Jewelry and Thank You notes

Remember this ? Well, I got a very sweet email from Megan Steer thanking me for posting about her work! It was a nice feeling to know that something small I am doing has affected another person in a positive way. I just checked out her etsy site again and it is all still amazing. I also discovered she has a blog as well, www.lurajewelry.blogspot.com

And can I just say, a thank you note is a wonderful and a simple thing. I make an effort to write many thank you notes whenever I can and I am teaching my children to do the same. I truly hope that this simple courtesy stays a tradition in an age of teens and (now children) texting and instant messaging. A thank you should match the gift given and a texted " Thanx" just doesn't cut it.

Here's to holding on to simpler ways :)

Dare I dream it

I was standing under a canopy of gray branches in the kids "fairy garden" in my yard , and I was thinking that by my sons and husbands shared birthday of May 12th, there would be fluffy lilac blossoms and shiny green leaves adorning these limbs. And the first hopes of spring time entered into my mind.
This is usually a tricky time for Mainer's. It's typically dark, gray and TONS of snow, but somehow we've so far had a pretty mild intro to winter in 2010, and we've been really enjoying it. I really can't complain about minimal snow and 40+ degree days. It feels like the soft breezes and daffodils could arrive at any minute.
It seems like I should be knocking on wood, or keeping these thoughts to myself because it really could shift back into the dismal dirty huge snowbanks and gray skies we're all used to at any minute. But I can't help but look to the future spring and hope it will arrive within the six weeks the ground hog promised us.
Anyway, we have been enjoying weather, and the couple snow storms we have gotten. Here's some pics showing what we've been up to.

New Years Day Blizzard and trip to Kennebunk beach! And followed by a decadent breakfast at HP Provisions in Kennebunkport. Their version of Banana's Foster :Banana Bread Stuffed with Cream Cheese





Winter Picnic


When its 40 outside, its seventy on the sun porch!




How have you been keeping busy this winter?

Indie Gift show!

Thanks to my super cool cuz, we are going to the first annual Cabin Fever Indie Gift show in boston this afternoon! I am excited! Thanks for telling us about it, Melissa! Post and pics to follow.

Check it out www.cabinfevershow.com

Vintage confidence

The kids have been home with colds and we have had a lot of downtime, so I thought I'd try a look from the vintage fashionista blogger Candice Deville (www.superkawaiimama.com) I tend to lack her apparent comfort in posting pics of myself on my blog, so I enlisted my kids to help me out.
Actually, anytime I've posted pics of myself doing a "look" I always end up feeling like a total arse. Guess it's just not my thing. Or maybe its because this is rarely how I really look...? Rural maine doesn't really have a lot of call for up do's and heavy eyeliner.. But todays pics with the kids were fun to take and they are such cuties that I thought I'd post them anyway.




And this one is just to illustrate the super cool earrings I made in about 30 seconds from Walmart's craft section. Probably costs around $2.50 I am on a jewelry making kick and I am thinking of organizing a DIY jewelry party. Who's in?