Family Time

**** We'll be out of the studio until Monday October 31st...  All orders placed between now and then will be shipped by Thursday, November 3rd****

We will be spending the next few days here

We're heading to Boone & Asheville, NC to tour colleges with this guy.
 

  We thought we would take advantage of this opportunity to  spend some quiet family time in the mountains.  James and I realized that our kids are really needing some QUALITY time with us and each other.  
 

We've been so busy that we rarely take the time to do things like play board games and bake cookies together, you know, that special stuff that they will remember when they get older.

 No laptop, emails, Facebook, Nintendo DS, or IPods...just us enjoying each others company.


The only thing that we'll be missing is the girl (who turned 21  today). 

She's 800 miles away and we wish she were here.  Our family time just isn't the same without her. 

Well, we'll chat with you next week.  I plan on coming home relaxed and fulfilled...oh and I hope the tours go well too!

Small Changes

We had some technical issues with our website yesterday.  But, they're all fixed now (what a relief!)

We also made a few changes to the site. 

We added a new, easier to use search.

There's also a link to a great wall decal installation tutorial by Brittany aka Pretty Handy Girl 

and a link to our Matte Vinyl Color Chart.

Enlarging the pics of our designs has been on my list for a while and I am glad to have that done.  Check!

We'll continue to make small changes to ensure that our site is as easy to navigate as possible.

Is there anything we've missed that you think would hep make our site more user friendly?

Busy Weekend and Fall Decorating

 We have a busy weekend planned.  My favorite aunt is here visiting and James' birthday is tomorrow(42!)

We're planning on taking a trip to Brookgreen Gardens in Myrtle Beach for their Fall Festival and then going to a local Haunted Barn/Hayride where Mike will working for school (he's a juggler, I'll take pics and post them next week).  

Sunday, after teaching Sunday School we're going to Autumn with Topsail.  That's a fun festival on the island near us, always lots of great crafts/art vendors, good food and games for the kids.

I also need to finish up my Fall decorating.  I know, I know, everyone else has been done for weeks...I'm a little behind, don't judge.  I should be done just in time to take everything down and start decorating for Christmas :)
 Here's what I have done so far...

I found these great chargers at Michael's for $1.50 and I instantly knew what I wanted to do with them.  I had a lot of fun making this cute decal for it.  I forget sometimes how much fun it is to make decals for myself :)

I was so smitten with Myra's specimen art 

  that I had to make my own.  I used leaves instead of pumpkins because that's the punch I had.  

 My aunt and I are going to try to make pumpkins like Kellie's (Nest of Posies).  She's got a great tutorial here.

I couldn't find velvet in colors that I liked so I bought corduroy instead.  

Hopefully, they will turn out cute.  I will post about them if they do.  If you don't hear about them again that means it was a flop ;) 

That's a packed full weekend!  Whatever your plans are this weekend I hope you have a great one!

New Chalkboard & Dry Erase Designs

I love our chalkboard and dry erase (new) vinyl.  We have several in our home and they get used daily.  Judging by our sales you love them too!  

But sometimes I would like something a little prettier on my wall.  Living in a house full of boys I like to add feminine touches here and there.  So I created these beautiful frames! 

First, you choose one of the three frames (more to come soon).  I think the one that looks like a sunburst may be my fave :)

Second, you choose one of our 45 matte vinyl colors for the frame .

Third, choose whether you prefer dry erase vinyl (white) or chalkboard vinyl (charcoal gray).  With the new chalk markers working so well on our chalkboard vinyl you can write just as pretty on it as you can the dry erase vinyl.

Measuring 22.50" round with the chalkboard/dry erase middle measuring 11.25". These will be listed in our store tomorrow (on my way to a bible study so I can't list them now) for $35 through October.  

While I love the regular chalkboard and dry erase designs, I am really digging these pretty frames!  How about you?

Winners of our HGTV Magazine Giveaway

Thanks for all the nice comments, we're excited that you're excited about our decals being in the new HGTV magazine!

We randomly chose our three winners and they are...

twelfthzodiac who said...

Congrats! That is *so* cool! I didn't know there was a magazine coming out! I used to love HGTV, sadly, we don't get that channel anymore & I miss it. 

jjuliejones who said...

Thanks for the giveaway opportunity... would love a subscription!! And CONGRATS to you, Leen for being featured in their mag!!!

KittenJen who said...

I saw those door numbers in HGTV magazine! They are so cute! I may need to order some myself.

Congrats to our winners!  I will send y'all a message to get your contact info for your subscriptions :)

HGTV Magazine A Giveaway to Celebrate!

We are so thrilled to be a part (albeit a small part) of the very first issue of HGTV Magazine!

Our door number decal is right there on page 5.  

If you haven't had a chance to pick up a copy yet, you should!  It's amazing!  Tons of easy makeover ideas, fun decorating ideas, tool advice and a section with the most darling bungalows you've ever seen.  You know I LOVE me a bungalow!

Of course, all your favorite HGTV stars are in there too, including a home tour of Sarah Richardson's gorgeous farmhouse.

Because we are loving this first edition so much and know you will too, we're giving away three ONE YEAR SUBSCRIPTIONS to HGTV magazine!  All you have to do is leave us a comment here between now and Friday.
We'll randomly select the winners Friday afternoon.
Good luck!!

Pic A Winner Contest #2 Winners

With 42% of the vote Melissa's Monogram Circle with Dots is this month's Pic a Winner contest winner!  Congrats Melissa, you've won a $50 Leen the Graphics Queen gift certificate!  

Rachel is the winner randomly selected from the voters to win a $25 LTGQ gift certificate!  Congrats Rachel!

Thanks to everyone who submitted pics and also everyone who voted.  Want a chance to win next month?  Just email me a pic of your LTGQ decal to pics@leenthegraphicsqueen.com. 

We're looking forward to seeing the new submissions!