matter the most monday & a brag...

i enjoyed participating in the graphics fairy brag monday last week - especially hearing from new bloggers that i had yet to "meet" and seeing their creative work as well...so here i am again.

this is really a garage sale creation - everything on this hat was purchased from a garage sale, except for the dollar store ring which i blogged about last week. i painted an old paper lions king birthday hat  - i used black paint, the graphic's fairy halloween lady, the spider rings i glittered, fake brown stuff -- (not sure what that is really called,) and orange yarn along the bottom; fabric and two buttons on the top of the hat. i am celebrating my two younger nieces' birthdays with them on wednesday before we head back to california this week, so we are going with a halloween theme and this will be one of the hats for the birthday girl. one more hat to make yet! and i think i just may have to make a third to keep as a decoration for myself.

now for my own "matter the most monday" my 6th monday post, those little things that grab at my heart...

the love my two oldest have for catching butterflies ....

..and those handmade gifted baby sweaters that make forever keepsakes.

when i first began my blog, i declared mondays as "matter the most monday" since we all tend to give monday a bad rap sometimes, i wanted to make this a day that i express my gratitude for the little things - maybe a weekend moment, something small that happened, or just a comment of  "i'm happy for the little things." so, join me and tell me in a comment ...

what little thing matters to you on this monday?