My life has been moving

My life has literally been all about moving for the last month. First there was packing up my place and finding a roommate to replace me and then actually moving all of my things to Jeff's and my new place. And then, two weeks later, there was the packing and moving of Jeff's place to our new place. There have been endless hauls of heavy furniture and boxes up steep steps and through narrow hallways, the sorting and putting away of things in the new place, paint shopping, more sorting and organizing. . . and so on and so forth. I feel extraordinarily lucky to be in this new place, starting this new way of creating a family. But through all the stress of moving it's too easy to loose sight of the little pleasures in life.

When times get like this I have a tendency to find myself writing more and not less (granted, the writing has not been done around these parts, I've been pretty absent from my little blog, granted). I found myself making a list of highlights from my week, last week and thought I might share them here. This might even become a regular "installment" 'round here if I can pull my blogging butt together. It speaks to me in a certain way - I like the ritual of taking the time on a regular basis to sit back and reflect on recent days, the good the bad, the sordid. . . but I think I'll just share the good here and save the bad for the pages of my journal.

For now, this post will have to be sans pictures, but hopefully the next one will be a bit more colorful.
~Highlights from last week~
~ Going for a walk in our new neighborhood with Jeff and Sean. Meeting the neighborhood cats and walking the steep pedestrian walkways.
~ Dancing to the "Hey Mikey You're So Fine" song with Jeff at a friend's going away party
~ Sitting on the couch in our living room in your new place, at night, simply listening to the crickets and frogs outside. (There's A LOT of them because we live very close to a small creek.)
~ Planting nasturtium seedlings in our side yard, getting my fingers in the dirt.

As life slowly comes back to a more centered place and more and more pieces of my life come back out of boxes I'm hoping to find the time to post here regularly again. . .

Indie Mart

Between moving and working and all the rest of life, I almost forgot to post about my next show coming up! I'll be selling at the next Indie Mart in San Francisco on September 19th (Sunday). It's from noon to 6pm and is at 17th and Wisconsin Streets, outside from Thee Parkside. It's a super fun event with lots of hands-on arts and crafts and great food!
Hope to see you there!

Oakland's Art and Soul Festival

This weekend: Oakland's Art and Soul Festival. Two days of live music, lots of arts and crafts, and yummy food. I'll be there selling my handmade jewelry AND sharing my booth with my boyfriend, Jeffrey Boozer, creator of the artful band posters for his company Crumble Diamonds. Drop by, buy a poster for your living room (or maybe your bathroom) and a pair of feather earrings for your ears and feel good about supporting LOCAL handmade goods!



Hope to see you there!

Renegade Craft Fair

Oh, how busy life has been lately!

I'll be selling, this weekend, at Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. Hope to see you there!

Indie Mart

Coming up this Sunday is the San Francisco Indie Mart! I'll be there selling my handmade jewelry, enjoying the tunes, and hanging out with friends. I'm also going to have some "do-it-yourself" necklaces available for your own personal style touches!



I hope to see you there!

Little Wildflowers

Wednesday item of the week in my Etsy Shop!

~hand-forged steel earrings~

inspiration: little wildflowers pushing their persistent heads up from barren patches of dirt




Enter the code "tangleweeds blog" in the message section of your Etsy receipt to receive 30% off these rustic, hand-forged steel earrings. Discount applies to this item only, from now until July 13th, 2010.

Shobha Ohal Designs

This week's Thursday Feature is a shop I just discovered today! I saw her ring on the front page of Etsy this morning and just knew that I had to feature her shop.

sketch ring $68.00
This first ring features an original sketch of hers from a photograph she took at the Tuillerie Gardens in Paris.

sterling silver flower ring$68.00


another camel ring$68.00

I think her rings would make great gifts. They'd be the perfect accent to just about any outfit. . . But I'm a sucker for BIG rings! Stop by her shop today!