Happy Mother's Day!

A few months back while perusing the Etsy forums, I came across a wonderful blog, Just Something I Made. In it the author, Cathe Holden, posted photos of her too cute little wire bird nests and instructions for making them. (You can view that post here.) My mom is really into watching and feeding the various birds that come into her yard... chickadees, finches, mocking birds, woodpeckers, etc. She just loves them. So I thought it would be a fitting Mother's Day gift if I made one of Cathe's bird nests for her to wear as a necklace. I'm new to building nests, but I think it turned out okay. I think she'll probably get a kick out of it. 

Happy Mother's Day to moms everywhere. I hope your day is special and that you feel appreciated and loved!

Well, here goes!

So, after lots of time reading about it and thinking about it and, true to form for me, putting it off, I finally just sat down and started a blog. I have high hopes of being able to post at least a couple times a week and for my musings to be a little entertaining or maybe even helpful. We'll see what develops here. I just know that this was the biggest step and now it's done. It's out there. I'm not even panicking. It feels pretty good, actually. :)

If you have a little more time, please stop by my online shop, madison house designs on etsy. There you will find my handcrafted embellishments... lots of great pieces of jewelry, made by yours truly, of all the wonderful stones and metals I can get my hands on.

Thanks, hope to see you again soon!