Simple Simon and Company

GIVEAWAY #1 Winner is……

SERENA. please email us at simplesimonandco (at) gmail (dot) com with your address!!!!! ... View the Post

Giveaway #1---Peg doll necklaces.Here's the line up of peg doll style princesses---(From left to right: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Tiana, Ariel (on her wedding day), Cinderella, and Belle.)What to do:Choose your 3 favorite princesses and leave a comment telling me which ones they are. Then a winner will be chosen from our friendly list of those who commented, her name will be posted tomorrow, and she will receive her peg dolls next week. It's that easy. ... View the Post

Announcements· Giveaway

It’s a GIVEAWAY-A-DAY week!

Elizabeth and I were thinking that we have the not-quite-spring-yet blues and that we needed something fun to cheer us up. (Seriously, it snowed here yesterday...snow...and then there's the grey clouds, and the bundling up of the kids, and the obvious lack of warmth and lemonade...and anyways, you get the picture.)So here's our solution---a week full of giveaways! (It will make us happy to give goods to all of the nice people who make us happy by following and reading our blog regardless of the ... View the Post

Projects

Super Easy Baby Blanket

Oh how I wish I could take the credit for this project. But I can't. I found it HERE The tutorial is awesome and from start to finish I only spent about...um...less than 45 minutes making this blanket. It's the perfect nap time project! What a great idea. (I wish it was mine.) Thank you Make It and Love It woman of sewing awesomeness. (Now if only I could find some really great knit fabrics then I'd really be in business...or at least the baby would be.) ... View the Post

Announcements· Celebrations

I’ve Got A Secret….

...and it's a good one...Too bad I can't tell.Elizabeth would kill me.So I'll just sit here smiling and just say this, "Check in with us on Monday, you'll be glad that you did." ... View the Post

General· Skirts

$5 Friday…A Total Craft Fail

Yea...it's pretty bad.... ....at least it cost me less that $5. Here's the story: I saw this cool lampshade on Anthropologie awhile back and I thought hey---that would make a great skirt. (Little did I know.) The next day I ran to the store and bought two cheap T-shirts (total cost $2.12) and got to work. If horizontal ruffle skirts could be made from T-shirts then why not vertical ruffle skirts? (It all seemed so logical.) I cut, I ruffled, I cut and ruffled some more and then I sewed and ... View the Post