Spring Photos and Lately

This is my favorite time of year. I love Spring because I get so inspired to start new projects and be outside. I love outdoor living. It is so much easier to entertain the kids outside in the beautiful sunshine … Continue reading

Valentines Day Watercolor Cards for Kids

Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day! Gemma and I made these simple little watercolor hearts the other day to share as Valentines. She hung them up with tape by our fireplace. This was a super simple Valentines Day project, similar to this one we did … Continue reading

simple Valentines cards

valentines card

Remember the days of cutting hearts out of construction paper? And lets not forget the stapled together envelopes that would hold all of your Valentines in class. Well, Gemma and I did some Valentines day card crafting of our own … Continue reading

what I am making for my husband for Valentines Day

frame the key to your first home

so after you have been together or ten years, what do you give your husband for Valentines  Day? I am inspired by this idea I found on pinterest…. the most addictive and fun website… EVER.

I want to frame a key of our first home because I know regardless of how long we stay here it will always be so special to both of us. And in the background of my frame instead of the newspaper shown above, I am going to type all of our older addresses because we lived together through college so we have a lot of old apartment addresses.

I hope he likes it. I know it is something we can cherish when we’re old! Happy love day to everyone out there!

xoxo,

Amy

your journey of love comes home

how do you incorporate your love of family, your favorite personal pictures and effects without going gaga all over your house and leaving visitors wondering if you are self-obsessed? Well, the old adage “Less is More” holds true in this … Continue reading

A Blue Christmas…

I think I am going to go Blue with my Christmas decor this year. I am in this nostalgic spirit that Blue really emulates. Blue is unexpected for Christmas but so beautiful… it reminds me of this Ceramic Christmas tree … Continue reading

my first post

so this is going to be my first post on my new amy+mayd blog! yay! to be honest, I love writing but I have found it hard to be so candid with my life online because it is unnatural to me to let people in to such a deep place. I feel though that to produce a good blog you have to be vulnerable to your community… so here goes.

amy+mayd is a name that encompasses both my name Amy and the things that I make. I find inspiration in many different areas but currently I am finding a lot of inspiration through my daughter. She is my first and she will be one Nov. 3rd. This year has been such a source of growth for me.

my goal with my blog, being the type-a that I am (must have goals and plans..haha) is to show the sources that drive my work featured on my new site amymayd  (giant thanks to my very talented husband for building my site for me and putting up with all of my requests!)

my “amy+weekly” page is going to be a way for me to track the current projects I am working on and the “amy+loves” page will encompass sites, blog posts and other crafters information that I am loving!