my dolls were featured on the front page of etsy

FP-12-4-08-copabananas, originally uploaded by copabananas.

a fellow street team member created this wonderful collection of various Jersy etsians and we managed to get on the front page. (which is great because then your shoppe gets a lot of hits, which is potentional business).

vinette by the front door

here's a little vinette i created and it is really easy to do, so if you feel inspired to create your own, it took me about 15 minutes. of course, i have the resources in my own backyard to go cut holly, berries, pinecones and evergreens. we took the dogs and made a little trip to the back field and snip these items, collected pine cones, yelled at Gracie for running off, oh and looked for birds nests. we found one which jeff wrangled out of some sticker burrs and then i took all the findings and starting laying them out around this old farm table (bought for $5 years ago!). the wreath you see in the back of the picture, we got at the flea market this morning and the same with the rusty old truck (which had been in a fire). i fell i love with the truck the second i saw it. it reminded me of jeff telling me how when he was little, he use to bury his toys in his backyard. so i told him, we are going to tell people that you buried this truck when you were little and we recently dug it up! in the first picture, you can see the darling little bird nest in the cab of the truck. in the second picture, i decided to add some vintage ornaments also purchased at the flea market this morning.

don't have these kind of items? well, let's get creative and see what else you have to substitute!

here's a picture of sweet Kirby on our walk today. she was very helpful.

My friend, Abbie, created my new avatar, featuring one of my icons. isn't it great? i just love having a handy computer friends!

garden statuary goddess

inspired by cindy forrestor's bottle class in california, i made this tiny little bottle with a doll on it and turned it into a necklace

new goodies

, originally uploaded by keeshagirl4.

this was me yesterday

(photo by Eun Leanan, see more incredible robin shots here at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eunleanan/sets/72157603843903744/ )

after running a few errands, I decided to bite the bullet and go the mall and get a few people on my list taken care of. i do like to give handmade gifts, but most of these were kids and i don't realy make handmade stuff for the little ones (unless it is my neice). but i was really sleepy for some reason and had a horrible headache that i just couldn't shake, so it probably wasn't the best day to go shopping. i got extremely irritated at Old Navy (won't be going there again) as the store is so disorganized, crap everywhere, they never have the right sizes and you have to watch them carefully with their sales items and clearance stuff because it is always wrong. which is exactly what happend to me with some of their sales. i'm tired of the hassle of dealing with these places just to save a few bucks. in one store i swear, the clerks were on me like feathers to tar telling me about their sales, what can they help me with, am i looking for anything in particular, etc. etc. . normally i expect friendliess and customer service, but yesterday with my headache, i just wanted to be left alone. is it kind of hard to be friendly when you head is pounding! anyway, that was my day and i still have a bit of a headache , which probably means my neck is tight, which means i should go get an adjustment ( a massage would be nice too!)