Love love love photos depicting letters...

This Mama Rocks is hosting a giveaway from Alphabet Photography.  If I could afford a custom one, I'd get "ABIDE."

An easy way to search Etsy. Cool.

A new blog that I may start following:

Urban Nest

Way cute play kitchen

felt pasta, felt sugar cookies (decorated!)  Too sweet!

Fabric Boxes

H/T How About Orange
Tutorial available from Sew4Home.
Gorgeous example by surlepetitchemin on Flickr


Another tutorial -- this one makes bins with sloped sides and uses cereal boxes. 


Hmmm, perhaps I can come up with my own design for a ribbon dispenser.

So I need a new project

... not really, but before I build my potting bench, I should do a simpler project per my wise DH.  Since I found the picnic table at Costco, the picnic table is no longer my project.

Now I'm contemplating a bench:

This one appears easy:

This one is beautiful, but the instructions are probably not detailed enough for me and my wise DH might think it is a little too big as my primer.