santa letter found in chimney.

Image from: itv.com

I stumbled upon a great article about a letter to santa found in a chimney that was written more than 60 years ago. The letter was found by builder Lewis Shaw in Reading.

Read the full story here.

christmas present for my mailman.

I like to do something fun for my mailman every holiday season just to say thanks for all that he does all year long!

This morning I left him a nice card with a starbucks gift card and homemade mailbox cookies! I hope he enjoys his special holiday treat!

His present waiting to be picked up from the mailbox!

If you are looking for a card specifically for your mailman this holiday season, Hallmark has a great selection of different ones. 

sent with love. christmas cards.

I was very excited to get my christmas cards done this year as we had maternity photos taken and wanted to include them on my Christmas card this year! Plus, with only have 3.5 weeks left of this pregnancy I needed to make sure to get them done and out in the mail early this year!

All my pen pals should be getting Christmas cards in the mail soon! I went with an ugly sweater theme for theirs this year. 

I hope my card was the first one everyone received for the season this year!

holiday shipping deadlines.

It is that time of year to start thinking of holiday deadlines to make sure your cards and gifts make it to where they need to go on time!

The USPS makes Priority Mail Express® domestic deliveries every day, including Sunday and Christmas Day (Available for an additional fee). And you can count on gifts arriving by the 24th if you send by these dates ( Delivery not guaranteed):

December 19th:
with First-Class Mail® Service

December 21st:
with Priority Mail® Service

December 23rd:
with Priority Mail Express® Service

happy halloween.

This is from a card one of my pen pals sent me:

"Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, voices whisper in the trees, 'Tonight is Halloween!'"

I hope you all have a candy filled, spooky halloween!

my pets.

Oh boy, do I love my three little crazy cats! They are seriously my world... ask anyone!

Elliott Hobbes Gehring

He was the first cat that Zach and I adopted together when we were just dating. We adopted him from a local animal shelter. He sat up in his cage and put his paw in the air and meowed at us. We knew instantly that he had to be ours. I remember the day Zach picked him up and brought him home... he was so little that even a little collar wouldn't fit around his neck. He has been a great boy through 3 moves, two other cats coming into the house and a little baby human sister on the way!

He is our sociable cat. He greets us at the door as soon as we come home and he has to be in the room if there is a party going on. He loves catnip, toys, treats, bullying his brother and sister and his brown blanket. He loves to be picked up and given hugs. He pretty much lets you do whatever you want to him.




Anthony Arlo Gehring (Tony)

Tony was our second cat that Zach and I adopted together. We had no intention of getting another cat, but you see how that worked out. Ha! I went to Petsmart to buy cat food and I walked over to look at the cats they had for adoption. Tony climbed all over me and was the sweetest little thing. I left and went home, but could not stop thinking about this cat. I cried and cried thinking since he was a year old no one would ever adopt him. Zach finally said it was ok to go back and adopt him.

Now, tony tricked me in the store that day... he is the biggest scaredy cat of all times. He will not let Zach or I get anywhere near him, and he will make sure to go into hiding if anyone even gets close to our house. And boy oh boy does this cat meow A LOT! Even though he is our little weirdo, we love him so much. He loves catnip, cuddling with Elliott, going under the house and french fries.


Sparkie Gehring

I adopted Sparkie when I was in college from someone who had brought a bunch of kittens into the pet store I was working at. When I moved to NY I was not allowed to have any pets where I lived, so I gave her to my grandparents. Once I moved back to VA, they didn't want to give her back so they kept her. Three years ago, after both of my grandparents passed away Zach and I decided to have Sparkie come live with us.

Sparkie is our little old lady. She will be 15 next year. She is a grumpy little lady who hates both of her brothers but loves to cuddle with Zach and I. She spends most of her time out in our garage, as she likes to act out and pee on things sometimes. She loves bacon and hamburger, laying on our bed, hissing at both of her brothers and chasing her tail.

desk tour.

Happy Saturday lovely readers of mine. Today I am going to give you a tour of my little desk where all the crafting and blogging magic happens.

I actually just cleaned the office and my desk last week, so this post came at a perfect time.

Here is an overall view of my desk. I love the bright yellow color of my desk… It always cheers me up when I go into the office. As you can see, I have utilized a lot of the wall space around my desk as our office is pretty small and there are two of us that work in there.

Zach got me this vintage cassette tape holder to store my washi tape in, It works perfectly and each slots holds two rolls. (It looks like I need to buy some more to fill it up.)

I have more washi stored in a jar above my desk along with a container for all of my wax seals and beautiful colored waxes. You can also see a little bit of my clipboard that holds all of my postage stamps.

This is my little cubby next to my desk that holds paper, stamps, embossing papers, pens, etc. Anything I need for envelope art and crafting. 

I hope you enjoyed my little desk tour. There isn't much to it, but it is exactly what I need to be creative!

xoxo