Lately

It's kinda crazy how many changes can happen in just over 2 1/2 months. 

Here's my lately:

I'm now Assistant Director of Main Street Enid! 

Main Street Enid, Inc., is a 501 (c)3 non-profit whose mission is to revitalize our downtown through promotion, organization, design and economic restructuring. Main Street Enid seeks to promote the quality of life in Enid by strengthening the Downtown as the center of the community. 

I absolutely love it. 

A couple weeks ago I was all sorts of famous and went on Pegasys, Enid's local television station, to do Community Talk. 

It consisted of me making lots of stupid faces. 

Another exciting change this year is WE'RE MOVING SHOP LOCATIONS!! 

We are so excited to be moving our shop into a beautiful building and a better location downtown!

read the article here

We close our current location on February 15th. (We wanted to stay open through Valentine's Day. ) After that we'll start the move over to our new space and have our Re-Grand Opening Party March 1st! SO EXCITED!! 

Dexter recently went to the groomers, and with his little fro and beard he came out looking like Darth Vader. It's pretty awesome. 

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Lately // October & November

Hi friends! I took an unexpected blog break for the month of October.

I've been slackin' in the personal social media side of things too. I'm very out of the loop. Today, at the shop, we were open for a special event, and I had this cool kid show me the wood mushroom that he made from my blog. He was telling me how he was wanting to make the felt donut but hasn't yet. This seriously made my day. Shoot, made my year. I was so thrilled and it got me missing my blog. It reminded me why I loved blogging so much. 

I thought I would do a lately post to recap my October & November. If you follow me on instagram then these photos are nothing new, sorry! To be honest, I've been pretty bad at instagramming too! We all need a break sometimes, right?

1. It's fall!!! Which meant I had my space heater going and I was knitting lots of infinity scarves for my shop. I gotta admit, I felt like a grandma. 

2. We moved. And I am so very sad about it. I LOVED that home so so much, but the owner of the home needed a place to live, and well, that was that. You know what's freaky? On my August 14th blog post, with a picture of our newly decorated living room I wrote: Thursday around midnight we decided to rearrange our living room. We woke up early Friday morning and bought a new rug and hung up our art on the walls. After living here for over a year we finally decided to decorate it! I think we've become jaded. We move into a new space, decorate it and make it perfect for us and then within a few months or so we are moving again. This current house is the place we've stayed at the longest. We probably jinxed ourselves by decorating the living room! We totally jinxed ourselves. A month and a half later we moved. We're currently saving and hoping to buy our first home soon.
3. On October 15th husband and I celebrated our 1 year anniversary! I cannot believe it's been a year! I'm so happy to be married to my best friend! 
4. Husband and I helped with a fundraiser to raise money for our downtown's annual holiday event. It was Christmas Karaoke. Husband sang The Christmas Song, then after 3 glasses of wine we sang our favorite creeper song Baby, It's Cold Outside. It was our first time to do karaoke, and I gotta say, it was pretty fun! 
5. I've been cuddling lots of dogs lately. If you have a dog, I'll cuddle it! 
6. We've been getting ready for the holidays at our shop! We haven't been able to keep up with our online shop so we had to close that down temporarily. We've been getting lots of emails & facebook messages about ordering products, which has worked out pretty well. So, if you see anything you like on our facebook page please feel free to message us, email us at info@thefeltbird.com or call us at 580-540-8903, to place your order. We take payment over the phone or through paypal! 
7. Getting ready for the holidays = getting lots of fun new items! I love this Mr. & Mrs. mug set! 
8. We celebrated FIL's birthday with some bowling! I beat them all 4 games. I also broke it to my husband that I was in a bowling league when I was little (3-6th grade) and my average was 150. His mind exploded. 
9. Fall means mum time!!! I bought some mums to have outside our shop, and in true Stela fashion, I didn't water them and they died. I was so sad. So, I bought some more and I'm trying to remember to water them daily. So far, so good. 

1. October was coming to an end and I hadn't carved a pumpkin yet! We were planning a Halloween party with our friends and we decided we should carve pumpkins too. I love searching for the perfect pumpkin.
2. I was really excited about being at the pumpkin patch I had to take a picture as a pumpkin. 
3. Our Halloween consisted of yummy food, carving pumpkins and watching It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! 
4. Our black and white striped shirts prevailed again this Halloween! Last year we were burglars, this year (a repeat from 2008, last election year) we were from a wonderful country. French! I'm pretty sure the black and white striped shirts will be used again next year. We're that bad at Halloween. 
5. We dressed Dexter up for the Halloween party as Mr. bones! He wouldn't move. We had to coax him with lots of treats. 
6. Dexter decided to join husband in singing for our shop's November First Friday event. 
7. On November 6th we voted! We were expecting to wait in line since we saw our friends on facebook talk about waiting. We walked to our location, grabbed a ballot, voted and left. No waiting! 
8. That evening we got dressed up and went to our friends loft for election night/fancy party! We wanted an excuse to dress up and drink champagne and eat yummy food. 
9. I like this little promo card we made so I wanted to share!

