Things I Love Thursday

Things have been, and will continue to be, a wee bit slow on this side of the blogosphere! Mike and I have been putting in roughly 8 to 10 hours a day working on handmade goodies for the past week, and so far we have 400+ bows, headbands, felt goodies and chiffon blossoms that we've been working on. We're hoping to get in a craft show soon (If you know of any in the Middle Tennessee area, please let us know!) and the rest will be Etsy goodies if I ever get to update the shop! I've taught Mike how to use my sewing machine and how to craft all sorts of sweet little things so I think it's so awesome that he's so willing to help me! It's so fun (and easy!) to work 8 hour days when you're with your best friend! He's been such a trooper! Minus the slight hiccup of my machine breaking (and the abundance of blisters, bruises & sore hands) we're managing to get SO much done! Here's to more productivity! That's my #1 favorite for this week!

Here are more things I'm loving...

♥ this how-to on lucid dreaming ♥

♥ this cotton candy haired couple ♥

♥ this sweet family of frenchies ♥

♥ this show & picture of sheldon ♥

♥ this interesting way of looking at things ♥

♥ this rainbow cake collage ♥

♥ this sweet kitty ♥

♥ this bully in costume ♥

♥ this pizza on a stick is for mike ♥

♥ this wedding photo ♥

♥ this poster ♥

♥ these chocolates ♥

What are you loving this week?

Valentine's Day Table Setting: Welcome to the 128th Tablescape Thursday!

Hi Everyone! Hope your week is going great! Today I'm sharing a Valentine's Day tablescape with a fun little "Ice Cream Candy-Bar Sundae" centerpiece. I've posted the tutorial showing how it's made HERE. This sweet treat makes a great Valentine's Day or birthday gift. You'll love how easy and inexpensive it is to make. Also, you'll find a tutorial for the napkin fold I used in this tablescape, HERE.

♥ Happy Valentine's Day! ♥




Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
~Thomas Hood




When love is not madness, it is not love.
~Pedro Calderon de la Barca




I claim there ain't
Another Saint
As great as Valentine.
~Ogden Nash




Who, being loved, is poor?
~Oscar Wilde




There is no remedy for love but to love more.
~Thoreau




Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.
~Christopher Paul Rubero




At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.
~Plato




The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
~George Moore




Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke




I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
~Elizabeth Barrett Browning




kisses are a better fate
than wisdom.
~e.e. cummings




Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main,
And threading the eye of a yellow star: -
So many times do I love again.
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes




True love stories never have endings.
~Richard Bach




Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ~Voltaire




Soul meets soul on lovers' lips.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley


♥ Happy Valentine's Day! ♥

Resources:
Chargers: Neiman Marcus 3-4 years ago
China: Vintage (1920's) Copeland Spode, Tower,
Flatware: HomeGoods
Crystal Stemware: Etched, found antiquing, pattern unknown
Ruby Stemware: French Countryside Ruby Goblets were provided by Mikasa
Embroidered Napkins: Vintage and found antiquing, Napkin folding tutorial can be found HERE
Cookies: HomeGoods
Ice Cream Sundae Centerpiece: Tutorial coming soon. Small cake pedestal under sundae is from HomeGoods

Looking forward to seeing your beautiful tablescapes!


Please Read:
If you are participating in Tablescape Thursday, please be sure to add your permalink below, and not your general blog address. To get your permalink, click on your post name. Then just copy and paste the address that shows up in the address bar at the top, into the "url" box for the picture linky. You'll also need to put your e-mail address in, but don't worry, it will not be visible to anyone.

You may see a red X once you enter your link. No one else can see the red X, it's just there in case you make a little mistake and need to delete your link and re-enter it.

If you'd like to use the Tablescape Thursday logo button in your post, just copy and paste it to your computer and upload it to your post as you would any photo. Or, just grab the html code you'll find under the "Join a Party" heading at the top of this blog.

Please, link back to the host blog, Between Naps on the Porch. This is important because it helps those who are visiting your blog, find the other wonderful tablescapes posted for this Tablescape Thursday. This helps increase visits for all participants.

Please, don't add your post name/blog name in ALL CAPS...it tends to create big spaces between the rows of links. Thanks!

Let's try something fun today! Please visit the person who linked before you and after you...that way everyone will get some visits. Hope you'll visit more, of course. :-)


Little Reminder: Thank-you for linking back to this post so the regular visitors to your blog will find all your fellow Blogger's posts linked here for this Tablescape Thursday. Don't forget to use your permalink. : )

What's In My Bag?

It's definitely the blogger cliche... but it's a fun one! If you're a curious person at all (Let's be honest, you are! If you weren't you wouldn't be reading blogs!) then you love them! I'm a huge fan of the Tumblr version, too! So here it is! My bag.... It's always big to carry the copious amount of things I shove in it. I actually didn't include the Instax 210 even though it was definitely shoved in there. There's usually a few pounds of change, too, but I cleaned it out a bit prior. Okay, there were also a ton of receipts. I always swear I won't shove those darn things in my bag but I always find a crumpled mess. Oh well!



