Spring Fever Getaway-Your Trip to the Beach and Saturday Blog Shoppers

Tired of the winter?  Wanting to get away from all the snow, cold and ice?  But can't afford a trip to the beach?  Or can't get a flight out of your city to the warmer climates? (Although we haven't been that warm this year either)  Then this is just the thing for you.  This Beach Baby Mini Pyramid Sandscape will take you to the beach every time you look at it.  It can even remind you of your last beach getaway.   Stained glass bevels encase real beach treasures that will remind you of long walks on the beach, looking for that special shell or piece of sea glass. It's a 4x4 pyramid full of sand and treasures.  Turn it over and it's a different scene.  So check it out at KayzKreationz.  These don't last long at my craft shows, and this is the last one available in my shop at the moment. Due to increases in materials, the next ones will likely go up in price.  So if you've had your eye on this or just want a nice reminder of warmer days and beach getaway, this is it.  You'll love it.  This is a great little gift for those Saturday Blog Shoppers.  And for some other great shops for Saturday Blog Shoppers, click on the button to the right.

Spring Fling and my Mosaic Birdfeeder

My Mosaic Birdhouse Birdfeeder has been featured on DZFantasy's blog. She is doing a Spring Fling featuring quite a line-up of Etsy shops with great spring items. And she chose my Birdfeeder as one of her Spring items. Here is a pic of the feeder itself. If you want to see more great spring items, check out her blog. And if you're interested in more glass for your home or garden, check out my shop, KayzKreationz, for windchimes, plant stakes, sandscapes and more.

"Beach Baby, Beach Baby, Give me your Hand"--Beach Treasures, a new Sandscape and a Treasury

When we go to the beach, I can't resist strolling along looking for whatever treasures I can find. I always find something It may be just more shells, some beach glass or something to bring home and use, either in the garden or in my work. In fact, my "Ocean Meets the Sky" fused glass suncatcher has some of these treasures strung from it and worked into the macrame hanger. My new Sandscape "Beach Baby" also has some of these treasures in it. So in honor of my sale of the previous sandscape and relisting "Beach Baby" I decided to stroll through Etsy shops and see what kind of beach treasures I could find for a treasury. And right after finding my "treasures" I snagged a treasury to showcase them. Take a peek and see what treasures you can find in this treasury.

Mini Pyramid Stained Glass Sandscape and a Sale!

Yay! My Mini Pyramid Glass Beach Sandscape sold tonight. There's been threads on the forums several times that it seems like when you quit watching your shop, you get sales. And today that seemed to be the case. I had paperwork, taxes and a ton of other things I needed to get done or get started on today and didn't have time to check my shop. Finally after I started my homemade pizza cooking for dinner I sat down and decided to check my e-mail and my hearts. I checked into Craftcult and couldn't believe it when it said I had one less item for sale than I knew I had. Excitedly I started reading my e-mails, and sure enough my Beach Sandscape had sold from my shop. I was doing the happy dance then. :) So I've contacted the buyer, am getting it ready to ship and then will check to see if I have another one to list and get pictures done. I love doing these, because I can't resist picking up shells and pieces of glass whenever we go to the beach and these make such a unique way to keep them as a keepsake. I've even personalized one as a graduation gift for a young girl who loves the beach, with her name and grad date. This was a good day. Hope everyone else is having a good evening. Thanks all.

And if you're in the mood for some fantastic Sterling Silver jewelry, check out this shop. She has some great items.

Threadkillers, Treasury and Mini Pyramid Beach Sandscape

Woohoo! My mini pyramid Beach Sandscape made a treasury last night. It is made up of shops from threadkillers. If you don't know what a threadkiller is it's someone who posts in a thread on a forum and no-one posts after them so the thread dies. Thus "threadkiller". However, there's a twist. In some posts someone will offer a prize to the one who kills the thread for 24 hours. Guess what? That thread NEVER dies. LOL Now I've been participating in several threadkiller threads and while I seem to be able to kill about 1/2 the threads I post in, so far I've only killed one of these. I think everyone forgot about it. Anyway, Clayitagain, one of the participants in these threads, snagged a Treasury and featured items from 12 of the "killers" that post in these threads. So check out the treasury, click on the items, leave a comment, perhaps buy something that captures your fancy and just enjoy. Here's the Treasury.
For great jewelry for yourself or as gifts for your loved one, check out STRINGandSTONES. She does beautiful necklaces and earrings out of sterling silver and gemstones.

Featured on Fabulous Handmade Finds-Mini Pyramid Sandscape

Today I got an e-mail that my Etsy shop KayzKreationz had been featured in a blog post on Fabulous Handmade Finds. They featured my Mini Pyramid Sandscape. This 4" triangular work of art can also be personalized either with your choice of shells, rocks, etc. or by adding a small sentiment etched on one of the bevels. If interested in that you can convo me. They also featured my Artfire shop.

Another great shop was featured also. STRINGandSTONES was featured along with her fabulous Carnelian necklace. Check her out if you're looking for some great gifts for your loved one in the near future.

Brrr! It's cold outside.

Ok, I know for most of you it's really cold. But here in Texas we're just not used to 30's at night and 40-50's during the day with the wind blowing about 25-30 miles an hour. I could take the cooler weather, if the wind just wouldn't blow.
Anyway, with the cold, comes the wildlife out. We had a nice big 8 point buck out back at the water trough this a.m. And some turkey tracks in the rain puddles in the road. They don't like their picture taken, however.

And since it's cold now most places (or getting colder) you may want to remember that nice sunny day at the beach. Why not try this to help you remember? http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=16092270