This and That

As usual, I feel like I'm playing catch up with the blog. There isn't always anything really big happening here, at least nothing blog worthy. But the little events add up quickly. Here is a recap of some of the things that have been going on in our little section of the world.

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We've had a wet spring, including lots of hail. The nice thing about it is that we've been seeing some beautiful rainbows from our backyard. This particular one had two arcs and both ends touched the horizon.

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After we got back from Las Vegas, we saw a new bird's nest outside of our garage. Kyla and I even watched the robin work on her nest one afternoon. Kyla made me check the nest every day to see if there were any eggs yet. (Here is the robin in her home):

Then one day we got a wonderful surprise:
Yesterday I realized that I hadn't seen the mama around lately so I checked the nest to see if the babies were OK. I was sad to see that it was empty. Something must have taken the eggs. She worked so hard on building a home for her babies and they were taken from her. It was heart-breaking.

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For my birthday this year, Will set up an appointment for me to get a new tattoo. This is a friend of Will's brother. He did a great job.

When Kendall was working on the sides of my neck, it was all I could do to sit still because it tickled so much. But it was painful when he was filling in the maple leaf. I'm really happy with the way it turned out. It's still healing now and is itchy. I have to wear my hair up because I don't like anything on my neck right now.

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I decided to start my own artisan market for this summer. It's difficult to find venues that are inexpensive to do and don't require you to commit all of your summer to. Will's brother has an auto repair shop with a big parking lot that stays unused on weekends. It's in a great location and I wanted to be able to provide people with a casual and cheap way to sell their items. The market is the 2nd Saturday of each month so there isn't a lot of time commitment. I also wanted a way for the community to be aware that there are alternatives to shopping in big box stores.

Only five of us were able to set up this Saturday. I'm hoping that next month will be better.

I'm re-working my set up. I don't very often get a big space to myself so I spent a few days trying to figure out my layout and getting it spiffed up.

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I took a new direction with my Etsy shop. I opened up a new one called Girl A Go-Go Designs and I'm upcycling t-shirts. I get them from the Idaho Youth Ranch which is an organization that raises money for under-privileged kids in Idaho through their chain of thrift stores.

This was a turtle neck that I cut the sleeves off of, redid the collar and I painted the peacock on to the front.

This is one of my favourites. I cut the sleeves off and one of the shoulders of this t-shirt. I cut the shoulder off a black t-shirt and then sewed it on to this one.

I made a few skirts out of t-shirts too. They are super comfy.