favorite finds | from the web

I’m not sure if it’s the routine of back to school or the hunkerin’ down kind of weather but I have been needing to get into a better routine with my blog – and just about everything! When I started my blog {Greco Design Company} almost a year ago I wanted to do 3 posts a week. ha! And I wanted to do a Favorite Finds recap post every Friday – highlighting all the great stuff I came across all week. ha! So, here I am about a year later and I was lucky to get 2 posts out each week and a Favorite Finds maybe once a month, maybe. So I guess you could call this past year a learning period. And that’s ok. I may not have stuck to my schedule but I have learned so, so much about blogging. I have also learned how to balance the blogging with being a freelance graphic designer, running a household, and being a mom to three kids. And there’s still a lot of learning to be done, just ask my kids.

So, my plan for my new routine, {she says with such conviction} is to post a new blog entry 3 times a week {don’t laugh}. BUT… one of the posts will be short & sweet – kind of like me {again, don’t laugh}. And then do a monthly recap of all my favorite finds, probably at the end of each month. Sounds good on paper, right? So I’m feeling like September is my transition month and come October I’m hitting the ground running and hope to be in a new groove. Kinda like Stella.

I’m also taking an online course next week on The Art of Building a Blogging Career. gulp. I said it. That means I have to actually build my blogging career. So your help is greatly appreciated. You can tell your friends and family, neighbors – and anyone you can scrounge up – about my blog. Anyone can subscribe to receive my posts automatically via email too {really cool feature – see button on the right} and please, please send me your comments! I would LOVE to hear what you think – good, bad or indifferent. It’s the only way I can keep learning. Just click on the bubble icon at the end of each post to make a comment.

Thank you for all your support! Here’s a few of my Favorite Finds for this month. No, it’s not the end of the month but we’re in transition here and remember I don’t have my groove yet. Plus I have seen tons of great stuff that I just wanted to share. Hope you like them and, as usual, click on the blue links to go to the original sources. Have a great weekend!

Caramel Apple Brownie Cheesecake. Yes, please. Click here for the recipe.

Love that these photos are hung on clipboards! Such a cute alternative to the traditional frame and no glass makes these perfect for a kids room. Check out the post here at HGTV online.

Not on the web but an adorable fairy garden my daughter came home with from a birthday party. What a great party favor/theme/craft. I especially love that she put a dinosaur in the fairy garden! I could go crazy with the fairy party theme.

Bottles of fairy dust… is just one idea. Found here at oh one fine day.

I heart these digital prints from Etsy. Only $13 for all 4 – and you download and print yourself, no shipping. Find them here.

I just bought this friendship bracelet from Etsy for $13. So stinkin’ cute. Love the different colors and mix of metals and jewels. And, like everything I’ve ordered from Etsy, it arrived quickly and beautifully packaged with a personal note.

Rolled magazine flowers from Jones Design Company. I am so going to try these. And copy her and put them on my chalkboard with the drawn antlers. Done. I have no shame.

This made my day. My daughter took my gin thyme lemonade recipe and made a non-alcoholic version all on her own. It was delicious and she was very proud. So was I. Click here to go to my post of drink recipes and try your own.

Check out some past Favorite Finds | from the Web Posts:

May 9

March 21

February 27