The Crew

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Alisa Holland is living her dream and true calling as a full-time mommy and as a while-the-children-nap artist/designer/illustrator. She spends her days shnoogoling her babies, experimenting with ingredients in the kitchen, avoiding laundry, and cultivating creativity by collecting inspiration from motherhood and everyone she meets, living in the moment, embracing the imperfections, striving to accept every season of lifd, and searching for growth from every opportunity.

Alisa Loves...

motherhood, making stuff, lists, knickknacks, notebooks, postcards, quotes, scuba diving, thrifting, creme brulee, camping, autumn, a perfect cup of tea, being at the right place at the right time, sunshine rainstorms, meaning, balance, passion, a hearty sneeze, a good cry, an even better laugh, finding order in the chaos, carbs, cultivating beauty, the sound of junk sucking up into a vacuum and of fabric being cut, her insatiable wanderlust and subsequent need to travel the world with husband, fresh flowers, asia, writing, reading, creating, making a difference, her opinion of good music and good food, feeling alive.

Alisa's life is complete because...

...She is innumerably blessed to be the mother of bo (daughter) and isaiah (son).

...She gets to fall in love/make out with jared (husband) for eternity

...She is alway learning, growing, evolving.

...Her life is filled with dreams, music, laughter, hope, love, god, inspiration, and beauty.

Read more about her organized chaos here: +My Concrete Sky

Watch for her newest naptime adventure coming soon: Looking for Lovely

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April Meeker lives by the ocean.  But she hasn't been to the beach in over a year because she has two little one-year-old babies (Irish twins) that crawl into the water and find old cigarette butts in the sand to chew on.  She also has a seven-year-old son who tends to wander off on grand boyhood adventures with other strange children. She gets help wrangling this motley crew from a tall guy named Benjamin, who also happens to be the love of her life.

April is the owner/designer behind Secondsister Designs.  She has been making jewelry for sixteen years and illustrating for the last couple of years.  She has hoped these ventures would make her rich and famous but instead they have made her happy.

You can read all about the Meeker family shenanigans on Suaviloquy.

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Christy Tomlinson is creator and owner of Scarlet Lime and Scarlet lime BeadArt, two online stores. Scarlet lime is a mixed Media Shop and Scarlet lime BeadArt offers unique jewelry kits and supplies.

She is blessed to do both full time with her husband out of their home in the small town of Shelley, Idaho. Christy has been in the art industry for over 10 years: first working for a papercrafting manufacturer, and then for Scrapbooks Etc. and Better Homes and Garden Magazine as an editor. She has traveled and taught her art throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and even South Africa. Christy is a mixed media artist at heart and enjoys creating canvas, jewelry and fabric art.

Christy loves reading, snowboarding, camping and spending time with her family. She is married to her best friend, Ben, for almost 17 years and loves that she gets to work with him every day. They have 6 awesome children.. five boys and one girl; ages ranging from 15 to 5. Christy also loves blogging and uses her blog as a way to share her art , offer tutorials and teach online workshops. She feels blessed to be able to create art and support her family at the same time.

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Margie is 

a hip hop Mom to 4 grown kids! 

Friend to everyone she meets 

Loves a good laugh 

Has been off the sauce {Diet Dr. Pepper} since January 2nd...

{it's killing her}

Makes stuff with paper, fabric, paint, and glue 

Glitter is her friend 

The color pink is her favorite

Loves a good pedi 

Hates goodbyes 

Makes pretty paper

Loves teaching all over the world 

Busy with a business with her daughters & designs papercrafting products 

Has a passion for life and loves to share it 

Margie is just a girl loving life... 

Want to know more?

You can read her blog: just a girl

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Amy...


Here's The Story...

She is married to her best friend- a real hottie that totally cracks her up!  They have three kids- two boys and a girl.  They keep Amy hopping but they have a lot of fun!  She loves aprons- making them, wearing them, giving them, collecting them!  She's a total reader... last year she read 54 books for a total of 21, 221 pages- NERD ALERT!  She teaches 7th and 8th grade English every other day- and LOVES it!  She loves to create, entertain, have fun and laugh!  Oh... and she has 19 sets of dishes- it's a real problem.  She would tell you her favorite thing to do is plan and throw parties!
Her motto is, "Life's a party... and I am hosting!"

More of Amy's This n' That here.