Cheer me up Monday!

Get your week started right with these cute things that made me smile!

Check out my sister's new blog, Sunbeam Yellow, and this owl pumpkin tutorial she posted!

There is nothing cuter than a fat little hippo.  Almost makes me want to drop $58 on a set of two. (from Serena and Lily via Fresh Home Blog) Almost.

 This is from my local IHOP restaurant, but I love the idea of taking a regular picture, cutting out something basic and putting neat-o designed paper behind it.

 I've never been a big advent calendar person, but this one (similar to one I saw at Target) is cute with little doors that open.  Would be fun to put a Hershey's Kiss in each door.

What fun things did YOU discover this weekend?

Vintage Find Keepsake

In a nomadic life, it's important to remember all the places you're been and lived and find a keepsake so you never forget! 

My husband was demolishing a closet in our current house to prepare it for renters and found this old old old business card inside.  I love vintage stuff, and it will definitely find a home in a frame.

According to this website John Story and his boots and shoes business was listed in the business directory of Swampscott, MA in 1856!  That's pretty old, which may explain why Swampscott is spelled differently than we spell it now.

Gearing up for the Capitol

Umm...is Washington, DC "capital" or "capitol"?  Too much Real Housewives and not enough CSPAN for me, I suppose.

EIGHT days until we roll out of Boston for good.  Time to stop living in denial and start getting excited for DC.  To make myself feel better, I started practicing using the letter "R" more and surfed around Etsy to find the cutest DC-related things I could.  It's important when you're a Move-a-lot to psych yourself up for your new town.

Enjoy!

Goodbye Boston "T", hello DC Metro!  $49.99 from qacreate on Etsy

I love vintage maps and posters! $30.00 from Imagerich on Etsy.

Does this scream "tourist!" $32.00 from VintageHotCake on Etsy.

Mmmm...cherry blossoms.  $5.50 from LippincotSoapCo. on Etsy

Are these metro stops?  So many new places to learn!  $119.00 from WestEggStudio on Etsy.

Waiting for a space!

I LOVE to bookmark great sites that sell cute things, even if I'm not ready for them yet.  One day I will be!  We're moving soon, so it's not the time to buy new things, because we don't even know where we will be living in DC, but how cute is this?

Perfect for a bathroom, right next to my uber-magnifying mirror.

A nice guest room print to hang

See all the prints for sale here, and just try to pick only one!  KEEP CALM GALLERY

Just a bit of awesomeness

I love the look of vintage, but I don't like to buy old things that don't mean anything.  I recently saw an office of a designer in a magazine, and he had stuff in there that was neat, but didn't have any connection to him, other than he thought it was neat.  For me, I like to buy things I have some type of connection to.  Which is why I bought this great sign from Etsy.  Now, to hang it in the new house or the new office??

Note: Just the long sign, not the framed mirror/window is what I got