I decided to feature Lisa’s work today as one of my top 5 inspirational sources.  I stumbled across her work about a year ago and fell in love with her work.  Now I regularly visit her website and Etsy shop to see what she’s up to.

If you get a few minutes, go check out her website and Etsy shop.  Even better, support her business with YOUR business!  Here’s a small sampling of her work.  It’ll bring out the girly kid in ya!

Here are a few pics of my hand-painted Christmas village.  This is my first year setting everything up, so I’m still tweaking the layout.  I feel like a Blog Snail this year…all pokey and whatnot. 

The holiday making of stuff is in full swing ’round here and the tree is coming right after Turkey Day.  Mmmmaybe even two of them.  Oh!  So here’s a quick run-down of what I’ve been up to:

Embellished tea-towels.  Found these plain ole towels at the Dollar Tree and embellished the fool out of them. 

Cali and I strung some beads on chenille pipe cleaners and hot glued them to plastic tumblers…I guess they’re supposed to be trees.  We spent the rest of the day goofin’ off:

Okay, now I’m pushing my little pie obsession onto my kid.  I think she just came around to eat dough, but I bamboozled her into making a pie of her very own…which I ate.  But aren’t the heart ones too cute?  I did them in my rubbery heart-shaped cup-cake thing.  (NOTE:  The lack of kid pics here recently is due to her inability to keep her clothes on.)