Giveaway Winner & Sample Sale!

Long Long Long weekend and so glad it's over!  Whew!  It was long, tiring, filled with rain, and did I mention long?!

My mom, sister & I had an event to attend with Maeve, the Boutique Rental & Styling Company we've started and I don't think I've ever moved furniture for 3 days straight!  IT went well and we were so proud of our booth because it looked AWESOME!  Now just working on marketing ourselves!

Anyways, I know you are all just waiting with anticipation for who won the engravable Stella & Dot Necklace!

Congrats goes to....

Tracy R!  

I've emailed you and we'll get you all set up!  :)  Can't wait to see what you choose to engrave?!

And for those of you who entered but did not win (I'm sorry... there are more giveaways in the future!!!) I'm sharing pieces from my sample sale on here today!

YAY!  Deals & Steals!  I keep finding more to add!

Please email me at abigail{dot}hake@gmail{dot}com if you are interested in something!
There is a flat $5 shipping on all purchases.

Hope you had a great weekend!

DIY Cake Stands, Part 2 & A Winner

Happy Monday... or is it... Oh, crap -- it's now Wednesday!
It's already been one long morning for me... See what the week has done to me?!?
It's freezing outside, we had about 6 inches of snow last night, I didn't want to get out of bed, and now I have to work... hard.
But we fight on, right?!?

This weekend was the big 1st Birthday party at our house for Baby Kakes.  She cracks me up.  Like it wasn't enough that I was out of town all day Saturday and Mr K was gone all weekend too, I threw in a Birthday Party. Not the intentional game plan...

Party recap will have to come tomorrow, but for now, let's finish up these cake stands!

So we left off with everything painted.  I ended up doing a couple of coats because I'm not sure if it was too cold or if the project just didn't like me, but it was not sticking initially... or it could have been too that next time I will grab plain old white plates so that patterns do not have to be covered up..

This leaves a ring of white on the backside of the plates.
This is where you will apply the adhesive...
I don't have a picture of this, unfortunately, because me and my procrastination fascination...well, let's just say I was up until about 5:30am Sunday morning trying to finish things for the party...ugh.

Here they are in the end...

Here's what we started with...

And here's the final product! 

I loved how they looked on the table and how I'll be able to reuse them!  I love love love the green ones!  The pink might get a different spray come spring and might then take up residence above my cabinets.

This was a super easy project that would make a great gift if you know someone who likes to entertain!  Or, decor for whatever you'd like! 

AND NOW FOR THE WINNER

of the Stella & Dot Giveaway!!!

It was a pretty easy selection seeing as Rae at Throu The Haze was the only one to enter and entered 3x!!!  Yay for you!  I'll be emailing you today to find out if you'd like the $25 gift card or the Izzy Little Girls set! 

Thanks to everyone for stopping by!  And congrats to our winner! 

xoxo,

Top 5 Reason's to Join Stella & Dot - And A Winner!

Why is March the Perfect Month to

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AND the winner of the $25 Target Gift Card is...

Abigail @ The Extremely Frugal Bride
CONGRATS!!!

Happy Weekend to you all!  I'm going home for the first time since Christmas!  Yay!  Enjoy yours!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

Winner of the January Request a Catalog Contest is:

Kristina Streeter!

She will receive a pair of Paradise Studs!

(they are on their way)

-- A Little History --

Today I thought I'd share one of my favorite holiday ornaments.  I got it last year from my mother-in-law.  It was something I heard about on the radio during a drive home one time and just had to have one. 

Back Story

There used to be a department store in Fort Wayne, Wolf & Dessauer, that was not only known for it's great customer service, but also it's wonderfully elaborate window displays and awe inspiring Christmas lights.  Apparently people from all over northeast Indiana would travel to Fort Wayne to see these beautiful displays and lights.  Most who have seen the displays said they were beyond compare...some were even mechanical.  And  many people thought the displays at W&Ds were far better than those in New York or Chicago.

  This amazes me...

Around 1937, G. Irving Latz, himself, drew the first sketches of the famous Santa display that hung on the side of the Calhoun Street building. Brinkman Signs were the ones who constructed the famous displays. According to our Fort Wayne local newspaper, the Journal Gazette, it was the artist at Brinkman's, Isabel Wilkinson Parker who actually designed the Santa and Reindeer display and it was modeled after a scene given to her by the owner of Wolf & Dessauer's, G. Irving Latz Sr. 

Many will agree that the holiday season doesn't truly being until the Santa display has been lit up in Fort Wayne!

And although Santa hung for many years on the side of the department store building there were a few years that it wasn't lit.  The reason for this was two fold - (1) during World War II they were told to keep the lights out to reduce the chance of enemy planes being able to spot the city easily because materials were manufactured for the war in Fort Wayne and (2) it was also a way to conserve energy during the war. 

Last year, the Original Santa display was replaced with LED lights and the lights from the original display were sold with all proceeds going to Easter Seals.  Well, of course with this being such a huge memory that I have, I had to have a part of this history.  And I'm so glad that I got one!  It's one of my favorite ornaments and I'll always remember the Santa display no matter where I am!