Grow Your Blog Party - Welcome Friends!

If you are here from the Grow Your Blog Party, WELCOME!  My name is Kathy.  I have been blogging since 2009.  I feel so very fortunate that, through blogging, I have met a wonderful world of like-minded folks.  We share ideas, encouragement, art and crafts, vintage finds and vintage rescue.  It is a wonderful world, indeed!

I make my living as a Business Analyst.  I make my joy by shopping for vintage junk (and I do mean junk!), making things, running an Esty shop and blogging.  I love vintage buttons, sewing notions and paper.  Other things I collect on purpose are hammered aluminum trays and vintage bird figurines.  I'm embarrassed to list how many things I collect by accident!  If you would like to see the creative space I call my "art room", you can click here.

My other hobbies include my garden, genealogy and reading.  I have been married to the same man since 1975 and I have two grown sons and an 8-year old granddaughter.

This Valentine inspiration kit you have been reading around is my gift to one lucky reader.  Just leave a comment on this post and I will announce a winner on Friday, February 1st.  My give-away is open to anyone, anywhere.

A big thank you to Vicki at 2 Bags Full for hosting this party!

Thank you for visiting my little corner of the Internet!

XO

Kathy

 

Everything Random And Nothing Artsy

Here it is, Thursday again, and that means I have let an entire week pass without a new blog post.  I haven't been languishing, though.  I have been hard at work on my Etsy re-org.  I have added international shipping to all the listing I don't have to re-weigh.  I have signed up to take credit cards.

The Christmas tree is gone and the Christmas Cactus is back in it's usual spot.  Within a week it burst back into bloom. It's companion is running a little behind but buds are forming.  I think it is having a little pout over losing its cozy spot to the Christmas tree.

I haven't gotten my workbench cleaned off enough to actually use it yet but I have been listing on Etsy and I'm making good progress.  Maybe by the time the weekend is over.

Speaking of cozy, I am still enjoying the warm, fuzzy season.  Give me another month or so and I will be whining about the gloom but, for now, I am digging the golden glow.

I am SO ready to be finished with the big clean up because I am feeling that familiar ache when I go too long without making something.

This picture doesn't have anything to do with anything.  I just snapped it out in the art room and liked the way the word was magnified through the lens.

I signed up for the Grow Your Blog Party hosted by Vickie at 2 Bags Full.  The party starts January 19th and there is a suggestion (not a requirement) that you have a give-away.  That should be incentive enough for me to finish listing and get that workbench cleared off!  There is a button link over on my sidebar, too.  It is always fun to meet new bloggers and see what I have been missing!