Constant Galore

Someone seems to have a case of spring fever

2012-02-04T14:41:00.000-08:00

I may or may not (definitely may) have spring fever.

I miss my garden, the warm sun on my back, eating veggies and fruits fresh from my yard...

Here's a little photo collage of some of my past gardening fun:

Garlic is my very favorite thing to grow! We just planted about 40 cloves plus another 20 rounds and 100+ bulbils. I'm anxious to have enough garlic to get us through the winter and then-some. We eat a lot of garlic!

The first couple of years I grew tomatoes I probably grew eight plants or so. Then last year I said, "I'm growing any this year! I'm taking a year off." Then I found a packet of seeds and figured "what the heck..." and grew 21 plants (plus I bought another three from the local nursery for good measure). Then last year I learned how to can so... I'm probably going to grow about 40 tomato plants this year so we have enough to get through until the next season! I just love making chili and sauce and salsa!

We are blessed to have some gorgeous apple and peach trees in our yard, too. The peach tree is the smallest, saddest fruit tree you've ever seen. It looks like a soft wind could knock it over. The first year we had a miniature peach grow. Just one! Then in 2010 we had a massive harvest of peaches! The photo above shows one of the three bowls full we harvested. Amazing. Then in 2011 we had none again. I was told by a local farmer that in Maine the peach trees rotate every other year on production. I guess we'll see what happens in 2012! In addition, we have strawberry plants that were transplanted from my friend's farm so her donkeys wouldn't eat the strawberries -- lucky us! We also have a gorgeous little nest (complete with glitter streamers) that robins lay eggs in just about every year.

Aaaah.... soon it will be time to head outdoors again for the happy harvests of spring!

AND... I ordered these crazy looking squash that I'm SUPER excited to grow and eat. They're called Yugoslavian Finger Fruit Squash:

View all of Kenyon Organic's heirloom seeds here.

Happy spring dreaming!

Etsy On Sale Starts Now

2012-01-26T06:52:00.000-08:00

I've seen a lot of people trying Etsy On Sale lately and I thought I'd give it a whirl! I have posted my entire

Paper, Arts, and Cards section on sale for 30% OFF!

Have a look around:

Give Etsy On Sale a whirl by clicking this link!

Vintage Finds

2012-01-20T13:38:00.000-08:00

I've been having way too much find scouting out fabulous vintage finds for my etsy shop and even more fun photographing the finds. The most difficult thing is parting with them! But knowing they're going to a good home helps! Here are some recent finds:

Hobnail Milk Glass Tumblers

Black Lotus Bowls

Stacking Teapot Cream and Sugar Set

Mother of Pearl Buttons

Teal Kitchen Utility Scale

Hope you've had as much looking as I've had hunting!

Click the links to visit my etsy shop to see more.

Check out my twin sister's etsy shop to see her paintings featured in most of these backgrounds.

New Printable PDF Items and Giveaway

2012-01-14T14:08:00.000-08:00

There's just something about checklists and fill in the blanks. Maybe it's a Virgo thing. Or maybe it's just the pure satisfaction of order, simplicity, and speed. Having a list of options right there before you and being able to move on quickly. I adore checklists. So I have started creating some printable PDF items which are now available in my etsy shop.

First up is this snarky little "While You Were Out" notecard -- perfect for the office, home, or dorm room. Have a little more fun in your cubicle by passing these notes on to your co-workers:

While You Were Out - Printable PDF available here.

If you've been following my blog you've probably noticed that I love sharing recipes. Naturally this recipe card was born. Perfectly bright and cheerful for the kitchen, also great for sending to a friend to share a meal from afar or bringing to a potluck pre-filled out with the recipe you're sharing that night:

Recipe Card - Printable PDF available here.

And now on to the FREE PRINTABLE PDF offer!

Simply comment on this blog with two things:

•Your favorite item in my etsy shop

•Your email address

and I will email you a free printable pdf of my "Things I Probably Shouldn't Forget To Do" list:

Who doesn't need a to-do list, right?

