Colorful Kisses Giveaway
October 31, 2008 by Emily · 145 Comments
Contest Update:
*We have a winner!! The randomly chosen winner for this contest is: Rachelle (Craft Corner). Congratulations! Thank you to everyone who participated, please stop by again as there are new contests each week.*
Stunning ~ is the first word that comes to mind. I was completely taken by these beautiful onesies and baby clips by Colorful Kisses. Sarah, the talented artist behind this little sweet shoppe, receives her design inspiration from her new baby girl and is such a nice person to work with too!
The Colorful Kisses collection offers a lovely mix of boutique-style accessories and embellishments for your baby and you will be easily dazzled by her variety of designs ranging from vintage polka dots to whimsical butterflies to classic flowers.
Win It:
One lucky Window Shoppe reader will win these two beautiful onesies (the little birdie and elephant with matching bows pictured above)!
All you have to do is check out Colorful Kisses and leave a quick comment or send an email to contest@littlewindowshoppe.com (with “colorful” as the subject of your email) letting us know your favorite item (if you can narrow it down to just one, it was tough for me to pick just one favorite)! 
The winner will be chosen at random on Monday, Nov. 10th and will be announced here, so be sure to check back to see if you’re the winner. Please feel free to read our contest rules for additional details.
Extra Entries:
- 3 Extra Entries if you are a subscriber to LWS!! Just let me know you’re subscribed.
P.S. We have all kinds of fun giveaways featured each week at LWS. Check out our Current Giveaways link to see what you can enter to win this week.
Happy Halloween!! Fun Last-Minute Ideas…
October 31, 2008 by Emily · 4 Comments
Happy Halloween! I wanted to share one of my very favorite blogs with you today ~ Hostess With The Mostess (HWTM). Aside from looking simply gorgeous, this website is an innovative resource for hip, modern, and unique entertaining ideas.
Jennifer of HWTM, has a rockin’ collection of fabulous Halloween party ideas this year and it was just too tempting for me, I had to share these two posts:
If you’re searching for fun last minute Halloween ideas for tonight, these mod paper pumpkin ornaments looked like just the right activity. With a little construction paper, scissors, paper clips and string you can easily make these fun PAPER PUMPKIN ORNAMENTS to display in your home! For directions and step by step instructions, stop by the Hostess Blog to read more.
Looking for a unique way to dress up your Halloween Candy? This delightful Trick or Treat Halloween Ensemble may be just right for you and you can learn how to make your own Halloween-themed chocolate wrappers too. For tips on how you can recreate this ensemble, visit the HWTM Trick or Treat post here.
Are you as excited about Halloween as I am? Are you all ready for tonight?
Pintsize Projects
October 30, 2008 by Emily · 6 Comments
If you live for crafting, but would rather not spend all your time gathering supplies then you will want to bookmark this site!
Pintsize Projects are one of a kind arts and crafts kits for kids of all ages - the kits include everything you need for your craft project and are filled to the brim with cool goodies like ribbons, fabric, yarn, glue, thread, buttons, beads, doo-dads, a surprise gift, instructions and notebooks, etc. And they come in lovely red tins that you can reuse.
There are all kinds of projects available including felt pillows, dolls, wallets, animal calendars, sock toy kits and much more…you can even request a custom project kit. If you are interested in purchasing one of these kits or would like to know more about custom orders, workshops, parties or accessories just contact Beth at beth@pintsizeprojects.com
Don’t these kits look like fun?
Little Shop of Shavs
October 30, 2008 by Cassie · 3 Comments
Whether for a birthday, shower, or Christmas, like many of you I love to give unique one of a kind gifts, which is why I liked Little Shop of Shavs, where they offer very unique custom made gift ideas.
After choosing your favorite picture, Shauna (Owner of Little Shop of Shavs) creates a high contrast Black and White painting of it. These modern paintings are awesome and would look so great hanging on the wall, and what grandma wouldn’t love a huge painting of their grandchild to look at every day?
Discount:
Little Shop of Shavs is offering all LWS readers $30 off their order through October. This would be a great time to get a little Christmas shopping done early. Just let Shauna know you are a LWS reader upon checkout for your discount!
Cassie’s shoppe: Madison Envy
New Shoppe Contributor!
October 30, 2008 by Emily · 2 Comments
We have a new contributor at Little Window Shoppe. Our Sweet Shoppes and Boutiques Guide is growing! With the current shoppes we have listed and the ones we have waiting, we will be up to about 200 shoppes in our guide. So, to continue to make it even more awesome and to keep up with the requests, I have invited Ashley to help me add to the Guide each week with her amazing graphic design talents.
Ashley is the owner Hippo Scraps where she creates cute digital designs to dress up your blog, Twitter or Etsy page. Her designs are fun, flirty, simple and elegant. You can read a bio about her and all of our super cool Window Shoppe Girls here.
See more of Ashley’s work at her shoppe: Hippo Scraps and her blog: Hippo Scraps Blog
P.S. If you are interested in promoting your shoppe or boutique, you can submit your own shoppe for FREE to be added to our Sweet Shoppes and Boutiques Guide ~ this will give you a chic spot to tell us and our of visitors all about it.
Sweet Shoppe: Shop Wise Bags
October 29, 2008 by Emily · 7 Comments
Trying to be a little more economical and environmentally friendly? If so, you will really like today’s sweet shoppe. Shop Wise Bags is a family-owned business that knows a thing or two about helping the environment!
