There's No Place Like Home

Well, we are back and as much as I enjoyed seeing my parents and viewing that gorgeous turquoise sea every day, there really is "no place like home".

I was going to share some photos of our trip, but my Farmboy left for Austin and took the camera with him. The camera and his laptop are where all of the pictures are. So I will have to wait a few days before I can share them.

In the meantime, I missed the Cottage Style Street Team's "Christmas in July" event.

I made two Tussie Mussies for the event.

The color in the photo above does not do it justice at all. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get it to look right either.

I listed them in the shop before for I left since I wasn't going to be here for the event and the pink one sold before the event ever took place. Thanks Jenn! :)

Here is the blue "Noel" tussie.

This one is still available here. There are still many gorgeous Christmas goodies to be found from the other members of the CSSTeam. Just put "cssteam" and "Christmas" and "July" in the Etsy search engine to find them.

I also want to share this with those of you who don't know yet.

Sadie Lou, the marvelous idea guru herself, is creating the ultimate shopping/selling/information gathering venue. LolliShops will be THE place to go to for all of your "Elegant Whimsy, Romantic Inspirations, Fanciful Creations" needs! Before the official Grand Opening in the fall, she will have a trial run, so to say. There will be a few shops open so that the bugs and kinks can be taken care of before all of the other artists open their shop doors there. Including mine. Yep, I'll be opening an Alisa Jane shop at LolliShops! I am SO excited about this! You can keep up to date on all of the LolliShop happenings at the LolliShop blog. Seriously, you have to go check it out right now!

What are you waiting for?! Go!!
Talk to you later! :)

In the News Today...

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!
I cannot tell you how excited I was when I opened that box! Couldn't wait to get my little grubby hands on this and devour every word and picture.

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to yet! But I will... I'll make sure of that.

Also, the new Bella Ezine began on Monday. I didn't participate in the last couple... just too busy. But this one really got my attention. Creating a Summer Art Journal. Art journals are something I start all of the time and never seem to get past the first couple of entries. So I'm really going to try hard on this one. Although *head hanging down kind of embarrassed like* I haven't even finished the first spread. But *head popping back up* I have started it!


And the ever busy Teresa McFayden has also posted the dates for this year's Silver Bella Event! I SO want to go to this! I have never been... just watched all of the fun from afar. But I think I'm going to start saving my pennies so I can. Is anyone else planning on going?

Rebecca Sower has a fun and creative activity going on over at her place right now. Handmade from Home it is called. I haven't done any of these, but they look fun.

Brandy over at Brandywine Boutique had a recent giveaway and guess what... I was a runner up! I know,I was just a surprised! I've never won anything before. Thank you SO much Brandy!!!

I've gotten a little bit closer to opening the new shoppe. The supplies I ordered from Paper Valise have arrived.


The Cottage Style Street Team is having their very first event. 18 talented members created and contributed original, handmade items for 10 "For the Bride" Gift Baskets.
(photo taken by Sadie Lou Who)
SadieLou and StarryDeborah put all of the baskets together beautifully and now they are available for purchase in the CSSTeam Shoppe!

And for those of you who asked, my dad is doing great now. The doctor said he could fly again and go home (a great relief to my sister... since Dad had starting acting like his normal self again.) ;)

The Neopolitan cupcakes I made were delish and I read this book in maybe 10hrs at the most. I would suggest it as a summer read. I couldn't put it down!

Whew... I kind of feel out of breath now! Have a beautiful Friday!

Good Morning!

