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There’s still time to order your Christmas cards and we have some BEAUTIFUL ones for you. There are 6 designs in all, but I wanted to give you a sneak peek!

In an environment with so many card choices, we believe ours are very distinct. Our cards are a Christmas card and a keepsake ornament and all in one! Each ribbon includes the offset printed linen backer card, beautiful metallic printed ribbon with attached ‘signature’ card, a high quality tassel, and a coordinating open ended #10 envelope.

We love bling in our house, so the gold and silver add the perfect amount of Christmas sparkle. Your friends and family will cherish their beautiful ribbon and be happily reminded of your love every year when they get their Christmas decorations out, a truly special gift! I know you’re going to love them! These special gifts sell in sets of 8 for $40.00.

We are launching our website in early 2012, until then, if you’re interested in purchasing these beautiful cards, we will be listing them in our Etsy shop December 1st! We are also taking wholesale orders, so if you’re a shop owner and you’re interested in getting more information, please contact me right here!

Thanks for your support & love, Mariah

While browsing over at Pinterest, I saw this and thought I’d share it with you. It’s a powerful thing to appreciate and love your own body. However imperfect, however freckled or dimpled, in any state – our bodies are simply amazing. Stop hating on it and realize it’s phenomenal potential and resilience.

You are glorious.

Just as you are.


(Note: Found on Pinterest, then linked to tumbler, original source is not known.)

Hello everyone! Thank you for all the sweet comments and support during the summer both here on the blog and over at the MDdesign Facebook page. You guys are the best, I really appreciate you!

To show my appreciation to you, I want to give you a little ‘thank you’ treat. Here is a new set of free ‘Back-to-School’ printable notes for you to print out and sneak into your little ones backpacks or lunches as they  bravely venture back to school!

Click link below to download!

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Please drop by and let me know if you like them!  I love hearing from you and hearing what your littles think of them!  xo


Hello, hello! Have you been over to Ali’s blog/site today? Seeing that I was her pick for *mom of the week* this week was such a fun thing to wake up to today! I’m a big fan of hers, I think she’s pretty extraordinary. She seems genuinely compassionate as The Biggest Loser host (I love that!) and of course I grew up loving to hate her character ‘Sami’ on Days. I want to send out a big thanks to Ali & her team, they’re doing great things to support moms and women in general over there. If you haven’t already, go check it out!

In relation to that, if you remember my post a couple of days ago talking about my answer to Ali’s question, I posted this photo:


It’s a photo of some of my favorite things we’ve put into Jacob’s Jar over the years. See that small note that say’s, “You are loved” on it? Well, a while back I printed a bunch of these out in different colors and we keep them near the jar to write on (along with other neat types of paper). That way, there’s some color and variety to the notes we write. Who doesn’t like a little color?
I’ve also always wanted to paint the lid of Jacob’s jar, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet! Anyway, I thought perhaps you would like to have your own little ‘You are loved’ notes. So I made a free PDF download for you too!

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[click, save to desktop (or other location you knwo how to find) then open and print!]

Here’s what it will look like:

I did a little search and found some other cute jar ideas out there, check ‘em out!

Fingerprints On The Fridge


Young House Love

Evolutions of Style Blog

Inchmark

Enjoy the notes! xoxoxoxox, Mariah

I was wandering about online during my lunch (I know, I know, a big no, no!) and went over to my twitter page and saw this post: Calling All Moms asking, “What’s the funniest thing your child has ever said?” – If you know me at all, you know my favorite thing is a good & true laugh, so this question inspired me!

A long time ago my husband made a little ‘piggy bank’ type jar for us to put the little scraps of paper building up where we wrote funny things that happened in our family or sweet/funny things our son said. Just a little place to store the memories that was easy to access and remember. It’s worked well over the years. When this question came up on Alison’s blog I knew right where to go! It’s been a long time since I opened our jar up so I was excited to recall all the memories!


