Have you always wanted a spinner ring? Well now is the time!
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Spring Sale!!
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Do less
Do Less Thinking, and pay more attention to your heart.
Do Less Acquiring, and pay more attention to what you already have.
Do Less Complaining, and pay more attention to giving.
Do Less Controlling, and pay more attention to letting go.
Do Less Criticizing, and pay more attention to complementing.
Do Less Arguing, and pay more attention to forgiveness.
Do Less Running Around, and pay more attention to stillness.
Do Less Talking, and pay more attention to silence.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Earthly Goods Craft Market
I've joined two new shows this year I'm pretty excited about. The Earthly Goods Craft Market has two shows in Nov and I will be in both! I'll keep you updated as time draws closer.
The Sooke Prestige Craft Fair is Nov 9th - 12th at the Prestige Oceanfront Resort in Sooke. The Westshore Wonderland Craft Fair is Nov 16th - 18th at Eagle Ride Community Center. I am really excited about these shows, for one they are close to home (YAY!) and second they are juried. This is in the first paragraph on their home page " Earthly Goods Craft Market showcases the handcrafted wonders of local artists on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Offering craft markets that focus on quality products and service. " That really excites me.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Blog Hop Reveal!!!!
What a exciting day it's the Bead Soup Blog Hop Reveal!
My Bead Soup partner was Nan Emmett and was I ever lucky! I got my gorgeous package from her mid Feb and laid it out so I could mull it over for a week or so. My favorite is the bird focal and the caps, oh the caps! I thought maybe the caps would look good on one of my beads.
I was fairly determined to not add a bunch of my glass beads and crystal. That's my "inside the box" fail safe and I really wanted to keep things simple to best flatter Nan's beads. I made this very simple necklace, basically just stringing the bird focal and matching beads on leather. It's a bit longer and I think it's something I'll wear a lot with jeans and a sweater.
I also made a bracelet only adding one of my lampwork beads, and this was harder than I thought. I realized how I tend to repeat the same stringing pattern over and over. I really tried to keep things simple in this, I LOVE her caps!
This is my leftover bead soup, the heart is already on a key chain. It's perfect for me with my last name being Valentine and all I collect hearts!
I want to thank Nan for being such a wonderful partner, I adore the beads I got from you!
Last but certainly not least check out the other Bead Souper's. You'll see some amazing and creative work. There is a complete list with links on Lori's blog.
Friday, March 2, 2012
More snowmobiling
I believe this is Roddy, Maggie, Terry and Nancy coming down the cut block we rode to Saturday. I thought it was a pretty cool action shot.
We had such a good time, I think I said "this is SO pretty" at least a dozen times. We're really lucky to have friends like Maggie and Terry, we hadn't seen them for about a year and it felt like it was just last week. We just picked up where we left off. Lots of laughing and good times. We're also very appreciative of them letting us use their snowmobiles so we can go out. We wound up buying a snowmobile off Sheri and Joe and are really looking forward to more sledding!
All four of us on the top of Mount Kathleen.
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Snowmobiling 2012
Last weekend we headed up to Princeton to visit good friends Maggie and Terry and do some snowmobiling! The picture above is from the top of Mount Kathleen a gorgeous view (see below), and a wonderful ride up! I fell a couple times but really felt like I was starting to get the hang of things.
A fairly good picture of Roddy coming down a cut block we rode to on Saturday, we went with Craig and Nancy this day and had a great time. It's really hard to NOT have a ear to ear grin when your out in the snow having fun!
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