More Celtic Trinity Knot Shawl Pins and Ornament

I’ve been working on adding this design to our shop as shawl pins. This is the

Sterling Silver Celtic Trinity Knot Shawl Pin . It could probably work well in hair

but will only hold small amounts of hair.

And this is the Little Celtic Trinity Knot Cross Sterling Silver Shawl Pin  that would

work best on lacy light weight shawls, scarfs shrugs etc.

This design lends itself well as an ornament too!

The Celtic Trinity Knot Cross Ornament in Aluminum . I plan to add this design in

copper and as a pendant too! So much to do!

 

 

But for now there ‘s also the summer to enjoy. Our rambling roses are blooming this week.

First week working in our new jewelry shop!

This week we moved all my jewelry stuff into the new shop and I started working

in there. I never want to leave it. There’s so much room and a place for everything.

And light! Lot’s of light!

Fourth Grade Field Trip to Starker Forest

Today I chaperoned my sons’ 4th grade class strip to Starker Forest. It was one of

the best field trips I’ve gone on and I’ve gone on quite a few doozies as an overachieving

Mom.

There’s on thing wrong with this sign that took us a while to figure out…. “durning”?

The guides were great and the kids were attentive (mostly).

Big ‘Shrooms!

Newt!

Egads- wasp nest. Glad it was empty!

Real Spring Flowers

These are our first daffodils of the year! We've been having amazing early spring weather here in western Oregon.


More evidence of spring. The iris shoots are coming up. Unfortuantely they rarely actually create more than a couple of flowers for us. It might have something to do with the fact that I do nothing to take care of them. My gardening theory is that if you can't make it on your own here then you best be moving on. I might occasionally break out the hose in the midst of a summer heat wave but then again, I may not. We are also seeing the grass starting to get too high. I have already heard the familiar hum of my diligent neighbors riding mower. damn him! I don't know how we'll have any time for all that mowing this year.

The dependable pretty purple primroses are out. They work well with my gardening theory.

Here is a very mature and serious Max doing some fishing in the water filled sand table. This boy is obsessed with fish!

No time for new products this week. We had an astounding weekend of sales this weekend and were even near the top of the top sellers list on etsytools.com on Sunday. It may be the Cookie magazine crowd coming by or just some good Etsy luck but we're not complaining. This February was our best selling month besides December in the past year.

Back to work. But first we need to eat those brownies I am burning.( My cooking techniques are somewhat similar to my gardening techniques.)

Twenty years ago today...

Today, April Fool's Day, is our 20th Anniversary. We dug through our photo albums and Nick scanned a couple of pictures of us from that first year together. He has a more flattering one of me in his blog. I look like I have some sort of weird blotchy tumour growing on my nose which I think I would remember if I really did have a weird blotchy tumour on my nose at some point in my life.
Ahhh so young a fresh (and blotchy) we were back then. We seem to have matching khaki's and I believe that is a tie dye headband in my hair that inadvertantly matches Nick's groovy tie dye. All I can say is thank god for the advances in the past 20 years in hair products for girls with Jewish frizzy hair. And thank you Clairol for helping me to maintain the illusion that 40 is the new 30.

In honour of this special day we went to the coast and went to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.The kids were well behaved and Max didn't have a single tantrum or meltdown. Maneuvering the cheapo Kolcraft double stroller was a challenge. The wheels seem to prefer to run perpendicular to the direction one is intending to go.

This picture was taken after Max peed on me while I was trying to do a stealth stand up diaper change.

Max was entranced by the fish in the very cool walk through giant tunnel aquarium.

There was a girl on her cell phone in the middle of it saying, "Can you hear me now?"

They had a little kids play area with stuff like this to play on.

We were done in only 2 hours and the day was sunny and lovely so we headed off to the beach. As we descended down the cliff walkway to the beach , the icey wind ripped into my ears and reminded me of why I'm really not a fan of the Oregon Beach outside the comfort of my car. The views are lovely, the wind is brutal. But of course the kids had fun and we'll have to return for a better prepared extended visit with lots of pails and shovels for proper sand castle building. And a big warm hat and parka for me.

I couldn't do a blog post without hawking at least one item. I randomly relisted a hanging vase yesterday and within an hour we got two large orders for assorted hanging vases. One was from Kansas and the other was from Oklahoma. Some sort of weird Middle America vortex found my vases and felt compelled to purchase simultaneously making a happy afternoon for me.

This Wide Flat With Purple Accents Hanging Vase was one of the ones purchased and now relisted.

They make unusual Mother's Day gifts for the right Mom.

Happy Anniversary Nick! I love you more than ever!