Category Archives: let’s get crafty

pennants, posies and pom poms

pennants, posies and pom poms
I’ve slowly been working on some fun DIY nursery projects over the past few months to make Lolo’s nursery a wonderland of whimsy.  There is no particular theme for her room but I will say pennants, posies and pom poms are well represented. The first project was dressing up our curtains.  I liked the look of our office curtains so I snatched up some butter colored ones and added pink pom poms to girly them .

delightful diy wedding shower

delightful diy wedding shower
I enjoy hosting parties… especially girly ones so when my friend, Suzanne got engaged recently I volunteered my nest for some wedding shower fun. First, the garland.  I believe this sets the tone for a festive environment.  Whether it’s party pennants, paper streamers, or puffy posies… stringing this happiness through the house says ‘party time’. I chose to make my pretty puffs with tulle.  I’ve made poms with tissue paper before, but honestly using .

celebrating best of detroit

celebrating best of detroit
We are honored to have been voted Best Gift Shop for 8 years in a row by the hip & happening HOUR Detroit Magazine. A BIG THANK YOU to our firefly fans for supporting our shops over the years and allowing us to make your days brighter.  Without faithful fans like you, we wouldn’t exist so the real award really goes to you! One tradition we’ve started to celebrate our win is creating a dress .

my office makeover

my office makeover
Steve and I will have lived in our 1950’s cape cod for a total of 10 years this summer.  We have done some remodeling and moving things around a bit over that span of time but one room was always ignored… our office.  It had an old love seat (aka our basset hound’s bed), extra coffee table, Ikea saw horse desk and a small file cabinet.  It worked but it was over crowed and .

fluffy frosting & festive flags

fluffy frosting & festive flags
Since we were hosting a birthday sale this past weekend, I couldn’t resist whipping up some cute mini cupcakes to offer our firefly fans.  I’ve always been a box cake girl, but when it comes to frosting I usually turn to my grandma’s recipe. If you’re not a fan of super sweet or thick frosting this recipe is for you!  In my opinion the texture of this tasty topping is quite divine and it’s .

walking in a winter whimsyland

walking in a winter whimsyland
Creating clever and fun Christmas cards is sorta my thing.  I take it on as a creative challenge from year to year always fearing I will someday run out of ideas.   Luckily my international daughters have been my inspiration the last few years with our campy Christmas sweater picture and also with our fun North Pole photo booth. The spark for this year’s card was ignited when our Finnish exchange student, Iitu started .

darling diy baby shower

darling diy baby shower
A good friend of mine will be welcoming her first little one into the world next month and we wanted to celebrate this happy time with a few of our  friends. I haven’t had the opportunity to host a baby shower since Pinterest came into existence so I was a bit excited to explore and get inspired. For the decorations, I came across loads of pom pom tissue cluster photos but I decided to .

terribly cute 3 tiered displays

terribly cute 3 tiered displays
It only took me two years, but I finally got around to creating my own version of these diy displays I fell in love with at I like You in Minneapolis.  Finding the glasses, bowls and plates was the easy part… what took so long was finding cute critters and fun figurines to house inside the glasses. Luckily I found a nice variety when I visited a flea market outside of Boston this summer. .

2013 best of detroit winners!

2013 best of detroit winners!
Because of fantastic firefly fans like you we were voted Best Gift Shop in Detroit by Hour Magazine for the 7th year in a row!  Our sister store, Yellow Door Art Market also won Best Place to Buy a Craft for the 3rd year in a row. To celebrate we invited our team to the Best of Detroit Party.   Instead of just sending paper invites, I chose to use some dollar store plastic .

super cute christmas photo booth props

super cute christmas photo booth props
I’ve always had a thing for photo booths.  I treasure the classic black & white photo strips I’ve saved of Steve & me during our dating years.  So it’s no surprise that I’m loving all the fun photo booth props that are popping up all over pinterest. We had a lot of fun with our campy Christmas card last year so I wanted to put together another one that brought smiles.  Steve wasn’t so .