Get on it!

*Painted tins featured in the photo above are available from my sister's etsy shop:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/jamieribisi

The Look is Posted!

2012-01-08T09:22:00.000-08:00

Photo Credit: Krystal Kathleen Photography

The Dress to Impress project over at Well To Do You posted the look for today and Suz included my birch bark earrings! It's very exciting to see my creations in use and for such a great cause. Be sure to check out her blog and keep up to date with the daily looks posted for the month of January.

The very earrings donated to the project and shown above.

A recently sold pair

Another pair that are available in my etsy shop.

Dress for Success!

2012-01-01T10:47:00.000-08:00

All across the world Dress To Success programs are collecting clothing and accessories for women in economic need to help them thrive in work and life. You can connect with your local chapter here.

In Bangor, Maine one blogger is doing something extra special. Suz of www.welldotoyou.com is documenting how to make the most of one dress in your wardrobe by accessorizing in different ways. She has collected accessories and clothing from various retailers, crafters, and jewelry makers and will document her daily outfits for the month of January. She will be donating all of the items collected to the Dress For Success of Southern Maine chapter. You can view the Dress To Impres section of her blog and keep up to date right here.

I am mailing out these birch bark earrings tomorrow. I think they will go nicely with the LL Bean dress and really pop on the outfit. Birch bark is also a fun way to bring nature to your earlobes, especially in Maine. I'm eager to see how she incorporates these earrings into her style and also eager for them to be donated to a woman in the program.

You can see a larger portion of my birch bark and other jewelry here and I will be adding more soon.

Check out your local chapter of Dress For Success and see how you can help.

Recipe Card: Forgotten Cookies

2011-12-19T14:52:00.000-08:00

If there's a cookie that reminds me of childhood it's, by far, the Forgotten Cookie. We always had the recipe taped up in my mother's cupboard right next to the stove. Our family friend Patsy would make them whenever she visited us. Upon finding the recipe, copied one day in haste, I see that it also says it's Aunt Filly's recipe, although I don't recall her making them. I'll have to inquire further!

The recipe (a copy, not the coveted original)

These are simple, sugar-filled cookies which give the feeling of eating a cloud filled with chocolate chips. Simply heavenly. Simple to cook and a great recipe for children to create (with the help of an adult, of course). These Forgotten Cookies are meringue cookies, called "forgotten" because the last step requires putting the cookies in the oven and turning the oven off leaving them overnight to "forget" and be found, happily, in the morning hours.

Ingredients:

2 Egg Whites

2/3 Cup Sugar

6 Ounce Pack of Chocolate Chips

1 Tsp Vanilla

Supplies:

Cookie Sheet lined with aluminum foil

Whisk or hand blender

Mixing Bowl

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a medium size mixing bowl mix 2 egg whites (forever) until they're stiff and stand in peaks:

Perfect peaks

Mix in sugar, chocolate chips, and vanilla. I was lucky enough to have my friend's homemade vanilla! Delicious!

Dollop the mixture onto the aluminum foil covered cookie sheet. Your cookies will fluff up while cooking to about 1.5 times the size of the dollop you put down.

Place your cookie sheet into the oven and *get ready for this* TURN THE OVEN OFF! Do not open the oven. Leave the cookies in the oven overnight (5-6 hours). They cook in a nice low decreasing heat. In the morning, you'll have some delightful goodies to test!

These make a great bake-ahead treat for parties in the holiday season when you just don't have all of the time in the world. And if you leave some in the oven for Santa I'm sure he'll be happy, too.

Take a Look at my Jewelry Box

2011-12-03T12:34:00.001-08:00

If there's anything that I love to collect it's jewelry. A second is pottery and we'll get to that in a later blog post, I'm sure. For today, I wanted to start a series with a little show-and-tell about my favorite jewelry pieces. Each piece of jewelry that I own has a story connected to them. We'll take a look at some special pieces in this on-going series. I hope you enjoy!