That's what's been going on my friends!  
What have you been up to?! 
I have a lot of blog catching up to do. 

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Lately

This past weekend we headed to Tulsa for my favorite craft show, Indie Emporium.

It was a blast meeting people who I've only met through email, blogs and instagramming. 

It's so crazy how well we know these people we've never met in person! I know some think it's a little creepy, but I personally think it's pretty cool...in a creepy way. Just kidding. 

So, of course, in typical Stela fashion I didn't plan my booth till the night before. I hope next year I get my act together and plan ahead. 

Now, I'm putting my focus towards our shop event this weekend and making my owls for the shop, Dwelling Spaces!

I hope to return to my blog regularly this week. September was such a blur, I'm not sure what the hell I did that month. October is bound to be better because October is an awesome month full of all my favorite things; including my 1 year wedding anniversary with my love! 

Enjoy your day!

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We have now entered my favorite season...FALL!! 

Pumpkins, pumpkin pie, pumpkin spice latte, leaves changing colors, scarves, cardigans, football games, It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, holiday season is just around the corner, and.... I feel like I'm forgetting somethings! It's amazing. Fall is my favorite. 

We had our first pumpkin pie the other day. It only lasted a day.

Lately, I've been brainstorming what to do with our porch and how to decorate it for fall, I've been getting ready for the craft show I have on Friday and Saturday, and we've been planning our fall First Friday event that we have at our shop. I feel like all I've done lately is planning and waiting for things to get here. It's kinda driving me crazy! 

Happy fall everyone! 

Do you love this season? If not, we aren't friends anymore. 

Just kidding!

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well, hello!

Hi friends! I don't know if you noticed but I took an unexpected blog break. I just missed one day, than two, than a week and a half. 

I feel so out of touch right now because I haven't read any blogs. I glanced at my reader and I saw that so much has happened with you guys in these almost 2 weeks that I've missed! So I have lots of catching up to do this week. 

Here's what I've been up to since I took a blog break: 

On September 7th we celebrated our shop's 3 year anniversary 

with live music, free food and drinks! It's crazy how time flies. 

Last week we had some chilly, rainy, fall-like days in Oklahoma. It was nice to open our shop doors and smell the rain!

This past Saturday we walked a block from our shop to watch the Cherokee Strip Parade in our downtown. We have this parade every September to commemorate Enid's land run history. I probably should have snapped a photo of the horses and longhorns or of the man on the cool old school bike, but instead I took a picture of the emergency vehicles throwing candy because I thought it was hilarious. Do other city parades show off their emergency vehicles, trash trucks and tractors?? And then of course I took a picture of our friend representing the democrats. 

 After the parade they had some cool stuff going on in our downtown square but we had to leave to open our shop. After a shopper came in with her cotton candy I got really excited and left to go get mine! I love having our shop downtown where they have a lot of awesome events. I love our little city!

I wish there was cotton candy there every weekend. 

I got accepted into my favorite craft show I love to do every year (since 2007)! It's Indie Emporium in Tulsa! So I've been doing lots of cutting and making these owl pillows of mine. Every year I say I'm going to plan my booth ahead of time and what not, but every year the night before the show I run around grabbing things that can hold my merchandise. I really hope that doesn't happen again because I usually start having stress dreams where I drive to the show and have nothing in my car. I'm hoping that sharing this problem here will throw my issue out into the universe and help me to actually plan ahead this year! It's next weekend. 

I've missed you guys!! Can't wait to catch up on your blogs. 

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Here's what I've been up to lately, according to my instagram:

1. This is little dog's usual spot when he's looking out our living room window. In this photo he has serious face because I think a neighbor, a cat or squirrel was outside.

2. I'm slowing filling up my etsy shop again! Also I'm offering free shipping this week. Use the code FREESHIP at checkout!

3. I love my husband and his musical messes.

4. My current favorite snack right now is apple walnut toast. So yum!

5. I've been eyeing the shop Knot & Bow a lot lately and finally bought myself some heart stickers in pink and kraft! 

6. Husband snapped this shop of Dexter and I. I was super thrilled to see we were kinda making the same face. Like mother, like son!

7. The ingredients for a perfect Sunday: coffee, cuddling with my dog, and watching some Gilmore Girls! 

8. I had my first pumpkin spice latte of the season this week, even though it may have been 100 degrees that day. But, man, oh man did it taste like fall! 

9. Found my sketchbook from last year and all my practice drawings for our wedding invitations!  It's so crazy our one year wedding anniversary is coming up in a month. 

What have you been up to lately?

You can find me on instagram @stelabird

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