We have these neighbors that we almost never see. (Sometimes we call them the “Mole People”) We’ve made overtures to them from time to time but still nothing. Part of it is their work schedules and that they have three very young children (all under the age of 5) so their social life is structured much like ours was ten years ago. That means that they really don’t have one.

They have a flagpole at the end of their driveway, right next to one side of our circular driveway. Usually they have Old Glory flying there and sometimes a Chicago Bears flag as Mr. Mole works for the McCaskey organization. Back in October they put up this really cool skull and crossbones for Halloween. The problem is that it is still up now, the week before Christmas.

I took it upon myself to add a little (current) holiday style the other night. It is just some red fabric safety pinned in place and a white pom-pom made from white acrylic yarn.

I’m still waiting for someone else on the cul-de-sac to notice. If he stays up long enough, I have my Easter Bunny ears all planned out.

See what happens when you don’t make your bed?

I have two different etsy shops; one for my fabric and fiber crafts and one for my photos and other paper crafts. The second one was started mainly for the Digital Mandalas I started making a couple years ago. I really love them but never did much to promote them other than have a few professionally printed, mounted, framed and hung in my own home.

Then this spring when I decided to start putting some of my other hand-crafts on etsy I revisited my somewhat defunk shop but had forgotten my password. Duh! So I made a new i.d. and moved on. BUT then I found another etsian with almost identical mandalas and I freaked out a little. After some digging and private conversations with her I realized that we just both happened to come up with a very similar idea at almost the same time. (But I was first.) That was when I figured it was probably in my best interest to resurrect my original shop if I ever needed to have proof of copyright.

So long story short, I have two etsy shops. And recently I’ve been updating the old one with photo notecards featuring photos taken on our trip to Scotland and a special series of mandalas made from images taken at Rosslin Chapel and Rosslyn Glen. For now I’m just featuring notecards, but would be happy to make enlargements of any image that “speaks” to you as a special order.