How rich would I have to be...

to justify spending 307 dollars plus shipping on a handbag? For a long time now (well, long for my tiny little brain) I've been searching the web - mostly Etsy - for the perfect new backpack/handbag to make me smile and fit me juuuuust right. Finally I googled 'recycled handbag' and found THIS!! I love love love these bags - but I don't think I'd ever spend that kind of money! Ooh, maybe I could justify it if I was in England. Yeah, that's it...I'll save on shipping! So I'll go to Cornwall and THEN it would be worth it, 'cause then it would be only 150 bucks. Even if the bucks were pounds...

My favorite part of the website is when they say:

Addicted to fabrics, colours & textures? Not grown up enough for a real handbag?
Pockets not big enough anymore? Still six years old at heart?
If you answered yes to any of the above, read on!

I answer yes to all of the above!!


oh. the website. yes, indeedy - she's going to be my new best friend - Karen from http://www.smarttart.co.uk

sweetness!

Sylvia recently bought one of my pendants, and this is the photo she took of it. Very creative and cool - thanks, girl!

Oh mY Goodness!

Wow - it feels like forevah since I was last here... and forever since I last did art... We got back late from our various and sundry family visits, and Olivia got strep throat, so we couldn't go to Chattanooga for an overnight mini trip. (The fact that I'd left it too late to book a hotel and there was nothing available across from the ball park had nothing to do with us not going, luckily...)

Since we ended up with a sick kid and other tired people, we hung out the whole weekend in the den...didn't even leave the house on Saturday. Lloyd watched his TEaching Company tapes on biology (he's a scary smart boy) and Olivia and E read and watched movies, and I soldered and packed up orders and soldered and cut license plates and packed up orders. My trusty helper Carol has abandoned me - well, not quite abandoned, more like taking over a HUUUUUGE Christmas order of license plate charms and another special item, so I need a new helper. Any ideas?



It feels so good to have four wholesale orders all packaged up and ready to go, and all my etsy orders are in the mail except one to Australia and one to Canada. Those will go to the post office today - paypal doesn't do foreign mail. So now, all I have is a couple of Uncommon Goods orders, and then I can play art!

Three Cups of Tea

I'm back from vacation - we went to see my sister Jen and her family in New Hampshire. It was lovely lovely lovely and thought provoking, as always. On the way home I became immersed in an incredible tale of what one person can do to effect change in the world. The book, Three Cups of Tea, is about a guy who makes a promise to bring a school to a hidden tribe of people in Pakistan.

"Three Cups of Tea is one of the most remarkable adventure stories of our time. Greg Mortenson's dangerous and difficult quest to build schools in the wildest parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan is not only a thrilling read, it's proof that one ordinary person, with the right combination of character and determination, really can change the world."
-Tom Brokaw


I came away with the thought that even I can bring good to the world, one small act of kindness at a time.