{Giveaway Day: True Love Found}

this giveaway is now closed! Amy is the sweet mama behind True Love Found, an Etsy shop featuring prince/princess crowns, wands, and hair clips. It’s a good thing she runs this gig because if I did you’d find me playing with all the princess crowns and wands all. day. long. Ohhh, my! They are just [...]

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{Giveaway Day: Spunk and Sass Designs}

this giveaway is now closed! Spunk and Sass Designs is run by friends Bailey and Valerie. Both share a love for crafting and together they create super cute jewelry. I’m especially fond of the pearls found in many of their pieces: Seriously?So cute. How about we peruse some more items from their shop? I bet [...]

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{Giveaway Day: The Chubby Dove}

this giveaway is now closed! Have you ever met The Chubby Dove? I love her personalized gifts and home accessories for a living. I mean, c’mon. They are darling. Know what else is darling? Her blog. Just look at this delicious-ness: You know what else is rad?The Chubby Dove accepts custom orders. Valentine’s Day is [...]

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{Giveaway Day: Dixie Davis}

this giveaway is now closed! I’d like to start out by sharing an honest thought: I am soooo jealous of the winner of this giveaway. You don’t even know what you’re about to win, and I’m already telling you that I’m jealous. Friends, meet Dixie Davis, owner of Dixiediy on Etsy. You may remember her [...]

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{Giveaway Day: Two Little Tots}

this giveaway is now closed! Two Little Tots is an Etsy shop run by a super cute mom of twin girls. Melissa creates a handful of darling items for kids, like burp clothes, crayon rolls, messy flower hair clips, and more! Of course her inspiration is based off her daughters wants and needs, however this [...]

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{Giveaway Day: b’s {blog} boutique}

this giveaway is now closed! Happy Monday, y’all! Today is Giveaway Day! Many of you have been anticipating today and well, it’s finally here. Yeow! There are 12 shops lined up for today. Each hour, starting at 6 am, a new shop will be featured and at the end of the post a giveaway will [...]

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{later this week…}

…you’ll see more of these babies! But first we have to have Giveaway Day :) So I’ll see you back here, tomorrow!

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{woo hoo!}

Hey y’all! Remember, Giveaway Day is Monday! wooooooooo :) I’m so super excited to share with you MANY features and giveaways.Be sure to come back Monday at 6 am! See ya then! xo♥

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{signing off for the weekend}

There are so many amazing, fun, and exciting Gussy things for me to accomplish in the next few weeks. I feel, in order to get everything done, I need to turn my computer off for the weekend. Yup, I’m a little nervous. Hah. I need to really focus all my attention on accomplishing my goals [...]

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{Featured Artist: LetterHappy}

Update: The 10% shop discount with Letter Happy is good through Thursday, January 28. Here at Gussy has a lot to say we love to look at all things beautiful. Beautiful wall art, beautiful winter accessories, beautiful stories about family life. Today marks week #10 of my series on featured Etsy artists. It is my [...]

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{I’m all over the place}

I thought y’all should know this is post #506. {After 1.5 years of blogging!}Because I recently saw that. #506. That is a big number.Sounds like Gussy has had something to say over this last year or so. ———- There are a few great, great giveaways going on: ♥ Enter to win $20 shop credit with [...]

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{lots o’ ruffles}

You know what I love? Ruffles. Hello, Maggie, do you think that surprises anyone? You know what else I love? Seeing this when I type “Gussy” in Compfight.com {Compfight is Flickr‘s search engine; Flickr is an online photo-management site.} Ahhhh. Gussy-licious.

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{get some tissues. I’ll wait…}

Yesterday was a busy day. I went into work as usual, but left early so I could take Zack to a doctor’s appointment. A little non-routine for us, but God had His hand on this situation and everything turned out to be fine. After Zack’s appointment we chowed on some lunch together. It was a [...]

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{yeow! big news}

Big news, folks. BIG, exciting news :) If you follow me on twitter you may know I’ve been interested in adding a second shop for a little while now. I decided to go ahead with this for many reasons, some of which I’m able to share with you below. I have been so, so, so [...]

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{my list of 10, plus a winner}

Ten things that help me stay focused  while being Gussy: 1. Keep a creative workspace 2. Music. Must be on! 3. Organize what I need to sew and group projects according to fabric {and required thread color} 4. Keep computer in another room ;) 5. Set small goals. “I will sew through this pile and [...]

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{…it was good}

[credit] Genesis 1:10   God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.”  And God saw that it was good.

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