Fire Watch

Well, we are almost ready to go to Durango tomorrow and have debeated which direction to take to avoid some serious smoke.  It isn't the first time we have had to run fires in traveling in the west. I don't like it much, but we have had to go to some small towns and meet some nice people we would never have had the chance to do.  I do think God is with us in our travels, and always will be.

Sunday and Relax

Gonna be a not as hot day--only 98 degrees.  In Tucson it's probably 110 degrees and that's why we're here.  The craft show was slow and I sold 0 items, but my daughter did well for such slow attendance,  She had advertised to her friends, and some showed.  It's a good idea---it's called a Friends Craft Sale and she gets together with 4 or 5 friends and has at each others homes.  They e-mail or twitter or whatever their friends, and at least a few show. They all sell jewelry so there wasn't many looks at my things that are from my shop at  http://www.tigerseyecrafts.etsy.com/.

Hot day in Albuquerque.

Today will try a local craft show with my daughter.  She has a shop on Etsy also, http://www.myladyjewelry.etsy.com/, but does most of her sales at craft shows. Hope we do well.

Vacation and Etsy

My shop on Etsy is  http//:Tigerseyecrafts.etsy.com  and we are trying to maintain our shop while on vacation.  It's a challenge.  We brought all of our product with us and a few more items to list, but we are away from home for three months every summer.  What else can we do?  The one item we sold while here in Albuquerque is a vintage necklace made by Trifari.  It sold first day, and was easy enough to ship.  I can't see leaving my shop untended for three months, so here we are.  Has anyone else tried this?  Terry  ,

2nd sale on Etsy today.

Yeah!  It's been slow, so excited about sale of my vintage Trifari Necklace and earrings set.  It's only second sale and maybe a good sign.  You may wonder how I can handle my business while away from home.  Well, we brought everything with us.  I just listed this item.  lol

RV Park

We have met a couple from England staying at same park just two spaces away.  They seem very nice, and are pretty interesting.  We talk about every thing, and get to hear about their travels.  He was in the RAF and they have seen most of Europe and they even went to Australia.  His mother lives there.  I asked what they thought was the prettiest place and they agreed on La Rochelle, France.  They thought the most pleasant place to visit is San Sebastion, Spain.  I get to see their pictures later,  and sort of visit
myself.

Windy and Smokey

Our first two days of our visit in Albuquerque have been sooo very windy and our RV park on the west heights is always windy anyway.  This is our third year staying here a month or more.  You might say the price is right.  This year we have smoke to add to the high winds from an Arizona fire.  One year on a trip to the northwest, we had to run fires to get back home.  It seemed like ther were fires every way we turned.  We had to change our route a couple of times, and passed areas where the earth was scorched by the road.   Needless to say that was "exciting" and my hair is gray now.  lol

Today the world is good.

My husband ,Larry, is flying high.  He got free gifts at Firestone tire after buying a new tire for our RV.  Even better, there was free food.  We left Tuesday on I-10 and headed to Albuquerque for a month.  We had a flat tire on Wednesday, heading north on I-25.  What an experience, but some nice traveler signaled us of our problem and probably saved us from an accident.  God has his way of looking after us.  Thank you, Lord.