View from inside Mussenden Temple to the Ruins of Bishops Palace, originally uploaded by MarsW.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
i think this is magical
View from inside Mussenden Temple to the Ruins of Bishops Palace, originally uploaded by MarsW.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Friday, May 29, 2009
Hand Sew a Love Letter
Sew in Love : Twig & Thistle
Etsy Shop
If you don't think you could pull of the beautifully stitched notebook paper that Kathleen made for her husband, order one of these instead for your foundation: Paper Towel Tea Towel
I would die if I ever received something like this, what an amazing giftable heirloom.
Unhatched Stories
Womb part II, originally uploaded by Samantha Lamb.
flickr
blog
I can't even begin to tell you how much I ADORE Samantha's work. I've spent way more time than I'd like to admit ogling her photos. They make you want to lay down, hug yourself & roll down a long grassy knoll giggling your ass off, with dreams in your eyes & peach juice dried on your white dress. amazing.
Card Drops!
Card Drops by Marissa Webb from Georgia.
Marissa added these to our flickr pool. She used them on the back of envelopes, gave one with some homemade granola bars to her nutrition teacher & left one at an Australian bakery.
Thank you for spreading the love!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Kind Over Matter Wish Tree
photo credit: Jerry Yoon
As I was browsing Jerry's site I came across the above photo which inspired our next printable download!
Printable PDF Downloads:
Kind Over Matter Wish Tree Cards PDF
Kind Over Matter Wish Tree Cards - BLANK PDF
All you need is a paper cutter/ scissors, hole punch & some twine or ribbon to hang them. You can write some of your hopes, dreams, wishes on the back of the worded cards or I included a blank PDF above for you to make your own!
Here are two sites that show you how to make the tree portion of this DIY, one is easier than the other but both turn out beautiful! Or you can find a pretty vase & bundle some nice branches & hang them off them, so many possibilities! I absolutely LOVE this idea for a wedding:
- Real Wedding Inspiration: Guest Book Tree -
- DIY Manzanita Tree and Wish Card Templates -
Enjoy!
1 + 1 = 1
Jerry Yoon Photography
I am absolutely in love with Jerry & Ingrid's wedding/engagement photography! I could spend hours there sighing.
Enjoy!
Giveaway Thursday #11!
This week's Giveaway Thursday is from Kelli at
Kelli Murray Art !
You have a chance to win her 14 x 24 Power to the Peaceful canvas print!!
I am so-so excited about this week's giveaway! eeeee! A quick story: I'm addicted to etsy. No, no really, I am. One of my favorite things to do is to look for giveaways for KOM because then I get to look at all the pretties...and it's ok! It's like i'm doing work only it's so fun!
Anyway so, I'm looking through etsy, swooning over nearly every single thing I see, and then I stumble upon this entry, and oh I want it. how I want it! but not for me, for you! Well, maybe a little bit for me, too, but mainly for you all. It's so big, it's so pretty!
So I put on my Big Girl Pants™ and e-mail Kelli, asking her if she would possibly maybe please-please-please be interested in perhaps taking part in a giveaway of the print. And then I hold my breath and hit send...
.....and she says yes! I felt like this! So yeah, I'm pretty stoked about all this. Ahem.
Find Kelli here:
Etsy
Website
Tell me about a time when you took a chance on something, when you dreamed so big about something you weren't sure would work out but you tried anyway.
Contest ends Wednesday June 3 at 8pm EST.
The winners will be announced Thursday, June 4.
Bonus Entries:
If you do any of the following let us know by letting a separate comment for each one you do. If you do any of the following already, let us know in an extra comment. Please, please make a separate comment for each of the bonus things that you do or your comment won't count. The separate comments help us to stay organized & makes choosing a winner so much easier...& it also ups your chances of winning! If you have any questions please e-mail us!
1. Follow our blog.
2. Follow Amanda or Jenn on Twitter & Tweet about this giveaway.
3. Join our Flickr Pool.
4. Join our Facebook Group.
5. Buy something from Kelli's shop & make THREE extra comments!
6. Share a photo of a card drop that you've done & make TWO extra comments.
7. Subscribe to our updates via the feedburner there on the right & you get ONE extra comment.
Please make sure to leave your e-mail address with each comment you make!
Good luck everyone!!
Giveaway #10 Winner!
