1- We now have heat!  Its wonderful!  After one week without a heat pump, we had one installed on Saturday. You would not believe how warm and comfy 67 degrees is after living at 50-60 degrees for a week.  Apparently we had completely acclimated, because Ellie’s been running around in a leotard, Killy’s been sleeping [...]

So, even though its been a tough week with big financial setbacks (new heat pump, ugh)… like I said earlier, I’m still a very lucky woman!  I have two amazing children. The kids wanted to have a camp-out in the family room tonight in front of the fireplace.  I’m all for fun so I said [...]

Its been a really difficult week… We noticed over the weekend that the house was getting colder and colder, even though the heat seemed to be running all the time.  Sure enough, the heat pump had quit.  One guy came out to look at it, said he couldn’t do anything with it until the weather [...]

Our Etsy sales are picking up, and we’re really loving making things for the shop!  Seriously, who wouldn’t want to buy an exotic wood winestopper?

Or a funky retro purse?

Or an unbelievably beautiful hairstick?

Or a shiny new necklace?

There’s a link to our shop, Birnam Grove, at the top of the blog now… Feel free to pass [...]

David updated my blog for me – yay!  Doesn’t it look spiffy?! I’m so happy that it has a link to our Etsy shop and it has my twitter feed on it, too.

We had a wonderful Christmas!  David made us all walking sticks and wooden necklaces.  He also made me a gorgeous hairstick and he [...]