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Tag Archives: local designers
Here Comes Baby
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First comes love then comes marriage then comes the baby in the baby carriage; not necessarily in that order, but however the order, the stork has been busy, and the bundles of joy are dropping like dandelion wishes and everything tender.
Your best friend, your sister, your co-worker, your cousin, your sister in-law, your daughter, your [...]
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It’s June and it is Time to Kick off the Wedding Season!
It’s June. June, the month that summer shines, when the temperatures rise in the western hemisphere and everybody, we mean Everybody, gets married. That’s right, it is the wedding kick off month.
Weddings are all about ceremony and tradition, and some people take it to the hilt, while other people like to take it easy on [...]
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The History of Father’s Day and a Few of our Favorite dads
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
Robert Hayden (click the link to read the rest of the Poem)
In May of 1909, Sonora Smart Dodd, sat in a church in [...]
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Scott McCarty of Locket2you
Locket2you
Locket2you was created in 2009 and has quickly become a success. We have been carrying these sweet lockets now for about a year, and we can barely keep them in the store. They come in vintage and artful styles, and are not only a lovely piece of jewelry but a memento. The idea of the [...]
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Seasons’ Crafty Wonderland Local Artist Love
This year was the first Super Colossal Crafty Wonderland Spring Show and the first time Presents of Mind was part of Crafty Wonderland. It was great to sponsor such a wonderful event!
As you may or may not know my mother Cinnamon Chaser & I own Presents of Mind. We are also both artists, and I [...]
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Our Resident Artists- The Movers and Art Shakers at Presents of Mind
Welcome to Presents of Mind. As you may already know, if you have been following our blog, our mother – daughter team store owners had a great time at Crafty Wonderland. Along with running a store for the past twenty years, they both happen to be pretty arty themselves. They both enjoy, and sell encaustic [...]
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An interview with Shannon Conrad of rubygirl
We have been carrying Shannon’s jewelry since 2007. She is by far one of the most eclectic in style and design out of all of our jewelry designers. Unless you know her work you can not always tell that you are holding a rubygirl piece in your hand because no two styles are the same. [...]
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What to Get Mom for Mother’s Day? Jewelry! Yeah!
The countdown has truly begun, your mom’s day of celebration for having you, wonderful you, is this Sunday the 9th of May. For this last week of mother’s day postings we wanted to share some of our favorites. Jewelry, jewelry, jewelry, we love gems like crows love sparkles. You can imagine our little store as [...]
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Do You Know Crafty Wonderland?
This weekend is Crafty Wonderland’s Super Colossal Spring Show. Some of you may be thinking, “I know, I have been waiting for weeks!” Other’s of you may be saying to yourself, “what is Crafty wonderland?”
Crafty was started back in April of 2006 by Torie (Totinette as we know her by her jewelry line) and Cathy [...]
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The Great Hawthorne Street Fair