FEATURED in Stitch Craft Create Magazine!! And a GIVEAWAY FOR YOU!!

Some exciting news to share!!

Northern Cottage
has been featured in the latest edition

of

Stitch Craft Create magazine

Take a look at this lovely magazine…so bright and fresh and springy

& on page 35…

you’ll find a page spread with…

 

Their beautiful shots of the
gardeners hand scrub
that I shared here last spring

eeek!! I could about die! I did a little happy dance when I saw it!

As spring may have already sprung in your area or if spring is right around the corner, I’d encourage you to whip up a batch of this awesome scrub for yourself!!

(it also makes a fantastic gift for mamas, friends, teachers etc.)

in addition to the scrub,
there are lots of other really darling tutorials for cute crafty stuff galore!

You can also visit Stich Craft Create AND pick up a copy for yourself!

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I’d love to share a copy of this fun magazine with one of my awesome readers!

you never know,
I might just throw in some other goodies when I mail out the package!! 

Just leave a comment below 
before midnight, 5/2/12

and I’ll randomly select a winner!

easy-peasy, right?

If ya want, feel free to visit:

** Stitch Craft Create blog and say hello from me

** Stitch Craft Create on Facebook

** Northern Cottage on Facebook

** Northern Cottage on Pinterest

  Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
(click here for Northern Cottage main page)
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**JOIN US AS A LINKY FOLLOWER **

THE TOP 5 PINNERS TO FOLLOW NOW!

 

Shut the FRONT DOOR!!

I was perusing blogland & saw a post from Donna

you know…

the Donna from Funky Junk Interiors

She posted about being named one of the

TOP PINNERS TO FOLLOW NOW

over at Styleist Home

I thought HOW COOL for her!!

She totally rocks and I’m thrilled for her!

So I hopped over to the list

outlining the

TOP 5 PINNERS TO FOLLOW NOW

and saw that NORTHERN COTTAGE is listed there too!!

See it? – SHUT UP!!

what a WONDERFUL surprise!

here is what they wrote about my boards
(I’m blushing!!)

Thank you Stylelist Home!!

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In Donna’s post about this article, she also mentions the
pinner extraordinaire –
Michael Wurm of Inspired by Charm

I feel like both of these guys are my bloggy buddies

and they’ve provided so much blog, pinning & creative

inspiration & encouragement

{I feel like we’re friends – even though they probably don’t really know who I am!  wink!}

We all joined pinterest around the same time {way back when}
I think there were like a few hundred pinners back then!
and look at what has changed!

you can see Donna’s Pin Boards here!

and Stylelist here!

and Michael’s here!

Enjoy Perusing and Pinning AWAY!!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
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My Word of the Year–CONTENT

Miss Layla from the Lettered Cottage is having a little party starting 1/16 inviting folks to identify their WORD

for 2012!

Thinking on this I found myself coming back again and again to a word that fits

for me

now

and that I hope to concentrate on throughout the year

{and really forever!}

That word is

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to be

content to be in the moment

content to be at the place I am  in life (not just looking ahead or behind)

content with my abilities

content with my home

content with my loved ones

content with this little blog

content with my aspirations

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this is not to say that I won’t be striving and pushing and challenging myself to grow but I will

concentrate on the moments

on the now

and try to be

Content!!

I wish you all the very very best today and 
in the year ahead!!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
(click here to follow or go to Northern Cottage blog home)

Check out my Pinterest Pins/Boards here

Northern Cottage Linky Party Coming Soon!

I’m super excited to share with you that I’ll be adding
my first linky party in 2012

(next Tuesday  - 1/3/12!)

The party will be a spot where you can share your creations:

* Crafts

* DIY

* Recipes

* Whatever you’ve been working on!

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I’m just plain

tickled pink

to be able to

showcase your creations

here on my little ol’ blog!

Get ready to link up!!

 

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Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
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Check out my Pinterest Pins/Boards here

Diaper Baby Gift IDEA

 I’m just tickled pink that my   Diaper Babies   are being featured at some really delightful blogs like: Ginger Snap Crafts  and Hope Studios  and…  it seems that they are the #1 hit for Gift Ideas at the Tip Junkie  whoot whoot! 

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
(click here to go to Northern Cottage blog home)

Check out my Pinterest Pins/Boards here

I’ve been WELCOME Wagon-ed

I’m thrilled to be featured by Brenda over at

Cozy Little House

for her

WELCOME WAGON

We met via Pinterest – yay!

Have you guys seen her blog?  It is darling!  She puts together fancy table settings and unique new vignettes that you never would have thought of – & it all works so beautifully!

She is pure VINTAGE charm…
oh wait!! I’m NOT calling Brenda vintage – let me correct that…
her blog is pure

Vintage Charm!

Check out my Pinterest Pins here and Brenda’s here & you can see why we hooked up!

Enjoy!

Chat soon –

NORTHERN COTTAGE
(click here to go to Northern Cottage blog home)

Tip Junkie Feature

As we approach the end of the school year, I’m thrilled to see my HAND SCRUB featured over on Tip Junkie as a gift idea.

