THE STRAWBERRY WINDOW!!!

FINALLY!!! After all the years of hemming and hawing about starting an Etsy shop...

THE STRAWBERRY WINDOW 

is FINALLY OPEN!

There are several more style listed in the shop so please feel free to peruse!  For the record, after all the extras of boxes for shipping, time spent posting, time spent shipping and handling, etc. We have come to realize that the current price isn't accurate (it takes a couple hours to cut, embroider and assemble each piece, plus cost of supplies, plus cost of packaging, plus time spent in line shipping, etc.)  I so wished to keep it under $20 but we are now aware of how improbable that is.  So, for our shop opening we wanted to offer the price we opened with for a couple days, should there be some folks planning on purchasing.  But, make a note, as of Friday the prices are going to change. Thank you for your support, your help, you encouragement and your consideration.

Have a lovely day, may your life be rose-colored, like looking through a strawberry-tinted, stained-glass window.

Lovies and lacewings,

-K

Dryads and Nyads and Fauns and Fairies

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Sooo, I'm alive!  Ended up being the nastiest bout of strep I've ever had the misfortune of catching. I was in bed for a week. It was miserable. I wanted to beg someone to hit me over the head with a hammer. I hope, hope, hope you never catch strep throat as bad as that. I've had strep before, every couple years I get it and manage to knock it out in a couple of days (Colloidal silver works WONDERS with strep) but it didn't work this time and it went systemic and long story short...sick sick sicky sick. :-P

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So, the shop will open Monday. God willing. I could have gotten so much stuff done for the shop what with being bed ridden but my head was pounding and I didn't want to touch anything that any other human being might ever come into contact with. I felt like a leper.  Soooo...Monday at noon The Strawberry Window will open on Etsy. Thank you for your support, your well wishing and for hanging in there.

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In other news, here are some other pictures from a while back that Miss Josie Farrior took of my lovely friends T. and Miss LB.  and myself.  We went back to the one of the places she took us to for our family photos. (Also something I need to post more of) and we dressed up in slips, curtains, sheets, dresses, pipe cleaners, snail shells, Spanish moss, feathers and more...  It was a perfectly lovely day and I wish we could dress like dryads all the time. Also, I'd like a real Narnia Wardrobe please...since we are wishing and my birthday is coming up.  Make it so! ;-)

Lovies and forest living,

-K

Tonsillitis.

*tears and whimpering*

Ugh. I can barely move, typing this is almost unbearable...I am afraid this really puts a damper on the shop opening. At this point I will have to say, it's TBA.

:-(

So many exciting things going on this weekend....and now I get to spend it groaning in bed like a zombie, curled up in a fetal position.

DOH!

Hope you all stay healthy and happy!

Lovies and languishing,

-K

Sooo, it is 4am as I write this...and it's official, I have the flu or some nasty bug, my lymph nodes are the size of grapefruits (possible exaggeration) and I am fairly certain there is a hot coal of fire situated somewhere near one of my tonsils.

I am going to try my darndest to get the shop opened by noon but (ugh, this is so embarrassing) that's in 8 hours and I MUST sleep.  The shame is uncomfortable as much as this bug is, but I am afraid the shop will be postponed until Saturday. :-( 

THE STRAWBERRY WINDOW GIVEAWAY WINNER IS.....

THE STRAWBERRY WINDOW GIVEAWAY WINNER IS....
*drum roll*


AMANDA!!!

What luck! Amanda was the winner of the Valentines I made last year! 

(stay tuned, we are hoping to have another Valentine giveaway this year as well, tba)

Remember to check in tomorrow at noon for The Strawberry Window ETSY SHOP opening.

CONGRATS, Miss Amanda!  Thank you for your support! Love you, little chicky, and wish we were in the same town so we could sing and craft together!

Lovies and Luck,

-K

Day late and a dollar short....

Sooo, I'm afraid I am going to have to do what I really didn't want to do, and that is delay the shop opening by a day. I am soooo sorry for the inconvenience, this mostly applies to my mother, sister, and mother-in-law as I think they are the ones that actually follow this blog religiously. ;-))  If you are not family and you are disappointed by this news 1. I am so sorry. 2. I am deeply appreciative that you care!!! :-)

I will still be announcing the winner of the headband GIVEAWAY today at noon (only a couple hours left!!!) but being out of town, snowed in, up in the mountains for the last week and making it back home a day later than planned has set me back...a day! Sooooo, tomorrow at noon, the shop will be launching. I just don't want to make a shoddy attempt at the opening and want to make sure we have decent pics of products ready to go.

Today will be a flurry of activity and busy-bee-ness, trying to finish up the final details and such.

I hope that this news isn't too disappointing and yet bums you out a little bit (juuuuust a teensy, tiny bit) because then that means people besides the mom's and sister are reading this! (For the record, my dear family, your encouragement and support are precious and priceless to me! Precious in the true sense, not the condescending  sense.)

Love you guys and will be back to announce the winner in a couple hours! :-D


Lovies and late-as-usual,

-K

Shaver Lake Part 1

Allie, formerly of The Cat and the Cow (Le sigh, how I do miss her blog!!!)










Sooooo, if you've been nosing around on LB's blog (themockingbirdmusicbox) you may have seen that we've had the opportunity to enjoy a friend's lovely home
 near Shaver Lake. It's been a delightful vacation, spending time with friends and cooking and lovely walks and hot tubs and movies and cuddling! The Kidlet started coming down with something on the walk (as you can see from that sad little face) but recovered quickly, just a fever and a sad little headache and chills but it was over in about 24 hours.

Last night, LB and I put on our skippy (yes, skippy, not skimpy) bathing suits, tied up our hair and filled the jet tub and watched the newest episode of Downton Abbey on PBS. Yeah, we know how to party! Bathing suits and Masterpiece Classics! ;-)

I hope you're all having a smashing week as well! Though we are in the mountains there has been no snow (driest year, yikes!!!) but it started raining today! YEA!!! Hopefully there will be snow soon!  How is it in your neck of the woods? Snow? Rain? Cold? Sunny?

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Today we are buckling down and working on more stuff for the shop!  Don't forget, the GIVEAWAY to celebrate the opening of The Strawberry Window on Etsy on Thursday the 26th at noon Pacific Standard Time!  The giveaway ends at noon, the shop opens at noon!!!  :-D Be sure to get your entries in!!!! If you are making posts about the giveaway on facebook then be sure to "like" The Strawberry Window HERE and link there! :-D Or like us there for the heck of it anyway! ;-)

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Stay warm, stay loving, stay gracious, stay compassionate,



Lovies and light showers,


-K