1) These earrings were a creation of mine under the guidance of Lisa Salsbury from Willow and Me Jewelry. Lisa taught a Precious Metal Clay (PMC) workshop at my former arts & crafts school Sweetland Retreat. Lisa is a wonderful instructor and taught me how to use this amazing technique to preserve my favorite tree's leaves. A friend of mine sent me some leaves from a magnolia tree in South Carolina. I was able to use them to imprint onto the PMC and fire the clay to form these silver beads. I love wearing these earrings and they always remind me of my time living in the South.

2) This is a ring that I wear every single day. Well, let me take a step back here. My boyfriend Bryan bought me this ring from Monkitree in Gardiner, Maine. They had listed a few photos of new pieces they had just gotten in from jeweler JudyB Designs from Portland, Maine. I "liked" the image on their facebook page and commented on how gorgeous it was. A couple weeks later Bryan gave it to me after he'd saved enough money to purchase it. He said it was our "going steady" ring (!!!). I wore it all the time and only took it off to wash my hands. One afternoon I took it off at a local restaurant bathroom to wash my hands and had left it on the sink by accident. I went in not ten minutes later and it had been stolen! I was inconsolable. I felt naked. I was beyond upset. Bryan ended up contacting Judy and had her create a new ring in the same design with an equally gorgeous piece of labradorite. Somehow it was even better than the first one. I wear it non-stop and now don't take it off when I wash my hands. Ever. Lesson learned.

3) A gorgeous necklace by my friend Jennifer Lisa of Quench Metalworks. I've wanted it for so long {along with many other things from her amazing shop} and it came up for auction at two different fundraisers and I bought it both times! The first time I gave it to my friend Laurie O'Neil and the second time I finally got one for myself. I'm on a mission to "learn" to wear necklaces because #1 I'm really fidgety and play with them way too much and #2 I still don't know how to pair them with earrings which I have to wear all of the time. I'm learning...see the next item.

4) I won these gorgeous silver earrings from a giveaway on Sometimes Sweet's blog. These lotus earrings are from Chrissy Gemmill Jewelry and they are simply wonderful. They're the perfect earrings to wear with necklaces and I couldn't be happier to have found them... or I guess they kind of found me! These are super new to my collection and I adore them!

5) These are a pair of earrings that I made a few years back as a collaboration with my friend Bob Matus. Bob is a woodworker, lobsterman, photographer, and I'm sure he has many more tricks up his sleeve. He made the wooden hoops and I simply added the dazzle beads. His etsy shop, Heron Cove Wood Carving, has some wonderful items: hair forks (I have the whale tale!), spoons (yep, got some of them, too), and some more earrings! I wear these at least once a week. A personal favorite and I remember the beautiful day when we had our little crafty afternoon and made them.

Isn't it funny how these items, no matter how small, can hold such memories?

Big Giveaway Feature

2011-11-23T05:40:00.001-08:00

My birch bark earrings are among the many GREAT giveaways this week over at

Freckled Nest

Be sure to head over there and check out the many items being given away by November's sponsors. Just think of all of the goodies you can get for FREE... I see a thrifty Christmas in your future!

A sneak peak at some special pieces...

2011-11-20T09:07:00.001-08:00

I've been really getting into making necklaces lately. I am an earring girl, through and through. I've started purchasing some necklaces for myself and I'm "learning" how to wear them regularly. It's started a resurgence of me making necklaces, which have been so popular that they don't make it to my etsy shop... my friends have been purchasing them so fast! So today my goal is to make several necklaces to post to my shop so everyone can share in my new passion!

Asymetrical necklaces are a treat. This piece was made with a found resin and floral charm. Found in the sense that they were originally a pair of earrings and I lost one of the earrings. I've been holding onto this charm for several years waiting for it to tell me what it wanted to be. Now a friend owns it and it has a brand new journey to enjoy:

Another magical piece that I've enjoyed creating for special requests: Bracelets. If there's anything I'm less apt to wear than a necklace it's a bracelet. Again, earring girl here. But a couple of my friends have been asking me for bracelets so I answer the call. And what a pleasure it has been to make them! I even specially bought some nice rainbow agate and fire agate focal beads to make more bracelets for my etsy shop.

