Here we go! Summer!!

Days are longer. Warmer. We in the northwest get way too much sun as we seek to soak up enough for the winter. The long, wet winters. I have two blue rockers on my front porch which make a nice outdoor nesting area where I can read or knit after a day at the shop. On my studio days, I can leave the door open and Lucas can run in and out and bake himself on the white concrete sidewalk outside the studio door while I make beady things.

Today in the studio I stuffed treasure tubes and filled even more tubes with locally found beach glass. I love the glass that has been tumbled and roughed up in the waters and surf of the Salish Sea that borders my downtown street. I like thinking of customers taking home the tubes of glass that I have carefully sorted and even hunted on the local beaches and think of Port Townsend and this local treasure found in my bead shop. I think when you open the tubes you might even smell sand, surf and hear a seagull or six.

I will be selling at the Lavender Festival coming up next month in Sequim so I am preparing for that. My own lavender beds are in full bloom and buzz with tons of bees. The sound makes me happy, the scent wafting up to my blue rockers even happier. I don't usually harvest the stems but keep them in the garden for the birds to feed on and fly in and out of their sheltering bushes.

Anyhow, this was just a quick stop by........

..... to check in this evening and say hello. I will leave you with a few recent photos and hope to see you soon around the shop!
xo, Lois