Dancing Ice Earrings are featured in an Etsy Treasury today!

Rachels wonderful Dancing Ice earrings were featured in an treasury today! Here is a screen shot:

I just snagged my first etsy Treasury

I have just snagged my first Etsy Treasury. It was so much fun to search Etsy for amazing copper items. Call me copper crazy, or just call me crazy! You can click on the photo to see it over the next couple of days.

Coming to terms with what has past

I realize now that I had posted an entry on our blog in the spring about my nephews illness. For those of you that have followed his journey through our website, you already know the outcome. For those of you that have not, it was not an easy one.

Right now it has been 4 months since we lost Jonathan. It is still raw, but it is only now really beginning to sink in. September was incredibly difficult for me and my family. Jonathan was to begin Kindergarten, and he would also have turned 5. October is also breast cancer awareness month, and the big "C" word (cancer) seems to be everywhere right now.

Shortly after Jonathan passed away, I created a necklace in his honor. I added his favorite sayings and things that had meaning for me in regards to him. I keep this with me in my room, and I hold it when I am looking for strength. I would like to share it with you today, because for me I used creating it as a vessel for my grief, and I feel that sharing it is another way for me to come to terms with all that has past and move to forward.

This coming weekend will be our first Thanksgiving without Jonathan. But I feel so thankful that we were able to share in this little guys life and to have learned so much from him during his short time with us. We all miss him so terribly much. Thanks for listening. Enjoy your family this weekend, and don't forget to never take "I love you" for granted.

Eat, sleep, drink....etsy

This is more of a personal entry than my usual post about the jewelry we have been creating.

For the past two days I have been thinking about our shop on etsy. I am currently trying to redo most of the photos on etsy to give our shop a more unified look, but the more time I spend on etsy, the more I seem to add to my to do list.

Holiday shopping will hopefully be gearing up soon. Locally we have the upcoming Craft show in November to look forward too, and we have our jewellery at the Down to Earth Health Shop and also at Fort Gifts & Things, but I would also really like to see us have a successful year for 2009 online and that means that I have a lot of learning to do!

Seems almost funny that I am already planning how I will do things differently in the new year, and we are still a couple months from there.

I have been in quite a funk lately, this year has been one big roller coaster ride. I am finally starting to feel like I am beginning to get my groove back. I have certainly been lax in updating the blog and making jewellery with all of the upheaval in our lives over the past year but I feel as though I have finally found a jumping off point and am ready to get back on track.

Getting back on track as I have found, mean completely rebuilding the road reassessing the direction I am heading in. This is a work in progress.

I have a real passion for the jewelry I create. This is my jumping off point. - Thank for listening, now back to our regularly scheduled programing.