This first bracelet is made of enamel covered penny beads that I get from a local bead shop (who gets them from a local bead maker) here in Maine. These four penny beads represent my friend Alisha's four children (3 boys and 1 girl).

Here are a couple examples of some earrings I've created with these same penny beads:

More necklaces, bracelets, and Constant Galore coming soon!

Teacup Pincushions

2011-11-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

A couple of years ago I grabbed some great vintage teacups and my sewing needle and whipped up this idea for pincushions. I was collecting teacups with no real purpose in mind. Here and there I would pot a plant in this one and use that one as a catch-all on my desk. Then I thought: pincushions. Sturdy, classy, and those little saucers would hold all of your odds and ends!

This yellow vintage one was the first of them all (already sold!) :

And a fun collection of colorful teacups and even more colorful fabrics and I suddenly had a collection of these things. You can find many of these and more still available in my etsy shop:

1) This rad yellow milk pitcher is fitted with a bright purple floral fabric 2) This pastoral scene is complimented with the red floral fabric, no saucer 3) That dahlia fabric is just stunning 4) Gold rimmed with pansy fabric 5) vintage Japanese pottery with floral cushion 6) bright red cushion with black and white checkered saucer.

A gorgeous frosted Pfaltzgraff cup and saucer with the dahlia fabric cushion:

So fun to create and super colorful to dress up your sewing room!

Visit the pincushion section of my Etsy Shop for more details and other styles.

You can find my entire shop here.

Recipe Tutorial: Super Simple Pimiento Cheese

2011-10-22T12:01:00.000-07:00

Let's chat a second about cheese. It is a delicious creation which, I can only assume, was sent down straight from the heavens. Add in some pimientos and now we're talking about a delight sent down from a heaven full of rock stars. You know, the ones that you wish you could party with. Well, that's how I felt the first time I had pimiento cheese.

I was living in the sunny south in Charleston, South Carolina. I remember going to a little cafe in some small town in the "upstate" and seeing grilled pimento cheese sandwich on the menu. Well, now they had my attention. I ordered it wondering what it would be like and when it arrived I realized that I had made one of the best discoveries of my lifetime. Classically served between two slices of white bread, grilled to perfection, and a sweet tea on the side: Rock Star Heaven.

So I began asking local friends for recipes and did some of my own tweaking and came up with this super simple recipe that anyone can make. Have at it! Try it on a sandwich, with crackers, pretzels, or on top of a burger. And I'll tell ya, this recipe is highly adored by my favorite blogger at 145 Crazy Road!

Ingredients:

2 cups of shredded Sharp Cheddar

4oz jar of Sliced Pimientos

1/4 cup Mayonnaise

Salt & Pepper to taste

Tools:

Small Food Processor

Spatula

Let's talk EASY recipe: Put all of the ingredients into the food process (include the liquid from the pimiento jar) and whip it up until the ingredients are all blended together well. Place in the refrigerator overnight and it will thicken up when it sets.

And there you are! An easy and delicious item that can be used for lunch sandwiches, potluck dip, burger toppings, and so much more. Some other variations include adding garlic, pickles, and other ingredients. I find that this recipe is super simple and always a huge hit! Enjoy!

About the author: Joy Ribisi traded in her sunny summer-all-the-time-beach-cruiser-flip-flopping-Southern-living ways for the quiet farm life of New-England-log-splitting-snow-shoveling-earth-digging-lake-swimming life in Central Maine, some things never change. Like enjoying comfort foods.

Homemade Ricotta Cheese recipe

2011-09-13T17:23:00.000-07:00

Homemade Ricotta Cheese!

I am amazed that, in my 33 years of life, I never knew how easy it was to make ricotta cheese. A cheese I love so much I never bothered to learn the right way to pronounce it. Who cares? There's no telling what I'm saying with a mouthful of ricotta, anyway.

