New Snow

feeling quiet~~~my early morning walk~~~yesterday

GOING SNOW-VIEWING   ONE BY ONE THE   WALKERS VANISH... WHITELY FALLING VEILS
KATSURI

Wire Bending Mania, Buy 3 get one Free, and 10% off!

I make these crazy ornaments I call Tendrils.  It all started about 20 years ago when we built our current home.  When one builds there are scrapes.  I have trouble throwing anything away.  My partner in life...I will refer to as "HE" who wishes to remain blog-nonymous...has no trouble discarding things that are not needed in the present moment.  So when he wasn't looking I gathered up all the wire scrapes and stowed them in the attic.  The attic is my territory and my loving HE stays out of the attic which contributes greatly to relationship harmony!  Anyways, I keep stuff with the intention of making use of it someday.  I wait for inspiration.  One day in the garden inspiration came while picking peas.  I was enthralled by the beautiful little pea tendrils.  I love all their seemly random twists and turns.  Then a light bulb moment, I thought of my wire stash and a jar of marbles that I had...before that day was over Tendrils were born!

Since that time I have expanded my wire wrapped objects to included stones, sea glass, sea pottery, and just this weekend glass globs that I found at a thrift shop.  I have sold them over the years at many different venues...I couldn't keep them all!  Now they can be found at www.injoyemporium.etsy.com I sold a few a week ago and the customer asked if I could duplicate the ones she bought.  I needed to make 3.  I ended up making 30.  Once I start I just keep going!  I love the organic process of bending the wire.  Each ornament is different.  Once the wire is bent there is no going back and straightening.  Each bend is a tiny commitment to the overall design.  Thinking is a hindrance to this process...just flow!

So today I am listing 22 new Tendrils in the Emporium.  The remaining 8 are in my stash of giveaway ornaments.  Buy 3 and get ONE FREE!  Plus~~until 1-31-13 use coupon code INJOY10 and save 10% on everything in either of my shops!

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BUY ANY 3 Copper Tendril Ornaments and RECEIVE one FREE Marble Tendril.

(FREE one is MY CHOICE from UNLISTED stash)    Any questions please convo me.

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Here are a few photos of this weekends making...

Work Space~~~Dinner Table~~~TV Trays Tonight

22 Tendrils ready to photograph and list on Etsy

Very Clear Sea Glass

Glass Glob~~~I Goggled the name~~~they are called Globs!

A neat piece of Sea Pottery
https://www.etsy.com/listing/120479526/terracotta-arrow-triangle-sea-pottery

Really like these arrow shapes!  The photo doesn't show it but, this stone has sparkly mica .

~~~Gratitude~~~

Magic Moments

 I am Grateful for magical moments.  This was how I viewed the moon earlier this week.  It was right at sun rise...or...moon set.  I think we experience magic and beauty so we will pause and be in the moment.  Our human way of life is so hustle and bustle that it is easy to get caught up in the torrent of daily doings.  I believe we are wired to have our breath taken away to remind us to breath.  This moment did that for me.  Speech Less!

Moments of Magic

Ashok

When grace descends on you,
unannounced and unexpected,

When your prayers are answered,
and you are given more than you asked,

When your love is reciprocated,
and your calls are returned,

When you are content with life,
and your heart knows true peace,

When the existence resonates,
in silence with your being,

you are blessed to live,
in those magical moments.

Let this moment pass in quiet gratitude,
Let this moment remain forever,

For, some words are better left unsaid,
The soul remembers them forever!

It is my intention, each Sunday, to share something that fills me with Gratitude. 

I write ~~~Gratitude~~~ with the wavy lines to represent the gratitude ENERGY~~~~~! 

I hope you will join me and share your gratitude moments. 

~~~Amen, Blessed Be, Namaste'~~~

Thaw

Thaw~~~ to be freed from the physical effect of frost.

I have been a bit frozen lately, but not by the winter winds.  I have been in a sort of creation freeze. I haven't made anything in a while.  The holiday hoopla usually hampers my production flow.  I am full of ideas but, I have trouble getting beyond the in my head and out my hands stage.  I am so easily distracted by the day to day this and that...so before I know it the sun has set and I am pooped.  (bet this sounds familiar)  To over come these slumps I give my self a "Creation Day".  Today was one.  On Creation Day only the bare minimum of chores are allowed.  And I make something, anything, just make myself make.

So today I woke up from a night of insomnia.  I was super tired.  But I was committed to getting unstuck so I started the day with a nap!  I napped from 8:00 am to 8:45 am.  Perfection!  I was good to go.  I zipped through the duck chores, a snow shoe with Runa, a few Etsy emails.  I warmed up by finishing the threading (warping) of my little loom.  Then into the sewing room to make......a mess!  A happy mess.  I love to have fabric and thread flying.  My process is not neat or tidy, it is creative chaos!  In that pandemonium an inner calm arises.  I feel my pent up ideas releasing and "becoming".  I worked on some love ideas with Valentines Day in mind.  But found more inspiration from the book I just started to listen too today, No Man is an Island by Thomas Merton (9 hour unabridged read by Jonathan Montaldo)  

I have had more "productive" days but I feel I have turned the corner.  I have got my rhythm back.  Loosened, melted, rekindled, coalesced....ok I will step away from the thesaurus....   Here is some of the proof of the pudding...

