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Spring Cleaning

June 23, 2011 By Spoonful of Sugar - 16 Comments

Due to my badly sprained ankle, I have been off work all week. Fortunately it is slowly on the mend and I can now hobble around without the crutches!

As I haven’t been able to do much this week, I have spent some time spring cleaning our blog.

You will notice I have added a FAQ page under our Blog Banner, and have also edited most of our other pages.

I also managed to re-format our sponsors buttons using a helpful tutorial I found at Hello Flower. If anyone has any tips on how to format the sponsors in two columns I would be most grateful!

As I don’t have any photos to share, I thought I would do a little round up of what is inspiring me this week (found via Pinterest):

Free Matryoska Card Set

Caramel and Sea Salt Topped Shortbread

Dresden Sweetness
Beautiful Packaging

10 Free Patterns for Crochet Flowers

Now I just need to get back on my feet and get creating again! 

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Comments

  1. regenbogenbuntes says

    June 24, 2011 at 12:07 am

    Hi, thank you…
    BUT
    the link to matryoska cards doesn’t work ???
    Greetings NETTE

    Reply
  2. A Spoonful Of Sugar says

    June 24, 2011 at 12:11 am

    Link is now fixed! Thanks for letting me know.

    Reply
  3. Kate says

    June 24, 2011 at 3:10 am

    Oh ouch, hope it is improving.

    Reply
  4. Luisa says

    June 24, 2011 at 4:14 am

    Glad that you are healing. Thank you for sharing these lovely links. It’s funny even when moms are down and can’t move there is still something we’ll do.

    Reply
  5. Anne Heidi says

    June 24, 2011 at 4:29 am

    Hope your ancle will mend soon!

    Reply
  6. Kris says

    June 24, 2011 at 5:00 am

    Ahh… the blog! I couldn’t imagine what kind of spring cleaning you were doing in winter when I read the title of your post. Hope your ankle heals quickly. I am really loving pinterest too!

    Reply
  7. Thimbleanna says

    June 24, 2011 at 6:25 am

    Your spring cleaning is looking great — I need to do a lot of that myself! Hope your ankle is all better now that it’s the weekend!

    Reply
  8. Rosa says

    June 24, 2011 at 10:29 am

    It`s nice heard you are better.

    Reply
  9. Siobhan says

    June 24, 2011 at 11:10 am

    Ooh so glad you found my tutorial useful! And so glad it led me to your gorgeous blog 🙂

    Reply
  10. Talin's Corner says

    June 24, 2011 at 11:56 am

    Get well soon! I love to crochet flowers. They look so pretty when you put a few of them together, like in the picture.

    Reply
  11. natalie says

    June 24, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    I hope your ankle gets better soon Lisa – take care.

    Reply
  12. Calamity Jane's Cottage, Bonnie says

    June 24, 2011 at 10:12 pm

    Lisa, I’m so glad you are on the mend. You want to update my blog…Thanks for all the information.

    Reply
  13. M. Brayner says

    June 25, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    Olá, sou do Brasil e passeando pela net encontrei seu blog e gosttei bastante, parabéns por ele. Já coloquei você na minha lista de blogs pois pretento lhe visitar muitas outras vezes.
    Bom Final de Semana…

    Marta
    http://eucraftemuitomais.blogspot.com

    Reply
  14. Simone de Klerk says

    June 26, 2011 at 7:38 am

    Pintrest has become a wonderful new addiction, thanks to you!
    I am not going to read your last post, because I don’t want to get tempted by those pictures!
    Have a lovely week. xo

    Reply
  15. JG says

    June 28, 2011 at 10:28 am

    Hope your ankle feels better!

    The parchment packaging idea is so useful. Thanks!

    ~Judy

    Reply
  16. Anonymous says

    February 11, 2012 at 11:45 pm

    thank you for all your posts. im really enjoying them. it doesn’t appear, however that the link for the crochet flowers is working correctly, they look adorable and i’ve been looking to see how to make them for some baby hats ive made. hope your ankle is healing well.

    Reply

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