So I was flipping through a magazine and BAM, there it was. A little chunk of Heaven on a page...how to make ricotta at home. And it's super simple! So being the benevolent person I am, I demanded that Joy grant me author access to her blog so that I could share it with her fine readers. By the way, this is Jamie, Joy's twin sister. Most people mistake us for each other anyway so call me whichever you'd like. I'll just secretely hold a grudge.

Ingredients

Half gallon whole milk
1 teaspoon kosher salt (I really like things salty and added a bit extra)
3 Tablespoons lemon juice

That's it for ingredients, I swear!

Then for supplies you'll need:

Cheese cloth
Large pot
Strainer
Large bowl
Slotted spoon

hot milk

First thing's first, put all of the milk and kosher salt in the largest pot that you have and get it boiling. Don't do as I did and think your second largest pot is big enough. It's not. Get the bigger one. Milk likes to boil over and burnt milk does not smell good.

if you crisscross the cloth it'll look more beautiful

While that's boiling, line your strainer with 4 layers of cheese cloth. Then put the strainer on top of a large bowl, like so:

Put this over that and then this thing inside of this one.

lumpy milk

Once the milk has boiled, turn it down to a simmer and add the lemon juice. Stir until lumps form, about 3-5 minutes. Those lumps are golden bits of ricotta cheese that you are going to stuff into your mouth soon!

don't make fun of my slotted spoon, I know I need an upgrade

Take a slotted spoon and scoop out all of those lumps and put onto the cheese cloth. Let drain for 5 minutes.

you can eat it now

That's it!! You can eat it with a spoon (my preferred method), add it to a pasta dish, or refrigerate for up to 4 days. YUM!!! Did you know it was so easy?! Now you do!

Like the pottery featured? I got it from the peeps at Clay Coyote Pottery. Like the red kitchen napkin? So do I, it's mine. But you can buy one of your own from 5 O'clock Crows.

And BINGO! ... Then there was a journal!

2011-09-09T20:40:00.000-07:00

It all started with some seemingly innocent vintage bingo cards from my etsy shop. I'd sold about 80 of these gems by this point and I had one full set left. A nice new customer from California convoed me to ask if I could send these to her pronto-style since she was teaching a workshop the following week and really wanted to make sure she had them in time. I can pop these into a Priority Mail envelope like nobody's business so of course I said that I could accommodate that request. I also offered the couple extra bingo cards that I had that didn't fit the set of 13 I was offering in my shop. She was so excited and we started talking about what this workshop was all about. When she told me the future existence of these bingo cards were going to be some fun journals I was pretty excited. She offered to send me a sample journal after the workshop and I was just about over the moon with excitement. What a treat!

I scavenged these bingo cards about a year before. They belonged to a grange hall and were lovingly used by the ladies of the Wayne, Maine grange (say that ten times fast with a mouth full of Ritz crackers!). I tried to convince myself that I would make journals with them. I dreamed of having a large collection of journals to write my every thought in. To capture moments in scrapbook style. To fill craft fair tables. Something. But no. Nothing. So I decided to sell them all.

And a couple short weeks later here it was. A gorgeous package in the mail addressed to me. Now I also have a HUGE fascination with getting mail. Not like normal people, I'm pretty sure. I mean that I have a little process in going to mailbox. I walk out the back door (which is really our front door but located in the back of the house. The actual front never rarely gets used. I think it's a Maine thing that I'm still getting used to) I gaze at this large tree we have in our yard and check if it's autumn yet, then I check on my garden and see if anything's ripe, then a little stroll across the street to the mailbox, which is constantly broken, and then a hopeful tug on the cover to see if there are any treasures inside (this whole process is shot to hell if it's snowing out, in which case I usually just pull up at the driveway on my way home from work and jet across the street as quickly as possible to grab the mail).

