Frost & Hot Chocolate

Hot off the presses. Enjoy!

Frost Treasury:

Hot Chocolate Treasury West :

Now off to bed!!!

The New Egg

This is Hazel, she's fearless and beautiful. She loves to dig herself little ditches in the ground and take dust baths in them ruffling her feathers and luxuriating in the dirt as little nuggets of soil slip deliciously through her feathers. You'll have to forgive her, but she insisted on using a photo from her younger days!


But that is not the only reason that Hazel is incredible. You see she's a special breed of chicken called Ameraucana and her special newly found talent is laying gorgeous blue-green eggs such as this one - in the back on the left. The other eggs belong to our other lovely chicken, Midnight.



Believe it or not, Hazel's eggs taste even better then they look. If you've ever wondered what a store bought egg looks like inside versus a back yard free range chicken eggs, here you are. The one on the left is store bought, the one on the right is Hazel's. Do you see how much richer in color the yolk of Hazel's egg is?


So to celebrate Hazel's new skill I made this Treasury West in tribute to her. Enjoy!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list_west.php?room_id=80000

Indie Exclusive - Weekend Deals

I am honored to be featured in this week's Indie Exclusives / Weekend Deals in the Etsy Storque!!! It's not published yet, but it should show up here tomorrow.

For 10/2-10/4 - I will offer 50% OFF on any item that comes back when you search for "BLOOD" in my JoliMarbleSwirls shop.

1. Please put "Indie Exclusives" in notes to seller during checkout.
2. Kindly make your purchase as usual and I will refund the 50% to your PayPal account on Monday, 10/6/09.

Sangria Candy Glass Earrings - Indie Exclusives / WEEKEND DEALS

WEEKEND DEALS - 50% OFF all "HARVEST" Items

For 9/25-9/27 - I will offer 50% OFF in my JoliMarble Swirls Etsy boutique on any item that comes back when you search for "HARVEST" in my shop (shipping not included).

1. Please put "WEEKEND DEALS" in notes to seller.
2. Kindly make your purchase as usual
& I will refund the 50% to your PayPal account.

Check out my newest Cocktail Ring designs fresh from the studio, some of these beauties have volunteered to participate in the WEEKEND DEALS too!

found in the MARBLES Collection

Midnight Sphere Glass Cocktail Ring

Vodka Tonic - Crystal Ball Glass Cocktail Ring

WEEKEND DEALS - Eternal Candy - in Blood Orange Martini, a Glass and Sterling Pendant

All Grown Up...

As I am sitting here waiting for another treasury to open up ( I missed one last night by about 1/2 second, so today I'm determined!) I thought I'd tell you about what happened to our baby chicks that I introduced to you in the New Chicks in Town Post. This is an old photo of Eve out in the grass and Snowflake is right in front. My chiropractor put it well, first they are chicks and are really cute and then they turn into these "things" that are really atrocious and then they become chickens. Maybe this is why I didn't take much pictures during their awkward adolescent months :b

They are now a little over 4 months old! I got Snowflake and Eve on Mother's Day, shortly followed by Hazel and Midnight (our Americaunas) two weeks later. Supposedly Hazel and Midnight were already 2 weeks old, but I'm not so sure... we brought them home in a brown paper bag and they did their best to avoid being at the bottom of the pecking order back when Snowflake and Eve were bigger... well that all changed so quickly! You see Snowflake and Eve are White Silkie Bantam chickens. I never knew what "bantam" meant before I had chickens, but it's basically that they are a miniature chicken breed. So Hazel and Midnight, who are regular sized chickens outgrew them pretty darn quickly! But the pecking order had already been established and Eve and Midnight came out on top!!! That's Snowflake in the front and behind her is Eve.

The Americaunas, Hazel and Midnight switched colors on us. Midnight was almost black when we got her and now she's a beautiful silvery gray with coppery overtones. That's her in the front. Hazel was brown and is now a speckled copper black. She's the one in the back. They are supposed to lay blue and greenish eggs and are called the Easter Egg chickens for that reason. I can't wait! They also have funny little beards and sideburns, very Elvis like! They all shed like crazy and we have a ton of pretty feathers flying around the back yard. We can always tell which came from Hazel and Midnight.

