A library to carry with you

I recently came across this beautiful necklace and simply had to share.

This and other goodies can be found at The Black Spot Books.

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A bookstore that gives back

I just discovered this wonderful online bookstore and wanted to pass on this delightful find. Better World Books has an astonishing number of new and used books covering every subject or interest you may have. They do not charge any shipping in the US and only $3.97 worldwide. Their prices are some [...]

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Green Cupboards Giveaway at Vintage Indie

While perusing my usual blogs I discovered a new, lovely eco-friendly website called Green Cupboards. The people at Green Cupboards review and test products that claim to be earth-friendly. They have done all the research and testing for you. The products that pass the test can be purchased right there on sight. [...]

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Dollar General Iffy Store Policy

Last week while I was reading a friend’s blog, I encountered the following story. It seems she was at the Dollar General Store and found a sweet Raggedy Ann and Andy book which wasn’t priced. She took it the register to find out the cost and was shocked when they threw the book [...]

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Money Saving Ideas and Tips

In my meandurings on the World Wide Web, I occasionally come across an item that I feel may be of interest to you, my dear readers. Acting responsibly is so important. This is as true of our planet as in other aspects of our lives. If we don’t take care of our [...]

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Website of the Week – Doe-C-Doe!

One day last week while perusing Craftzine, I came across these charming vintage pattern embroidery collages. I immediately clicked on the link to see more. This led me to Doe-C-Doe’s blog and Etsy store. Doe-C-Doe’s blog is delightful fun! I am enamored of her embroidery transfers and projects. Her photo [...]

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Gift Bows

Not long ago I named the site, One Pretty Thing, as a website of the week. One of things I found on that site was a gift bow tutorial on Craftster. I recently sat down with an old magazine and tried my hand at making a bow. These are the results.

I was [...]

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Paint color card notepads

I have been seeing these adorable notepads on the internet and just couldn’t wait to try them myself. I made up some Halloween ones for the Jabberwocky egg hunt prizes at our Halloween party and some just for fun.

You can find a tutorial for these cute little notes at Whimsy Love. Also [...]

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Go Green!

While looking through the Simplicity costume patterns, my husband stumbled upon these corsets. They are made out of magazines and the words Go Green were printed clearly across the page. I couldn’t find a Go Green catagory per se, but I did find other patterns in other catagories with the Go Green slogan [...]

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Website of the Week – Natural Beauty Workshop

I want to share this website. Naturalbeautyworkshop is a blog sponsored by from Nature with Love. From Nature was founded by Kibby and Jay. They first became aware of natural and organic ingredients in skin care when their daughter was diagnosed with eczema. They share their knowledge through the blog and [...]

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