we have a winner!

Congratulations, Donna! Email me and I will give you instructions on how to redeem your shop credit :) Thanks for entering the giveaway, everyone!!

Stay tuned tomorrow for a fun announcement!
Mommy Holly is going to a market again very soon!
Details tomorrow. :)
xo!

happy weekend!

on to second grade.

My sweet little Andrew is already two weeks in to second grade.
Where does the time go?!
He was so excited in his new yellow tshirt with his new yellow shoes!
He has a fantastic teacher & his best friend is in his class.
We are happy to have a wonderful beginning to the school year!


Andrew & his proud mommy!! ;)


These little goofballs were so jazzed to be in the same class this year.
Best friends & happy guys, for sure! :)
Here's to a fantastic year in second grade!
xo!

PS.
Don't forget to enter the giveaway from yesterday! :)

what do you think?!

The blog re-do is complete!
What do you think?
I am flipping out happy.
Being back to blogging feels so super.
I love to connect with people through this blog and am so happy that everything looks nice & fresh around here. :)

To celebrate, I am giving away a fun
shop credit
to a lucky someone!



Rules to enter?
Leave a comment & become a follower of this blog for one entry!
Separate entries if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter as well :)
Just leave me a comment and let me know.
I'll choose a winner on Monday!

Stay tuned tomorrow...
Andrew's first day of school photos!
And yes, he is already back in school. EEK!
xo!

i'm returning! :)

Summer was busy for us.
Seriously busy!
So my blog was totally forgotten about,
and I hope many of you will return soon
when my posting is back to it's regular glory!

AND
Mommy Holly is getting a major makeover!!!
The logos, the buttons, the colors, the shop!
Everything is getting a super-cute facelift!

SO...
stay tuned.
Please. :)
I promise it will be worth the wait.
xo!

PS.
And Happy August, yay!

inspiration: tents.

I am a hugely visual person.
Photographs inspire me on a daily basis.
I would love to share my inspirations with you.

Want to play along?
Ever Thursday, I share my inspirations.
Share what inspires you.
I would love to see! :)

In the past few weeks, I have been inspired by:

wedding dresses!

bows!
the color yellow!
vintage carnivals!
balloons & ruffles!
I am working on items that I have made after being inspired by these things! Stay tuned for more of my creations.. I am so excited to share them with you. ;)

This week, I am inspired by
tents!

{they evoke such a summer happiness for me!}

Happy Thursday!
xo!

i'm baaaaack!

Where the heck have I been, you ask?!
Road tripping up through the Pacific Northwest!
My family is from Washington, so we took a little over a week to drive up there to visit family. It was quite an experience! Having never driven that far on my own before, I can successfully say that I drove my mom, Andrew and I over 3500 miles, eek! Long drive, but we went through some gorgeous areas.
Case in point:

Snow capped mountains in June?!
Nuts, says this Southern California girl. :)

Anyways, I am home now, busily working on orders until our next road trip up to Chico next week! This time it will be Andrew, myself and my sweet boyfriend, John. We will be driving up to visit his family over the Fourth of July weekend! SO exciting! :)

But for the next few days, orders are on the agenda...

Such as these darling 4-inch anchors I made for a super sweet customer. I love how they turned out! Convo me through if you need some of these- they should be up in the shop soon. :)

And of course, a couple of new things can be found in the shop as well....

Vintage Italian Dictionary Pages! SO amazing, and I was flipping out when I found these! :) Find them here.


And something I've been meaning to put in the shop forever... 3-inch bird cutouts made from vintage children's books! SO fun :) If you need another of my cutout shapes in the children's books, feel free to convo me as well. You know I love custom orders!

For now, I am off to get some more work done and then take Andrew over to his best bud's house to swim and I get to chit-chat with my darling friend, Lynn. A fun summer day, for sure!
Happy Wednesday to all of you, xo!

love, boats, caterpillars, and a picnic. :)

Memorial Day was such a relaxing day for us! We usually don't do the whole beach thing like so many people in Southern California, but we did decide to head out to a gorgeous park. My boyfriend John, Andrew, and I packed a delicious picnic and drove out to Irvine Regional Park to spend the day. :)


Andrew was a wonderful photographer, snapping photos of John and I! :)


Our little picnic site was on a shady little knoll right by the water's edge. A gorgeous place to sit & enjoy the day, and the perfect spot for the boys to hop over to the boats for a little cruise around the lake! :)


We were invaded by caterpillars, which Andrew thought was fantastic. {Ok... I did, too! Those little guys are too cute!}


Another fine photo from my short little photographer man. ;) Love!


A beautiful day, spent with my favorite people. :)
Hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Memorial Day as well!
xo!

red white & blue.

The days are flying by lately.
We have been busy, busy, busy.
My calendar is filling up!
Andrew has seven more school days {eeeek!} before summer and I can't believe it is already that time of year again. With that being said, the shop needs to stay on track for the upcoming holidays!

Here we go, summer....

