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Betty Boop!

Betty Boop Bangle Close up

Crow's clay talents! She created this wonderful Betty Boop for her mother's birthday. There are more pictures of Betty in our shop's "Photo Gallery".

Painted Flowers

The center of the blue flower sparkles.

Some pictures of the vase I painted for my mom's birthday. She likes it. The side not shown has a wispy purple flower on it.

The yellow flower cluster is my favorite.

Wheels are Turning!

Hello everyone,

Wagon wheels that is. Crow and I just received an official commission from Ava's Downtown Market and Deli. We've been asked to paint a wagon with the store's logo and generally spiffy it up. Of course pictures will be posted when we're done. At the moment we're working on gathering supplies and making plans. It is a sizable commission so everyone at Coyote's Blessings is generally excited.

Ava's Downtown Market and Deli is a small local grocery store located in Mountain View (CA). If you're in the Mountain View area, you can check out the groovy window clings Crow created. Their pictures will be up on the site soon.

In other news, we dropped off some more products at the Mountain View General Store (see previous post for a link to this fabulous place). Some of Lynx's Sky Sculptures are now featured there! I am also in conversation with two more possibilities for guest artists. I won't say any more about them until decisions are made.

We're growing! And the wheels are rolling...

New Cat!

Introducing .... Rosemoon!

We would like to welcome Rosemoon into our family! Our newly acquired cat has made herself at home - in one of the lesser used scratching posts. She is currently hiding in the lower half, but seems content to stay there. Even though she is only 11 months, she already weighs eight pounds. No doubt her Maine Coon half will catch up to her fast and she'll weigh much more by the time she's finished growing.

Crow is beside herself with excitement. So far our other cat seems cautious but accepting, and our dog is excited to see the new addition. Hopefully Rosemoon will easily adjust to our haphazard family.

Coffee and Ukuleles

As a side note, Dana Street Roasting Company is good coffee. They roast their own beans (as the name implies). The service is great and the people are friendly. They offer live music sometimes and are generally an awesome place to hang out (they have outside tables). Oh, and dogs are welcome – at least outside. Ask for a water bowl! Also, they have a ukulele club!

Random ukulele facts:

1896, from Hawaiian ‘ukulele, lit. “leaping flea,” from ‘uku “louse, flea” + lele “to fly, jump, leap.” So called from the rapid motion of the fingers in playing it. It developed from a Portuguese instrument introduced to the islands c.1879. Abbreviated form uke is attested from 1915.

Our first Home!

You can now find our items in a physical location! It's just like having our first home. 

If you are a resident of the Bay Area (California, U.S.A.) then go to Mountain View and check out the Mountain View General store on Dana Street. Directly across from Dana Street Roasting Company (mmm… good coffee).  If you're a Bay Area resident, go check out the store and see some of our products first hand. She also carries the Bookworld Series.  The Mountain View General store also has a Twitter, and a Facebook page!

I updated the store! We welcome "Frog" and "Beauty" to our knobling family. There are also pictures of a Knobling I made for the owner of MountainView General store. Dubbing ‘Crystal Bird of Paradise’, she now lives in the General store and is definitely the most complex knobling I’ve created to date.

Watch out for leprechauns! They should be coming to live in Coyote’s Blessings within the next few days.

On a side note, Gray Kitty remains in our store, the person who commissioned her still has not picked her up. :(

Christmas Ornaments and more!

This has been quite a day, busy busy. Between cleaning up for a gaming event tomorrow night and finally putting the boxes of Halloween decorations back in the garage, Crow and I have been on the go most of the day. She did make two new ornaments, and I added one to the shop.

Our snowman is ready to come home with someone special and perhaps cause a little mischief on the way. The second ornament Crow designed is a toy airplane; however the wheels refuse to stay on during the cooking process so she's waiting for it to harden and cool off. When it does, she'll attach the wheels so we can put it in the shop.

In addition to the Christmas ornaments I'd like to introduce a new expansion to our shop - the Andromeda Galaxy category! We currently have two products based on creatures from the Andromeda Galaxy. The Moreena bird and the snat. You'll find mention and description of the snat in "DOT" (Bookworld Series Volume 2). The Moreena bird has yet to appear in any of my writing.