I’m very excited to announce that a selection of PhoenixFire Designs tree of life and bird nest pendants are available for purchase at The Wellness Center in Key West Plaza in Palm Harbor! Co-owned by a dear friend of mine, Shelly Moye, LMT & CLT, The Wellness Center offers a range of amazing health and…
Happy Birthday Mika
Today we celebrate my tabby cat Mika’s adoption day as her birthday. Mika was adopted ten years ago and is now approximately 13 years old. Happy Birthday to my tabby girl and wishes for many more!
Your Daily Cat
Ok, not literally daily but I do find myself taking a lot of pics of my girls. First, because they’re always around. LOL And second, because dammit, I think they’re adorable. Plus, cats are a great way to practice photography because they move a lot, they’re quick, you have to really get a good lock…
New at PhoenixFire Designs
Been busy behind the scenes this past week working on restocking the shop with previously sold out pieces as well as a few new ones. I’m getting very close to my 1,000th sale milestone in my etsy shop. An amazing accomplishment given that I started it as a part-time hobby and turned it into my…
Flower and Garden Festival
Saturday, Love and I spent a few hours at Epcot for the Flower and Garden Festival. I didn’t get as many pics as I wanted so we’ll have to go back, but here’s a few. It threatened to rain all afternoon but never did. Though it was partly cloudy most of the afternoon. The whole…
18 Months Post Op
April 5th marks one and a half years or 18 months post op from my hysterectomy. And I felt it was a good time to do an in-depth status and update again. So many people find my blog specifically because of the healing progress entries I wrote. I’ve received many comments and emails thanking me…
A Lesson in Bureaucracy
The only thing worse then dealing with one postal service is dealing with two. I mailed an item to a custom in Canada back on February 26th. USPS.com shows it cleared Canadian customs on March 3rd. If you go the Canada Post website, you can see it made it as far as Edmonton on March…
Steampunk
I’ve long been a fan of the Steampunk aesthetic. Gears, clockwork, copper, leather; that neo-Victorian style combined with some H.G. Wells and a bit of what if? imagination. But it’s not something I’ve ever participated in personally. Until earlier this year I kinda decided to start seeing if I could put together an outfit. Then…
In Like A Lion
…out like a meerkat. Or something like that anyway. Here’s a few animal photos I took this afternoon at Busch Gardens. As usual, click any image for larger! It’s so much fun to be able to run to a park for an hour and get to photograph amazing subjects like this. It’s one of the…
Three Years
To my dear friend… Lovingly remembered Deeply missed Never forgotten Rand July 30, 1967 – March 13, 2010
Awesome Customer Service
I have a Crock Pot. My Mom gave it to us many years back and it’s a damned useful thing to have. I don’t use it all the time but things I do tend to use it for I only make in that way. Such as a pot roast. The only way I cook pot…
Where Did February Go?
Here we are and it’s already March. And I realize my intentions to actually sit down and write out a blog entry in my oh-so-neglected blog last month not only never came to pass, but I didn’t even come close. Handful of photo posts….and that’s about it. Sheesh. Just seems like I’ve been so busy…
10,000 Pics
I just plugged my memory card for my DSLR into my computer to grab some jewelry photos off the card to edit and post. When I did, I was greeted by not the normal single folder, but two. And when I looked at the contents, I noticed that the reason for two is that I…
Boston Bruins at Tampa Bay Lightning
Love’s birthday was Monday, February 18th. (And yes, this year it WAS on President’s Day!) His favorite NHL team is the Boston Bruins. They were coming here to Tampa only once this season and that game was Thursday, February 21st. So I got him tickets to the game as his birthday present. Here’s a few…
Barenaked…in Busch Gardens
Barenaked Ladies played the “Bands, Brew and BBQ” event at Busch Gardens Tampa on Sunday, February 17th and I was lucky enough to get to go see them! I’ve been a fan of Barenaked Ladies (BNL) for years now. I first got to see them open for one of my all-time favorite singers, Sarah McLachlan,…