I’ve shared this recipe with my kids teachers & they’ve loved it!

Find my original post with the

SCRUB RECIPE 

here 
as well.

 

I’ve got a summer twist to this project coming down the pipeline that I think you’ll like so stop on back to see that soon!

Thanks Tip Junkie!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
(click here to go to Northern Cottage blog home)

Women Who Do It All Feature

Very cool news that my pinwheel wreath has been featured over at

Women Who Do It All

with the Dreaming of Spring post:

How lovely!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
(click here to go to Northern Cottage blog home)

Lampshade Love FEATURE

 

My string lampshade (you can read about the making of it here)
has been featured over at the fabulous

Craft Gossip site (Whoo whoot!):

 

 

 

Their recent post is about very cool ideas for lamps and lampshades…

check out the cool ideas here.

Have a great one today!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE

{Northern Cottage} Giveaway Reminder

Hey y’all

Just a little reminder that today is the last day to enter for the

little giveaway

which includes one of my handcrafted

vintage

button

bracelets:

 

 

 

Enter here by the end of the day today!

Chat soon lovelies -

NORTHERN COTTAGE

diy love!

Hooray!

 

My crepes (super yummy if I do say so myself!) are featured on this weekends post over at

DIY Showoff!

Make them for Sunday breakfast tomorrow – you won’t be sorry!

 

Go check out the site for other great ideas to whip up tomorrow!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE

Blog Swap with A Little Knick Knack!

Today I'm doing my first blog swap with Meg from A Little Knick Knack.  She is one crafty girl! 

Check out her fab tutorial below:

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Hey all!

I'm so excited to be here on Northern Cottage today. Isn't it a fabulous blog? As soon as I stumbled across it, I fell in love.

Let me introduce myself! My name is Meg and I live over at A Little Knick Knack. My blog is sort of a craft blog/home decor blog. I have 3 young children and started my blog to keep some sanity. We're trying to survive the frigid winter right now, so crafting is the way to go! I love to offer my readers fun giveaways and prodcut reviews and I host a link party every Friday called Everything but the Kitchen Sink....where the rules are, there are no rules! I'd love for ya'll to stop by!

Today I'm going to show you how to make a mini-topiary. (Really, I have no idea what to call this, so just go with me here... ;)

First, gather your supplies. A Styrofoam ball, your tin pail (or whatever you decide to put it in), gold bead branches (mine are gold because I got them 70% off at the Christmas section in Michaels. Only $.39 per branch! Deal!), wire cutters and some paint. 

First, paint your ball a darker color than your beads. You can wait for it to dry, or if you're impatient like me, you just start with the next step.

Take the wire cutters and snip off the beads, leaving a little extra wire to stick into the styrafoam. This took me about 5 1/2 branches to cover the ball.

Once your done, adorn your tin pail with a lovely bow....or leave it plain. Whatever you prefer. I wasn't a huge fan of the gold...

...so I just spray painted the whole thing a nice cream color (and since it's below zero here, I did in in our shower. I know. Don't tell hubs!)....either one looks great!

I hope you can come by A Little Knick Knack to see more fun craft projects as well as join my link party on Fridays!

Thanks for having me!

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Be sure to head over to A Little Knick Knack to see what I've been up to lately too:

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE

Featured – Top 50 DIY Blogs

I’ve been feeling the love lately…awwww

I was recently featured as one of the……

Top 50 DIY Blogs

Here is the excerpt on my little ol blog -

Northern Cottage

Those who “love junk, home, and crafts” will find much to love on this blog. There are a lot of ideas for home decor, but you’ll also find some great little gift projects, as well. Two of our favorites include metal flowers (do something useful with all those used cans!) and these button bracelets (raid your own mother’s button collection!).

Check out the full post here and peruse through the other lovely featured blogs as well.

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE

Featured on Cottage Instincts

Cottage Instincts has my little old Pantry Organizing post featured in her last Make It Monday!

Ack!  Make my day or what??

As a side note - do you subscribe to her Cottage Crush Collection - it is DIVINE!

I've been WHAT?? My first feature!!

No way!!! I can't believe it!!

My little ol' blog has been featured on an adorable site:

SOMEDAY CRAFTS....featured my little N.E.S.T. banner post from the other day!! And she's started a Linky Party to share our 'hanging' out projects!! Go check her out!!

This blogger has an amazing collection of projects that we can all add to our ever expanding To-Do lists.

Let's see -- I want to do this:

Build your own bench - {hello - isn't that gorgeous?!!!} from Moody Girl Projects:

and this:

Grapevine pumpkin from Make It and Love It {how stinkin cute is that?}:

I'm sure you'll see some of the features from Someday Crafts archives shadowed here on my blog as I get moving on this to-do list and I have a feeling if you're already her follower that your head is swimming with delightful ideas of stuff to create, do & make.

p.s. -- Today I was wielding the spray paint can(s) - so I'm sure I'll be showing you the results very soon!

Chat soon - lovlies!!

Northern Cottage