I just wanted to share with you my favorite Christmas gift this year. My 10 year old daughter, Teapot made me this knitted coffee cup cozy.  I love everything about it…the color, the chunky yarn used to make it, the texture, it’s softness and the way it has elevated my coffee moments.  Ok, I have to say, the mug my husband gave me from Anthropologie, was an added bonus to adding to my coffee-in-the-morning-ritual.

Did you get a gift that has elevated a life moment for you, this Christmas?

Welcome Cyber Monday Shoppers!!  We are so excited to share with you our Cyber Monday features from our LoveFeast Shop! These featured items are all 20% off for Cyber Monday only!!   We think these finds take the cake!! Speaking of cakes…

We are so excited to share with you a brand new product, our LoveFeast Coffee Cake.  We’ve been tasting these cakes for weeks, sharing then with our family and friends who all confirm they are delicious.  At our own tables ~ teenage boys have been chowing down quarter size cake slices and our smallest kids think that that the delivery truck is dropping cakes off just for them!

LoveFeast Coffee Cake $29.95 retail ~ 20% off for Cyber Monday ~ $23.96 ~ shipping begins 12/11/11

Not only are these cakes just perfectly delicious and home-made tasting but, they are also preservatives and nut free.  The LoveFeast Coffee Cake comes beautifully packaged in a chocolate brown box tied in raffia bows ready to give.  They are the perfect and thoughtful hostess gift, co-worker, teacher or office gift.  They are just the right thing to give to friends and family.

This is another new favorite!  We plan on wearing these this year with multiple strands around our necks, doubled as a choker or wrapped as a bracelet.  This freshwater pearl and leather necklace is boho chic and perfect for dressing up and everyday!

Pearl Necklace On Leather retail $180 retail ~ 20% off for Cyber Monday ~ $144

The orders are already coming in for the Mother’s Tree Of Life Necklace.  This necklace is hand-crafted by artist Liz Oie especially for LoveFeast Shop.  The necklace comes in both silver and gold.  It can be worn simply as a pendant or with real gem stones added to honor the births of children.  This is the perfect heirloom gift for grandmothers and mothers, sisters and friends.

Mother Tree of Life Necklace in Gold retail $230 ~ 20% off for Cyber Monday ~ $184

Mother Tree of Life Necklace in Silver retail $199 ~ 20% off for Cyber Monday ~ $159.20

Our Velvet Plush Pumpkins were such a hit this fall that we created new sets for the holidays!  The Elegant Holiday, Holiday Greens, Holiday Ice, and Classic Holiday sets are designed with holiday colors in mind.  They are perfect to decorate mantles and tabletops and beautiful with greens and ornaments tucked in around them!

Velvet Plush Pumpkin Large Sets of 6 $148 ~ 20% off for Cyber Monday ~ $118.40

Velvet Plush Pumpkin Trio $84 ~ 20% off for Cyber Monday ~ $67.20

We are thrilled to share with you some of our favorite items!  We wish you happy shopping and we thank you for visiting our LoveFeast Shop!

Little did we know when we started our LoveFeast Shop venture that we would be so caught up in jewelry!  But, who we happened to meet along our journey (we first met artist Liz Oie at our Spark & Style blogger event) and their passion for their work (see our visit to Liz’s studio) got us caught up in the moment.  This fall we asked Liz to interpret our brand LoveFeast Table in a special collection made exclusively for LoveFeast Shop.  We are happy when we can share something beautiful with you!

These pearls are from our new collection aren’t your mother’s pearls!  Or Barbara Bush’s either!  They are a modern take on a classic ~ freshwater pearls strung on black, chocolate brown, gray or distressed saddle leather.  This is the most versatile of pieces!  Gather a few long stands around your neck for a boho chic look.

Or, double a single strand for a classic and hip choker style look.  The pearl button clasp is incorporated into the design.

Wrap approximately 5 times around your wrist for a chunky beautiful pearl wrapped cuff.

This collection was designed with mix and matching in mind!  Earrings feature oxidize sterling silver, 24k vermeil gold, fresh water pearls, vintage links and turquoise.

