Shadow

We picked up this beautiful one and a half year old lab/boxer mix at the Franklin County Animal Shelter on Monday! What a great addition to our family!

X O X O

On a more personal note...

Happy Anniversary!
Be joyful. Grow to maturity. Encourage each other. Live in harmony and peace. Then the God of love and peace will be with you.
2 Corinthians 13:11 (NLT)

I've Been Featured in a Treasury: round and round we go

I always get excited about being included in a treasury! Here's a link to it: http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=10405

Check it out! This specific treasury will be up until tomorrow evening.

Featured Etsy Seller: Bovine Bubbles

Your shop:

http://bovinebubbles.etsy.com or www.bovinebubbles.com (both seem to be a neverending work in progress)

What is your favorite item?
Hum, kind of a toss up but at present its my Pumpkin Custard Buttercream seen here http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14783231

OR my Vanilla Amber Hand and Body Mousse http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=12703566

What item in your shop gets the most attention (if not sales)?
The two amber products I sell as well as the OGM Wrinkle Cream

If you had a thousand dollars to spend solely on your shop, what would you do (marketing, materials, more hands)?
$1000.00....a new website layout professionally done, custom labels and a clone or two of me to help out around here.

Design:
What inspires you?
I don't have one thing in particular, but when I make soaps the creativity usually comes from something I saw. Be it in nature, a store or one of my child's drawings. I try to bring that back to life in my soap colors/scents.

What is your favorite color combo?
I love green(celery) and brown. Actually anything nature inspired is good with me!

What is your favorite lifestyle/design magazine?
Cant say as I really have one....

What blogs do you visit regularly?
I must admit I am not a faithful blog follower. I do have several bookmarked and when the mood strikes I go visit. I have my own that i have only every updated twice.....

Life:
What is your “normal Saturday” like?
Chaos! Between the child and chores and domestic bliss Saturdays usually come and go at the speed of sound. We have a farm and animals and weekends are usually spent doing the Honey do lists that have been created all week.

Where is your favorite vacation spot?
Mctavish Lake, Sk...accessible only by plane.

What is your favorite food?
Anything Thai, i like it spicy!

The Pain I Go Through...

... to be inspired.

I had never been to the Franklin Conservatory before, and I didn't really have much to do today so I decided to take a little inspiration trip over there. It started out great and I got some good pictures!

Waterfalls are cool... I like how the camera was slow enough to get the movement of the water:

I think I liked the desert area the most. Cacti are pretty sweet:


Maybe I just didn't like the rain forest because when I (quietly and peacefully) went to visit the lorries...I was viciously bitten and clawed! They got me once and they left for a second so I could realize what was going on and they came back repeatedly! Gah! They got my cheek, shoulder, arm, and hand. Um... yeah... my visit ended there. I didn't take the time to complain to anybody or do anything... I just wanted to come home!!!!

Lesson learned: don't go into enclosed spaces with EVIL tropical birds.

Stone Cold Fox: Susan B. Anthony

(image from http://www.civilrightspictures.com/)

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-- Susan B. Anthony

New Font: Century Gothic

This is slightly old news but in case you haven't noticed...

I have changed my logo and whatnot to a new font! I think it makes my shop/identity look a little less "girlygirlygirl". Not that there's anything wrong with being purely girly but I wanted to convey that my designs are modern/contemporary as well!

Whadya think?