There is no place like HOME!

by Diane on 09/03/2010

Hi Everyone-

As you probably have gathered by now, I am home! Home Sweet Home. The best place in the world – all my creature comforts nearby, friends, and family – peaceful. I have been doing a lot of sleeping and getting more energy with each passing day. I have posted a few posts – easy to write ones with no tutorial – the dress form giveaway and a link up of my blogging space to Centsational Girl. I am currently working on a fun project, you may remember the post I did about my On-Going Christmas Project link- up. The project is in a semi-done state and just needs to be assembled. It is in the basket below. This type of project is perfect for me now as it is a sit on the sofa kinda project. My craft cart is coming in mighty handy and is keeping me organized. My plan is to post this project in it’s complete state on Monday.

I also wanted to express my gratitude to each one of you for your comments and emails. I’ve enjoyed reading each and every message…some of you had me laughing (thanks). Your heartfelt and authentic sentiments have helped me keep a positive outlook through my medical misery. This blog brings me so much joy, mainly because I get to connect with you every day.

Thanks for being here and helping me get through with a smile on my face :)

I also wanted to share a few things that I have found. Since I had been off the blogging radar for awhile, you can imaging how many posts were waiting for me in my Google Reader when I got home – hundreds and hundreds of them. I finally got through the last few this morning. It was a bit overwhelming at first and I thought I would just clear the reader, but I didn’t want to miss any posts, so I tackled a bit each day. I found so much inspiration and wanted to share a bit of it with you. I like to title posts like this as:

In Their Own Style

Inspiring Posts I have found around the blogosphere

I love these free printable gift or seed envelopes that Cathe over at Just Something I Made created for us to use. I love, love, love the two below. I plan on tucking in some special little surprises into them to give to my friends and family. You can find all the printables and a full tutorial over at Cathe’s blog, Just Something I Made.

Jessica over at How About Orange made these clever gift bags out of ordinary envelopes and decorative tape. She has a full- step-by-step- tute also. Can you tell I have a thing for gift bags?

Heather Bullard posted a basil pesto recipe. I have tons of basil in my garden right now and this recipe looks delicious and easy to make. I just love Heather’s scrumptious photos.

I also have been waiting to use these tags that I found a while ago. Amberlee over at the Giver’s Log created these labels to go on jars filled with pesto she made. You can find the download for the labels, here.

I love illustrations.!!!! I love to see different artist’s style and the way they use color. Over at They Draw, They Cook you get to see many artists work on a daily basis with recipes. I love soup and could live on soup and Panera French baguettes all year long. With fall coming – soup season – this Sausage and Lentil Soup has my name all over it.

The Trendy Girl posted this very clever, fun idea. It makes you realize how easy it is to repurpose items – even a well- worn hoodie to carry your laptop in a jif.

I hope you all have a wonderful Labor Day Weekend. See you back here on Monday.

My best – Diane

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She Needs Style – Dress Form Giveaway

by Diane on 08/31/2010

Happy September 1st!

Fall is getting closer and closer and that makes me so happy that I want to celebrate with a giveaway – a very stylish one.

I have a very dense Styrofoam dress form to give away to one of you. She is 26 1/2″ tall and has a 26″ waist. She needs you to add your style to her. She has no finial or pole, she is just a body.

You have probably seen mine in a few of my posts – here she is. I covered her in brown paper bags and sealed them with Mod Podge.

Or perhaps you have seen Cathe’s over at Just Something I Made. She has no finial and still looks fabulous.

Look how Heather Bullard made hers look very French.

Or these colorful beauties from Gourment Carmel Apples - maybe you could use a glass doorknob as a finial.

I found this tres chic one in Women’s Day Magazine. Oooohhh.. lala…

Here is the actual dress form that you have a chance to win.

To enter the Giveaway

1. Become a subscriber or follower of InMyOwnStyle and leave me a comment telling me you did so. If you are a follower or subscriber already, just leave me a comment telling me so.

2. Tweet, post it on your Facebook page, digg, stumble, etc… and leave me another comment telling me you did so.

The Giveaway will run for one week. It is only open to residents of the US and Canada. It will end at 12:00 midnight on Tuesday September 7th, 2010. I will announce the winner on Wednesday September 8th.

Good Luck and Happy September 1st!

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Where Do I Blog?

August 30, 2010

Kate over at Centsational Girl has asked the question – Where do you blog? If you have been following me for some time- then you have seen the room which I call my studioffice. It is where I spend 80% of my blogging and creating time, although my hubby would beg to differ as I am [...]

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YIKES!!!!

August 28, 2010

What else can go wrong for me, my site template just went wonky. The stars are not aligning for me lately. I can’t get stressed over it – it is only a temporary problem and will be fixed soon. I am working on two projects that I have been creating from my sofa. As soon as [...]

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I Miss All of You!

August 24, 2010

Hi Everybody- I can’t thank you enough for all the flowers and cards, wonderful e-mails and get well wishes you have left for me. They have brought tons of sunshine into the four walls I have had to call home for the past week. I am still here – in the hospital, but feeling sooooooooooooooooooo [...]

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Where in the World is Diane?

August 19, 2010

This is a multiple choice question. Please get out your #2 pencil What do the following 3 photos have in common? a. Library b. Supermarket c. Hospital d. Mall If you chose “c” you are correct. I had an unexpected opportunity to visit the hospital as my pancreas is acting up a bit. Although there’s no [...]

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A Stylish Script

August 17, 2010

Yesterday I walked into my local supermarket and right inside the door for all to see was a display filled with these… Wreaths – pretty Autumn ones. Which signals -Fall is soon upon us. I got all excited as I love Autumn. It is my favorite time of year. I live for it!! My husband thinks I am [...]

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For the Silhouette-less

August 12, 2010

Hi Everybody- Can’t believe it is Thursday - this week is speeding by and I can’t seem to get caught up as I was too busy entering all the Silhouette giveaways. Of course, I didn’t win, but it was worth trying. I work in display and I use these ”vinyls” or “VATS” as we call them in the display trade - every day. [...]

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My Day at the BlogHer ’10 Conference in NYC

August 9, 2010

So much to tell you… so much I did last Friday at the Blogher Conference and in NYC in general. Because I am a visual kind of girl, I have lots of pictures in this post -some good, others not so good. But I hope it gives you a little glimpse of what happens at a blog [...]

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Winner of the CSN $40.00 Giveaway

August 9, 2010

I have to thank all of you for entering my first CSN Stores Giveaway. I really enjoyed reading and appreciate each and every one of your comments. I also want to thank-you for helping me get the word out by tweeting and posting on your Fb pages. I am not sure anyone shouted it from the rooftops – but [...]