In My Purse You Will Find...:

• Purse (Forever 21)
• Random Instax Mini and 210 Photos
• iPhone 3Gs with Cath Kidston iPhone Case
• iPhone 4
• Kleenex-To-Go
• Pink Nintendo DS Lite (with Animal Crossing)
• Instax Mini Choco
• Instax Mini Film 2-Pack
• Handmade Shark Make-Up Case (from a PenPal!)
• Flip Mino HD Video Camera
• Janky Cheapo Disposable Camera
• Various Pens and Sharpies
• MAC Plushglass in Ample Pink
• SoftLips Lip Balm
• Rimmel Lipstick 
• Wallet with Various Cards and Wallet-y Stuff
• Travel Sewing Kit
• Rose Perfume from Anthropologie (So Lovely!)
• Zyrtec (Magic Pills!)
• Random Nail Polishes
• 2 USB Flash Drives
• Glasses
• $25 and a Note from Mom To Pick Up Something
• Great White Shark Finger Puppet
• iPhone Charger
• Juicy Couture Charm Bracelet
• "You Are Beautiful" Stickers
• Bobby Pins (I leave a trail of these!)
• 4 Sephora Gift Cards
• My "Little Book of Ideas" Handmade Moleskine
• Us Weekly Magazine (I love trashy tabloids)
• Keri Smith's Guerilla Art Kit Book

I need a smaller bag! Yikes!

What's in your bag?!

Surprise Your Sweetheart on Valentine's Day!

Pssst, over here. Shhh, I have to whisper, so your Valentine Sweetheart doesn't hear. Guess what! It's the neatest thing! If you put all your valentine cards in a big envelope and send them to the Postmaster in the tiny town of Valentine, Texas, she will stamp them all with a big RED stamp that says: VALENTINE, TEXAS!



Imagine your Valentine's face when they see that special postmark...I just totally ♥ this idea. :-)

Okay...here's how it works. Put all your fully addressed and stamped Valentine's Day cards in one big envelope and send them to:

Valentine Post Office,
Valentine, Texas 79854-5400

Your valentines need to arrive at the Valentine Post Office by February 7th. You will probably want to mail the large envelope with all the valentines in it from your local post office so you will know that you've used the correct postage. The Valentine Post Office does this every year and they don't charge anything extra for the more than 10,000 Valentine's Day cards they postmark each year. Their postmaster, Ann Carrasco, calls their post office the "Love Station of Texas." :)


To make sure the red Valentine, Texas postmark shows up, it's best to NOT send your valentines in red envelopes. The post office recommends mailing your valentine in a pink, white, or lavender envelope. If you'd like more information, you may call: (432) 467-2912.

Click HERE to see the postmarks and addresses for several other post offices that also have special postmarks for your Valentine's Day cards.

You can read more about this yearly tradition in Valentine, TX, HERE.

Every Year You'll Be My Valentine

i am so excited for valentines day this year. i'm taking off from work and i'm just going to be hanging out with my very most favorite person in the world. ♥

i am really looking forward to spending some time just sitting. watching movies! eating junk food. whatever we want to do... we'll do it.

February Giveaway: Oktomat 8-lens Camera! -- CLOSED!

THIS CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED!

I loved the response of last month's giveaway and if there's one thing that Mike and I love, it's cameras! We wanted to keep the ball rolling with Lomography goodies because as you could see from our photos the other day, we have so so many that we love and use constantly! I first purchased our Oktomat a few years ago and quickly lost interest in it. I'm not sure why, but I think it had to do with the fact I hate to read instructions and I'm very impatient. It didn't take too terribly long for me to pick it back up though! Mike has loved it but we often misplace it! Whoops! I love that you can take 8 pictures in one! The Oktomat uses it's 8 lenses to capture 8 images in 2.5 seconds! They can be so fun!

All you have to do to enter is:
Be a follower of this blog with Google Friend Connect! (Click "Follow" in the upper nav bar and follow with Google/Blogger, Twitter, Yahoo, or Aim!) and then leave a comment with your email address! (This is just one entry!) You must do this entry first to be eligible for additional entries!

To gain additional entries, you can blog, tweet, update your status on Facebook with a link over to the giveaway or "Like" Little Chief Honeybee on Facebook! Just be sure to leave a separate comment for each entry and leave the link to each one! (You can tag @KaelahBee on Twitter and @Little Chief Honeybee on Facebook!) Overall that's FIVE ways to win!

A winner will be announced at the end of the month! Good luck! (Don't worry, there will still be other sponsored giveaways going on in the time being!)

THE WINNER IS:

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