Finished Warping and Even Spun a Bit!

My Mirthful Mess...and it is going to get messier!

It really is a January Thaw....Enjoying my Lunch Break Outside in the Winter Sun!!

Sending You Some 

Getting Organized!

Sales Tax DUE the 15th! ...so... "fun" bookkeeping

 January is a busy month!  Time to get organized and purging.  Decided to re organize my closet to keep better track of my Etsy inventory that is ready to ship.  So need to let some stuff go...namely magazines.  I am a reforming pack rat!  Etsy is my therapy!!  So I am listing some magazines in my www.injoytreasures.etsy.com and giving others away.

Need to get my books in order.  Not my favorite task.  But once I get going I get into it.  I like the feel of sharp pencil on ledger paper.  I use a combination of computer and old fashion pencil and paper sort of like my art and Etsy!  (I have got my son's 1st FAFSA done!)

So time to get off the computer and snow shoe before the snow melts.  Then get busy!  Wish me luck!!  What do you do to get organized?

Closet Organization in Progress

Maybe more time to read soon!?

    

If I could get organized

There may be nothing wrong with you
The way you live the work you do,
But I can surely plainly see
Exactly what is wrong with me.
With you there may be nothing wrong,
But here's my trouble all along
I do the thing that don't amount
To very much with no account.
It isn't that I'm indolent
or dodging duties quite intent
I work as hard as anyone
And yet I get so little done
I nibble this, I nibble that
but never finish what I'm at.
The morning goes the noon is near
Before I know the night is near.
And all around me I regret
The things I haven't finished yet.
If I could just get organized
I oftentimes may realize
Not all that matters is the man
The man must also have a plan
It really seems important though
I let a lot of matters go
and all around me I neglect
the things I haven't finished yet.
I work as hard as anyone
And yet I get so little done
I'd do so much you'd be surprised
If I could just get organized. 

Baidurya Mukherjee

Hand Woven Scarves that need finish work and listing...

Make Bed...Fold Laundry...Snow Shoe First...Cheer Up Runa!

~~~Gratitude~~~

Right Out My Back Door

I am very grateful that I can snow shoe right out my back door.  It is one of my favorite winter activities.  I have a great snow shoe set up from LL Beans.  With the special boots I can just step into the snow shoes and go!  Runa loves how quick I am ready.  It is such a great activity.  Low cost, no lift lines, and right out the door.

I had my first snow shoe experience on my 12th birthday in the Cascades Mountains of Washington State.  My dad and 3 sisters went on a organized snow shoe hike.  After the hike my dad gave me a pair of wooden beaver-tail gut snow shoes.  Best gift ever!  When we would go skiing as a family I would often take off into the woods on my snow shoes.  I loved the solitude and the closeness to nature.  I often wandered pretty far off but just followed my tracks back.  I have always felt most comfortable in the woods alone.

Now I don't need to wait until the weekend ski trip to head out into the woods.  Just have to wait for snow!  I try to snow shoe everyday that conditions allow.  Happy Winter!!!

Let's Get Going~~~Put that Camera Away~~~says Runa

View from my Back Door

It is my intention, each Sunday, to share something that fills me with Gratitude. 

I write ~~~Gratitude~~~ with the wavy lines to represent the gratitude ENERGY~~~~~! 

I hope you will join me and share your gratitude moments. 

~~~Amen, Blessed Be, Namaste'~~~

Busy!

 I have been quiet when it comes to the blog-a-sphere. Wish I could say the same about my life~  BUSY! week.  Un-decorating, celebrating my birthday and son's 18th!  A happy flush of Reiki clients, getting little loom warped (warped means threading the loom, not a warp speed operation or me going crazy).  My camera broke---that is a yikes for an Etsian/Blogger!  So new learning curve with the new camera. (full disclosure~last couple of blogs have photos from past winters...)  Oh yeah, winter!  It has been frigid here.  I have been busy keeping both wood stove stoked and keeping an eye on my quackers...don't want duck-sicle...they do pretty well if I  make them stay in and give them hay to snuggle up with.  Today is my first day alone in 2 weeks + at least until 3:20 when the boy (legal adult now!) gets home from school.  Hope to re-group a bit.  

I love my family and friends.  I enjoy all my interactions with my Reiki and sewing clients.  But I re-charge best ALONE.  Alone is like ahhhhhhhh, a fresh breath of air, time I wish to savor...but usually I go into screech mode.  I love that too.  Being able to work at my tasks without interruption.  I listen to the music that I love or an audio book...or my favorite...nothing!  So better get to it!  Daylight is burning! (it is pretty dark by 4:30 pm these days)

List for today:

Blog
Ship Etsy Sale
Black Bean soup cookstove/crockpot
Snow Shoe with Runa
Measure Scarf Warp for Loom
minimal house cleaning
Photo shoot for Etsy
work on mini fiber art idea for Etsy
drive 30 minutes to town to meet with fiber group (probably dreaming)

Thinks that enough!

First Photos on "auto"....add reading big camera manual to list!

Soups on the Stove...Need to fill the wood rack too

Runa's Fun...Vern doesn't even try to help pick up!

Warping Reel Measuring Scarf Warp

Empty Little Loom

Waiting for a Snow Shoe...if looks could talk! (mop the floor?  probably not)

Coming soon to a blog near you~~~My WORD(s) of the Year!