Dang you guys, my heart melted about a million times and I came away feeling even more blessed than I normally do! Here’s the one I chose to answer the question on Alison’s blog,

“I was asking my son about his day at school. As he was telling me about it he mentioned a name I wasn’t familiar with so I asked if she was a room parent. He replied, “No, she’s a kid, she’s not human yet.” Who knew we only become human upon becoming adults.

Here are a couple of my other favorites that are more sweet than funny,

“One day I was talking to you (me to my son) and I told you, ‘You’re incredible’ to which you replied, ‘I like it when you say that.’”

I remember this one, it wasn’t too long ago, and I’ll just never forget the sincerity in his eyes. It was quite a moment. I just thought, what a simple and honest reply. I wish I had that kind of grace.

The other one, well, you guys know that we’ve had a really hard time with infertility the second time around, so this was an extra heart tugging moment for me, but it shows you what a sweet heart my dear boy has. He’s going to be an amazing father (just like his dad) He and I were just chatting one day on the way to school when he said,

“If I ever have a little brother, and he had a crush on some girls at school, I would pat him on the shoulder when I drop him off at school and tell him, “Go get em’ Tiger!”

When he grabbed his bag to hop out, we said our regular, “I love you’s” and just as he turned to run to class I called his name and quietly said, “Go get em’ tiger!” …. I think I actually saw his heart swell. In the space of that moment, he knew that someone ‘got him’ and I will always cherish the smile that beamed back at me.

Yep. Being his mom is one of my biggest honors. I’m so glad I happened upon Alison’s question so I could mosey down memory lane for a while this morning! Thanks Alison! xo

I’ve been working on some easter treats for the kids and thought I’d share them with you! You can download and print the Easter favor boxes for free at the link below.


I have a special favor to ask though. If you do download and make them, can you let me know if you think this sort of project needs step by step directions? I would really appreciate knowing that so that I can better serve you. I think sometimes I should take more care & include instructions, but I’m just not sure you’d really need them. Let me know, k? Thank you in advance for taking the time to let me know!


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Oh! If you are not a FB fan, come join us! I let me FB peeps know yesterday that the printables I designed for the lovely Melanie Mauer are up on HER BLOG! So, score! You get TWO really sweet DIY PRINTABLES! Go check em’ out and say hello!

And, on a completely different note, have you seen this commercial? It’s not new or anything, but we dont watch a ton of TV so, when I saw it again last night for like, the third time I just.. man, I mean..does anyone else just melt when it comes on?? Tears well up in my eyes EVERY time. It’s the sweetest thing.. the sweetest thing. ♥ Talk to you again soon! xoxoxo

 

Hello!  Well, as you can see, I ended up changing the colors on my sons invitations.  I adore the red and white, but I was printing these myself and the red just wasn’t printing well.  I should have planned on having them printed, but ..meh, I just didn’t.

Still, I’m very happy with the result!  I love, love, love the zesty yellow twine from Whisker Graphics so I was happy to have it hold all together so beautifully.  In the third photo from the top you can see that I also changed the treat boxes, oh they’re so cute!  I’m not sure yet what I will fill them with… perhaps lemon heads.

The little ’10′ card tied onto the invite is actually a little toy.  I’m not sure what you call these things (any suggestions?) but you can see that one side has the ’10′ and the other has the sunburst, so when you hold the pretty twine in your fingers and spin, the two sides look like one and the sunburst appears to be behind the ’10′.  It’s really fun!

I used to love these things when I was little, the one you’d see most often was the one that had an open bird cage on one side and a bird flying on the other and when you spun it, it looked like the bird was flying out of the cage.  What a lovely thing!   It took me a while to figure out what I was going to do to add an element of FUN into the invite and this worked out perfectly!

I have some other little surprises too, but my camera recently broke and I’ve had trouble taking photos that do them justice with my cell phone.  On that note, I know these images are a bit ragged as well, but I did my best with what I have.  I’ll be putting some money away for a new one & doing some research on which one to get.