Claire from
won Giveaway Thursday #10!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You'll be wearing this lovely necklace from Isette soon!
Her entry comment was: Ok, embarrassing moment of my life has to be when I met Margaret Atwood -- she was doing a reading at my local art college and, well, I IDOLISE this woman, basically. After the reading I was the very last person in the signing queue, I went up to her, desperate to impress. She caught me off-guard by saying "you look very beautiful, I love your dress". And er, here's the embarrassing bit... so much of her work is focussed on sisterhood, the relationship between sisters -- my sister and I were living together at the time and with all this swirling around in my head I said, INCREDIBLY enthusiastically "I borrowed it from my sister especially." She just looked at me as if to say 'riiiiiiight...', signed my book and then I fled. ARGH heinous. I am blushing just typing this!
Oh man! Yes, you definitely deserve this Claire!
Special Thanks to Jennifer for donating her work to our cause, thank you so!
Thanks all who entered, spread the word!
Please visit our sponsors to your right, many of them have donated their work & time into Kind Over Matter, we thank them greatly. Consider becoming a sponsor!
Peace to you!
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
pour kind over matter
daisy chains, originally uploaded by czuczy.
aim, blow bubbles, celebrate the little things, dance, enchant, free yourself, give, have hope, innocence (see the light in everyone’s soul), jump, kind over matter, listen, listen, listen, magic- believe it, nibble, optimism, playfulness, quiet, randomness, smile, take part in, ubiquitous, vitality, wonder, exhilarate, yip, zig-zag
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Trying to take flight. (229)
Trying to take flight. (229), originally uploaded by whatmegsaid.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
a little me
toni from modern day pioneers has started the coolest project -- if you e-mail her your name, address + blog link, she'll send you a little something in the mail!
what toni has to say about her project:
"I love to craft.
The only problem is that I am quick and am slowly running out of walls to hang things on and shelves to place things upon.
I also love to give things away. To make someones day.
So I am starting a little me.
All you have to do is email me your name and your address (and your blog so I can link you) and I will send you something free.
It could be home made jam, lemon candies, an embroidery, a tea towel, vegemite, tim tams.....just a little me to give to you."
there are already 75 people on the list! SEVENTY-FIVE! i just think that this is the neatest thing, so sweet and generous.
click on the photo up top to read toni's entry and to learn more about her project. Pin It
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Thank you for Nursing in Public
Download High-Quality Printables:
Kind Over Matter Breastfeeding Cards PDF
or
Download the JPG
Check out Kind Over Matter's 60+ Printable Freebies here!
I was inspired by MooMama's blog yesterday & also a comment made by Samantha, one of our readers.
I am a nursing mother. We are an eco-friendly family, we cloth diaper, the works, so I wanted to combine these two truths for our next download somehow!
I don't know how many times I've nursed my baby in the back seat of our car, granted, it is roomy back there but you get the picture. I guess I have no good excuse why I didn't nurse much in public, maybe I didn't want to ever put myself & my baby in the position to be confronted or gawked at. I live in a small town, breastfeeding is so far from the norm it's scary, plus I am a pretty modest person in general, so the combination of those two factors equals very little nursing while out & about. I am still nursing my 18 month old & I'm very proud of that, as they get older though the stares become more judgmental & you sometimes question yourself, it's really a sad scenario. I wish that we could freely feed our babies no matter their age or where our bodies are positioned on this earth. We have family across state so we have taken many trips to visit them. I've nursed outside at rest areas under the willow trees too many times to count, it was truly beautiful. We would see other mama's nursing their babies there & other different places, I always wanted to acknowledge what they were doing with something more than a knowing nod & smile, without interrupting them of course, because you never can tell if their baby is easily distracted (like mine!)
I made these cards so you could quietly pass through & place one next to where they are seated, to let them know that you think they are wonderful. I've seen cards similar to these around, I really just wanted to make my own set to share because I think they are a lovely gesture. If you have friends that nurse, pass them along, if you are attending a baby shower where you know the mama will be nursing, print a few pages up & tie a thin ribbon around them to add to your gift.
You can make & then print these or any of our Kind Over Matter Cards on Seed Paper!
Thanks to Samantha for the idea!
- How to Make Seed Embedded Plantable Paper -
- Some of Etsy's Plantable Paper Artists! -
Thanks for listening to my story :)
Have a safe & wonderful holiday weekend, we are traveling, peace to you.
