Monday Musings

It wasn't a terribly productive weekend for me. I did an overhaul of my family's farm blog, which I think only I am interested in, so it has become my adopted project. Hahah! Today there's a recipe (sort of) and yesterday there was a lovely quotation from Thoreau's Walden; if you scroll down a little, there are the pictures of baby turkeys and goats I promised last week! They are so freakin' adorable.

At any rate, I grabbed the newest copy of Belle Armoire Jewelry when we took my sister birthday shopping at the mall. It's as gorgeous as ever and there are some really nice project ideas in there. Hope over at Crafty Hope blog had the brilliant idea of writing thoughts and ideas in the pages of her magazines. Somehow, though, I can't bring myself to do it with the Stampington publications; they're just too darn pretty.

Magazines are not the only place I look to for inspiration. These recent finds on etsy had me ooo-ing and ahh-ing:

peeno123

therustytreehouse

RootsJewelry

GrandmasNook

I want to try my hand at making something similar to the bird's nest. There were some ideas floating around in my brain and I wondered if someone else out there had made something like a fake bird's nest. So I went to etsy and found that beauty. The whole shop is delightful. All of them are!

Here's to an inspired week. :)

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Mid-Monthly Challenge Hop

Remember our announcement earlier this month about a music-themed challenge and blog hop? The reveal day, May 31st, is less than a week away!

Here are the fun brave folks who are participating!

Patty from My Life Under the Bus
Karen from BeadDelirium
Judy from ThreeRedBeads
Therese from Therese's Treasures
Jamberrysong's Creations


Because a lot of folks are more visual, I've thrown together this treasury of things I've found when plugging bits of lyrics into etsy's search engine. Some are intended to make you laugh, some are intended to offer suggestions for color palettes. :) If you're stuck, hopefully it will help get you back on track!

'Mystery' by jamberrysong

Mountain Meadow Road 8x10 Pr... WildWilderness... $30.00	Dogs - Giclee Print StacieSwift $20.00	winged heart blues SpiritedEarth $4.00
As The Sun Burst Opens......... TheModernistAr... $15.00	Travis the Timid Owl -- 8x10... Emmalynne $25.00	Crazy Quilt Pattern painted ... lazydayz $8.00
Vintage Arizona Postcard - T... VintagePlum $4.00	Vintage floral summer dress ... MaggieJoeVinta... $42.00	Couture Collage no 34 - NECK... sushipot $24.00
A girl looking through a fir... IroiroColors $285.00	Danger - 5x7 fine art photog... kylespears $20.00	Cocktail sugar rimming kit. ... dellcovespices $37.00
My First Daisy - Fine Art Ar... theotherjeanie $25.00	French Script Love Birds Pil... gatheredcomfor... $32.00	Vintage Syroco Bookends Faux... calloohcallay $36.00
CONCUBINE Perfume Sample Amp... SteamBathFacto... $1.50

Treasury tool by Red Row Studio.

(Yes, there's an owl in there... I couldn't resist!)


One more time, here are the lyrics:


Mystery

Each time you'd pull down the driveway
I wasn't sure when I would see you again
Cause yours was a twisted blind sided highway
No matter which road you took then
Oh you set up your place in my thoughts
Moved in and made my thinking crowded
Now we're out in the back with the barking dogs
My heart the red sun, your heart the moon clouded

I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possibility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery

So what is love then is it dictated or chosen (handed down and made by hand)
Does it sing like the hymns of a thousand years
Or is it just pop emotion (handed down and made by hand)
And if it ever was there and it left
Does it mean it was never true
And to exist it must elude
Is that why I think these things of you?

