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Giving Thanks and Taking Care of Business

(photos taken by me last fall)

I'm going to be gone from this blog for the next week.

So I thought I'd take care of some business stuff and end with a grateful list....

Sound good?

Starting officially tomorrow evening, everything in my Etsy Shop will be marked down for my holiday sale! I don't update my etsy shop too often-I mostly rely on my other shop-but I've decided to load this shop with some different things and see how it goes. Tonight, I will be uploading new items and from tomorrow night until Monday the 30th everything will be on sale.

From Friday morning until Monday the 30th, everything in my main photo shop will be 20% off for the holidays. Type in "thanks" at checkout to get the discount. Remember, if you see a photo you like-but it's not in the shop or is the wrong size-you can custom order a print-check out this page for details.

I have one photo calendar left in the shop-if you are interested grab it quick!

These will be my last two sales for the year-and December 14, I will shut down my shop until the new year.

And, as many of you know, this weekend I will be headed to Rochester, New York to participate in Second Storie Indie Market. Join us at the Visual Studies Workshop from 11-6pm on Saturday or 11-4pm on Sunday.

     I have some posts scheduled over at my other blog for the next week. 

I will be twittering this next week-if you'd like to follow and I will be taking lots of photos and will share my experiences when I return.

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phew! enough shop talk...

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I am grateful for so many things this year:

-my health and my family's health

-the fact that James and I both have jobs...

-friends who remain that way despite my flakiness

-bloggers and blog readers who inspire and encourage me each day

-a better understanding of myself

-that I can be creative each day

-to live in a city where I can walk to do my errands

-to work with children

and so much more.

I want to give a huge thanks to you readers-without this space, I'm not sure what or where I'd be right now. Thank you for all of your support! What are you thankful for?

See you in a week!

ideas and dreams

 

 

 

Last night I was dreaming up all sorts of creative things to do.

Sometimes I feel like when I have the least amount of free time-I feel like doing the most unnecessary creative projects.

That's life, right?

New photo shoots, website ideas, some paper products....

We shall see what actually happens...

Hope you all had a lovely weekend. Just wanted to let you know, I have five 2010 photo calendars left in my shop so hurry if you'd like one. (Remember, type in "blog" at checkout and get 10% off your entire purchase).

Happy Monday, people.

too early?

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving day I will be on a plane flying to the other side of the country.

I love Thanksgiving, we'll have a special brunch before I leave, but other than that-I kinda have to skip it this year.

Since I'm skipping it, I've decided to embrace Christmas and New Year's. Yup, really want to celebrate this year. I'm already digging out the decorations...and dreaming about my tree.

I'm looking through inspirations from year's past to get me excited-

I love this post, so magical!

All of her Christmas photos are divine.

You have any holiday inspiration you want to share?

five senses friday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(photos above are once again from my Aunt's place, see the whole set over here)

Happy Friday, everyone!

I'm going to share my five senses post and I would love for you to play along on your blog or leave your's in the comments. Thanks!

Seeing:

-the movie The Shining for the very first time

Tasting:

-a bit of a bread & chocolate bar

Hearing:

-listening to Bobby Birdman on repeat

Feeling:

-the soft leather of my new shoes

Smelling:

-pine scented candles

What about you?

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2010

Well, sorry to post twice in one day...but I just released my 2010 calendar in my bigcartel shop and I thought I'd announce it here.

I've got a limited number this year and I'm offering a 10% discount to you blog readers.

Type in "blog" at checkout and get a 10% discount on your entire order.

You can find my shop here.

Thanks!

on collecting

 

Another of my Mom's collections: old shaving brushes.

I've decided to start organizing my collection photos in this flickr set here.

Over at Poppytalk blog, Jan's been posting about collections and I love it!

Here's a great flickr group with some amazing collections.

Okay, that's all for today.

Thank you for the kind words about yesterday's post.

(Also, I've been using the "new typepad feature" where you are supposed to be able to reply to comments in the post-but I realized that they are not showing up here. Weird! So-sorry there've been no replies lately-I'll go back to the old school way of replying. Thanks!)

my brother

In some ways, you could probably say that my brother got the short end of the stick.

He was number six of nine children, and the only boy.

I'm sure you can imagine the drama.

But my brother is an interesting guy. He's smart as a whip and can tell a story better than any one else in the world.

He's always had a love of animals; reptiles in particular. (In his spare time he breeds rare snakes.)

Starting when Michael was 11 or 12 my Mom would drop him off in the woods (on a friend's land) and let him camp during the weekend. He'd often come back with stories and one time came back with a baby owl. He and his friends raised it and kept it in our backyard until one day it just flew away.

There are so many more stories, I'll save those for the book i'll write someday...

But I just wanted to write this post because Michael is a kind soul. And I'm grateful for our weekly chats. And I just wanted to say that.

Happy Tuesday, everyone.

prep work

 

 

 

 

(the photos above I took at my Mom's house during my last visit home)

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!

Mine was very busy and full of work, but today is my day off and I look forward to catching up and reading all of your five senses friday posts. Thanks for playing along :) And thank you for visiting me over at my other blog. I feel like I'm finally getting a blogging rhythm going over there and it's nice to have visitors. 

Over the next ten days much of my energy will be poured into getting ready for Second Storie Indie Market. Second Storie is a handmade market in Rochester, New York. I'll be flying there to participate in the two day sale-but there is more exciting news...they are also showing the film, Handmade Nation, and I' m going to part of the Q&A panel! You can read more about it in this post. I am so excited and honored that I get to be a part of this-and owe a HUGE THANK YOU to you readers who bought goods and donations to help me pay for my travel expenses.

THANK YOU!

I look forward to documenting the trip and sharing it with you all. If you are near Rochester-come to the market and say hi!

All right...happy monday y'all.

five senses friday

 

 

Once again it's time for five senses friday. As always, I would love for you to share your version. You may leave it in the comments or feel free to leave a link in the comments to your own post. Thank you for the many well wishes this week-have a great weekend!

hearing:

this episode of This American Life (wow-can you believe it?)

tasting:

wild sweet orange tea (thanks for the suggestion, Nina!)

seeing:

episodes of The Office on netflix (was suddenly grateful for not watching all this time so that I could have a marathon while I was sick)

feeling:

layer upon layer of quilts made by Mom

smelling:

pumpkin pie cooking at random order

(sidenote: I posted this yesterday, but am going to repeat it.My other blog is a blog where I post my inspirations and the work of other people. I am looking for good links to fill my sidebar-if you want to be considered drop me an email with a link to your blog/site/shop. You can do that at abbypowellthompson@gmail(dot)com)

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Hello there!

Thank you for all the well wishes on the last post.

I'm feeling loads better today and by tomorrow, I think I'll be back to my normal schedule.

It's amazing what three days of liquids, rest and vitamins will do for ya. Can I tell you how much I believe in the healing properties of vitamin C and chicken soup? Lots.

There's a lot going on the week in internet land; I hoped to launch my own calendar and holiday prints, but I decided to wait until Thanksgiving weekend.

I posted about three recently updated shops over at my other blog-check it out. Chelsea, Cori, and Jen all have new ventures and they are all worth browsing over.

Speaking of my other blog, well it's a blog where I post my inspirations and the work of other people. I am looking for good links to fill my sidebar-if you want to be considered drop me an email with a link to your blog/site/shop. (you can do that at abbypowellthompson@gmail(dot)com)

Hope you are all having a lovely week. See you tomorrow for five senses friday.