I am a nursing mother. We are an eco-friendly family, we cloth diaper, the works, so I wanted to combine these two truths for our next download somehow!
I don't know how many times I've nursed my baby in the back seat of our car, granted, it is roomy back there but you get the picture. I guess I have no good excuse why I didn't nurse much in public, maybe I didn't want to ever put myself & my baby in the position to be confronted or gawked at. I live in a small town, breastfeeding is so far from the norm it's scary, plus I am a pretty modest person in general, so the combination of those two factors equals very little nursing while out & about. I am still nursing my 18 month old & I'm very proud of that, as they get older though the stares become more judgmental & you sometimes question yourself, it's really a sad scenario. I wish that we could freely feed our babies no matter their age or where our bodies are positioned on this earth. We have family across state so we have taken many trips to visit them. I've nursed outside at rest areas under the willow trees too many times to count, it was truly beautiful. We would see other mama's nursing their babies there & other different places, I always wanted to acknowledge what they were doing with something more than a knowing nod & smile, without interrupting them of course, because you never can tell if their baby is easily distracted (like mine!)
I made these cards so you could quietly pass through & place one next to where they are seated, to let them know that you think they are wonderful. I've seen cards similar to these around, I really just wanted to make my own set to share because I think they are a lovely gesture. If you have friends that nurse, pass them along, if you are attending a baby shower where you know the mama will be nursing, print a few pages up & tie a thin ribbon around them to add to your gift.
You can make & then print these or any of our Kind Over Matter Cards on Seed Paper!
Thanks to Samantha for the idea!
- How to Make Seed Embedded Plantable Paper -
- Some of Etsy's Plantable Paper Artists! -
Thanks for listening to my story :)
Have a safe & wonderful holiday weekend, we are traveling, peace to you.
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Giveaway Thursday #10!!!
This week's Giveaway Thursday is from Jennifer at
Isette !
You have a chance to WIN one of her Love Necklaces!!
Find Jennifer here:
Etsy
How to Enter:
COMMENTS CLOSED, WINNER TBA!
We want to laugh, not at your expense but with you!
Learning to laugh at yourself & not take yourself too seriously is important!
If I could enter (I wish I could every week!) I would tell you about the time my current love & I got lost while driving cross country, in the middle of nowhere California, after midnight, with little to no gas in the tank. We exited looking for a gas station & all of a sudden we were traveling this dark back road. After a little while we came upon a well-lit area & were relieved, until we realized it was high-security prison! It was kinda creepy. We did find the gas station but it was vacant, thank whatever is holy for credit cards. California has some crazy ass bugs too!
Contest ends Wednesday May 27th at 8pm EST.
The Winners will be announced on Thursday, May 28th.
Bonus Entries:
If you do any of the following let us know by letting a separate comment for each one you do. If you do any of the following already, let us know in an extra comment. Please, please make a separate comment for each of the bonus things that you do or your comment won't count. The separate comments help us to stay organized & makes choosing a winner so much easier...& it also ups your chances of winning! If you have any questions please e-mail us!
1. Follow our blog.
2. Follow Amanda or Jenn on Twitter & Tweet about this giveaway.
3. Join our Flickr Pool.
4. Join our Facebook Group.
5. Buy something from Jennifer's shop & get THREE extra comments!
6. Share a photo of a card drop that you've done & make TWO extra comments.
7. Subscribe to our updates via the feedburner there on the right & you get ONE extra comment.
Please make sure to leave your email address with each comment you make!
Good Luck to all of you!!!! Thanks Jennifer!
Don't forget to visit our sponsors! They are RAD as all!
winner! number! 9!
Crystal P from Music and Mommies!!
her haiku about what she'd carry in the bag is:
Everything I own
I often carry with me
I am a pack rat
=)
the super swank messenger bag from Cindy at midTown Tees will be heading over to you soon!
cindy -- thank you so-so much for taking part in last week's giveaway -- you're the best!
to all of the other wonderful people who entered, thank you so much! it was so much fun reading all of the haikus, thank you for humoring me by writing them. i wasn't sure if anyone would write one, i was scared we wouldn't get any entries! so the overwhelming number of comments for last week's giveaway really made me happy.
peace to you!
