Weekly Review in photos:

Happy 71st Birthday to my Dad...November 2nd (All Soul's Day;)  Celebrated in Sea Pines!


 Had an incredible day yesterday celebrating my dad's 71st birthday and visiting the beach for the first time since before Hurricane Matthew. Stopped in my favorite coastal Rock Shop, Black Market Minerals and chatted with the amazing people who make the magic happen there, picked up a few stones and gave them a sweet salt water bath 💙. It's funny, although I only live a few miles from the coast line, it never fails, every time I visit, I notice as I'm leaving that my breathing is incredibly free and deep...I'm not conscious of holding my breath (sometimes I catch myself)....but Grandmother Atlantic always helps me to breathe like I've never breathed before ... grateful
 
This picture perfect day was very very wonky for awhile...not even sure why...but the energy was just off for the whole clan. Thankfully these wonky moments are few and far between... and a big part of it is because the beach (and some chocolate 😳) makes everything better!

My new banner! (you know, in case I ever decide to do a craft fair again, or maybe a farmer's market or a town festival....I may never do that, but one can never be too prepared :D

da beeeeee

flashback:


the lemons are getting real, folks!

first of two Veteran's Day Performances this week:

I'm thrilled and honored to be collaborating with Brigid's grove to add sparkle and words to their beloved hand-crafted goddesses!  This has been a very exciting venture!
 



and I started making some darn cute, nature-inspired earrings!

flashback Friday....downtown Milwaukee

Flashback Friday: in honor of Paris

flashback bonus, two years ago:

Flashback, three years ago today at Boone Hall Plantation in Charleston:

Grandparents

So this was a really neat surprise my mom brought to me today. (She's in the process of going through thousands of photos and making digital copies).

She brought me a Polaroid of my Grandma Marcie (my dad's mom) knitting an afghan, along with the very afghan which she is knitting in the photo 

 

FB Memory Flashback, from three years ago:

Beagle Bracelet

This is a custom project request that I received this week; it is near and dear to my heart.  My very first dog was a beagle...she and I were both born in Kansas :)  I was asked to create a bracelet for someone's sister, as her sister had just lost her beagle.

*click on this link if you are interested in a three wrap custom bracelet:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/127193850/create-it-your-way-custom-request-three?ref=shop_home_active_5

 The colors of the bracelet are Beagle colors!  I love that!
I created this bracelet with a lot of intention, including the use of healing crystals, to bring peace to this sweet beagle's mama.  The photo is the actual beagle, modgepodged onto a charm.   And of course my beloved Piper always hangs out with me when I create my pieces:)



And this is me and my beagle, Heide Bingo Babe (taken, ahem, *a few* years ago;)

five years ago today....

fairwell lunch and dinner with friends and family in WI before we hit the road for SC:

Farewell lunch with friends at Matty's
Farewell dinner with family at Erv's Mug

Wednesday...a look back, in honor of the upcoming annual sandcastle contest!

We participated in this contest on Hunting Island, five years ago, when we first moved down to SC.  At the time we were living on Lady's Island, which is very close to Hunting Island.  The girls won second place in their age group!  Look how little they were!  Just 4 and 6 years old...where DID all the time go????!!!!!

on this day, five years ago.....

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May 18, 2010 ·

It was such a beautiful day we had to take an afternoon "field trip"---we hit Boerner Botanical Gardens and Basse's Farm for icecream (bribery for the girls letting me take a thousand pictures at the gardens of them:D)"

....we were so blessed to live within a couple of miles of these beautiful gardens. When we got home that night, we found out we were moving to South Carolina (and our WI life suddenly became very hectic with the mass exodus;) The girls' ages: 4 and 6....they both still had most of their baby teeth....

 





 

then (two years ago in their first Nutcracker ballet performance) and now:

a surprise from WI!

Look who made the trip down from WI with grandma and grandpa!!! My Baby Tender Love from the early 1970's 

age one yesterday.....age 10 today

It's official...my 10 year old is now officially wearing my size 9 shoes....and she's no longer playing dress up. Seriously, just yesterday she was doing this! (And we carpeted over our slate entry way to protect her;) 

(seen here, sporting her daddy's size 13 shoes:)

exciting graduation for Fairy Girl!

My sweet 8 year old  Fairy Girl just graduated from the small bike to the new blue bike which arrived today. Going from white to black tires was exciting to her too:) 

 

feeling gratefully nostalgic :(

flashback friday

flashback artwork

little angel's family portrait...circa 2008 or 2009?  notice how not only is mama towering over daddy, but her hair is BROWN :D   I think this is such a sweet piece of art:)

my grandma, me, cuz, her two boys, and my dad...at my grandparents' house

last time eating out with two single digit girls :( #nostalgic