My New Google and QRCode MiniCards!

So excited about the Moo mini cards I designed for myself! The front of the card has the Google search bar with my business name.  If you look for me using Google, the search results are the links to all my sites... love that someone could find them all without me having to list each one on the card!

and on the other side, my QR code and email address:

So I'm sure you've seen QR codes all over the place, but just in case you've managed to escape the smart phone addiction and are wondering what the heck they are, I thought I'd share.  Just download a QRcode reader app to your smart phone or iPad, I use the At&t Code Scanner.

When you see a QRcode... you guessed it... scan it!  It will take you to a web page. 

Easy & fun... right?!

Your Way Wednesday

Crafting is my way to relieve stress & stretch my creative muscles.
Sewing is my way to have some uninterrupted time to myself.
Bentos are my way to show Elle I'm thinking about her.
Parties are my way to love on my girls & our friends
Tutorials show my way of making this or that.

Now I want to see your way!

Only two rules for you:

• Add my lovely "Your Way Wednesday" button to your blog or blog post that you link up to
• Please link directly to your blog post, not a giveaway, your link party, your Etsy shop, or even just the home page of your blog.

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Ridiculously BIG but totally do-able goals!

In my life outside of Elle Belle Creative, I'm a Business Analyst.  I'm going through a really huge transition there and Analyst Stacey needed to define her career goals so that she could put things in perspective and stay focused on what's really important to her, and Creative Stacey wanted it to be pretty so she would actually enjoy looking at it occasionally.  So here you have it, a smash up of Analyst Stacey & Creative Stacey:

This picture is just to show you how you could do it... with the printable in an 8x10 picture frame and writing your goals in with a Crayola window marker or dry erase marker.  If I were going to post my goals like this on the regular, I would've picked a frame that looked better with the printable (an ornate bright pink frame would be perfect!). But, since Analyst Stacey's goals aren't nearly as fun or concise as these, I just went with goals typed in, and printed off (in color at least!) tucked into the corner of our bedroom mirror approach.

Are you focusing on your goals?  I made this printable for you, if you need a little nudge.  Download your copy here.

U-Pick Outfits and Your Way Wednesday

I had lots of fun with the outfits we wore for Elle's U-Pick party! 

My Doug wore (and got lots of compliments on) an "eat your broccoli" organic cotton T-shirt made by the Lady in Blue Shop.  For the rest of us, I couldn't resist the adorable Michael Miller fabric, gnoming around and picked up a yard from Pinked Fabrics on Etsy.  I made Liv's reversible kimono dress using a pattern I bought from Mani-Mina.  It was a fun project, the dress is so flexible, easy to wear, and able to be customized.  I'll definitely make more!

Elle wore a gardening apron just like the ones I made for all the kiddos (tutorial on that to come!) over a jean skirt, and I embellished a tank top to match.  I would give you a tutorial for the tank except that I totally just wung... or winged... or however you say I have no idea how I made it, it just kinda came together, but not as perfectly as I would've liked and I really dislike not having a method to my sewing madness... so there will be no tutorial... k?

I've been looking for an excuse to make myself the Deep Pockets apron from the A is for Apron book, and this was it!  I also wore a gnome scrabble tile necklace Pendentlicious made.  Gnomes up the cute factor by at least 50% on any project!

Can you believe I got all of that done with just a yard of adorable fabric?!

Time for Your Way Wednesday

Crafting is my way to relieve stress & stretch my creative muscles.

Sewing is my way to have some uninterrupted time to myself.

Bentos are my way to show Elle I'm thinking about her.

Parties are my way to love on my girls & our friends

Tutorials show my way of making this or that.

I want to see your way! I'm really excited to give you an opportunity to do just that with a link party!


Only two rules for you:

• Add my lovely "Your Way Wednesday" button to your blog or blog post that you link up to
• Please link directly to your blog post, not a giveaway, your link party, your Etsy shop, or even just the home page of your blog.

In exchange for following the rules, I'll leave a comment on your blog post & if you're my favorite post I'll feature you on my blog for my next Your Way Wednesday.

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The Pinterest Bandwagon

I interrupt the regularly scheduled U-Pick party posts to bring you this post in which I tell you I am so on the Pinterest bandwagon!  If you're not familiar, just Google it and read all the buzz.  You can follow me if you like, and see what things are peaking my interest these days... also get a glimpse of the inspiration for the party concepts I'm contemplating (lucky you, I usually keep those to myself until after the party!). 



Next up, details about the outfits we wore for the U-Pick party!

Vintage Label Can Centerpieces

 

Thanks so much for all the positive feedback on the U-Pick party.  It's always so fun when other people appreciate your vision and are inspired by it!  Speaking of... this isn't the reason for this post, but a good time to mention that Baby Lifestyles contacted me to tell me that one of their readers was inspired by the One Year Old in a Flash party I planned for my Liv last year.  Check out Jess' take on it on the Baby Lifestyles blog here.  If you've done any of the projects I've posted on my blog, I would LOVE to hear from you!

 

Now back to my regularly scheduled post, the first of many about some the details of the U-Pick party.  Today I have a free printable for you and an easy project that makes for really sweet centerpieces, cans with vintage labels.

 

I took some pictures of vintage can labels, resized them to fit standard cans of tomato soup (print some for yourself here), used the soup, cleaned the cans, and glued the labels on with hot glue.  I was originally planning on filling them with baby's breath, but one afternoon as we were walking around the U-Pick farm I noticed a tree on the neighbors property with Queen Anne's Lace growing on it, so we picked some the morning of the party and waa laa a really inexpensive, pretty, and easy to make centerpiece!