Monday, March 26, 2012

Find My Jewelry & Journals at Each Peach Danvers

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I’ve been meaning to blog about the wonderful Natural Café – Each Peach, in Danvers, MA off of Route 1 South.
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I met Agusta, one of the owners of the Natural Cafe at a meeting of “Echo” which is a Garden Club I belong to in Danvers. She and her partner, Lori, were there giving an interesting talk about salt at this meeting. The very next day I ran into Agusta again while we were both participating in a craft fair selling our goodies. That’s how my jewelry happened to ended up in this wonderful space - Each Peach.

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The Café is a pleasant space, with wi-fi connections. But, the most important thing to note is the attention to the detail of the healthy offerings at the Café. 

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At Each Peach you will find delicious organic smoothies, a soup and sandwich of the day, and other health food products.  They, also, offer educational classes, seminars, meet-ups and a variety of other health related products, not to mention my jewelry and handmade journals.


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 My rings are $10, and so are the earrings.  Most of my bracelets will run you $20, and you’ll find necklaces and scarf pins reasonably priced, too.  The journals are all handmade, and are artsy. They are $18.

I’m going to be doing a talk about the Joys of Journaling here at the Natural Café in April.

Hope you’ll come in and enjoy Each Peach.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Last Week–This Week! A sign of Spring...

Last week we had snow!
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Maybe, three or four inches of the stuff. There is still some remaining on my lawn. This week started out quite cold. One night it was 29 degrees. Brrrr! But, yesterday it was GEORGEOUS! Bright – Sunny – beautifuly mild. I think we made it up to 65.  WOW!  I’ll take it.

Today, is another great weather day. Sunny and we are supposed to be in the upper 60s by this afternoon. (somewhat windy, though)

All in all – a lovely taste of spring.
See what I discovered yesterday morning?  Flowers!

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Sign of spring!

Job Situation

Don’t see how the employment situation is getting better.
I picked up the Ipswich Chronicle newspaper the other day and was totally shocked at the lack of employers seeking workers. Granted, many employers use internet adds these day, but this was ridiculous. There was less than 1/4 of a page! And, a couple of them weren’t actually real jobs, they were come-ons for schools.



When I first moved here – many years ago, there would typically be a few pages of job adds.  Not good…

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Blessed with good weather…

I don’t want to jinx us, but our February weather has been great! No snow. No snow! And, often above average temps.  I’ll take it.  So, I’ve been out walking a lot and it does help a person’s mood.


Here are more Bradly Palmer photos.  I finally got a better picture of the stone building. Now, mind you, I’m taking these photos with my iphone g3 camera.  Nothing fancy at all. I’ve been fascinated with this form of photography and experimenting away.  I love that I have a camera on me at all times.  Of course, it could use a flash and a zoom, but I’m hoping for such improvements in the future.  Meanwhile, it’s just fun to see what I can get with my phone and the few new apps I’ve uploaded.  I was amazed at all the dead wood and fallen trees in this area. 


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               Everyone was out and about that morning!


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                                              Even the ducks.  
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I’d love to hear from you if you are having fun with your iphone camera, too.

 

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Bradley Palmer Park

I guess I’m in love with this place.  It’s where Kevin and I go walking often. It’s a state Park, and there is a paved road through the park.  

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There are numerous other trails off into the woods.  We take those trails sometimes, but it’s just so easy to walk the paved road, and go home.  We don’t have to worry so much about deer ticks this way.

But, before we turn around and head back we stop at the stone house.  It fascinates me, and I love to photograph it. I only had my iphone with me the other day, but I’m sharing some of the pictures.

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I’m hoping the state doesn’t let this beautiful stone structure go to ruin.  It looks like that may be happining.  I’d love to see the inside, too.  Well, I would have loved to have visited the inside before it sat for so many years.  I’m sure the inside is damp, and full of spider webs and nests. This will be an interesting subject to paint...



 






















Sunday, February 12, 2012

My Valentine Contributions




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I’ve been playing around with hearts.  It’s been fun !

I came up with 3D heart earrings, a few felt pins, a couple of journals, and a “Heartfelt Doodle.”  All in the name of Valentine’s Day.

These are an example of my 3D Heart Earrings. 
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They are kind of unique because I fashioned them out of specialty paper and even tissue boxes. As you know my Muse likes to Upcycle.

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Here are the beginnings of my felt pins…

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This is my Heart Doodle!

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Last, but not least – Valentine Art Journalas…





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                  Wishing everyone a Sweet Valentine’s Day!

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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Hearts! & More Hearts!


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For some reason I have always loved Red heart hearts.  They were fun to draw when I was a kid, and to me they are a lovely symbol. 


I’m always seeing Red heart hearts – when I go walking - gum stuck to the sidewalk looks like a heart.  Out in nature – I see hearts on tree bark or a leaf on the ground looks like a Red heart heart.  Even some potato chips have heart shapes.
There are hearts everywhere.

So, today is dedicated to Red heart hearts.  I’m making earrings out of paper hearts. I’m painting wooden hearts and even making hearts out of my denim scraps left over from past “upcycled” projects. 

Hearts are FUN!  Lets see what I come up with today.