We had an unfortunate surprise a few weeks ago, that almost broke my heart. You see, in my city, we're not allowed to have roosters but we took a chance with Eve and Snowflake. Silkies are really hard to sex at birth, so it's a bit of a gamble. Early on we had thought that Snowflake would turn out to be a rooster and never in our wildest dreams did we ever think that sweet, cautious Eve (above) would ever crow. But lo and behold, one fateful morning Eve firmly planted her little fluffy feet in the middle of the chicken run, proudly fluffed up her soft white feathers and crowed!!! And, reminiscent of "Kevin" in "Up," my little boy exclaimed "Eve is a boy!" So Eve has since been renamed "Wally"... but we sometimes we still revert to "Eve". So now we are hoping that the neighbors don't complain... at least till Snowflake starts laying eggs. We're hoping for a little baby chick before we have to give up Wally. I think we might have found him a good home, I was staying up nights worrying about what we will do with him!

We had another adventure the other day that was actually pretty comical now that I think of it, but it did not feel like it at the time. We went to Half Moon Bay to get some straw bale for the chickens, to lay down inside their coop. Let's just say that a straw bale is a lot larger then it looks and really really really messy! I fit that across the layed down front seat of my sedan and had to move the car seat behind the driver's side. Plus, shifting was really interesting, I'm just really glad that I could get it into drive! I'm still picking straw out of my car, even after vacuuming! For a while strangers would come up to me and pick straw out of my hair because the straw had stuck to the inside roof of the car! Here's what my car looked like after my husband so wonderfully tugged and pulled the bail out.

But it was so worth it because we got to put some fresh straw into the chicken coop. That's the inside of the coop, the top comes off and since it's plastic it's very easy to clean, very important feature for me! That's right after I hosed it down and my son helped lay down some straw bedding. Hopefully Snowflake, Hazel and Midnight will grace us with some eggs soon! My husband says that we have to find a rock that looks like an egg to show them where to lay :b

Yay!!! Just got a Treasury West!!! Finally, here it is:

BUY 1 GET 1 FREE - WEEKEND DEALS!!! Eternal Candy and Floating Violets

For 9/18-9/20 WEEKEND DEALS I will be offering BUY 1 GET 1 FREE in my JoliMarbleSwirls Etsy boutique.
*second item should be of equal or lesser value*

1. Please purchase the 1st item
2. Use promo code 'WEEKEND DEALS' in the notes to seller
3. Put link or name of the 2nd item in the notes to seller

I also added a few beautiful items to my shop that I'm really proud of. The Eternal Candy in Peach Cider pieces turned out even better then I imagined. But please don't get them together! As my husband put it, too many orbits! Here are the sets are recommend:

SET #1

Eternal Candy - in Peach Cider, a Glass and Sterling Pendant

Peach Cider Candy Glass Earrings

Peach Cider Glass Ring

Set #2

Eternal Candy Earrings - in Peach Cider Glass and Sterling

Peach Cider Candy Glass Pendant

Peach Cider Glass Ring
this ring goes well with both Sets!

I had a guilty pleasure of getting some beautiful kid's marbles a few weeks ago. I hand picked the perfect colors and here's what I did with them, it's the newest edition to the BALL N SWIRL Collection:

BUY 1 GET 1 FREE - Grand Floating Violet Ball and Swirl Earrings (Limited Edition) - WEEKEND DEALS

Doggie Puzzle

How do you fit 2 dogs in one tub? Check this out!

I was washing Tiger (our dog -the brindle pit you see) and our guest dog, Gouda in our tub. This is how they arranged themselves, Gouda under Tiger. I think they both just tolerate bath time from the looks of it, but they were so filthy from rolling around in the yard with the chickens! Here they are all clean :)