Visit The Raspberry Place

Hi 'tis me again,
Just updating you on my latest adventures in the Raspberry Patch . This season the hot and humid weather has caused an early ripening of the precious commodity. Wouldn't you just know that I didn't anticipate two weeks earlier than usual so am working this week , and will be picking daily weather permitting starting July 23.
For those of you who have not visited The Raspberry Place, it is located in the picturesque community of Bayfield, near the shores of the Northumberland Strait just off of Route 955 between the Confederation Bridge exit and Cape Tormentine. If you haven't been in the downtown core ... tsk..tsk..tsk you have missed an exciting metropolis. Yes we have a Federal Building, ( locals call it the post office ..imagine that a post office , how mundane ) and a Used Book Store now that is an adventure, you can browse for hours and Sam, your host , will have just about anything your little heart desires , served up with a smile and a bit of wit.
Now back to The Raspberry Place, from the front it looks like any ordinary White Victorian story and a half house , a few curlicues, a few flowers ( well more than a few ) and a large back yard, now the adventure begins in the back yard! There is a garden full of calendula growing wild among the beans and tomatoes, Opium Poppies( they aren't related to the drug trade, just a differentiation between Oriental or perennial poppies and the annual variety ) scattered throughout the lettuce and carrots... does this sound a little disorganized ? Well it is, but it works for me, I call it block planting but that's just a cover for my totally disorganized methods of planting!
Beside this totally bizarre garden patch is a green house, afraid its gone to disuse since I can't get out to open the doors and windows to cool it down during the spring and summer. It is used more as a storage shed than a green house these days. Now this greenhouse used to stand yards ahead of and well to the outside of the Raspberry Patch....... used to ... now it's snuggled amongst the bushes which take over half of the back yard. Why on earth would you let the raspberries take over ???? Well its a wonderful way to spend a vacation, over your head in berries, conversing with the birds, the bees, the cats and the occasional neigbour. And that is where I shall leave this adventure, weather will write the next page and maybe if I can spare a bit of time I will update you on the neighborhood. Did I mention it is so laid back that you could easily imagine ( if you didn't notice the model of the cars ) that you had slipped back in time and were back in the fifties ? Well that's how I feel about it and it is home. So on that happy note I will say bye for now and if you wish to drop in to Keepsake Crafts I should be there on the afternoon of July 22. Hope to see you at The Raspberry Place or at Keepsake where you are always welcome .

Welcome to my blog !

Wow ! I finally made it !!! This is not the first attempt at blogging but it is the first time I have made it past the account sign up. I am the proverbial procrastinator! I hope this forum will allow me to keep in touch with my friends, internet chat friends and customers . I have been so busy trying to build the new website, working a full time job and designing and creating a new line of jewelry that I have lost touch with many of my friends. That doesn't mean that I have forgotten you but somehow when you work on the phone it is very difficult in off time to pick up the phone and make that call out, not to mention the impossible time frame of getting home after eleven in the evening .
For my internet chat friends I wish I had more time to spend chatting but time is so limited that I seldom get online to do anything more than develop the website and now I am introducing the blog to try to fill in the gap. Dragonfly of Cheers is still alive and well just not able to spend time online as she did in the old days. I talk to Ez2Nv regularly late night on the phone, keep in touch with Aussiebear and Chuchudda through Yahoo Messenger, and keep up email contact with Lola, Eva2Diva and Sasnak occasionally, I miss chatting with you all and hope you will drop in and post when you have the chance. I haven't been able to track down the boys at the EMT service in Phoenix Arizona since Cheers closed, so if you see this blog check out my website, contact information is there and I would love to hear from you and the same goes for Snickers , last time I heard from you , you were still with Dreamworks working on a new animated movie so if you are out there and find this post please drop me a line!
Now this is supposed to be a blog to keep you posted on my creative activities ! So much for jewelry I just spent half of my time delving into old history... but a colorful one !
I have closed down the www.handcraftedjewelrymall.com/carolynsgems website , not because it wasn't attractive but it didn't allow me the full control that I felt I needed for the future of my business online. What can I say , I'm a control freak! The new website is still in developmental stage and is fully functional so please visit www.carolynshandcraftedjewelry.com and see my newest creations, also www.ezshoppes.com/shoppe/?sid=carolynscreations my first website ,which provided me with an affordable and easy to develop and maintain online shop is still functional . It may share some of the basic accessories with the new website but many of the items found there are not found anywhere else online or off.
Speaking of offline, Keepsake Crafts Rte 955 Murray Corner New Brunswick is open for the summer season so my local customers, cottage customers and tourist will have easy access to the new line of jewelry including 14K Gold filled wire semi precious stone wirecreations, copper wiresculputure neck wires and Sterling Silver wiresculpture in both stained glass and semi precious stone designs.
This blog will be a place where you will have an opportunity to find out what is on the agenda for new designs , promotions and sales events. I will be working some shifts at Keepsake Crafts on Saturday afternoons starting July 8, I will keep you posted when I will be there so if you have an opportunity to drop by and visit I would love to see you.
I have been testing a new design for bracelets to co-ordinate with the glass gem necklaces, chokers and neck wires but I will not put them on the market until I have a chance to test them for durability but since you are here I will give you a sneak peak at one of the pieces I have been wearing for a few weeks now. Will you let me know what you think about it ?
I think I've written enough for one day ! Thank you for taking the time to drop by, please post me a message to let me know what you think of this blog and my websites.