And this little dude is from fishy fishy. I have never worked with felted wool, but I love how it looks. Just look at those big button eyes…

Fishy Fishy also does other really incredible stuff. Check out her shop at fishyfishy.etsy.com.

I just got back from a very fun weekend of camping: wakeboarding, foil dinners, s’mores, floaties on the lake, ice cream cones and playing cards. It felt like a retreat from the monotony. Coming home, as you can imagine, was bittersweet. Sleeping in my bed trumps sleeping in earshot of other campers and the unmistakable waft of their herb of choice, but coming back home meant back to the norm. I was ready for a change, ready for new attitude, and most of all, ready for a shower.

Cleansing Thoughts is created by the lovely and friendly Kris Jones, who wanted to make something more of her nine-to-five graphic design job. She created waterproof affirmation cards that you can stick in your shower and start your day off on a positive note. Not only are these cards durable and memorable, they are very well designed.

What I love even more about Kris is her quippy and fun greeting card site: Roast Greetings. Urban, funny, and slightly innapropriate, these are a great cards for your close friends and family. Here is a little peek at what the girls at the review party had to say about Roast Greetings:

Enter LobotoME. This product does a heap-load of weight-pulling by organizing my life! I am a busy bee: volleyball on Mondays, dinner with friends on Tuesdays, softball on Fridays, wakeboarding on Saturdays, and a myriad of odds-and-ends activities to fill my week to avoid having to sit down. Cooking dinner when I get home from said activities feels like I’m getting my teeth pulled without novocaine. I can’t stand it. BUT – LobotoME has cured me!

I’ve found that the root of the problem is having to come up with meals on the fly. I’m now using LobotoME’s “Meal Planning 101″ organizer to plan my meals ahead of time. I’m saving time, I’m whining less and spending less moolah at the grocery store with this organized list. Now, the teeth-pulling has transformed to a little arm-wrestling match between hubby and me; winner doesn’t have to cook. *wink*

With it’s contemporary design {LOVE the colors}, this is truly form meets function in my kitchen! {I have it on a mini clipboard I purchased at Longs for $2, with mod podged scrapbook paper. Oh, and what isn’t cute on a hook?} LobotoMe has other really great organizational pads {packing lists for trips, babysitter lists, honey-do lists} that are printed on recycled paper and are sold at The Container Store and on the LobotoME website.

And because I like things in pairs, I hung a framed print from 3-Lambs Graphics above my life-saving grocery list.

I think this print is so stinkin’ cute. It would have looked really cute in a sleek white frame, but I’ve got enough of those around the house, and my boring kitchen could use all the oomph it can get. There are some other really great prints at 3 Lambs Graphic’s shop {I love this one}.

And lastly, you may remember the chalkboard on the door from an earlier post. This is a vinyl decal that you can use as a chalkboard. I put it on the door because: A. That’s where I’ll see it, B. My hubby might actually read it there, C. It’s reminiscent of the frame on the door on Friends. {found at Paper Source for $6.95}