I could go crazy on a night like tonight
When summer's beginning to give up her fight
And every thought's a possiblility
And the voices are heard but nothing is seen
Why do you spend this time with me
Maybe an equal mystery

But you like the taste of danger
It shines like sugar on your lips
And you like to stand in the line of fire
Just to show you can shoot straight from your hip
There must be a thousand things you would die for
I can hardly think of two
But not everything is better spoken aloud
Not when I'm talking to you

Oh the pirate gets the ship and the girl tonight
Breaks a bottle to Christen her
Basking in the exploits of her thief
She's a very good listener

Maybe that's all that we need is to meet in the middle of impossibility
We're standing at opposite poles equal partners in a mystery (handed down and made by hand)
We're standing at opposite poles equal partners in a mystery

--- Indigo Girls, Swamp Ophelia, 1994: Epic Records.



Remember, reveal day is May 31st! Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with. :D

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ATTN: BEAD SOUP POST IS BELOW.

If you're here for the Bead Soup Blog Party, the post is one below or you can find it here! Thanks.
I am still hopping blogs myself and am having so much fun! :D

Two great things to note, though!

I just got an email from the Rings & Things blog (I'm a blog partner, if you can't already tell by my little badge on the right!), and I was one of the ten winners for this month's goodies pack drawing! What a wonderful birthday present. :D My fiance and I always drool over the Rings & Things ads in the magazines, so it will be an absolute thrill to work with some of their materials. I can't wait!

And one of my necklaces that I blogged about a while back was featured in an etsy treasury. :) I feel so honored! This is only my second treasury and I think it may be the same piece, but either way, I'm tickled pink. :3 I love the theme, too: "woodland mystique."

'woodland mystique' by Vanessaisms

hi friends

Twin Baby Fawns Woodlan... carriveau $30.00	Tree Stump Pincushion hitree $22.00	Photo Card - Bunny Love... PhotographicEy... $20.00	Retro Daizy Chain jamberrysong $24.00
Chocolate Leather Flowe... bijubrill $30.00	Forest friend plush - D... thumbly $19.00	A Natural "Nest&qu... nestibles $10.00	Junco and Lilacs - 5x7 ... ThePaperButter... $8.50
Paper Lace Earth Light ... paperplanet $9.00	Solitude, 11x14 Sepia F... olivetto $25.00	Photo Tree Frog Portrai... clockworkgh0st $3.00	2 Ceramic Owls BROOKLYNrehab $24.00
toadstool mushroom ring Vanessaisms $19.00	Petite Nest Handmade Bi... dreamsbythesea $34.00	Autumnal Gold Earrings ... BanditOctopusC... $18.00	Cream poppy bowl PrinceDesignUK $28.00

Treasury tool is sponsored by Lazzia.com A/B image testing.

Ah, I can't wait to walk out among the leaves and flowers again! Soon, soon...


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Backcountry Heart I

I.

Yours was an empty chair, a track of earth
scuffed into the rug. Along window-
sills were seashells you had brought back,
and stones silk-smooth from gushing water.
In winter, your shadow darkened the snow
where you huddled to watch deer creep
down to ice floes; you wanted to see
their tongues touch water, were still
enough for cardinals to fleck trees
around you. You possessed such quietude.

'Backcountry Heart I' by jamberrysong

Adirondack Chair simplyrustic $399.00	Semi Antique 9x12 Oriental M... ecarpetgallery $385.00	Into Memory - 8x10 Fine Art ... JenMurray $25.00
Reclaimed Shells - Total 580... SoapSudAlley $20.00	felted wool stones in shades... lilfishstudios $12.00	Crystal Snowflake 6x6 Tile GretchenKramp $48.00
Winter Path with Beech Leave... StephenRemick $60.00	Deer dictionary book page co... Txalteredart $8.00	Ice Floe Earrings of Gray Mo... PoleStar $76.00
Heirloom Red Deer Tongue Let... myvictorygarde... $1.75	Jingle Bells - Photo Note Ca... timkantphotogr... $3.50	Dark Blue Superior - waterco... reneeanne $18.00
Little Cardinal - 4x4 bird p... elgarboart $5.00	Winter Red MarisStellaPro... $50.00	Bone Moon and Sun Brooch freespiritheid... $110.00

Treasury tool is sponsored by Lazzia.com A/B image testing.

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