Subtle Verse

Recently, a customer asked me if it took a lot of faith to open our store.  I laughed.  The last 15 years of my life have been about taking crazy leaps, having lots of faith and also waking up at 3am thinking what have I done!  In the beginning, it was very hard because I was dealing with health issues and took a different route.  No one understood what I was doing.  I didn't even understand but now I know I was just starting my journey and God was preparing me for something special.  I'm still on that journey and it...

  Last night I realized that it's been a long time since I last blogged!  As I was thinking what I should write about, I thought about my apples.  We have these apple trees in the backyard of the store.  I looked forward to them.  They are never perfect.  Actually they are probably the worse looking apples I have ever seen!  They are always slightly odd looking with holes and bruises and all different colors.  We have never had time to really take care of them plus I like organic food.  So in my mind, I think these are truly...

Our new store will be open soon!  God must want me to work on patience!  I wanted to be open by now but we are waiting on a few things and I'm trying to be patient.  It's all good.  The main thing we are waiting on is the glass for the windows and doors but in the meantime it will give us plenty of time to get the displays together.  We have a lot of new products coming in!  I have a lot of artist friends that make beautiful, unique items along with all natural things such as lotions, lip...

So today I'm thinking how God has blessed us beyond all measure.  I'm excited because the construction to our store will be starting soon.  Of course, it costs double what we thought.  Doesn't it always?  But it will be how we envisioned it and will look so nice!  So it's all good.  I'm getting ready to meet with a few vendors today about selling their products and I get to go to my favorite antique store to find displays.  I've been in touch with my artists friends that I haven't talked to in a year.  Life is good.   As...

I can't believe it's the last day of 2020.  What a year!  Last year, just as our shows would have started, the world shut down.  I admit I was really sad once April then May came around and still no shows.  I then decided to just embrace it and enjoy my time off but I missed the people and shows.  So I started doing local farmers markets.  I had so much fun!  It helped that our new set up took us 10 minutes instead of 3 hours and I only had to travel 3 mins from our house. Once the...