White Gables Blog

We just spent two days seeing many of the sights around Bejing and it’s been spectacular! Our adoption agency recommends spending a few days at the beginning of our trip getting acclimated to the time change and spending time learning more about the country and culture before we meet our little guy. While it’s hard […]

After about 30 hours of traveling, we have safely arrived in Beijing! I’m thankful that part is behind us, but it also makes me nervous about the trip home! I’m determined, though, to focus on one day at a time and to enjoy each moment. We are still in shock that we are actually HERE. […]

Five more days until we board a plane for China and return with one more passenger. People ask me how I’m doing, and I honestly don’t know. It’s SO CLOSE now and feels something like an out-of-body experience. I keep working. I slowly pack our bags. Run to the store to get one more thing […]

At the beginning of this week, I was feeling overwhelmed and inadequate and like there weren’t enough hours in the day to get done what I needed to get done. So what did I do? I sewed some meaningless pillows. Because creating and crafting are my outlets and are vitally important to me. Even if […]

We found out over the weekend that we will be leaving for China in TWO WEEKS!!! We weren’t expecting to leave until at least April and were prepared for an even longer wait, so we were very surprised! Now we are in the middle of last-minute preparations, lots of to-do lists being checked off, and […]

We are in the midst of a deep freeze and I am dreaming (DREAMING, I tell you) of warmer days and bare feet and green grass. It’s been so long that it almost seems impossible. I saw a picture of someone in Maui on Instagram and I’m all, how it is possible that somewhere in […]

Are you one of those people who puts something on your walls and keeps it up for ten years? If you are, then I am the opposite of you. I wrote about the oversized diary artwork a few weeks ago and have already changed up the wall in my family room. What is my problem? […]

Happy Monday, friends! We’ve added quite a few new signs to the website this week and I thought I would share them here! The signs are available through my website: http://www.aimeeweaverdesigns.com I hope you will have a great week! Mine will include trying to stay warm in the zero degree temperatures, more snow (warm weather […]

This blog post idea is borrowed from Emily. It’s just randoms about what is going on currently in my life. LOVING // Emily Jefford’s beautiful artwork. I just found her recently and am so inspired by not only her artwork but the way she runs her business. You need to check out her paintings. READING […]

Last week when I had my team over for a little post-holiday party, we did some crafting in the studio and created these super-easy necklaces made from hardware store washers. You don’t need a lot of supplies for this project. Here is what I used: -Steel stamp kit (I bought this one at Hobby Lobby) -Hammer […]

Here are a few custom signs I’ve created in the past few weeks… Many of the signs we make are custom signs, and I really enjoy working on them! The sign below was a gift given to a dad and it listed all the baseball parks he has visited. Cool idea, right? I am so honored that […]

Happy snowy Monday! Things have been moving along with our adoption, and I thought I’d give you a little update on where we are at in the process, in case you are interested. We are currently in “LOA”, which means that we have been approved by China to adopt our little guy. From what I’ve […]