Owl Encounters

Goodnight Owl Necklace
Every morning after I take my kids to school, my chocolate lab and I go to the woods for our morning walk. When the weather is nice, we often find all sort of treasures for me to use in my work . . . fern leaves, feathers, acorns, and branches. Lately it has been so cold and fairly dark that early in the morning, so there have been few treasures to be found. However, we did have an exciting encounter the other morning when a great-horned owl flew right over our heads! He landed on the branches of an old gnarled tree. It reminded me of a book from my childhood "Goodnight Owl" by Pat Hutchins. As a result . . . . I had to rush home and make this new pendant necklace. :-)

Not Such a Bad Day After All

It started out being one of "those days" where you just have to wonder why did you have to get out of bed. Every little thing that could go wrong did - from stubbing my toe in the bathroom, to my hair dryer breaking (not good on a cold, rainy day), to the kids spilling their oj at breakfast when we needed to be headed out the door to the bus. more itty bitty cuteness - Fine Silver Owls Studs
So, ok, I was a bit cranky for most of the day, which always seems to add to the bad "karma" or whatever the ick factor is. But, this evening things started to turn around. I made my first Ruby Lane sale, yipee! And I had a couple sales on Etsy this evening. I also found out about a new place for selling on line : icraft.com. You can check out my new shop here: Artistic Creations at Icraft
So, I think I'll head off to bed on a happy note and hopefully start out tomorrow on a much better one. Night, night!