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Feature Friday-Blog Swap with The Country Chic Cottage

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I can’t believe I am on Feature Friday! My name is Angie with The Country Chic Cottage.

The Country Chic Cottage

Stop by my blog for thrifty transformations, decor, crafting and tutorials. I am a full time working wife and mom of three. Yes job, blog, kids, hubby, etsy ( not necessarily in that order 🙂 )…I am a little c-r-a-z-y! But I enjoy blogging and running my etsy shop. So I just call my crazy crafting “me time” and I blog all about it! I just have to show you some of my faves!

Michelle asked me to answer a few questions:

  • What is your favorite crafting tool or secret weapon?

Glue gun or sewing machine? It is a toss up I think. I don’t know if I could go without either one. Can you see me taking them both with me when I am stranded on a desert island?? Hope there is electricity….


  • What is your favorite Halloween tradition?

For our family, trick or treating involves a lot of visiting! We go to only family and friends. We stop and visit with each one. This means we travel many miles that night but in the end the memories are worth it!


  • If you could swap houses with someone who would it be and why?

Martha! I would sooooo take over her craft room! 🙂

These are no sew!! Swear!

For your little diva!

You just gotta love maps!

I am all about shabby!

I love, love vintage quilt squares…possibly too much…
Y’all come on over to The Country Chic Cottage for a visit! I would love to have ya!

Thanks so much Michelle! (y’all already know her projects rock!!) You are the best!

~Angie~

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Paper Pumpkins

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I found some really cute doilies at Dollar tree and immediately knew I could make some fun paper pumpkins out of them. If you have five minutes and a glue stick you can make these! They are so easy and turned out super cute.

Items needed:

  • Paper pumpkin doilies
  • Glue stick
  • Green wire or ribbon

1. Separate the doilies, this can be tricky as they stick together. I never did get 36.
2. Fold the doily in half with the orange inside.
3. Glue two white sides together by putting glue on the parts without holes and carefully lining them up.

4. Continue gluing and stacking. I liked using 12 doilies per pumpkin. It seemed to have just the right amount of fullness. Glue the top doily to the bottom doily to finish it off.

Congrats you just made paper pumpkins! Don’t you look fancy!

Put them on the table or hide them from your toddler on a shelf.

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Natura Bedding Review

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A couple of months ago I was contacted by Natura to review some of their natural washable wool bedding. I visited their website and was excited to try the comforter and mattress pad.

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We were in the process of moving our son out of the nursery to prepare for boy #2 on the way and it really could not have come at a better time. I had been looking for some bedding for the little one and was not in love with anything. We wanted a paleontologist theme in his room, but I did not want him to look down and see dinosaurs on his bedding and get scared.

Natura provides products that you can feel good about, organic and hypoallergenic so that you know your little one is wrapped up in nature’s goodness. I love that I can help him fight off his fears the boogy man and his bedding can help him fight off invisible “monsters.”

I got the package in the mail and the nursery transition began. Our office turned big boy room had fresh coats of paint, carpets cleaned and was all ready for his new (to him-it was daddy’s bunk bed when he was little, his dad built it) bed to be dressed. (I did not iron the comforter, it is straight from the box. Don’t judge.) I love that everything was fresh, new, and germ free!

I have to be honest I was a bit skeptical about wool, to me many times wool is associated with scratchy and hot. But, the washable wool is wrapped in cotton sateen that is sooo soft. I hardly want to leave when I lay on it to read him bedtime stories. The comforter is designed to regulate temperature which is great for these transition seasons when it is cold one night and hot the next. Our little guy tends to get hot and sweaty when he sleeps so this is ideal. See all the cool features on the box.

And the mattress pad is under there, you just can’t see it. I love that it is waterproof without being noisy or crunchy. Little guy is newly potty trained, so a good mattress pad is a must! I love that it provides a little cushion on his rather firm mattress and according to the box has “Natural Silver Technology that kills microbes, fungi, viruses and dust mites.” After the Kirby salesman showed me a picture of dust mites that means a lot to me!!

So now that his bed is properly “armed” I can send him to bed feeling good and armed with a battle axe for any other monsters that may decide to creep out of the closet. Is mine the only kid who forgoes the teddy bears for swords, hammers and saws? Sleep tight little one!

Now, I just wish I had their baby collection for the one on the way!

In all fairness, there was a little sticker shock when I first saw the prices. They are high for my taste, but you pay for quality right. I mean look at all these certifications!
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P.S. On the Natura homepage it says that if you Fan them on Facebook you get 10% off!!

Thanks Natura!

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Fall Garland

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I got the idea a couple of weeks ago to make a fall garland that reads “I’ve Fallen for You.” I headed over to Dollar Tree to see what I could find to make my fall garland a reality.

They had just what I needed.
Two 4 ft. fall garlands
Three packs of fall leaves with wire stems

1. Stretch out the garlands on the table so you can see the space you have to work with.
2. Using a sharpie, write a letter on alternating colors of the wire stemmed leaves to spell out “I’ve fallen for you.”

3. Attach the leaves to the fall garland using the wire stem, spreading them across the whole thing, but leaving room to attach a picture between each word.

4. Print small pictures of your family in Sepia tone. Most of mine were 2″x 3″ so I could print two on a 4″ x 6″ photo paper.
5. Attach them to the fall garland using garden twine.

6. Hang on the wall. I tied twine to the garland and hung a loop over a nail.

I love that it brings a bit of those luscious warm colors in and can stay up until Thanksgiving. I don’t want to have to worry much about my decor with the new baby coming mid November.

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