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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Working our fingers to the bone!

Hello there!  I just wanted to get out here and let you all know that we are working away trying to get things ready to open up the Etsy shop.  It's a long process and all very new to us so we hope you will bear with us as we travel this journey! 

While I'm here I figured I'd show you some of the things I have been working on! 

I've never been a huge fan of Halloween. I didn't hate it but I wasn't in love with it either - just neutral.  For some reason, this year I have grown a HUGE love for the holiday/season. I am guessing it's because of all of the amazing inspiration out there!

First up these pumpkins.  I have to mostly give credit to my husband for these.  I told him what I wanted and he took off with it!  Aren't these awesome?  I found my inspiration at
Crafty Chic Mommy, I just did a larger version of what she did so that I could put them on my porch! Love!
Next my mantle - Last year I loved a post I saw at
House of Smiths of her Halloween decor and remembered that for this year as I was decorating.  I am loving the way it turned out!

Along came a spider printout - here
Halloween Subway Art - here
Circus font for banner - here
This is one of my most favorite additions to my Halloween decor!!  I ordered these custom fonts from
The 36th Avenue.  My husband cut out the wood and I painted them black and then stenciled them white.  I took inspiration from the examples on her website and made a hair clip for mine and a bow tie for my husbands.  Easy peasy and so cute!!

Order yours here!
And finally my most recently finished project, I gathered inpiration from a post I saw on Love Stitched.  Instead of doing words I decided to do spider webs!  So much fun!
Hope you've enjoyed this little tour of Halloween decor!  Stay tuned for more info on the opening of our Etsy shop!

 

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Welcome!

Welcome to Handmade Simply where we hope you will join us in the broad world of DIY, sewing, knitting, crochet and whatever else strikes our fancy at the moment!  We are a mother/daughter partnership who love to create and hope to be able to inspire others to do the same, so here.we.go!!

Merry and Jenny