All 6 :O)

After my post about our trip to the beach, I received quite a few messages asking to see a picture of all 6 of our kiddies together.

We had family pictures take by the talented Wendy of Blue Lily. I can't wait to see the pictures from our session, but I have to wait patiently so she can work her magic on the pictures. Until I have those to share these were taken with my camera...

New Pendant!

Sleek, Simple, Modern... I'm loving this New pendant I made last night!



It's a Sleek little slider pendant. It rests right on the chain and is double sided!

Perfect to display your word for 2010, or maybe your honey's name, or your little ones.

It will be in my shop later today!

So what is your word of inspiration for 2010?

Here is the little bitty version of it...

splish splash

We've had rain all week here. Crazy heavy rain, and hail at our house, and tornado warnings at the beach. Thank goodness we're not too close to the coast!

The kids have a major case of cabin fever so I let them out for a little, to romp around in the puddles while the rain was light, then warmed them up with Coco and Marshmallows.

It's suppose to down pour again this afternoon so I think Chicken and veggie soup and a fresh batch of rolls are in order.

What do you do on rainy days?

Happy Thursday!
Canela

We're Open!

We're Open for business!

I will spend the next few days getting New designs listed, updating old ones, and hopefully getting the sale items listed.

Here is another sneak peek at some of the new Fine Silver designs!

Isn't this one above beautiful with the pretty lace pattern on the base of the pendant?

These two below are for those mom's who want to have their little ones names with them but in a more subtle way.

LOVE this one!!!

I LOVE the rustic organic look of the Fine silver clay. I hope my Volunteers love them!

I hope you are enjoying your Wednesday, we are enjoying hail storms at our house and Tornado warnings along the coast, thank goodness we aren't on the coast!

Cheers!
Canela

Winner!

Congrats to Diana Albright (New mommy!)

You were the winner please e-mail me and let me know your choice.


I loved reading everyones comments! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Canela

Giveaway! :O)

I thought is would be fun to kick off my re opening week with a Valentines theme giveaway.

I love Valentines day, but not for the mushy romantic reasons. It's a fabulous excuse to be girly! To decorate the house in shades of pink and tons of hearts. I break out my box of glitters and make sparkly crafts with the kids. Eat Candy hearts and red hots, and hide love notes to them and to my hubby around the house so they have surprises to enjoy.

So here is my Valentine gift to someone...

Your choice of One of these necklaces. I couldn't make up my mind which I liked best so I will let the winner choose.

So to enter leave a comment telling if you love or hate Valentines Day and why.

I will choose a winner on Wednesday when my shop Opens again!

Blog about the giveaway so your friends can come enter too!

Good luck!

Volunteer please!

Volunteers found thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need another volunteer tonight! I'm looking for two volunteers this round.


~One for a couples necklace
~One with 2 to 3 kids names.


As always I will take the first email in my inbox that meets my needs for these pieces.



I will post when I have found my volunteers.

This will be the last of our glorious sun sets for awhile. The weather channel says we'll see 8 to 15 inches of rain this coming week!

The giveaway will start tomorrow!

Hope you are enjoying your Sunday!
Canela

Saturday evening yumminess

I love baking! Combining flour with simple ingredients to create something beautiful and sooo yummy!

I've been looking for a great quick bread recipe. I came across one for Cheddar beer bread today. I'm not a beer fan. I've never had more than a couple of sips of beer, I just don't care for it, but there is something about the flavor of beer in food that is just scrumptious.




This recipe was pretty good but I need to tweak it a little bit before I share. It was too salty, but I love the rustic look of it.

The good news is it's quick. If all the kneading and waiting on the last recipe for rolls didn't strike your fancy this one will be perfect!

Oh and have you met my kitchen assistant? I was making a port wine sauce with grapes to go with the pork roast (more on that recipe later) and my grapes kept vanishing off of my cutting board. Hmmmm wonder where they went to?

Can't you just see him thinking Uh Oh got caught!

What do you love to cook?

something new

I've been enjoying some creative time this week. Here is a sneak peek of some new designs you'll find when I re open! I think we'll kick off next week with a give away. Be sure to come back by on Monday!

A day at the beach

I feel off of the face of the blogging earth during the holidays this year. Between getting so sick and then a mad rush to get orders done and shipped i just couldn't tend to my blog. So now it's time to catch up.

Over Thanksgiving we took a trip to central California to visit my in laws.

It was a 5 + hour drive so I told my hubby I wanted to make a trip out of it and take the kids to do something.

Aside from flying to Solvange one time as a kid with my dad I've never been to Central California. I've always had this dream of taking a week and driving up the Pacific Coast Highway with my honey and stopping at all the cute little coastal towns. Someday!

We looked over a map and discovered the route we needed to take was a little too inland to follow the coast, but at one point Cambria wasn't too far out of the way so we decided to stop in Cambira for a couple of hours. My hubby is the organizer! He likes to have a plan and he doesn't often like to stray from the plan.

We took the route to Cambira and as we approached the stop light where the sign read "Cambria right, Coatal access left", my husband told me to turn left. I looked at him a little shocked and asked if he was sure.

We found a little cove and took all the kids to the beach for the first time! It was BLISS! It was a pebble beach with pine trees growing right up to the bluff. The tide pools were brimming with life. The kids had a blast discovering sea creatures and climbing on the big boulders, the baby has a ball scooping up pebbles and dropping them down and scooping them back up again. It will be a memory I treasure forever!