Summer pictures of things around the house and shop. I thought you might like this little taste of life around home and the BEAD shop.
A customer's collection of summer colors.
And finally, my grand puppy visiting. So cute! ONYX!It is truly spring leaping into summer here in Port Townsend as we experience two days in a row at nearly 80 degrees. The bead shop is fully stocked with new treasures being brought in almost daily. We will soon be adding more gemstones, roman glass, Chinese crystal beads and much, much more. I also have a big box of vintage 1930-1940's German glass beads to wash and restring for the shop.
On a more personal note, as the world becomes more chaotic and dangerous; I think reach for any beloved craft or learning a new one will save us and maybe the world too. Craft brings so much not only to our lives but to the lives of those around us. We can speak craft not hate. We can speak craft and love in the same breath. It is with an open heart we can greet each other and others around us. Much love fro me to you! Craft on!
The season has changed to spring and with it my travel lust not only hits me in the head like a water balloon but I get very excited to have new and vintage merchandise in my shops. To that extent I am adding some discontinued fabrics to my lobby shop with is in the foyer of the bead shop and DIVA YARN. You know I have a passion for everything that is bead and jewelry and yarn so I also have that love for fabrics.
I was recently able to get some discontinued Freida Kahlo fabrics and a wee bit of Dia de la Muerte fabrics. I am posting some pics here to tempt you and tell you the box should be arriving nest week. Don't wait to come in because supplies are very limited.
Checking in on my blog, I see I have not posted anything since this past late July. It was a busy summer and anytime I was not in the shop; I was in the studio checking in inventory and making jewelry. I spent my little " down time " knitting a bit and battling what blessedly turned out not to be a major health problem. Gratitude is my attitude always!
Anyhow I wanted to pop in this early Sunday morning to post a couple of pictures of two of my new favorite things. Of course, everything is my favorite thing bead wise but these are standouts.
Greetings to almost mid summer! Just wanted to post a quick shop update and let you know our current hours.
First the tease....
Happy almost the end of May! As the title suggests, I am a bit of a luddite and I wish I could just pop open my blog or my currently broken website and get to work. Maybe one of these days everything will be voice activated and the machine can figure out what you are asking and needing. I know in my heart that that day is coming soon and sometimes I just want to resist and keep things simple. Like paper and pen simple. Maybe an adding machine and a cordless phone, simple. It is easier to order on line but more real like the good old days which do not sound bad at all to me. ( except I do like the medical advances we have in our lives now )
Anyhow, my blog, of which I should write more often, is kind of like being in a small town. I like thinking I am talking with you face to face, meeting in my shop, asking about your family or friends, checking out the craft you are working on or giving the one on one brief help to overcome a stuck area on your project, to offer encouragement. I love my shops. We are 34 years old now and I hope to be doing this same thing in the same location for a bunch more years. If the good Lord is willing and the waters don't rise, to
Anyhow, I am posting a few pictures for inspiration now and will add more one of these days. Until then, know that I appreciate every single one of you and that my relationship with you as clerk and customer and friend to friend means everything to me!
An orthodox sterling cross cast by me.
In 50 minutes, I will be a year older, supposedly wiser and certainly a more experienced woman. It is my birthday and as we move forward into this new year and the beginning of another trip around the sun; my mind wanders to the future. Like many of you, I am worried and hopeful.
Find what I am up to by checking into my Facebook and Instagram pages. My website is under construction after 30 years and I hope to have it back up and running soon. It is unbelievable to me how fast time is moving. Maybe it is part of being older and knowing that there are more days behind me than ahead of me. Maybe it is just enjoying the sweetness of time and allowing myself to just be. Maybe it is feeling myself bloom and want to move in a thousand directions and into more creative time. Maybe it is just wanting to love my family and friends and customers and life.
We are all strong and wonderful and creative and leaning into these challenging times with love, courage and friendship. I look forward to connecting with you and seeing you in the shop. xo