So, I thought I’d tell you how I made these and also thought I’d make some that I can put up as a free download as well!  First, here are the directions:

Step One: Cut out both sides out with a circle punch (for these I used a 2″ circle) and then run either the back or the front through your small Xyron machine.  You could also use double stick tape if you dont have an Xyron.  It works fine, it’s just a little bit more time consuming.

Step Two: After cutting your  twine, center it on the sticky circle.  Do try and get it nice and straight so it will not spin all cock eyed.  It does make a difference.

Step Three: To finish them up, just place the non-sticky piece neatly onto the sticky side, sandwiching the twine between them.  The more perfect you get them the better.  If all the edges *dont align perfectly you’ll have a sticky edge. (yuk!)

That’s it!  Spin the twine & watch the magic!

Now, since I doubt that you have need for a spinning toy with the number ’10′ on it, I designed a little Halloween toy for you!  Here’s a little preview, though to really appreciate the fun, you’ll have to print them out and make them! (Pssst!  You could also head over to my Facebook page to see the bunny fully masked! Shhh!!)

Here is your download:  Masked Bunny (932)  If you make these, I’d love to see some pictures!  You can put them up over here and I’ll feature them on my blog!  {They would be great for Halloween party favors!}

Enjoy!

… in an octopuses garden, in the shade.. oh, wait… I didn’t draw an octopus, doh! Perhaps a giant squids garden, an orcas?? Heh, heh, that just doesn’t have the same ring to it, does it?

How ’bout we just take a *submarine* down to see all the wonders of the ocean?

How about .. a yellow one.

Well, it’s been a crazy week here in the studio, I’ve been busy, busy! I’m working on some really great projects, lots of fun logos, some great (and challenging) spot illustrations and I’m also trying to put together my sons 10th (10!) birthday party that’s fast approaching.

I’ll talk more about that soon, but for now, I’d like to get these SEA ANIMAL PRINTABLES up for you! I’d planned on taking some shots of them cut out and hung as a mobile and perhaps some stickers, but like I said, things have been BUSY and I thought you’d rather just have them than wait for me to get some nice pictures! xo

 

Whew, monday came way too fast! I’ve got a lot of work to do today (It’s definitely a Monday if you know what I mean) but I wanted to pop in and share the cute little Justice League printable cards with you!

I hope you love these little guys as much as I loved drawing them! I made a set of cards you can color yourself (or that your kids can color) as well as a set of pre-colored cards. I also used the last little section to put a set of teeny little J.L. characters that you could make stickers with!
To make the stickers, just print, cut & run them through your Xyron machine & wha-la! You’ve got super cute stickers!  You can print out as many as you’d like, please note, though, that these are for personal, non-commercial use only.

I’m fairly new to formatting PDF’s and while it’s not too difficult, I’m not sure how to group ‘em all up into one download (anyone out there know?) So, for now, since I’m short on time, I’ll just put them up individually.

Here are the pre-colored PDF’s:
Justice League Page 1 (11940)
Justice League Page 2 (8102)

And here are the ‘ready to color’ PDF’s:
Justice League Page 1 (9851)
Justice League Page 2 (7247)

Enjoy & send me some feedback and/or photos on how you used them! Here’s to a great week! xoxo, Mariah

The day before yesterday, I blogged about my dear friend Melissa, and her newly
re-designed site, Another Lunch where she faithfully serves up fun, waste-free lunch ideas for the lunchbox crowd.  At some point during the design process, we had the idea to offer some super cute printable lunchbox notes to our readers for FREE!  I designed the notes based on her blog illustrations to commemorate the launch.  You can download, print, fill out & stick these notes into all the cute bento lunches you’ll be making this school year!

Click here –> Sweet Printable Lunch Notes (8618) to download yours! Feel free to print them as many times as you’d like! {Please note that these are for personal, non-commercial use ONLY!}  I’ve planned many more FREE downloads that I’ll be posting in the future! There are a few very special ones that will be offered as limited editions, so be sure you join me over here so you don’t miss out! If there’s something specific you’d like to see, please comment and let me know and I’ll see what I can do! Enjoy sweet friends!  xo

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