tell what [...]
Tags: making
market tomorrow.
October 22nd, 2010 No Comments
I’ll see you there. And, I’ll bring the bow ties this week. woo-hoo! elle
Tags: journals














