Dear followers!  Sorry I have been in such a slump the last forever it seems.  I have been wanting to change my shop over and my blog and I finally have a new blog!  The new shop will be open soon!  Come see the new blog!      The Elephant Nest Starting today I will be blogging there!

I love swap bot!  I am currently in a blog exchange swap with 10 bloggers.  You receive your 10 bloggers and you leave a comment on their blog and if you enjoy their blog you can follow them.  Here are my blog swap partners I received:

http://www.pookalakachicka.blogspot.com   Crafty lady from Denver Colorado that takes you through her        crafty adventures.
http://www.missanne.org         Jewelry designer from UK  that has super cute jewelry
http://zilliahbailey.blogspot.com    This crafter loves dumpster diving, crafting, and yarn bombing
http://delicate-eccentric.blogspot.com   This pretty orange haired lady from the UK blogs about inspiring people and awesome crafty finds.
http://acrosstheuni-verses.blogspot.com     An artist that blogs about her art and things she loves in life
http://luckyxiiicreations.wordpress.com    A crafter that loves swaps and creating. She shows lots of pics of things she makes from matchboxes to dottee dolls purses and more.
http://designedbyrj.blogspot.com   A cook with recipes and lovely food photos also a crafter with her own shop.
http://overlycute.blogspot.com       2 crafters who love to crochet cute items and write about life and fantasies.
http://tovesuomi.blogspot.com       A mother from Finland who loves to write and loves stationary. Cute blog!
http://msteacherwedding.blogspot.com  An English teacher, A traveler and crafter. Loves Diy tutorials and soon to get married.


Swaps are pretty addicting. I am waiting for my left over craft swap and stuffed envelope swap. Super excited!
http://www.swap-bot.com

So I went to my first festival in Tomball Texas called the Rosehill Festival.  With promises of a festival event, a band, produce and many vendors with limited space so I better send her a check to save my spot.  I drove past downtown tomball about 10 miles to the country! Ahh! This was no festival at all.  A corner of grass area with broken huge tree limbs covering the stage. Overgrown grass and we were between 2 gas stations and a very dirty taco truck that the men kept coming out of and hosing their bodys down with water and smiling at us. There were 2 other vendors that was their first time there. The promoter sold cow hide and rocking chairs. She then came over and said well the band broke down.  Vendors are just not showing up and everyone pretty much just decided not to come. hmm sounds suspicious.  The lady next to me said honey I been doing this for years and all promoters lie.  Well I would like to think not but this lady... well ya I think she lied a bit! The whole day 12 people came.  I was sooooo disappointed.  Anyways I learned to never go there again.  The lady next to me also gave me lots of pointers for my future events. I got to spend time with my dad and I learned how to set up a table LOL!  Anyways I am now getting ready for a Arts, vintage and craft fair in San Francisco soooo I am hoping this will be better! 

Here is the pretty flier for my next event:

So on one of the last days in Evansville Joey and I decided to head out and find some geocaches! For those who don't know geocaches are hidden gps locations you find and sign or leave a treasure. There all all diffrent kinds all around.  It was soo fun!  We went to 5 different ones in 2 hours about.  This was one of the first ones and it was by a golf course.  We decided to leave an orange monster!


The next one was at an old school building.  The clue was under the old school name.  So we walked around the back.
Found the old School Number 6 name.  So I started looking on the steps and saw a small purple container under a rock!
This is how small it was!

Geocaching is sooo fun especially when you have a fun buddy and a gps devise.  I used an app on my phone for it.  Hope you enjoyed! OH by the way people that don't know about geocaching are called muggles.  So now you aren't a muggle if you didn't know about it! Congratulations.

The Pretty Poppy has an excellent tutorial on how to make a summer felt rose wreath.  Very good pictures and a fun way to decorate your door in the summer.  She has a very creative blog too!

It was a hot summer day in Spring Texas and I glanced out the window and there sat a frog in my sisters polka dotted boots!  I said "There's a frog in your boot!"  My sister ran over and we stared at him he just sat there looking at us.   My sister said I see him allot and I watch out for him when I mow the lawn.  I said that is a good spot to be then.  I shall call him Marcus!  I think he knows he is a handsome frog!  See you later Marcus.

Jenni from Simply Savvy blog shows you how to put together a cute blog planning notebook.  She has a printable download that is great for planning your daily blog ideas! I love it.  Great step by step tutorial how to make the design on the cover too.

Auberrygirl has a fun etsy shop with a variety of items including the 3d like Mountain Moss Paperweight shown up top.  Below that is her Wintry manzanita pushpins.     Next is her Wonders of nature magnets.  All her items have awesome and unique pictures.

ChelseaVanTol has lovely items on her shop.  Unique jewelry, accessories, paper items including journals, vintage, and house decor. She takes great pictures and has lovely soft blue backgrounds.  Up top is her Feminine sparkle asymmetrical necklace.  Under that is her Shabby dreams notebook.  To the right of that is her Mushroom garden bobby pin set.

I was browsing through etsy today and found this hand painted cup and saucer.  LoucheLab paints these by hand.  LoucheLab has a variety of animals on their Etsy shop.  I love their artwork and colors they use.  LoucheLab also has a giveaway going on here for one of their hand painted pieces!