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Vendor Fair, Bees, and the Lair

Happy Thursday! This last few weeks have been quite the whirlwind around here.

I’ve been hurriedly preparing for a vendor fair that was scheduled for the 19th. I was putting the final touches on extra items and working on starting others. Then, two weeks before the sale I had another thought pop into my head. Car coasters! Of course, that led me through the yarn aisles during a craft store stop for more earring packaging supplies. I came out of the store with a bag full of yarn for the coasters with my earring packaging in the bottom.

After two weeks of making, putting finishing touches on stuff and packing my car, we were off for the vendor fair. The weather was warm. The sun was out in full force. The wind began to whip around near lunch time. Sales were good.

I took a couple days off more physically demanding stuff after the sale. I’ve realized that I am no longer a spring chicken and need to rest my muscles after a crazy day like that. During this time, I worked on theoretical designs for fall. That means that fall earrings and other fun things are going to be coming to the shop in the coming weeks. I’ve also got some ideas for Christmas and winter.

That brings us to yesterday. The Lair was alive and buzzing…in a bad way. We had to make a hasty retreat from it and surrounding rooms, as we have a beehive of bees flying around. It was my husband who got stung in an attempt to subdue some of our uninvited guests so we could get work done. Hopefully, with a bee and hive removal scheduled for over the weekend, we will be able to return safely to the Lair early next week. Luckily, I can still do other work in the meantime.

I do hope you are all doing well.

Until next time!

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Hello, Welcome, and Thank You

When I was thinking about this first post to this new blog a lot of things went bouncing through my mind. Do I want to continue my same layout as my old blog? Probably. What should I use as my first “new” blog post? Sure, I could go right into what products I have been working on. I could talk about how chaotic my life has been in the last few months…which it truly has been. Perhaps I could talk about the near crisis that resulted in finally taking a step into the unknown and starting a website that I have been dreaming about for decades. Then I decided on the following…

Hello, I introduced myself on the “Meet Me” page but just as a quick overview. I am a wife, mother, animal lover, and have been a creator for as long as I can remember. I enjoy “crafting in the wild”; going to a park to listen to the sounds of nature or the city while working on whatever project I can fit in one of my many project bags.

Welcome, I am so glad you found my website. I have my original patterns posted currently in my shop, but have many more things waiting for finishing touches to be added in the near future. I’m also planning on new things being added either weekly or biweekly, so be sure to check back often.

Thank you! I wanted to take a quick moment to thank everyone who has stood behind me, cheered me on, and has supported me. The questions of when I was actually going to take this step and the interest in my creations leading up to this post have been what kept me on this quest. There are so many of you that I don’t even want to begin naming names because I am sure I will forget one or two…or more. Y’all have been such an amazing blessing to me. Thank you to all those who have helped me hone my skills and have taught me new techniques or ways of doing things. Thank you to any of you have taken the time to look at prototypes and have given feedback on my designs. And finally, the biggest thank you to my besties who had me calling and freaking out over now trivial details that seemed like roadblocks to me at the time. Your words that calmed me down and got me refocused on the goals, and your continuous ideas on things are greatly appreciated.

Until next time….