Coming Soon

Plan is to add some new items to my shop in the next couple of days. Dave and I have been working on some items that I am so very excited about. These will be non jewelry items... in fact a hint would be that we bought supplies at Rocklers and Home Depot :) I LOVE the new items.. and I Love that they are something that Dave and I are able to work on together. Hoping that this will open a whole new set of doors to our crafting and selling world.

Just a photo I love from the beach the other day :) *nothing to do with new items*

~Michelle

Treasures

Today was an awesome time on the beach... tide was out a bit..and it was a bit chilly but the wind was down so it was not too bad... started off to the left.. which is my favorite direction to head.. a lot less houses and I always seem to find more treasures.. but.. you have to be a lot more careful of the tide coming in. I made it down as far as I could go due to the tide rising and just as I was about to turn around one of my beach friends showed up with her dog and cat so the trip back we visited and treasure hunted.

Found some agates and some cool rocks, even found a rare very small red piece of frosted glass.

When I got home I grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down to the computer.... up on twitter pops a news thing about how a body was found washed up on the beach on Whidbey Island ( which is the island across the water from me.. by about 3 miles ) Checked out the location on google map and it turns out where the body washed up was just across the water.. and they believe the body has been in the water for a month or so... makes me horrible sad. I have come across the body of a seal before and it broke my heart.. it was so sad.. I can not even imagine what it would be like to come across the body of a person.

I know there are gross things in the water.. and everything I bring home gets a wash in some bleach water...just in case... but it all still makes me so sad...I grew up on a farm and have butchered animals and all of that.. I KNOW the cycle of life and how it all works.. I have hunted and fished and I love a good a steak, I still wish though that no one and nothing had to die.

~Michelle

Switch Up?

Been thinking about doing a switch up on my blog... spent sometime checking out wordpress yeserday.... ( here it is ) imported this blog to there and had a look around.. not sure what all is different and if I like it more or less... going to play with it for a bit and see how things work... I really like the idea of being able to have more pages.. all my beach posts in one section and all my geocaching in another.. vacations and family stuff on one page and my shop stuff on another page.... People could read what they wanted and ignore what they want... just not sure where/or if I can do that.

I would LOVE to hear your comments about your experiences with one or the other or both or somewhere else. Also looking for web hosting sites.. so far hostgator is winning. Where do you host your website and do you love it? Is there somewhere you hate? Good experiences and bad I would love to hear them all.

~Michelle

Merry Christmas

Well the tree is up and that is it for this year. We set up the tree and decided that instead of opening up any of the hundreds of Christmas boxes in the shed we would just buy a couple of boxes of ornaments and some candy canes.. then we strung some popcorn.. first time we have ever done that and I loved it.. was a bit more time consuming than I had thought it would be.. but it was fun and sort of romantic.

Last year we did thousands of lights in the yard and on the house.. and decorated everything in the house.. all the rooms including the bedrooms. This year we are keeping it really simple.. just the tree. Three of the 5 kids have moved out and the other two are close to it... and they are all doing big things with the other side of the family.. so Dave and I have decided to just keep it simple.. maybe sneak away just the two of us and hide for a day or two.

Next year the plan is to double what we did last year and have a big 3 day open house party type thing... if that plan does not change it should be a lot of fun.. and you are all invited :)

Flooding

Today the local river reached records high as the snow melted on the mountains and the rain came down. Dave and I spent the day out driving around checking out the rivers between Stanwood and Arlington and watched them rise and flood over into the towns and over the roads.

I have uploaded some videos we took ( here ) and some pictures from the cell phone are ( here ) tomorrow I hope to do a better blog post with some of the better pictures from the real camera but now we are off to get the daughter since most the roads between our house and her friends have been shut off due to flooding.

~ Michelle