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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

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
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Yellow Flower Bucket

Take an empty lonely flower bucket

a pretty image from Graphic Fairy here

and some

mod podge

It’s pretty in this state right?

NOW

give it to your sister to fill up with blooms from her garden
like I did here

and it’s taken to a

whole

new

level

hello beautiful!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
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linked to:

diy by design * lil luna * primp * someday crafts * sweet peas and bumblebees * tea rose home * graphics fairy

A Good Summer Day

This past Saturday was a good day

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Started off visiting with some of my favorite people

(my sister and her family stayed overnight with us – we always have fun together)

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We got up and had some breakfast

{made raspberry coffee cake - mmm}

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and then

off to a local flea market

where I snagged a few goodies

{a poor broken little windmill}

{fresh sunflowers}

{vintage metal molds}

{vintage canisters}

{shelf cabinet}
gonna paint this baby up – hmmm what color?

{vintage lunchbox and enamel bucket}

I just love the color of these

{drawers and the crystal knobs}

who can’t use some additional
{wooden boxes!?}

I have plans for this stack of
{metal trays}

a
{towel bar}
that will be refreshed

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Afterwards, I got a lot of organizing done

around the house,

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I also got to play in the garden

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went for a bike ride with the kiddos,

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we all went swimming in the local watering hole

and

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came home for a quick, easy but entirely
yummy summer dinner

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yep!

a good summer day, indeed!

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
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linking to: someday crafts * at home with k * today’s creative blog

Lots of little home projects

We’ve been feathering our

we installed one of these

rain barrels

and we installed a french drain

instead of the gutters releasing all the rainwater onto our yard, it is now diverted to the back of our property

(this involved a very long trench that we’ve now backfilled and replanted grass seed)

and I’ve also been weeding and fluffing in the garden beds

the deer have eaten a lot of my hostas (this makes me sad!)

so all these little projects have determined that we haven’t been relaxing in these lately -

but we have enjoyed the fruits of our labor a little bit…

I adored the lilacs when they were in bloom

Aren’t these just yummy?

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
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Falling Behind

Is the new summer schedule affecting you as well??

I am not able to keep up with things..

I’m behind on:

* drafting posts
* reviewing my favorite blogs (google reader has 330 unread – just for this week - yikes!)
* making comments on my fav posts of YOURS! (I’m sorry!)

However – I AM

* making yummy treats & blanket forts with my kids,
* keeping up with my running (ugh!), and
* planting lots & lots container flowers.

oh yeah & I
WORK
(that soooo gets in the way of the stuff I WANT to do!)

So I think I might be giving into it just a little…
I probably WON’T be able to keep up with everything

but you know what?

that’s

OKAY!!

I’m taking care of the more important things and the most important moments the best I can!

Savor the MOMENTS!!

p.s. – BUT…if you guys see that I’ve won some FABULOUS giveaway or there’s a post out there that you think I MUST see – please let me know! wink :)

Chat soon -

NORTHERN COTTAGE
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