links and free stuff!

From now on, I will be making Tuesday a day of celebrating and sharing things I have found with all of you! Links, Contests, New Products, Blogs, Music...etc!


(Also...Look for me on Amanda's Page Kind Over Matter tomorow)


cool page...cool contest to win a free Kindle Fire... Everything Etsy


Soul Mantras... great Etsy shop!


Elise Joy...wonderful paper goods!

short list today because I want to take a walk before work!
xoxo

oh...and THE BOOKS CAME!!!!!! More about that later......but expect packages if you were a Kickstarter supporter!

Please check out Amanda's site " Kind Over Matter"
http://www.kindovermatter.com/
...not only is it a lovely and inspirational site, with lots of free goodies and printables, but this month it also my FIRST AD for the book on the sidebar!

Thanks Amanda!

may morning surprises...

feeling lucky that i got to see this...my third egg case had just began to hatch when i went out to check on them this morning. this is only the second time in my life ( after hatching sooo many of these) to cath them at this stage in the hatching process.
the best thing which you can't see from the photo, is the way they slowly undulate their way out of the egg case from their little one way escape hatches that their mom lays them in.
(more photos here...  http://www.photoblog.com/bugandthebee/   )

this is all i needed today. one beautiful moment. i feel at peace and connected now.

hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

xoxo

P.S.  Frog and BEE, my Moms shop, will be having its Ribbon Cutting Ceremony tonight! If you are around Downtown York for First Friday, stop by and say hello!
P.P.S. Look for my ad on Kind Over Matter, starting the 15th of May! It will be up for a month! Thanks, Amanda!

"the time has come, the walrus said..."

(.....love that poem)
The BOOK is READY!!!!!!!!!

Want a sneak peek? click here! You can see about 8 pages of it, and it is now for sale on Blurb.com also. So, this means that your copies are on their way to my house for signing and pampering before they come to you.
There will also be an e-book version available at the same as link I shared above. But that takes about two weeks!

I couldn't be happier! I feel like I just had a baby ( I suppose a lot of people say that about dreams that become real and are then let go into the world)...I also have butterflies in my stomach and I wish I could bring it back and add more to it! I'm worried there isn't ENOUGH! I think I was looking at it for WAY too long on my computer screen and laying in piles around my studio. I cut SO much out....I am just hoping I left the right stuff IN!

Well...I will be excited when it gets here! And I will let you all know when the box arrives!!!!! Because that will mean yours will be following right behind!

Big Love to All on this rainy Wednesday!

xoxo

Oh...and some link love to share...
make sure to visit Amanda at Kind Over Matter
and, while you are at it keep an eye out on the site after the 15th! I just did my first Sponsorship ad, and it should run on Amanda's page for a month. YAY!

last but not least...I don't think I've shared My Mothers shop address with you yet!
Like it on Facebook or visit the Frog & BEE website...we're not completely finished yet...so bee kind :)

I  stumbled onto a completely NEW (to me) string of bloggy goodness and I've been lost in it during coffee time each morning all week! So, I want to share....Below you will find an intro and then the link to an article called " 5 ways mindfulness changed my life" on a page called Creative Spiritual Women.

Check it.

"It’s incredible to me how mindfulness has changed my life.

When we understand on a very real level that everything we focus on we are bringing into our lives, we begin to see that there are fewer and fewer things that really deserve that kind of power.

This is incredibly liberating and powerfully creative..."

and here is the rest...http://creativespiritualwomen.com/5-ways-mindfulness-changed-my-life/      

OH! And don't forget to listen to this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghb6eDopW8I

I have 2 blessed days off before I start my 14 days of straight every day mother's day flowershop madness. boo. 

The book was sent thru the interweb yesterday!!!!!

and i'm off to water my peas and cucumbers and peppers...oh my!

xoxo

figuring out downloadables!

i am currently in the process of figuring out how to put downloadable images and fun on this blog for everyone.
the book goes to the publisher today....well...to the self-publisher....

i can't wait to to send it out to all of you who helped make this possible!
xoxo
have a lovely weekend!
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OK! For all of your amazingly wonderful Kickstarter friends/pledges...the book will be sent to Blurb for publishing this week! Then it's shipped to my house...signed...and sent your way!
THANK YOU for being PATIENT! I have never self published a book before and never realized it would take as long as it did!

Second on the list...I wanted to share with everyone who is following....

TERRARIUMS!!!

I have been selling these at Frog & BEE  www.wix.com/violasbees/frogandbee for about a month now, and they have been doing really well..so i thought i'd share a few photos. The lids/ metal bases are made by More Metal Welding, in Camp Hill, PA.

So...enjoy!