Meet GUS!

Hello everyone, pleasant days and pleasant nights. I'm back from vacation and have a new friend I'd like you to meet. This is Gus, he is a Dutch Blue Love Bird. He is so cute and reminds me of an old man with white bird, and he is so clumsy too. Him and Jagger are getting along just fine and the first day Jagger even came over and was grooming him; so sweet. I will have to get a picture of them together one day, they are buddies now, but Niki will surely be remembered. 

Randal Flag my cat, really missed the birds while they were at my dad's while on vacation. I would see him moping around and laying next to where the cage was, but he is back to his old tricks. I catch him jumping on the cage and I have to squirt him with water, so then he lays at the bottom making these soft talking noises like he is crying. Oh Flag! It all sweet and giggles around the Marvel household again.

Spool, Spool, Spool!

You all might of hear of miss Alison from the silly stories I may have told about work. Well Alison is truly my side kick and also is addicted to etsy. In fact, she has a very shop of her own called Spool.

Originally, her shop was going to support her new creative endeaver (back in '07) of sewing. Hence the name, Spool. Unfortunately, Alison hadn't sewn since Home Ec back in the day, but for some reason her mind told her that she could just jump right back into it & know what she was doing. Next thing she knew, the needle was jammed (and bent) and Alison had to put that bad boy away to start up an assemblage piece. And a collage, and soon after, beautiful jewelry.

Alison recently has revamped her shop, spending many weekends and even work hours sprucing it up for the upcoming spring. So let us take a look her triumphs:

~ 1) This Delicate Bouquet necklace features tulips, rhinestones, daises and lot of other delights!

~ 2) A truly rare species are these Fruit of the Divine earrings, which bloom once every sixty-five years in early Spring.

~ 3) The Incarceration of Grace, is a horrible story but a beautiful necklace. She was caught red-feathered trying to lay a couple of plastic eggs at John Bender's farm!

~ 4) These Budding Lilies are truly cute, they are like having a garden of your own. 

~ 5) She Sell Seashells by the Sheeshore necklace is truly an inspiration of Cyndi Lauper and Alison's love of bird's nests.

~ 6) A sad song the lovely Gweneviere sings; a song of everlasting devotion to a sailor, away for many months at a time.

~ 7) This Eternally Devoted Locket is a perfect gift for the one you love!

~ 8) With this key you hold the Rites to the Secret Garden: Beautiful Eden, the smell of a thousand roses, mixed with honeysuckle, lilies and every delight a nose could ever experience.

And here is first hand scoop on a special promotion starting this Friday until Saturday the 14th, if you stop by Spool you will get FREE SHIPPING on all jewelry. Let's show some love to one of my favorite shops; oh and she has a blog to called: Bird's Eye View!

A True Romantic At Heart

A true sweetheart admires pearls swept over falling lace, rose gardens of pinks and luscious reds and occasionally tears of joy of pure emotion from the soul. Memories come to mind when I was creating some of my new pieces for Red Heart 13 this past weekend. One thought was my husband Bruce, and my first kiss with him; it was awkward but titillating at the same time. These are the feelings that are kept inside all of us, they are what life is all about, roller coasters of emotion and stepping stones on the path to being a grown up.

~ This Love Me Tender Pearl Necklace reminded me of my wedding dance, even though it was "Can't Help Falling in Love", I remember the close secrets Bruce spoke in my ear on our wedding day. What girl doesn't love that, and can't resist the classic beauty of pearls.

~ Memories of my nana Sarah Elizabeth; she was my queen. She had a beautiful rose garden, that her and I used to sit in. These were blissful moments when the world was calm as a child and we would caress a warm cup of tea. These Tea Rose Earrings, are a solid affection of my closest personal memories.

~ Love Notes and Tears of Joy, this necklace reminded me of my years in the big city away from my beau. Two years of phone conversations, of a voice miles away; and loneliness on the cold hearted subways. Finally... I came home.

~RED WEDNESDAY: Buy 1 piece of jewelry, get the 2nd half off!

Pray For My Little Birdie!

UPDATE: Nikki, my bird is doing much better, she is eating and moving around. Even came out and sat on the swing. Thank you everyone for your prayers and thinking of her. It is truly appreciate and I thank you from the depths of my heart. LM

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So this evening I had plans to work at home and getting some jewelry shipped off and get some new listings done for my online shop. Well I was enjoying my Cappriotties sub and my cat Randal Flag was trying to steal some meat.

When all of a sudden I saw the cat jump off the desk and attack my bird cage, my two birds Mic Jagger and Nicita went flying, the cat jumped and caught the female bird in his mouth and tried running off with it, he ran and took it out into the hall. I went after him and I kicked him and got the bird and quickly put her in the bathroom. I yelled at the cat and shut the office door to keep Jagger in. Oh my god I was freaking out, I didn't know what to do. So I went into the bathroom and the bird was on the sink there was a couple blood pools, surely lost alot of blood. I grabbed a towel and tried catching her, and she flew on the wall, the shower curtain, and then to the window curtains getting blood everywhere. It was like a murder scene in my bathroom. I finally grabbed the bird and held her and put the towel on the wound, seemed the cat ate part of her tail. I put her back in the cage and it took me a half hour to catch Jagger in the room, finally with a plastic bag.

Oh the poor soul, what is Jagger to do without his little wifey, they have been together for about 10 years, had some kids about 6 over the years, they are long gone and now it is just the two of them, like two old fogies. Seems I left the clip off of the lock and they opened the door. I don't blame them wanting to escape. But Nikki seems to be doing ok, she ate and is in the little house with Jagger.

This is some tragic accident, we must all pray for little Nikki, let's hope she gets better and doesn't die during the night.

Nikki on the left, and Jagger on the right.

The alleged assailant when he was 2 months old. Never knew Flag would grow up to be an attempted murderer.