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Party in A Box by Katie

Until I get my studio set up at our new place, I’ll be posting mostly thrifty finds, ideas & guest posts. If you’re interested in guest posting here, please email submissions (photos at least 500px wide) to melissa at melissaesplin dot com. Hello ISLY readers! This is Katie from hello truelove. A big thank you to Melissa...

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Hand Lettered Cut Out

I’ve had this lying around in my studio forever. Don’t know why I haven’t shared it with you. OH wait, I know why, it’s so that I have something to share on here while my house is a complete disaster from moving. ;) I hand lettered this in Illustrator & cut out using my Silhouette....

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Coolest Knits EVER

My cousin-in-law made the most gorgeous baby gifts for Felix & I have to share them with you. Natalie has been knitting for ever & we’ve been the lucky recipients of her handiwork in the past. She made these sweet little striped legwarmers. Stripes are so adorable. Perfect for a man child. I’m completely in...

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Purple People Eater

Last Friday, one of Penelope’s friends had a birthday party. The theme was purple (Maren’s favorite color), and we all dressed up in purple – it was sort of a purple people eater theme. Genius idea, right? In honor of the purple party I made Maren a little purple creature thing with some of the...

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Cheater, Cheater

I was hoping to make this year my third annual handmade Christmas, but there was just no physical way that was going to happen. Up until just recently I’ve been working full-time as an in-house designer for DownEast; so between that, other design work, sleep and a ferociously hyper toddler, there was just no way...

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