Inspire Lovely Giveaway #3

Happy Wednesday Lovelies :) A bit late here with today's giveaway but I sure hope you enjoy it! I am giving away one 4x6 print (pictured above) to 1 lucky Inspire Lovely facebook fan.

All you have to do to enter this pretty giveaway is become a fan & "like"the Inspire Lovely facebook page and I will pick a winner from there :) Crossing my fingers you win :)

Deadline to enter is Friday August 19th. I will announce the winners on The Inspire Lovely facebook page and here just in case :) 

I'm wishing you a sweet day xo

-d

Inspire Lovely Giveaway #2

I have been waiting for my pretty order of vintage inspired seam binding to come in and grace the shop shelves for a while now. I can thankfully say it's all in and it's mighty cheery :)  I had to serve you up a tea cup to share xoxo.  So for today's giveaway I am giving away 3 yards each of 10 beautiful new colors of Vintage Inspired Seam Binding to 1 lucky Inspire Lovely facebook fan.

All you have to do to enter this pretty giveaway is become a fan & press "like" on the Inspire Lovely facebook page and I will pick a winner from there :) Easy! Crossing my fingers you win :)

Deadline to enter is Friday August  19th. I will announce the winners on The Inspire Lovely facebook page and here just in case :) Happy winning everyone!

And just a story + photo to share : today ( after 10+ years) i had a hot date at the DMV ( insert sarcasm :) where i had to finally go in person to renew my license. new photo, another fingerprint, update info etc.... ahh fun.  Yet when Mr. Handsome reminded me that i would be taking a photo with rafael i immediately looked down at my belly and rubbed it with glee. I told rafael to smile a wee bit. i can't wait to show him our photo together. i then realized they do very close snapshots and decided to take more decent photo without cropping rafael :) i put my hands in a heart just for him. xoxo ahhh... so silly. i think it might be the hormones hahaa. :) either way, my dmv trip wasn't so bad as i had a happy baby in my belly. xo

-d

Inspire Lovely Giveaway #1

I think its no secret we all have a love affair with twine. pretty luscious twine. every color and size. so pretty :) At the Queen Bee Market I had the pleasure of meeting an online friend Kate who makes and sells the most amazing twine ever. I have know Kate for such a short time but I can tell you that she has a heart that bursts with passion and love for all things twine :) And her love is generous. She graciously gave me a spool for the shop and out of that kindness I would love to pay it forward :)  I am giving away 5 spools of 10 yards of cotton twine to 5 lucky Inspire Lovely facebook followers. A BIG Thank you to kate for sharing her passion for pretty things. xoxo

All you have to do to enter this pretty giveaway is press "like" on the left hand side of Inspire Lovely's facebook page and I will pick winners from there :) Easy! Crossing my fingers you win :)

Deadline to enter is Friday August  19th. I will announce the winners on The Inspire Lovely facebook page and here just in case :) Happy winning everyone!

Tomorrow I have another giveaway to announce... good times i promise!

Happy Monday to you and a i wish you a beautiful week,

-d

creating & celebrating

I've always loved cupcakes & i've always loved sprinkles. yet i've only just begun to love them both in a pretty tea cup xoxo

yesterday we celebrated a beautiful moment of life... we welcomed a wee little new friend into this world. So happy our friend and her new baby girl are happy as can be. yesterday i got cupcake happy for them and made a few for celebrating this wee baby girl.  :) i made a few girly cupcake toppers in about 5 min. and ooh lala... pretty indeed. i don't think you can go wrong with a cute butterfly :) then i realized... they are just too pretty to eat. well, not really. hahaaa. but i took a few photos to share with you. maybe brighten your spirits a wee bit? bring a ray of sunshine your way. without the added calories :)

in the background is my new vintage score. A vintage yo-yo pillow case :) i firmly believe you can never have to many pillow cases. Plus a cute vintage cake pedestal in the most beautiful porcelain aqua+ mini vintage doily. all scores from a recent yet very happy thrifting date with the mister. i cannot even begin to tell you how happy i am with my new pedestal. i keep propping every random little thing on it... just so i can use it everyday :)

ahh. creating & celebrating is wonderful.

i know moments & times like these are not going to last. i will have to work at making them happen once rafael arrives. in the mean time i am counting my blessings. i am recording the "mundane" just for me. hopefully moments like these will still be sprinkled throughout the years to come.

just remind me it's cupcake time okay? :)

now onto this past weekend! it was great to be amongst fellow handmade lovers! oh we do flutter around to our own little tunes. i love handmade markets. my lovely sister came and we shopped to our little hearts delight. :) mostly for other lovelies in our lives. i love showing support to fellow makers. :)

I have also added to the Inspire Lovely shelves pretty new items
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{ garlands }

{ paper kits }

{ package kits }

and even better news.... i'm doing an Inspire Lovely giveaway very soon... like maybe tomorrow how about starting monday for a little more of a heads up :) *hint*hint* 

But for now, i hope you enjoy a bit of creating and celebrating
off to go dance with rafael in my tummy :)
xoxo
-d

our little one

 after hitting the 20 week mark this week we were so excited to finally see our little one via ultrasound...

and to our delight we are so proud to announce that we are having a little boy! We had already picked out a name so it was wonderful to put a name to the image on the ultrasound. so bebe rafael is coming to meet us sometime december and we are beyond excited :)

and this is me laughing at both mr.rogers and mr.handsome. as mr.handsome was photographing i noticed mr.rogers sitting alone trying to eat all the little flies swarming around the kelp off the beach. it was hilarious because it was his first time at the beach and we'd never seen him go fly crazy :)  and then again, i laugh at everything. at or with you hahaa. jk. i just realized i am officially outnumbered by men and i like it :)  

and just because he makes me happy... this is us right now. about to have our life chapter totally transformed. it's fun to go through all the maternity apps on the iphone and share the info with him every night. it's been wonderful to finally have him feel rafael kick. and he is a little kicker... i've read it's supposed to feel like butterflies but all i've felt are swift kicks and i not so secretly love that.  everyday since we found out our little one is baby rafael i feel any movement and i say hello little guy :)   i can't wait for the next 20 weeks. what to do. what to expect. how to prepare. live in each moment. enjoy the silence :)  good times.

 so lately i've been working on expanding the "handmade" section of Inspire Lovely for the upcoming Queen Bee Market Saturday, August 6th Bayfront Hilton Downtown  1 Park Boulevard San Diego, California

last show i brought lots of twine, tags etc but this time i've got some more crochet love + paper kits + garlands+ embellishments to share. Pretty exciting. It will probably be the last show for this year so i hope to make it special :) so if you love handmade, the queen bee is the place to be xoxo.

happy fabulous friday love xo

love

-d