They hand make genuine oilcloth reusable grocery bags, table lines and specialty bags. They want you to think of their reusable grocery bag like a “brown paper grocery sack” but with the additional strength and reusable qualities necessary for daily use. To see more of their collection, visit their shoppe here.
Oreo Spiders
October 28, 2008 by Emily · 9 Comments
Oh, how I love Halloween activities! I have been really enjoying Halloween this year. Last night, my little family and I made these ‘almost-too-cute-to-eat’ Oreo spiders (although we really did eat a lot of them). And while I’m not a fan of spiders in real life (umm, definitely not…eeek!), these ones were a lot of fun. A few oreos, a little frosting, m&m’s, chocolate chips and chocolate Twizzlers did the trick.
We also created a few baby spiders and my husband simply couldn’t resist making the big “daddy spider” (that we lovingly referred to as “Big Bertha”). He’s so creative.
DIY Felt Board
October 28, 2008 by Vanessa · 7 Comments
I am attempting a handmade Christmas this year and have been searching for projects to do for my family and friends. I originally saw this idea on The Artful Parent and thought this would be the perfect Christmas gift for my two girls. This way they could have their own large felt board complete with different packets of cut out images that go along with different stories and landscapes.
It is quite a simple project and is very do-able (which is perfect for me). First, I purchased a scrap of plywood about 1/4 inch thick and 2 feet by 2 feet. You will also need to pick up a can of Elmer’s Spray Adhesive, a large piece of felt a little larger than your piece of wood (for the backdrop), craft glue and many different colors of felt.
Follow the instructions on the back of your Spray Adhesive can to attach the backdrop felt to the wood. I chose a light blue color with the idea that it could be used as both the sky and the ocean. Fold the corners on the back and glue them down with the craft glue and you are already done completing the felt board!
For my images, I cut out images for each season of the year to put in packets to include with the board:
- For Winter a pine tree with ornaments, a large star, snowflakes, snow to put on the ground and presents to put under the tree.
- For Spring a large sun, clouds, grass to put on the bottom, stems for the flowers and quite a few flower cut outs so they can put together their own flowers.
- For Summer I cut out a large tree and leaves in many different shades of green. I also cut out a large tire swing, sandbox and small swimming pool.
- For Fall I cut out leaves in gold, yellow, orange and red along with a pile of leaves to place at the bottom.
No need to put anything on the back of your cutouts, felt will stick to felt and attach just fine onto the board.
I also “tried” to cut out our family and two dogs to use in all the different seasons, I hope to get around to cutting out and designing some extended family and friends. My favorite part has been recreating their favorite stories into felt board pieces. The one pictured here is The Chocolate Chip Ghost story which is a favorite in our house.
You can check out these great links for more felt board stories and displays:
- Fun Figurines
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?
- Polar Bear, Polar Bear What Do You Hear?
- Farm Theme
- Gingerbread Man
- An Autumn Tree
- Create Your Own Flower
- Under the Sea
- Chicken Little
Hopefully this will be a present my daughters enjoy playing with during those long winter months that we will be stuck inside!
Vanessa’s blog: http://www.inevergrewup.net - Ideas and Reviews to Help Parents Entertain, Care for and Educate their Children.
Journaling
October 27, 2008 by Michelle · 12 Comments
When my daughter Madelyn was born I began writing a journal for her. For me, this is one of the most important things I do. I try to write in it regulary and choose to write in letter format. I write to her about things she likes at the moment, funny things she does, my hopes for her and generally just little tidbits about her that she won’t remember and I may not remember in a few years.
Now that I also have twin boys, I keep journals for them as well, but have found that I don’t write in all their journals as often as I would like. However, I still feel it is so important. I hope to give the kids their journals either when they leave for college or get married. I hope that it is something they will be able to open up, read and know how much they are loved. Do you keep a journal? You can find lovely journals from Paper Posey to help get you started.
To get started on your journal make sure first to keep your journal in a safe spot and choose a time to write that will be relaxing with no distrubtions. As a mom of three I know that’s hard, so I choose to write at night after all the kids are in bed and asleep. There is really no right or wrong way to write. Just write about whatever comes to mind and it is sure to turn out great. Writing down these memories for our children is one of the greatest gifts we can give them. So go ahead. Get writing!
Michelle’s shoppe: Sweet Mady’s Paper, her blog: www.sweetmadysnotes.blogspot.com - stationery, invitations and notes.
Win It: Promom Couture Tee
October 27, 2008 by Emily · 149 Comments
Contest Update:
*We have a winner!! The randomly chosen (new) winner for this contest is: JoEllen. Congratulations! Thank you to everyone who participated, please stop by again as there are new contests each week.*
Promom Couture…The original mom tee that that celebrates motherhood. (And as seen on Oprah). These beauties are so fun! I am a proud owner of the Grateful Mom tee and LOVE it. It’s chic to wear and it’s just right for days I have a lot of running around to do too. Do you want one? I thought so…
Win It:
One lucky Window Shoppe reader will win your choice of a Promom tee or tank! All you have to do is check out Promom Couture and leave a quick comment or send an email to contest@littlewindowshoppe.com (with “mom” as the subject of your email) letting us know which tee you would choose if you win. The winner will be chosen at random on Friday, Nov. 7th and will be announced here, so be sure to check back to see if you’re the winner. Please feel free to read our contest rules for additional details.
P.S. We have all kinds of fun giveaways featured each week at LWS. Check out our Current Giveaways link to see what you can enter to win this week.