So this one day it was there. I quickly opened the package to find a gorgeously packed gift:

The tag, the handmade gift wrap. I mean, seriously. This woman was after some sort of prize. And she won it. I almost didn't want to open it so I took pictures of it to enjoy forever:

So I forced myself to open the package and found inside a gem of a journal made with the almost famous vintage bingo cards:

With some gorgeous details to boot, this is going to be a treasure for me always:

It reminds me of my grandmother, who loved to play bingo. We used to play at the kitchen table when she came on a rare visit. The maps reflect my love of travel... This very well may become my travel journal. Or my sister and I have talked about making this our journal of the whacky things that have happened in our house. Or maybe it'll be a bird watching journal. Who knows. I'm just happy to have it.

*Learn this craft and others in Jeannine Stein's books:

Adventures in Bookbinding: Handcrafting Mixed-Media Books

and Re-Bound: Creating Handmade Books from Recycled and Repurposed Materials

Visit Jeannine's blog to keep up to date with her great projects: Ink-Stained Book Arts

New things from old things

2011-08-16T18:25:00.000-07:00

So it all began about a year or so ago when I started an album on facebook asking my friends to "Mail Me A Letter or Something" -- and did they ever! One of my my intriguing things that I received, other than the coconut with my address taped to it (see below) was this old earring and necklace set sent from my dear old friend Sarah. Sarah and I have known each other since she was skipping around the playground pretending to be a horse and I was selling little handcrafted trinkets below the jungle gym (some things never change). This little collection she mailed me had the most wonderful story:

The original pieces along with Sarah's letter.

So I waited. And waited. Stared at this set. I didn't want to take it apart for fear of cursing the mojo attached to each little iridescent dangle. Would a pack of flapper ghosts suddenly find me in my faraway Maine farmhouse and force me to do the Charleston? Would I really mind that kind of punishment? Probably not. I'd even film it and show everyone I encountered.

The time finally came. People kept asking me, "What did you make from that flapper set?" or "What the hell are you waiting for?" So one day I stopped waiting and just started taking it apart. I created three pairs of earrings the first night (with another night of crafting yet to come) and created these beauties that I'm quite proud of:

This is the pair that Sarah and her mother selected to love up.

These chalcedony earrings already sold on Etsy!

This floral set is still for sale on Etsy.

And this is the coconut that I found in my mailbox:

Something new I've gotten into

2011-06-15T12:55:00.000-07:00

Recently I've started working on a special little project for my boyfriend. Initially it was for a Valentine's Day gift but that holiday's come and gone. Then it was for his birthday (April was a few months ago...). Then I just figured it'd be an on-going project that one day I would present to him.

The project is a digital scrapbook. I'm a computer geek. I love the digital idea -- less mess to clean up, more nerding-on-the-computer time.

This is one of the page that I came up with. My saving grace was finding Oscraps.com - they have a HUGE collection of beautiful digital scrapbooking supplies and tons of free options, too.

For those of you that like to get your fingers covered in glue and your scissors sharpened, I have some delights for you:

This is a collection of ephemera from my own Etsy shop: Constant Galore.

I look forward to my new venture in digital scrapbooking... as well as the good old fashioned paper style! Last year I participated in a scrapbook creation for my friend Carla's wedding. I was so pleased with my design and now I'm faced with the project of doing a new scrapbook page for our friend Brienne's wedding book! I'd better get to that...

New Treasury

2011-04-02T10:09:00.000-07:00

Check out my newest Treasury on Etsy:

21 Day Yoga Challenge!

2010-12-27T14:13:00.000-08:00

Who's with me for this 21 day yoga challenge from Yoga Journal?

Let's get fit and centered together!

"Intention" by homeshanti on Etsy

Etsy 4 by 4s

2010-06-23T07:18:00.000-07:00

I've been touring around Etsy a lot lately and often buying lots and hearting lots! I wanted to share some Etsy finds with you and try to help generate some sales for some fine folks!

Here are some of my favorites:

And here are some of the items in my personal shop:

Just in time - Stocking Stuffers!

