My Parents Went to Egypt

and they got a little write up, along with these two pictures in the Sunday Tennessean.
Very cool. I pasted the article below.


"A Christian organization that my wife, Joan Del, and I are involved with treated us to an 11-day January junket to Egypt. We experienced the myriad obligatory and fascinating tours of 3000-4700 year-old temples and tombs extending along the Nile River. We saw not only the young King Tutankamun’s gold-encrusted sarcophagus in the Cairo Museum, but also his tomb in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, the burial site of at least 68 Egyptian Pharaohs. We even braved the steep, tiny, sweltering, seemingly interminable tunnel leading to the interment chamber underneath one of the Great Pyramids. Our four night Nile cruise from Luxor to Aswan revealed a stark contrast between the lush green river banks, 75-200 feet wide, and the ever-present Sahara Desert just on the other side. Since rainfall is limited to less than 1/5 inch per year, the Nile is Egypt’s only source of water. It made us truly appreciative of Tennessee. We now have firsthand knowledge of this ancient land’s historic and cultural treasures, but the true treasures of Egypt are the people we were introduced to, and the main reason for the trip. We will not soon forget them." - Jeff Brock, Brentwood, Tenn.

I love this new flyer for the Walden Market by Carolyn who will be a vendor with me there.

Mark Your Calendars

The Walden Market is happening again this weekend over here in East Nashville. 9am to 4 pm this Saturday and 10am-3pm on Sunday. I'll have a booth along with other awesome handmade and vintage vendors, so come on down! It's a good time to be shopping for Mother's and Father's and Easter gifts!

Cheekwood

Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Art Museum was free this past weekend, so we took the kids. It's one of my favorite places - even if we have to pay. The mansion had free entrance also, so we got to see the visiting Fabrege collection (for a jewelry artist - this was awesome!) and art from William Christenberry. (And of course, we saw the other art that always finds it's home at Cheekwood, among which is one of my favorites, William Edmonson, who, incidentally, is related to the Edmonsons who sold us our house.)


These photos are from Joanne's flickr photostream, and she got more good ones, so check them out.

New

I feel like I've been neglecting my poor blog lately, but that's mainly because the kids have been on Spring break. I do have several new things in the shop though.

We got a kitty

Our neighbor found her. Apparently she had been wandering around for quite some time. She was very hungry and her fur was matted. But she's sweet and loves laps, and kids, and sleeping in my bed. I named her Wilma.

I am sooo tired from being at the Nashville Zoo all day....with everyone else in the whole city! But we got to see the two visiting tiger cubs (pictured.) Oh my, what cuties. I want a pet tiger.
Just kidding.
Maybe in heaven ;)

Happy Birthday!

It's hard to believe that 8 years has passed since my middle baby was born. My computer's broken, and I'm on a loner, so I don't have any recent pictures of him, But these work. And you can look at his blog, All about Elijah, if you want ;)

What's up?

The cold is back, so I've just been snuggling with my babies.

Found - Handmade

I got a feature Spotlight on Found-Handmade. Click here to see it. Click here to submit your own Spotlight!!

Spring is Here

and I've been really enjoying sleeping with the windows open.

I'm currently loving

These portraits of Jewish gangsters by Pat Hamou. I'm not exactly sure why...they're interesting and extremely well done...

Albert 'Tick Tock' Tannenbaum

Arnold Rothstein

Meyer Lansky

See more gangsters here.

Heal for the Honey

I love, love, love this song - and the brand new video is fab too.

Heal for the Honey from Brooke Waggoner on Vimeo.

New

I have new jewelry in the shop, and a new model, my lovely sister, Annalise.

Our Underwater Life

When you buy a piece of live rock, you never quite know what sort of tiny creatures have made their homes (or nests) on it, so it's really fun to keep watching as things change and grow. I've noticed a few different kinds of sea snails emerge since my last post about our salt water aquarium, but I have not ever seen this one until last night, when he was plastered to the front of the tank. If I had to name him, it would be Elephant Snail because of his weird trunk. Very strange. He could be in a Dr. Seuss book, I think.

Lots of other things are growing too, like our corals and this huge anemone (2nd picture):

Hooray!

I am so excited to announce that I was accepted as a new member of the Etsy Metal Team. Etsy Metal is a group of metal smiths, many of whom I have admired for many years now. In fact some of my very favorite metal artists are part of this very group. I am very honored (and practically giddy!)to be a part of this team! Click here to visit the Etsy Metal website.

It's NOT HUNNY!

In the wake of my night readings of Winnie-the-Pooh to the boys, Emet's eyes popped wide open when his father served him an over-easy egg the next morning. When he stuck his fork in and pulled it out covered with runny yellow stuff he smiled in exuberant exultation and said, "YESSSS! Honey! (But I'm sure when he said it, he meant "Hunny!" just like Pooh bear.)
Elijah looked over at him with a look of disgust. "That's not honey. It's yolk. And that's the reason I like my eggs fried all the way through. It's Yuck!
Not to be deterred, Emet took a defiant lick of his sticky fork and declared, "Well, I Yike it!

To see more original drawings by E.H. Shepard from Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, click here.