You Can Always Go Home Again

Its always bittersweet when you have to leave a place that you love.  Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you leave.  Colorado is so beautiful but there is always a price that comes with beautiful places (very high rent and unaffordable housing.)  Family is a hard thing to move away from.   When joyous occasions happen or sad painful ones, your heartstrings pull a little harder each time. Home is always where your heart is.  Trust me I've left mine pieces of heart in several prime locations but the pull of family wins every time.  I moved from Colorado to Hawaii in 1986 and back to Indiana in 89.  Now my daughter Rose and her husband Drew are in route to IN as I write.  They are closing on a home in Mishawaka tomorrow.   They were ready to settle down (and I pray…start a family).  Colorado didn't have many options.  

I know exactly what they are feeling and I hope that the love of family puts that smile back on their face and fills their hearts with overwhelming joy.  

Me and my little sis circa 1985 Montezuma, CO (wish I
still owned that jeep!)

mother and daughter last summer in Summit County, CO

Drew hiking with us in Greeley CO

Rocky Mountain National Park

JULY IN A FLASH

Summer hits and suddenly there are no blog posts!  So sorry I'm totally an outside summer person, and it's so hard to sit still in this weather!

We just got back from an EPIC trip to Colorado to visit my daughter Rose and son-in-law Drew.  So beautiful and packed with fun. Here's a little recap of some of our adventures.

We started the trip with a Rockies game

Then a Red Rocks concert-The Avett Brothers

Rose and I did some shopping for new dining room chairs.

Went to Boulder for some great food and adult beverages-
land of great beer ;)

Ed and I drove to Estes Park & Rocky Mountain National Park
and did some little hikes.  This one is of Bear lake

Saw lots of Elk!

Visited the famous Stanley Hotel where "The Shinning" was made.

We met Rose in Empire and drove up to Summit County (my old stomping grounds)
for a hike on Lake Dillon

 We also did this awesome hike in Morrison, CO.  This wealthy business man built a beautiful mansion on a cliff (that was quite a hike to get to) and a few years later it burned to the ground.  He had planned to build a home for the presidents of the United States as a summer home but it never happened after the fire.

Also I will be the guest artist at junk Evolution for Arts Alive month in South Bend.  Starting August 7th for First Friday until September 3rd.  Stop in and visit me on First Friday.  I purchased lots of new stone/natural beads while in CO.  They have awesome bead shops, so I hope to have lots of new items for you to choose from!

Wear Your Heart on a Tee

I'm designing a line of fun t'shirts with quotes and sayings that I love.  I sent the first one to Rosemary so she could model it where it would look the best...the Colorado mountains!  Rose and her husband, Drew went on a drive yesterday to one of my favorite little mountain towns (Salida) to explore new trails, restaurants and shops!  

I will be adding these to my easy shop soon, but I'm giving you (my loyal followers) first dibs!  The shirts are a try-blend, and are a fitted ladies style.  Rose usually wears a small and she's wearing a Medium (the smallest size I ordered).  The last picture is the truest match for the color, more of a muted try-color blend of blues.  Very soft and comfortable fabric that holds it's shape nicely.  $25.00 each.   Leave a comment here or on Facebook if interested.

Snow Love

Love has a way of making places sacred and moments meaningful.     Janet Hobson

We gave these two gift cards to ski at Arapaho Basin two years ago and they finally made it up last weekend (now they're hooked).  It's a place that I spent lots of hours at, the highest ski resort in the U.S.A.  and so incredibly beautiful.  So glad to be able to hand down the love to the next generation to to people that I love so much.

Mama C

Rosie Posie

Sky above me, earth below me, fire within me-OWN IT!

Some are just born with a sense of wanderlust, and others need to be where its comfortable and familiar.   Rosemary didn't know what she wanted to do after high school.  I tried to get her to go away to College, she just wasn't ready.   It's not easy to let go of your children and have them move anywhere but I know from experience, you learn and grow when you live in other places.  The best lesson...you appreciate where you came from.  

As soon as Rose and Drew married they started making plans to move someplace. It seems they both just needed each other to make a move.  Low and behold they ended up in Lakewood, Colorado.   Its a suburb of Denver but they get up in the mountains whenever they have a free day to hike and explore new turf.  They still haven't used the ski passes we gave them a year ago and hope to very soon!

My daughter was never in to vintage clothes.  She loved all the little dresses that her grandma and I made her when she was little, but the bottom line was that she wanted to fit in, and she loved to shop.  My sons have always been vintage shoppers,  Rose is more of a bargain hunter and is very good at it.  So my challenge for her will be to show our readers how to assemble a great mix of items vintage with new.

I used to make her model my Global Warming sweaters
and Rumspringawear.

Her first love- Pax :)

hiking in my old stomping grounds- Montezuma, CO

Rose and Drew

Anyways,  being the only daughter who grew up between her brothers on a small farm,  she has always been a little bit of a tomboy, loves sports, animals and people.  She also has a blog "Mile High Hoosier" if you'd like to follow.

I've started loading a few items on to our etsy shop and hope to have it open for business very soon!