Sign of the times :)

Here in the days of uncertainty. Trying to make due with what we have, and making due without. Everyone is turning to the simpler things. Stories I've herd from my parents of days long ago, when things were tough, are again coming alive in our everyday lives. Hours ago I spent the evening out in the backyard, with my family gathered around a bonfire. We went from music on my nieces i pod to the radio, to my daughter playing the latest songs she's learned on her guitar. We had too many smores and just plain marshmallows. We even threw some foil wrapped potatoes in the fire which were absolutely delicious an hour later. The hours flew by. Just talking and mostly laughing. An awesome time was had by all. It's amazing how many people I see with their own bonfires. Just spending time together in your own backyard. That's all that seems to matter.

This is a custom order I just finished for my customer in France.

Fur-bitz?

Spent the day in wishwithme product development and came up with Fur-bitz. What do you think? Do you think they will sell? What do you think of the name?

What I love about making my little creations :)

What I love about the things that I make is the reactions I get when people receive them. Especially the reactions of the little ones. One of my customers told me that her little daughter took the tiny turtle I made for her brother. She made a little crib for it and she puts it to sleep by her bed every night. How cute is that! That makes up for the added eyestrain of making something that little. Her mom asked me to make 2 more to add to her collection. One purple and one orange :D Another customer told me her daughter carries the little finger-ling baby with here wherever she goes. She sent me this Awesome picture of her chubby little hand feeding the baby with the attached bottle. I love, love, love this pic. :) This makes me happy :D

our old spot on the beach

I call this: Maybe next year :)

Oil painting on a shell of my favorite place

Yes I'm still missing my favorite place. Naples FL. :( So as long as I'm on the subject of the vacation I'm missing out on this year, Here's a picture I oil painted on a shell I collected from my very favorite beach. The picture is the area I painted my picture from. (minus the people in the back round :D

Tiny Tiki vacation

In the Hawaiian mountains, in the land of king Kamehameha, you can hear the drums of the warriors in the wind.

If you take a close look under the leaves of the monkey pod trees you'll see the tiny village of Tiny Tikis. There not much bigger than your thumb but there very powerful and said to bring GOOD LUCK. The trick is to catch them because they are very fast.

You can sometimes find them riding the waterfalls in their bamboo canoes, between the twists and turns of the Banyan trees. Local surfers say they have seen them riding on the backs of sea birds.

I've seen them but never had the good fortune to catch one. Although I did catch them on vacation at a local smoothie hut :D