Day To Day News

I just want to take a moment and wish everyone a happy Fall.  October starts tomorrow and a new month with no mistakes in it.  We are blessed every single new day to have a clean slate.  Sure we will slip up or fall back, but that's ok. That's how we learn and grow.  Stand strong.  Don't let others tell you how to live your life.  Let them stand on the side line of life and shake their heads or point their fingers, but one things for sure at least you are moving forward while they are standing still.  Never forget that. We were placed here on Earth to help each other.  To take care of each other.  Not to coddle, not to hinder, not to treat each other like snowflakes.  We have to make our mistakes so we can learn.  Life is rough and we can learn from that as well.  Hiding from reality or the truth is never the answer.  It's just nice to know that in this crappy world full of hate, jealousy, laziness, ignorance and greed we can offer a hand to a shattered soul, a fe

I love this time of the year.  All new house hold decorations are being brought out on the shelves. All the skeletons, skulls, pumpkins, ghosts.  I just love it.  No, I'm not in love with the dead.  No, I'm not weird.  No, I'm not mental.  I just find beauty in odd things.  Of course odd to you is normal to me.  As Mortia Addams quoted. "What is normal to a spider is chaos to a fly."  Its all in how you look at things. It's funny how people are the same way too.  How someone lives, looks or acts might be quite normal to them even though you think their ugly, weir, odd, rude and so on.  Be kind with your words, they have more effect on the human body than you know.  Our body is made up of 80% water.  They have proven that water can be effected by what is spoken, written and things dropped into it.   If this can happen to water in a glass or bottle, what about the water in a human body?  Think about that.  Form beautiful crystals every day in everyone you me

A farmer who tethers a to straighten it is like braces on teeth.  He lets the wind, rain and sun hit the tree so it's roots will be deep and it's wood strong.  Sometimes even leaving stones in the ground for the trees to have foot holds.  A second farmer plants a tree in a green house where the water and light are just perfect.  No wind hits the tree to strengthen the wood.  It has fluffy soil to stretch it's roots in.  Then gets transplanted outside in a rock free hole. The second tree during the first big wind storm will either snap in two or become up rooted.  With no wind hitting it growing up to strengthen the wood or rocks and hard soil to build a good sound root system it had no defense against what the world through at it. The first tree will weather many a storm, for it's wood is strong, it's roots are deep and healthy from borrowing in the hard soil and around rocks.  It will be hard to up root it or snap it.  Just like the trees, we too must weath

 Good Day S.K.O. Family, I hope you are finding some relief in this heat we are having.  This Saturday our town is hosting the annual Polk Salad Festival.  I hope to see some of you there.  Remember, we are across from the REU building. I'm constantly crafting now a days.  I love to create something from chaos.  I hope to start posting some of my creations on here so that you can enjoy them too.  Often I find it hard to sell them because they become my babies, but I must pay for more supplies.  LOL  Thus begins the never ending cycle. The 24th we will be hosting a Fairy Day Festival at our shop.  I love miniatures and fairy gardens and everything magical.  We've discovered a fairy door right in our own shop!  I wonder how they decorated their home?  I would love to see it one day.  May I can take a peek and get a photo to share. As always, we have our anime and manga in the shop as well as our Japanese sweets and drinks.  I love Pusheen! Well, I just wanted to hop on

I hope this brisk days is finding you healthy and happy.  If not, come see  me and I'll fix you a cup of tea.  :)  I know the weather has been fluctuating a lot lately, but that shouldn't bring us into the depths of despair. Just finish out your day and remember how warm and wonderful your bed will feel tonight when you cuddle up for a good snuggle.  Lately, myself I've been keeping my hands warm by doing crafts.  I enjoy bringing to life new creations for others to love. Between my potions jars, jewelry and fan fiction I've got a full array that I'm working on.  Keeping ones mind busy is always a good thing.  It's when it's left unattended that it gets into trouble. ;) Keep your creative juices flowing and make something today.  Share pics and videos.  Enjoy life, and others in it.  Because life is too short to just toss away on wasted time. I do apologize if my ramblings seem a bit jumpy like a rabbit trail, but my mind does tend to .................

Good morning all.  For some of you the days have you snowed in, but here, here we are almost wearing t-shirts again.  I'm enjoying the weather, but on the other side a lot of people are getting sick from the temp changes.  I just hope it gets cold enough to kill the germs and bugs. LOL  We do need the rain and it is most appreciated.  We are planning a lot of things for the shop this spring.  The one thing I'm working on is getting better internet.  Where we moved to Charter is not available so we have Comcast.  UGH!  I'm looking into a fiber optic company and hopefully they will be faster and no limits.  It's sad when you pay for the best and get sub quality.  On a cheery note I've found that if you are struggling or going through a tough patch finding an outlet helps a lot.  Me, besides my crafts for the store, I've been writing fan fiction.  I can't tell you how wonderful it keeps my mind busy so I'm not up all hours of the night.  Find that one thi