Etsy Uno: Champagne Week
Another fabulous gimmick, this time connected to the hand made marketplace Etsy. What fun!! Bitty Bird has invited other bloggers to join her in a Tuesday morning game of Etsy Uno, whereby players explore the luscious handmade wares of cool-chick type artisans there then do a little light-hearted game of relationships.
This is my first time linking up, so I’ll share her instructions here. Thanks Bitty Bird!
- I give you a prompt. This week, the prompt is CHAMPAGNE.
- Pick one item on Etsy that relates to the prompt and add the photo to your blog post. You must give photo credit to the Etsy seller by linking back to the item in their shop. The purpose of this game is to show love to the talented artisans behind the Etsy shop and promote their original handmade products! Never, ever take a photo without giving credit where it is due.
- The second item must share something in common with the first one, and subsequent choices must share something in common with the item immediately before it– use your imagination. That’s what makes this like the game “Uno”! List 5-10 items and explain or describe how one relates to the other. You never know where you might end up!
- If you want to play, copy and paste these instructions to your blog post, and make sure to grab an Etsy Uno button from www.bittybird.net to promote the game: and tell your friends! Link up your Etsy Uno post at the bottom of my post every Tuesday morning, beginning at 5AM CST.
- If you have the time, please take an opportunity to send a note to the Etsy sellers you found in order to let them know their product was recognized on your blog. Remember, the point is to support and encourage the hardworking artisans that inspire us every day!

observe Oklahoma sunrises, and sniff the wild honeysuckle vines.


I also must own this, you guys.

I have to insert here that this table skirt is the inspiration
for an apron I’ll be working on in January.

She is from Anchorage, Alaska,
but I have no idea of her opinion on Sarah Palin.
Quick Post of Jubilation
- I traded happy texts with my first born today, for about an hour. It’s a really good thing we were texting and not talking on the phone, because I was so happy I couldn’t stop crying. My hands were shaking too, but I could steady them enough to type.
- I am enjoying a lot of success in the sewing room this week. Feeling very blessed with both intrinsic joy and a steady stream of orders.
- Our animals are particularly healthy, silly acting, and fully entertaining. I mean, sometimes Pacino is a little too loud when we are trying to have a quiet conversation, but that will never really change. The horses are sweet, fat cuddlers. The buffalo is just the gentlest snorting fluffy head you will ever see. And the geese and chickens are getting along this week. Dog walks have been a daily bright spot, too. xoxo
- My little sister will be staying at the farm starting Christmas Eve, and I could NOT be happier. She is the shiz-nay. She has taken a little slice of Oklahoma with her to Los Angeles, making it a cool place after all. And I hope she knows I intend to blog lots of details about her visit.
- After that we are hosting M Half and her Hubs, and that will be wonderful for a thousand reasons! I always enjoy our time together!
- A much anticipated movie is now in theaters, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. I thought it opened Thursday and may or may not have been dropping hints to you-know-who. We just found out it is already open, though, so his romantic opening-night surprise intentions are blasted. I still think we’ll go. I read the books and loved ’em. Can’t wait to see this and then the Swedish film and debate it all. Mostly, though, there’s the small matter of Daniel Craig on the big screen.

- Our Charlie Brown tree hasn’t fallen down in almost a week.
- I looked around myself this week and noticed how much romance plays a part in our happiness. Between the two of us here, in so many of our close friends’ relationships, and in a general appetite for living, a way of soaking up the universe, romance is in our daily fabric. And I love it. I feel very lucky to live this way and wish it for so many others, including my two beautiful daughters (but not quite yet, pretty please).
- The sea monkeys are growing and thriving and in a pretty good mood. They have all been named now, and so a drama series will soon begin.
- We have a kitchen full of oranges and apples. This is good.
- I love my new coffee machine,. So much. So very, very much.
- I have a lunch date on Thursday with two of this world’s sweetest, prettiest, funniest, most talented, most loving girls ever created.
- I have a Netflix date with Handsome right now. Gotta scoot.
Karma Has a Mic and it’s Switched On
Fridays are for Cooking
My Grandpa Stubbs once told me over the phone how to make the world’s easiest and most delicious peanut butter cookies! You can do this in a snap anytime, and I have the sneaking suspicion that being flour free will tickle some fancies. Here ya go:
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