Black Friday and Soo Cold!

 We've got a lot of snow and it's really cold. I think I'll stay home and make some jewelry. I can't quite imagine standing in line at WalMart for whatever their big sale is. I should have some new lovelies to post tomorrow. Maybe I'll feel like going out for supplies then. It's been a long time since I've had a day to just stay home, I'm really enjoying it!

3Pearls in a Pretty Treasury

My Flourite Bracelet was included in a very pretty treasury today. PiecesOfPaper is doing a marathon of treasuries and I am honored to be included in one of them.

'Treasury marathon 7' by PiecesOfPaper

Patience 11x14 lim... divarouge $40.00	Fluorite Bracelet 3pearls $21.50	Delicate Roses Orig... boniflower $18.00	Poisonous - Mermaid... vuduberi $25.00
ORANGE CRUSH Flower... ChloeANDMaddie $43.95	Love Mandala Suncat... EyePopArt $10.00	Original Painting -... Amborela $48.00	Berries girl origin... edithlebeau $550.00
SUNBIRD- Original c... TheBrickLane $20.00	Recycled Necklace -... mistleandtoe $15.00	Romantic Dominoes -... ArtCult $3.99	Print - Watercolor ... laurenspaintpa... $15.00
Cats Who Swim Art P... rhodaperdition $20.00	Little Red Riding H... TinderBloom $20.00	white-chocolate hol... goldilocksbarr... $8.50	ACEO Fine Art Origi... skyspirit8 $65.00

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This is one of the new bracelets I just listed. I came up with this design a little while ago while I was messing around with crochet and beads. I really enjoy the surprise element of not knowing what it's going to look like until it's done. So far they have all turned out good :) I've got a coupon code for anyone reading this blog.  Use code - Blog 1 - for 15% off your entire order. 

Climate Shock

 I just spent a week in sunny California helping my sister with her yard. It was gorgeous weather in the high seventies and low eighties the whole week I was there. I've lived in the northwest all my life and most of the stuff we planted in her yard were things I've only known as house plants. It was a lot of fun, I wish I was going to be there to see them all bloom.

While I was gone we had a huge storm with a lot of hail and wind gusts up to 85 mph. It wreaked a bit of havoc with my backyard. Blew down the pergola, blew our wood adirondack chairs into the pond and tipped over and broke a lot of my pots and deck furniture.

Win a Beautiful Piece of Pottery

Ivy Pottery and Crafts is having a giveaway. All you have to do is go to her blog and leave a comment. Click the link above and good luck :)

Gift Tags

I like how tags look on a package. I also really enjoy making them. Such a simple thing and still so satisfying. I recently sold almost all of the tags I had posted in my shop opening up the possibilities for making even more :)

Decorates :-)

I was asked by a friend to create some jewelry for her five year old niece for Christmas. That of course led to my head bursting with sparkly fun pieces that had to come out. So many possibilities that I created a new shop section. When my daughter was very young, she called any ornamentation whether it was jewelry, cupcake sprinkles or glitter glue, "decorates". I really wanted to call my shop section for little girls "decorates" but in my continuing effort to not seem too peculiar (how am I doing?) I just called it Little Girl Sparkles, but anyone who has seen this really should just read that as Decorates ;)

Whoooooo

Owls abound on Etsy.I have now added my contribution to the 
parliament. I love to think of them late at night holding meetings to discuss all things owly and of course holding tightly to parliamentary procedure throughout. 
 

'Hoot' by 3pearls

A group of owls is called a parliament. Don't you love that?

Owl Case for the iP... EvelynX $25.00	Barn Owl Soap set SatinandBirch $	Large Art Print Owl... corelladesign $	The Perching Owl iotaillustrati... $16.00
Little Pine Owl Nec... sweetberrybird $	Retro Owls with Win... leearthaus $15.00	Owl Patterns - 8 x ... LoveSugar $20.00	4 cutesy purple por... Gems4us $
Marryann wee Owl - ... TheDollWhisper... $7.00	owl Pocket Watch lo... lifelittle $	Joshua Lil' Art 29blackstreet $30.00	FREE SHIPPING WORLD... BlackBaroque $
One of a Kind Embro... littledear $	Owl and Rose Bobby ... lizhutnick $	Vintage Owl necklac... beautyspot $	Owl Pendant 3pearls $32.50

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10-10-10

It's 10/10/10 today. Seems like a portentous date, doesn't it? It is my sister's birthday and my father-in-law would have been 95 today. Other than that, it seems like a day pretty much like any other. Still it seems worth noting somehow. Consider it noted. I'm also going to note how pretty my pond and surrounds look today.

Farmer's Market

My Farmer's Market Finds Today

We have such a beautiful farmer's market here. I just love the Saturday morning routine of loading up on fresh organic fruits and vegetables, listening to local musicians while sipping Egyptian coffee, and perusing the various craft booths. And on this crisp autumn morn the sun came out just in time for my stroll through the booths. Is there anything more beautiful than the autumn lighting on the Palouse? I don't think so.

A New Bedtime Story

Tonight I went to a reading by Brigid Pasulka the author of A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True. She recently won the Hemingway Foundation/ PEN award. It is an award that is given to a novel or book of short stories by an American author who has not previously published a book of fiction. So the Hemingway Festival is going on here and this was one of the events. I love hearing a book read by its author. It gives such a personal touch to the reading experience. I find that I hear the author's voice as I'm reading the book. As though the writer of the words is inside my head lending their voice and inflections to the story. I'm pretty excited to read this book. Brigid did a wonderful job of reading a segment of what promises to be an enchanting tale. Click the link if you're curious. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

So Many Ideas So Little Time

While I was walking my dog I suddenly remembered these disks I crocheted a couple of years back. By the time I got home all kinds of ideas had occurred to me of how to utilize them. I am pretty excited about getting a completely different look up in my shop. I've only been open for a couple of weeks and haven't really had much traffic. Still I like the idea of having a lot of different things for potential shoppers to look at. I know I like variety, the sampler plate always appeals to me :)

Morning Coffee on My Deck

Another beautiful morning on my deck. This little hummer better get started south. There are so many cute hummingbird feeders available these days that people hang them up without realizing that the little birds become dependent on them and sometimes get confused about what time of year it actually is.