2009-11-05T14:43:00.000-08:00

Winter has hit Maine. The snow has landed and it actually stuck! So I started thinking about Christmas, of course. Then I started thinking about stocking stuffers. Then I thought about funny stocking stuffers. Wouldn't you know it...I have just the thing for you!

I've created this collection of goodies that I found on Etsy. Enjoy browsing and get to shopping, most importantly!

Hibiscus Slip-on Coasters in Teal/Saffon - set of 6 - $24
by DimmalimmHome

DRAGONFLY Miniature Mixed Media Original - $17
by AlissaStudio

Japanese Maples in Blue and Gold Bookplates- set of 6 - $9.95
by CozInk

Chocolate Penis Lollipops Set of 12 - ADULT - $18.50
by ConstantGalore

Yoga for winter, yoga for life

2009-01-18T19:15:00.000-08:00

Yoga is my favorite form of exercise and something that I desire getting back into to get my blood flowing on these cold winter days. Yoga also centers my thoughts, get me back on track with my goals, and makes my body feel alive! Here are some delightful Etsy finds that remind me of how yoga is an important part of my life.

NAMASTE--7 little letters to honor the Spirit in you which is also in me

patchofsky - $45
This piece makes me want to smile. It is lively, colorful, and funky.
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Breathe Card
darsidevine - $2.50
The blissful smile on the giraffe's face says it all! The colors are relaxing and natural.
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King Pigeon Print
lindsaykristine - $20
These prints by lindsaykristine inspired this entire post. I love the flow of her watercolors and the spirit behind each pose. She really understands the breath work that is integral to yoga and it comes through in her paintings.
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Chakra Crone
karhumoon - $95
This crone is the most balanced woman I know! Karhumoon's creation is simply exquisite and she also offers custom creations of these chakra folks.
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Wrapped in Peace Skirt - Factory Silhouette
lalalenore - $85
This photograph captured me! What a happy feeling and a gorgeous skirt. Made of cotton and dyed using eco-friendly sustainably harvested dye materials. The red is in reference to the root chakra (see above!), the color of survival and rebirth.
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Cheryl Lee Design Yoga Girl Earrings
Jeweliansun - $15
I love earrings. I mean loooove earrings. These are a great find, cute, colorful, and yoga-related.
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Hemp Yogi Hoodie
consciousclothing - $85
I just want to wear this hoodie all the time and do yoga on these cold Maine days.
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I hope you enjoyed my finds and I hope you do a little yoga today!
There were many more items that I wanted to include here.. check out my favorites to see some other great yogi items.
Namaste.

Constant Galore

2009-01-10T17:03:00.000-08:00

My twin sister, Jamie, introduced me to Etsy a few years ago. I started out with a shop called Ribsmalone and featured my photography and cards. Random crafts and vintage finds started creeping into the shop and Jamie and I decided to start a second shop together that would showcase our ecclectic crafts and vintage goods. We decided on the name Constant Galore because we were constantly coming up with many different items to sell.

Yesterday I thought that I would jump on the blog bandwagon and pondered what name I would give my newest online venture. After much thought I decided that this blog was a reflection of the energy and work that goes into our Constant Galore Etsy shop, mixed in with my many other ventures in life...so Constant Galore it is!

I invite you to browse our shop, which is a window into our colorful world, and see what you think of our twin power. There's certainly something for everyone including art quilts, scarves, jewelry, naughty chocolates, encaustic wall art, and more. Grab a cup of cocoa and enter Constant Galore.

I always said I'd never have a blog...

2009-01-09T07:11:00.000-08:00

But the time has come.
I have been looking for a venue to unite all of my various ventures:

Ribsmalone - my photography shop on Etsy
Constant Galore - where the various craft products live that my twin Jamie and I create
Passion Parties - My favorite job ever! Now I have somewhere to yap about it
Sweetland Retreat - the artists' retreat Jamie, Brian, and I are starting in our home
Life in general - I have no link for that, but this blog will be that link now!

I look forward to sharing with you my artwork, crafts, home, ideas, and friendship!
Welcome to my corner of the world,
Joy Ribisi