I hope everyone in blogland had a safe and wonderful holiday weekend. Our's was nice. Everyone came over here since my parents don't have a house on this continent anymore and my sister's house is wall to wall boxes at the moment.
I had this grand idea to make the pancakes and waffles from the cookbook section of the March issue of Country Living. I had all of the dry ingredients prepared in separate containers ready to go and still, even with my dad manning the pancake griddle, it took forever and was a huge mess! I went and bought a waffle iron just for the occasion. Took me awhile to get the hang of it but I finally got it and a couple of perfectly cooked waffles came out of it.(heehee!!) Even though we had to wait a little longer to eat than expected, everyone filled their tummies and I think even enjoyed it.
My farmboy and I managed to get all of the new "mom and dad aquired items" sorted through and put away and the boxes broken down. He was on a roll and even got a huge portion of the garage cleaned out. All of this happened before Sunday!

Not only was that all accomplished, we also managed to get a vintage/antiquing shopping trip in! We started with lunch at my favorite little Spanish Mediterranean cafe. A yummy tapa lunch awaited us there. Then I purchased some new babies...

I told E that I was replacing him with these new babies because he wouldn't stop complaining about having to go into "all of these old shops." He rolled his eyes and said "whatever, I know I can never be replaced." That's a 15 yr old for ya. He obviously knows how much he is truly loved.
I also pick this up.

This is making SO happy right now. But that's all I can tell you about that right now. You'll just have to wait!

I also managed to aquire this nice little package of Marie Antoinette papers.

I'm ready for the swap! I purchased the pack from The Decorated House on Etsy. She has lovely vintage wallpaper packs too and the handsomest Beau Bunny Rabbit! Check her out.

I also receive the most wonderful box in the mail yesterday from Popalicious Too. I really thought it was a magic, never-ending box. I just kept pulling more and more things out of it!

Let's see, what else. Oh! I received an email this morning from Tiffany. She has opened her new boutique... Shabby Scraps Boutique. I haven't had a chance to stop in yet, but I'm headed there next.

I listed a new collection in my shoppe... Le Jardin Collection. Here's a peek.

There's more to come too.

If you are looking for something pretty, romantic, shabby, cottagey or whimsical, scroll all the way down this page. I have left a peek at some of the wonderful offerings from the Cottage Style Esty Street Team.

I think that's it for today. OH! But tomorrow I have to show you all of the wonderful embroidered pieces I got from my mom!
Have a beautiful day!

Tulip Mania

Today is the day!

At 11:00am Eastern time TODAY be sure to hop over here to the Cottage Style Etsy Street Team promo thread. There will be tons of gorgeous handmade, tulip inspired items to buy and grace your lovely home with!

Here is a peek at mine...

Lavender filled hanging sachets. Very aromatic!
I only have two of these little pretties, so you better grab them up quick.

A Quick Post

I have so much on my plate today, so I'll try to make this speedy.

I received this pretty necklace from Tideupmemories etsy shoppe.

Enjoyed wearing it yesterday on our adventure to the Dallas World Aquarium. Wouldn't you know it, something funny happened while we were there and we had walked out of the house without our camera. Luckily, a nice couple took a some snaps and offered to email them to us. I'll post them here when I get a chance. And as a side note to that happening, my farmboy is the true "Beastmaster". heehee! Anyway, I could go on and on about the aquarium, but since I don't have any pictures I won't. They have totally redone the entire setup and have added so much since I last went. If you life in the Dallas area and haven't been, go. It's worth it if you love animals. It's kinda smelly though.

Look at these!

They make me SO happy! I planted them and then seriously like the next day it snowed. Then it snowed again. But they survived. However, I don't think my little baby hydrangeas did. We'll have to wait and see. I think Spring is really here this time.

Tomorrow you need to stop by the Etsy Promo Forum and look for this.

I personally can't wait to see what all of those talented ladies have come up with. My little tulip project is almost finished now. It's one of the items on my ginormous list today.

I think last but not least, is this. I was promoting my shoppe last night on Etsy and a really wonderful thing happened. My shoppe was chosen to be featured on the new Atomic Delight blog on April 14th. Can't really say that lil' old me has ever been featured anywhere for anything.

Gotta go tackle my day. See ya later.

I almost forgot, I listed these yesterday...