Before you know it,
Fourth of July will be here!
Stock up on goodies to decorate, craft with, scatter across your party tables, or add to hostess gifts or favors. SO many cute uses for these red, white & blue anchors!!! :)


And don't forget about these darling patriotic star cutouts!!


Need more than one pack of anything??
Convo me to set up a custom listing
in any amount or different colors of my cutouts. :)
I love to do custom work!!


And a big reminder:
I will be out of town soon, so ALL orders placed between June 6th and June 20th will not be shipped out until after I return home. ALL orders placed before this weekend WILL be in the mail before I leave though, so shop this week!

Need a coupon as an incentive to get shopping?
Use the code FREESHIP1 upon checkout
to receive free shipping this week. :)
Shop now!
Enjoy!

Happy Tuesday! :)
xo!

my baby is 7???!!!

Today my baby boy turns 7 years old.
Where did the last 7 years go, anyways?!
Time really does fly.

I am lucky to be the momma to such an amazing little man.
I am so proud of the person he is growing to be,
and he amazes me each and every day
with the funny things he says and does.

I love you, Andrew!
Happy birthday
to my very favorite child!
You make me smile every day. :)
Love, Mommy
xo!

PS.
Birthday party photos to come.
The party was a hit, let me tell you.
As you can see, Andrew totally enjoyed dressing up!
Stay tuned. :)

inspiration: balloons.

I am a hugely visual person.
Photographs inspire me on a daily basis.
I would love to share my inspirations with you,
and then the following week I will share
what I created from these inspirations.

Want to play along?
Share what inspires you.
I would love to see! :)

In the past few weeks, I have been inspired by:

wedding dresses!

bows!
the color yellow!
vintage carnivals!
& ruffles!
I am working on items that I have made after being inspired by these things! Stay tuned for more of my creations.. I am so excited to share them with you. ;)

This week, I am inspired by
balloons!
{in honor of Andrew's birthday party this saturday!}

















Happy Thursday!
xo!

{all images via}

office essential.

Here is another peek into my work space...

Being a stay-and-work-at-home mom,
having a calendar that is super organized helps me like crazy.
I adore my whiteboard calendar that hangs right next to my workspace in my office. It is large enough that I have plenty of space to write all over it. This is a photo of it when I re-do the calendar for the month, before I have scribbles all over the place and craziness planned for the month...

{Please ignore my huge pile of papers from Andrew's class... any other mommas have a ton of trouble throwing things away from the kid's school like me?? :) }

Having a calendar hanging on the wall like this not only helps me stay organized, but it helps Andrew when he can come in and see what the week is going to look like. He usually pencils in a few things for the month himself. :)

I found my calendar for six dollars at Walmart about six months ago... what a steal!! :) However, you can find a whole host of whiteboard calendars on Amazon here. Grab a pack of bright colored whiteboard pens to color code items on your calendar, and you are good to go! I feel like this area of my life is always organized. Thank goodness for that! :)

Off to run some birthday party errands...
come back tomorrow for my Inspiration post! :)
xo!

a few bucks of happy.

A few weeks ago, I was living in a disorganized mess.
Inch by inch, things are looking up around my office!
I spent just a few dollars at Michael's and found some bright & happy things to spruce up my work area. A ladybug stapler was my favorite find for sure, a cute "hello kitty" notepad since I am always making lists, an adorable little personalized "h" note box full of itsy bitsy sized paper, and some snazzy farm animal pencils {that have yet to be sharpened!} round out my cute finds. Seriously, the pig pencils are amazingly adorable. :)


I am housing my pencils in my fantastic vintage beer mug from 1982 {my birth year, woot woot!} that I found while thrifting one day for about a quarter. I adore this shape of mug and one day want to drink all of my beverages, beer or non beer, from vintage beer mugs. Totally cute. :)


I am sneaking in time to organize and have been very happy with the result!
Organized and color coded paper, anyone?? :)

And if you would like a few dollars worth of happy as well,
check out some of my new items that hit the shop this morning!!

Eeeek, my new favorites cut out of vintage atlas pages... butterflies!


I can't tell you how long I have been meaning to get these plain kraft paper tags into the shop. Finally, here they are. :)


And the larger sized birds have flown in as well! Need these in another color? No problem, just send me a convo through Etsy and I'll make these in any color cardstock for you! :)

A few dollars can bring serious happiness to my day.
What is making you happy today?!
Now I am off to craft, craft, craft for Andrew's birthday party this Saturday!!
So much to do, let me tell you. :)
Happy Tuesday, xo!

happy friday! {& a printable!}

So sorry I have been so absent from my blog lately!
Busy, busy, busy, I tell ya! :)

I made you a cute printable to say "hello" and "sorry, blogger friends!"...
{print in various sizes here!}
I came across this quote and adored it.
It is so very true.
Life is short.
Make yours a happy one.
Hope you all enjoy a beautiful {and super happy!} weekend!

And PS.
A very happy Mother's Day to all of you mommas out there!

xo!

up for grabs! :)

Pssst...
There is a fantastic giveaway over here today! :)

xo!