Chalkboards, Boos & Booms!

I have some chalkboard news to share! :) Per the request of many, I am going to be making some of my chalkboards available to purchase as prints!

I have done some custom work for friends & a few customers, but finally will be moving forward with making more prints available in my etsy shop! I have some new designs, some will be sayings that could be hung in a nursery, others would be perfect hung in the kitchen and of course, we can't forget festive prints! I am still finalizing some sizing & print options (clearly you can see what I printed here didn't quite fit well in my odd sized ikea frame) but hope to have prints available by end of week!

 

 I am going to be offering some MAJOR coupon codes to my blog readers, so stay tuned if you are interested! Also, if you have a saying that you'd love to see available, please feel free to contact me via the link at the top of my blog! :) If you have questions regarding my chalkboards, check out this post for my tutorial as well as this link for some FAQs that I have answered.

In other chalkboard news, I am also going to begin (hopefully a series!) of videos showing some start to finish chalkboards as I draw them! (This will likely include interruptions by Harper, lots of doodling & erasing as I go, as well as a possible beer and snack break, you will witness it all!). Unfortunately, I really don't have any tricks up my sleeve though, it really just has been a life long love of art & typography that allows me to do them... plus lots of practice. It is a work in progress, but I am super excited to share! Thank you all SO much for all of the sweet comments & feedback on the stuff I have done so far! 

Moving on to the ever so important Boos & Booms of the week!

Boo to daylight savings time! It has officially turned my baby into monster. Her sleep schedule went out the window, I am now up at 6 am and playing "guess-the-naptime" all day. Tips or tricks to surviving this?

BOOM to christmas music! Hello Elf soundtrack for the next two months. Pennies from Heaven... shoe-bee-doo-bee!! :)

Fall Favorites & Being Thankful

Here in the Garvin house, we are pretty excited that the Holidays have arrived! Halloween decor has come down & we are ready to slowly start incorporating some Christmas stuff throughout the house. Super exciting that Thanksgiving is a week earlier than it was last year because that means it will be acceptable to put up the Christmas tree sooner! The down side? Thanksgiving can't possibly rock as much this year now that I'm not pregnant. I WISH I loved food as much as I did last year.... I could have bathed in cheesy potatoes & pumpkin pie.

On that note :) Some of our Fall Favorites that we are rocking lately! Including my Tiger Lily boots (of course I wanted them anyway... and the Halloween costume was just more ammo to scoop them up!), world's BEST baby pants & more splashes of my FAVORITE color... neon violet! 

 Philosophy Hot Buttered Rum Shower Gel

Essie "Smokin' Hot" Nail Polish

Neon Violet Scarf

Minnetonka 3 Layer Boot

 Striped Hat & Mittens

Minnetonka Booties

Favorite Cuffed Pants

Also, in the Garvin house, we have a new chalkboard up on our walls! Perfect for a Thanksgiving theme with some Christmas swag! :)

 

Yes, I do this freehand, no stencils. No, I don't use chalk pens/markers, just regular Crayola chalk.

Some exciting chalkboard news to come in tomorrow's post... so stay tuned!

 Harpie Doodle is growing SO. FAST. I can hardly believe my eyes. She is already almost nine months old, pulling herself up on everything, and eating blueberries like they are going out of style. Also? She gets cuter every single day.  Here is one of my favorite recent pics of her, rocking her adorable Jameson Monroe headband & these green cords and tights from Gap!

Yes, I was singing & shaking a roll of blue painters tape to get her to sit still and look at the camera. Don't be fooled, five seconds later she tried to nose dive off of this chair. I am so very thankful for this sweet girl!

We spent the weekend painting, lots of light grey going up on the walls! Harper's nursery is finally finished, pics to come soon. For now, I will leave you with this gem.