LeroyLime Giveaway

Morning All! Since it's a rainy day today (one that I've actually been hoping for after reading this post), it seems only fitting to have a giveaway! Ang over at Juggling Act Mama has put together this fab collage of a few of the items I sell in my shop. Swing by her blog, leave a little love and enter to win a $15 shop credit, good luck!

To see more fun items, click the link below

LeroyLime Etsy Shop

Curbside Find Makeover

As promised, here is my curbside find makeover. Hauled all the way from RI to ND, this beauty had been sitting in our old basement just WAITING for a new coat and a little bit of love. Now that we have a garage again and are in dire need of a few surfaces to hold our living room lamps so that we don't have to be blinded by the overhead flickering halogens, yuck! I pulled her from my 'stash' (yes, I have a small collection) and got to work. 

cause I'm impatient and just wanted to slap some paint on...

 

I was tempted to leave it alone at this point BUT wanted to 

see if my vision for this piece could come to life!

Mind you, this is my first furniture redo DIY project, lessons learned (steel wool sucks, sand paper is MUCH better) but I pressed on and am very happy with the result, now to find a basket to fit where there used to be a drawer...I'm thinking a trip to Hobby Lobby is in order.

Birthday Bash Giveaway with A Night Owl Blog

Welcome to the Birthday Bash Favorite Things Giveaway!

Hosted by A Night Owl.

It's Kimberly of A Night Owl's birthday, and YOU get the presents! Today we're giving away a few of her favorite things: a Cupcake Diamond Candle, $25 to Starbucks, $25 to Anthropologie, and a Julep Maven Nail Polish! You KNOW you want to win! ONE winner takes all!

Open in the USA and Canada.

Ends at 11:59pm EST on September 7th, 2012.

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Etsy Gift Cards, say WHAT?!

Announcing Etsy Gift Cards!!!

Story by natalieschwartz Published on Aug 30, 2012 in Product Announcements

If you are an Etsy seller based in the US, you may have seen a notice in your account about Etsy Gift Cards coming this fall. Site-wide gift cards have been a long-requested feature for buyers and sellers alike, and we could not be more excited about introducing them for the holidays!

Gift cards will be the perfect present for the Etsy-obsessed shopper in your life, but even more importantly they’ll be a way for us to introduce new buyers to Etsy. Our community of buyers has grown incredibly in the past year, which can be attributed largely to people like you spreading the word and marketing your shops. Gift cards will allow us to be more aggressive in our own marketing efforts by distributing gift cards to partners and creating promotional offers.

So how will Etsy Gift Cards work?

Starting this fall, any member will be able to purchase a gift card with a US credit card. You can email the gift card directly to a friend or print one out to give in person. The gift card credit will be in the form of a code, which buyers will use towards purchases at any shop accepting direct checkout.

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I am SERIOUSLY so excited about this, I can't stop bouncing up and down in my seat!! Or maybe that's my afternoon coffee kicking in, either way, get excited people because the holidays are approaching quickly and we all need a bit of handmade love to spread around!

What's happening in LeroyLime World

Not much going on over here...besides whipping up several orders of LeroyLime paper rosettes, finished editing my last photography session from RI (can I get a yeeHAW!) and sanded down a curbside junker from RI yesterday (and yes, my hubby was THRILLED we moved it with us, not). So this little lady will soon get a new coat of paint, can you guess what color??

Pinterest Link Party

Back in November of last year, I threw an Angry Birds Birthday party for my 4 year old. Using Pinterest as my inspiration, I had fun watching all the little birds and games come to life with my own hands!

You can check out my blog posts below, which feature more projects and games.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

A Night Owl Blog

So, in light of A Night Owl Blog Birthday Bash Week, I thought it fitting to link up Pinterest Birthday party ideas. Here are a few of my fav's...

Nautical Theme

Surfer Boy

and we can't leave out the girls

Mermaid - Under the Sea

Owl Themed

Horsin' Around

And here's what my pretty little white board looks like now...

GORGEOUS aren't they??

I found these little beauties on ETSY, surprise surprise!!...At a sweet little shop called CamillaCotton. I kindly asked if she'd paint them colors to coordinate with my daughters bedding and she quickly replied with a yes. I was beyond THRILLED when they arrived in the mail, all bubble wrapped and ready to hang. 

Since we move every couple of years, I wanted the hooks easy to transport, so a board seemed the best fit. That way we only have two screws to deal with and two holes to fill instead of six! 

Another sweet addition to the horse themed room, LOVE it!

Bored Yet?

Or rather, BOARD yet? Another sneak peak. This 

project is for my daughter's bedroom. She's recently become

intrigued with horses, so we changed up her room theme from 

birds to horses and it's been fun using Etsy and my
hubby's DIY skills to pull it all together.

I snagged a piece of scrap wood from the newly built bed, sanded down
the edges a bit and then used leftover white stain (two coats) which
still lets the grain of the wood show through.

All done! (and during nap time, hooray)

Check back tomorrow to see the finished project!