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squeeee! I’m here to share with you a NEW!, super exciting resource we are launching for handmade shop owners, and it starts right here on Gussy Sews! We hear on a near-daily basis that this blog is “a fabulous site to browse for handmade gift ideas” and we couldn’t agree more. {Oh, how happy that [...]
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photo sources: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 YAY — today’s “7 pretty things on Sunday” post is super special! It’s a collaborative post with three other fabulous bloggers and together the seven of us are sharing one photo each to total our “7 pretty things”: Molly, Illy, Jamie, Janae, Julianna, Jade and myself. [...]
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YAY, SO EXCITED to invite all of you to participate with us – Join the bloggers of Gussy Sews, Matchstick Molly, Much Love, Illy + The Letter 4 on Sunday the 22nd for a “7 pretty things on Sunday” linky party. All you need to do is link your “7 pretty things” blog post {click [...]
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the Inspiration Workshop! — click photo for more info One week from today the Inspiration Workshop! starts back up, hooray! We took a little break in December – the first part of January for the holidays + family/friend celebrations. Now that they’re over {sad!} we hope you’re ready to link up with us again :] [...]
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December is nearing and there’s a little bit of time left to advertise with us in December. Or, consider us for the January, February & March months. We love working with handmade shops and inspiring blogs, and the positive feedback we receive let’s us know the feeling is mutual ;] We’d love to work with [...]
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Fa La La… are you ready for Christmas?? –wink! Now that it’s NOVEMBER Christmas will be here in just 7.5 short weeks, yay! Inside the Gussy Sews shop we’re B-U-S-Y cutting, sewing and packaging holiday orders, which is sew super exciting! If you’re wishing & dreaming for a Gussy this year, now is the time [...]
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featuring ekate designs I’m super, super, super excited to be announcing this upcoming pop-up shop/boutique because it’s one of the very few opportunities where Gussy Sews products are sold “in stores”. If you’re in the Twin Cities area {Prior Lake, MN} I hope you’ll stop by!!! {details below} My sweet friend Cate of Wild Ruffle [...]
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the holidays are almost here {hooray!}, and soon it’ll be time to start making your lists… think of all you’ve accomplished since last year at this time ~ maybe your family has grown {ours has, with a puppy!}, maybe you faced a fear or accomplished a dream? maybe you set a fun/silly goal, and completed [...]
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here are some photos from my quicky trip to California, which was a couple weeks ago already! hanging with my pals in Long Beach — Ruthanne, Lindsey, Jeannett, Mique, Jess breakfast at Long Beach Cafe with Jeannett and Lindsey visiting Seal Beach ♥ me + rachel, at lunch in Seal Beach // photo from rachel [...]
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Back in May I announced a new weekly linky party that I’d be hosting on my blog called Inspiration Workshop! The idea behind this was two-fold: to encourage others that creativity & inspiration can be found anywhere {and by anyone}, and to continue building up the Gussy Sews community. Really, it’s amazing ~ the fellowship [...]
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Blog Sugar 2011 from jakfoto productions on Vimeo. Yay — a video from Blog Sugar! This is the best way for me to share the experience with all of you :] Which is exciting!!! I know Rachel is exhausted from planning the event, but I’m pretty positively sure we’re all secretly hoping she’s going to [...]
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I’m here with a few photos from my trip to California for Blog Sugar ~ but first I want to thank everyone that’s been praying for me. Yesterday morning I was a brave girl ~ I made it through my flight from Minneapolis to Los Angeles without making myself sick with fear. During the flight [...]
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Last week Wednesday ~ Saturday I was in St. Paul, MN {tee hehe, about 25 minutes from my house} at The Creative Connection. Have you heard of it? Ohhhhh, where do I even start in describing it?! TCC is one of my favorite conferences because of the women that are there in attendance. It’s such [...]
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L to R: Jen, Wendy, Shelley, Laurie, me {photo credit} …and I am feeling SO inspired!!!!!!!!!!! Seriously, TCC has been an incredible weekend of planning, growth and lots of laughing — definitely one of the best investments I’ve made for my business to-date. I’m ready to start working on the ideas that were born these [...]
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Did you know I’m kinda obsessed with Terrariums? Well I am. There’s a local floral shoppe named Amelia’s that I LOVE to visit, and when I found out they were hosting their first-ever Terrarium building class I signed up right away! I even turned my blog post about my new, pretty Terrarium into a DIY [...]
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{squeeeee} The holidays are ALMOST here, and to get ready for the cozy season I’m putting together my second annual Holiday Gift Guide. In about 6 weeks I’ll launch the guide ~ which is so exciting {hooray!}. This is the perfect blog “event” for me because since I started blogging I’ve loved learning about & [...]
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