The bracelets feature recycled Roman glass, 24k gold vermeil discs, fresh water pearls, pyrite, sterling silver and charms.

This is a very special piece.  This Roman glass beaded necklace has a one of a kind antique Byzantine coin.  The Byzantine Empire coin dates between 600 – 900 AD that varies with each necklace.  The 24 k gold vermeil discs are just the right touch to play against the antique coin.

Also by Liz Oie and a LoveFeast Shop classic, is the Mother’s Tree Of Life necklace as seen on The Pioneer Woman’s and the Hollywood Houswife’s blogs.  It is a special and unique gift idea.  The Mother’s Tree Of Life necklace is made of the highest quality sterling silver or gold available, with real gems included to signify the birth stones of children or grandchildren.  This would be a perfect gift and treasured keepsake for your mother, wife, grandmother, sister or friend.

There’s more gift ideas in our LoveFeast Shop ~ We hope you find something beautiful and inspiring!

Some of you know, we have been in an 8 month process of redefining our look for LoveFeast Table.  You see, when we started blogging 2 1/2 years ago, we thought we were going to write a cookbook.  That’s what started us on this blogging journey.  We had shared so many amazing meals around the table (over the 14 years we had been friends along with our growing families), we thought we wanted to document them.  We wanted to share not only the original recipes, but also capture the conversations that took place as well as the environment and overall feel that were part of the meal.  We looked at font after font that captured our feel and Kristin sketched it out.  We put a frame around it, because it was part of our story, and created our original logo:

We also picked a WordPress template (this one) because it was easy on the eyes.  We didn’t know about functionality or finding a site that would help clearly communicate who we were.  To be honest, the start of our blogging journey, was just the beginning of discovering who we were at LoveFeast Table and what we were trying to say.

Over time, we struggled to fit ourselves into a blogging genre.  We started with foodies.  Were we a food blog?  We featured recipes, meals and restaurant reviews.  But, we realized we had more to say.  We were the moms of  9 kids combined.  We had kids aging in range from 16 to 4.  Were we mom bloggers?  What about the part that we were both artists who are absolutely in love with anything that inspires.  We decorate, do projects, craft, paint and just plain love anything beautiful.  Were we home and garden bloggers?  We love throwing a party or creating multi course meals for friends.  Were we event planners?  Should we even be blogging since we love “In Real Life” time more?  Can you see our struggle?  Well, because we are dreamers and firmly believe in not boxing ourselves in, we decided we were all the above.  But, somehow, we realized, we needed to be able to better communicate that to you.

Fast forward to today.  We are working on a blog redesign that will clearly define who we are as a Lifestyle blog.  We are getting a new look.  Here’s a peek:

We have five categories we will be blogging under:

LOVE…This will include things we love…art, music, tablescaping, design, fashion, crafting projects, decor, Fancy Friday and bits & baubles.

FEAST…This includes meals, recipes, restaurant reviews, food toys and anything involving the art of eating.

TABLE…This is where we have a conversation.  We will feature guests that join us, interviews, stories about our friends, our journey and our community.

LIFE…This is about the experience.  Things like travel, events we attend, BlogLove Events, Love Bombing and giving back campaigns.

BOUTIQUE…This is our shop.  This shop will be filled with items we discover on our journey.  They are hand picked items that reflect our authentic journey.  These items will be featured in our shop as we discover them.  There may be a limited number of them or they may find a permanent place in our Boutique.  But, we promise they will be beautiful!

Some of you may have stopped over from Pioneer Woman’s site today.  Thank you for pulling up a chair and getting to know a little about us.  We hope you’ll come back again.  We love meeting new people!  If you want to connect a bit more and walk along side us on this journey, you can find us on twitter @LoveFeast, on facebook HERE and of course you can sign up for our RSS feed.

If you’ve come because you just love that necklace, you can click on SHOP or the necklace button on the side and you will be directed to our Boutique.  We love this necklace and know you will too!

Thanks for joining us at the Table!

Chris Ann & Kristin