I've been working diligently over the past couple weeks with the awesome Jennifer of Busy Being Jennifer for the second annual Homespun Happiness Christmas Project. Last year it was a huge success and they were able to send out several packages to people and families in need. If you know someone who could definitely benefit from a package you can nominate them to receive one here!


 I designed two different designs that you can order as either a t-shirt or a hoodie. You can read more about it on Jennifer's blog! Order a shirt or hoodie and help support a great cause during this time of year when its particularly hard for some.

Happy Friday guys!


 

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 It's been a while since I've done an Instalife Lately post! I'm much over due. Life has been busy as always, but particularly exciting lately. With Halloween, my birthday and other life shenanigans going on we've been going non stop (big surprise huh?)




I've been having a lot of fun coming up with creative ways to display things in the store. Conrad and I went to the circus with several friends from work. I took Conrad to his first play last month and he LOVED it. We saw Texas A&M Commerce's production of Big Friendly Giant. It's was so fantastic! I've rediscovered my passion for drawing for fun. Its funny how some things can become a chore when you have to do them so much for work. A recent design porject that I've been working on lately has inspired me to create some of my own hand lettered pieces for my shop. (more on that project later!) My hair has gone from red to orange and now plum. It seems like everyone's birthday is in the fall so we've been attending lots of kiddo birthdays.

I recently joined Ipsy! It's so exciting! I love snail mail and fun packages. I also love makeup, so this was a math made in heaven. Try it out if you haven't before! Basically you get a new little cosmetic bag each month filled with different things based off a short quiz that you take when you sign up. So far my favorite thing that I've gotten is a gold nail polish, liquid eyeliner pen and the prettiest shade of wine colored lipstick for fall!

Anywhoo - lots of photoshoot planning, christmas shopping and craftiness in my near future! What have you been up to?

One thing I'm really stoked about doing this year is Christmas mini photo sessions at my shop! We have the perfect place on our back patio to do these! We'll have 5-10 different back drops and "scenes" set up for you to choose from. I've had way too much planning these out! So if you are local and in need of some beautiful family or Christmas photos reserve a spot! We will be shooting every weekend in November through December 14th!

The price is $75 for one hour which is a steal compared to most deals going on. This price includes digital edited copies of your photos to do with as you please! You WILL have the option to print them though us though!

For more info or to book a time/date email howdy(at)gypsybeard.com
 
 

It was a busy weekend and boy am I glad it's over haha. Between getting our costumes finished and the shop decorated for halloween AND my birthday party, I'm whooped this week. Halloween evening we handed out candy at the shop for the annual "Halloween On The Square". I did a little mini Photo Booth outside. It wasn't too successful but I did get some cute photos out of it! We went trick or treating in our neighborhood afterwards. Conrad was so excited to be the Star Lord for halloween. I was a piñata and my boyfriend was Nacho Libre. My costume was a but of a pain to make because I kept running out of hot glue sticks, but it was very simple apart from that.  Lola was super woman of course! After the candy high wore off, Conrad passed out on the couch watching Casper.

My party turned out adorable. It was a blast and everything turned out really well. It was freezing cold on my birthday so I definitely think that kept a lot of people at home and kept the evening shorter than it would've otherwise been, but the band, October 5th, was FANTASTIC and the food was yummy. I made this recipe for some yummy Apple Pie Moonshine. I made the cute little heart shaped lights behind the band. I really got to see how wonderful our back patio space can be and the potential it has for future events and fun times.

 Now I've gotta make it through Christmas! Luckily there's still a handful of weeks til that. lol

What did you dress up as for Halloween?