My better half...

I've exhibited half-hearted attempts at fame,
like Siamese twins, I'm wary
not wanting to part with half of me
knowing half will change
half not
effecting what I call normal, as
my affection for normal may mislead.
I'm aloof,
I prefer to walk alone, studying each step
at a distance, yet still in line of sight.
The allure is there still, yet
the attempts allude...
all told, I really don't give a damn,
to just frequent those half-hearted
thoughts occasionally makes me clever(er)
than I was the step before...
I like it that way, you know,
no stress,
to be really real and just know
that I did my best...
and you will say,
I once knew a wild thing!

I love it when I take a day off...it means I stay up all night,
maybe have a glass of wine(or two)
or coffee...whatever it takes...
a gazillion projects waft through my brain
and get finished in the morrow...
no worries, nothing to break my stride
and a power nap in the afternoon is not out of the question!
But what my definition of a day off is, not having
to groom dogs...my day job...ya know...
I'll still work like a dog all day long doing what I love!
Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

Time to soar...

You could call it a soul cleansing,
as I begin to spread my wings into a new world
of sales and life changes...
an Etsy store evolves into a new venue of
traffic online, new friends, new cash flow, new beginnings!
My blogs will also be transformed
to suit my new avenues...

More jewelry to be created...
I found these great lil' baby head charms
up at The Junk Asylum the other day and got to thinking...
perfect to go 'long side my Cracked in the Head nightlights.
Cute huh...they can be purchased for $15.00
on my Etsy store, just click my Etsy button on my side bar...
easy peasy!

I'm going to start posting furniture as well on Etsy,
I believe it will attract another group of friends to our locations...
Friends Candle Shed, Sisters' Garden and me,
A Wild Thing...

I'm going to set up a small space in front of my brightest window
in the studio where I can work on my art...

and pull those gentle creatures from my heart to the paper
and on to you...

Each new piece painted will be posted on Etsy
and a location where to find them...

new and old will all be found at one of the three locations...
just ask and you will receive.

as Spring opens new doors and adventures for this
Wild Thing...

How Robin Brown saved my life...

And I thought it was just me...

Boy, can I identify with this...I used to have this really cute
cottagy kitchen, all organized...you could actually
cook in there and eat at the table...with 4 chairs...
and dishes that matched...
you could get the refrigerator door opened all the way,
what a novel idea!

Then I started my soap biz...that TOTALLY consumed
it's cottage charm...

The washer/dryer is now a work space, cute lil' cupboards
are filled with scent and tools of the trade...

another cupboard had to be dragged in to harbor
the growing candle biz, orders are starting to fill my
tiny tack board...

Yet, I still manage to keep bits of it's charm,
though you have to strain to see them, but...
who wouldn't want to work this way, up in the morning,
as soon as the rooster crows, still in jammies, first cuppa Joe,
then it's get to work filling the house full of exotic scents...
paradise to this country girl...
and at age 61 and counting,
I acknowledge that age is only a number,
life...well, that's the next chapter...thanks Robin!
And thanks TOT for the magazine...
I luv u girlz!!!

I too will never close the door on my working life...

"WHERE WOMEN CREATE"

OMG........................

I'm about to split a seam, how 'bout you!!!
I want to Spring clean...open the windows, air out the house
and play in the yard...

I want to frolic in my gardens, I want to breathe in the green,
I want to plant and harvest, get black fingers and toes
and listen to the screen door slam and cicadas...

I want to rearrange my new lil' summer studio,
fill it with soaps and furniture and...and be OPEN...
this is what it was all about, having my own rabbit hole, my shop
and a place to create with the sun streaming in through the windows...
ahhh...spring, where the hell are you and why so long!!!

I want to breath the colors of summer in newly poured soaps,
and newly painted furniture...I want to revel in rust
and chippy old paint...it's been a long scary winter,
with economic woes, but as junkers, we see the light at the
end of the tunnel and it is good...don't you feel it???
This is gonna be a great year for us pickers and packers...
we gotta plan!

MADE IN AMERICA!!!

I have newbies...

No, it's not a new disease...it's new stuff...
Stopped by my favorite haunt yesterday on my way
to deliver soaps to LeClaire, had a few spare bucks...soooo...
isn't this clock to die for!!!
Don't know if it works, don't care if it works,
it's just a grand piece of decorating going to Sisters' on Friday!

Who doesn't love the delightful design of art Nouveau candlesticks...
sweet...

and this darling repro ink well and novel pen,
made from the point of a lobster...soooo me!

AND baby heads...isn't this just the cutest, she may be a keeper,
you just don't find a lot of black babies...
I love her hair!!!

OK, we won't go here...

but we will here,
the evening sky over a secret garden

My tree row ablaze with an evening's passion,
sure to bring on another perfect day!!!