Whop chhica whoop whoop...don't forget that I will be at Art Center Too in Battle Creek MI at 80 W. Michigan Ave from 1 to 4 for their fiber art trunk show!!!

4 treasuries in one day...waahhoooeeeyyy

go to purplecitrus.etsy.com OR

gloriakirk.etsy.com to view

Purple Infusion Treasury..click on these words and it will take you to the page!

Can you take it higher? To a place where etsy shops can be seen... the treasury stats that is. So it is a stretch to pair these words to the song. But do your best won't you? Click on the shops and visit....a lot of NEW baby shops here that could use a

I am getting Kefir grains my husband announced to me this morning. He goes on to explain that the grains are handed down from one person to the next not sold. He also stated that no one knows where the originals came from and that they(I am assuming he means scientists) can not reproduce the grains. "The closest they have gotten is a powder form that dies after two reproductions." mmmcofffeeee anyway. good coffee..... DO I WANT THIS alien form of milk with every possible enzyme making my gut healthy and functional? I am not sure especially if the original source is unknown. No I think I will wait until my husband has concocted his first batch, then a second, and possibly a third before I try his homemade goods!

Now it has been stated that Kefir (fermented yogurt) is the best thing for your body. My husband has been known to come home with up to 4 different bottles of the stuff when one of the boys get sick. Over board? Some days yes ...but he always makes things interesting. When ever his eyes start to sparkle like a kids at Christmas ...I know I am in for a new adventure along his coat tails! Wish me luck?!

ART PRIZE....it has begun

The excitement has subsided...and the work begun. The tree has been marked out and, soon be loaded onto the rack...keep checking back for photos of the piece as it grows! In the mean time look at my public profile: http://www.artprize.org/artists/public-profile/51082 for a description of this two layered piece OR click on the tittle of this post. LET THE ADVENTURE CONTINUE!

Thank you www.sacredcake.etys.com for adding my scarf to this amazing treasury!

Summer Morning

I woke up checked my etsy store...found a coupon YEAH checked the link that was in the etsy convo with the coupon and all of a sudden I had a treasury. Eyes still full of morning sleep I began the hunt. The end result...not so bad considering I had not even had my usual cup O joe!!! Enjoy all!

Falling Tower at Hop Scotch Children's Store

Papa's Blocks Tower Promo from Joshua Leatherman on Vimeo.

glass floats

I grew up along the Oregon Coast two towns north of the California border. The fisherman that fished the Pacific waters used hand blown glass floats for their nets. I remember spending hours along the shore as a little girl searching...hoping to find one of those floats that my grandmother had so many of in her collection. I never found my glass float but someone else has evoked that memory in my home town by placing colored glass "floats" along the black sand beaches during the summer months. How I wished I lived in that tiny little town still so that I could comb the beaches for those wonderful treasures.... I live in West Michigan now nostalgia will have to wait for a cheap airplane ticket or a U-Haul.

The nets are the inspiration for this beautifully lacy scarf made from hand dyed chenille yarn and cotton variegated thread.

It measures around 77 inches long and 5 inches wide.