The Thicket

I’ve moved the blog to:  http://foxglove-womble.com/foxglovestudios/  Please join me there!

Life has finally settled to the point that I am able to do the shop owner thang again. Between getting married in June, adding my sweetheart to our little household, dealing with his immigration paperwork (gotta love government entities), having a teenager/new driver in the house, losing my little Neon to an unfortunate incident, etc., etc… It’s been a wild ride to say the least.

I’ve just made a Facebook fan page and am cleaning up the clutter on the ol’ blog here, restocking the store and making some new items which will be posted soon.  No classes, though.  It’s a bit too much for now.

There are a lot of exciting goodies from other sellers that I’m dying to show you and do the gift guides again.  Fun, fun!

Back to the grindstone. ; )

Ok, so I just couldn’t think of the title for my first post in months and months.  Although we don’t happen to have any bananas right now.  At least none you would want to eat. 

It’s been a wild and wooly winter and spring (so far - already feels like summer here).  The details are unimportant.  Suffice it to say, I still live and breathe!  Too many things are still in transition for me to say, “I’m baaaaaack!”  I’ll be treading water for a while longer and waiting to see what happens.

Don’t say it, Carol.  I know I’m being enigmatic.  You’ll just have to live with the mystery. :P

So, I’m casually surfing the web.  Really surfing… That one-thing-leads-to-another kind of surfing.  I go from Cicada Daydream to Flickr where, in her photostream, Geninne mentions a site called Not Martha where she learned to make magnets from flattened glass marbles and her own pretty images.  The tutorial is really nice and written in plain language and a little humor - by a REAL human!  Definitely not Martha.

While you will find instructions for making everything from an organic cotton scarf to bath bombs, I was most intrigued by the pies baked in tiny jars.   If you don’t have tiny jars on hand, I’m sure you could use anything oven-proof that’s a similar size.  I can’t wait to try them, perhaps with a mix of berries… Yummy!

I know I’ve been remiss in posting lately.  The blog seems to get neglected before anything else!  This, unfortunately, is a post and run.

Tinyshinystudio sent me a message via Etsy informing me that both of our shops were mentioned by name in Tucson Weekly’s “Best of Tucson” staff picks. You can read the web version HERE.  This was a complete surprise and I forgive them 100% for saying my things are “made of felt”. Technically, they are but that makes it sound like they’re made from craft felt like you used in kindergarten.

Of course, this isn’t the best timing for me to put my shop on vacation mode but this Saturday I’m off to Florida with my sweetheart.  This will be the first time in four years we’ve both been off work at the same time.  Usually, one of us visits the other and the other one doesn’t take time off so we can visit more often.  We’re meeting in Orlando where his brother and sis-in-law to be have rented a house for a couple of weeks.   I’m getting a little giddy.