A first edition of a real children’s classic: the 1966 Scholastic paperback, The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by Crockett Johnson (Harold and the Purple Crayon ( Read more... )

The pretties that are currently at my bookstore and on the Etsy Store that I didn't show you before here, are below the cut ( Read more... )

It's also at my Etsy store.

"Jade Nile bracelet" --

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A few new pretties just went up on my Etsy storeHere's some tempting pictures. I've been working on stuff you can dress up, dress down, wear anywhere. And working with mostly semiprecious materials such as jade, turquoise, sterling silver, but accompanied by some fun stuff like Mykonos Greek beads ( Read more... )

The subject pretty much says it all:

>> I'll have a few more pretties up at my Etsy store in the next few days, as I make more.

>> Please, please, PLEASE share the link for the YouCaring fund site to save my house ( Read more... )

I've added links to my sidebar, which include ( Read more... )

I've been here since July, did the final move in August, and I still don't feel like this house is home.

I wonder when it will. The other did pretty much immediately, but then it was "home" for another 24 years after that.

I keep wondering when I get to go home....

The last night I get to sleep in my home of 24 years. The home all my cats have ever known, including poor little Dawn -- we promised them this was their forever home. We keep apologizing to them ( Read more... )

If anyone would like to join us, we're having an informal book-sorting-and-packing party on Monday, July 2, starting at about noon at the old house in Auburn, NH. We'll be driving up to Orford with some boxes at about 5pm or so, and then dining at the new house on some lovely food we'll pick up at one of the many local restaurants (yes, yes there ( Read more... )

I HAVE ACHIEVED HOUSE ( Read more... )