Bird music

On daily walks through Pontarlier I try to explore my new hometown as much as I can.

I have already found my (so far) favourite chocolate shop where they sell delicious macarons, a crèmerie, where they sell fresh milk (you bring your own bottles) and some lovely home decoraton shops that make me want to live in their shop window.

Sometimes it is not what the shop sells that interests me, but how they decorate their wondow. It is easier when all you have to do is arrange many attractive items together, but so much more difficult when you want to presend an abstract, intangible thing.

So I was pleasantly surprised to find these happy birds in a window of a shop that sells concert tickets. The musical birds, not two completely alike, are made from what looks like polymer clay and their colourful wooden houses make a perfect background.

I like the red&white polka dot house with a blue roof best. Which one is your favourite?

Holidays

A view from my kitchen window

(taken last Spring, before the nature woke up completely

- and before I had time to wash the windows...)

I've decided to put my Etsy shop on vacation mode for the next two weeks.

First I thought it might not be wise since I've only opened it a short while ago and can't afford to miss any potential customers. But the thought of taking everything with me in case I an interested buyer comes along, packing the handbags, the tags, the wrapping materials (and still forgeting some), perhaps being late with sendidg the item because I haven't checked my emails often enough, ending up with a negative evaluation ...

OK, it is not a very likely scenario but I don't want to start my business that way.

So for the next two weeks I will be getting some new items ready to put on the web (I guess it makes sense to launch them after the Summer break so more people can see them) and also working on the old ones (I have to think of some catchier tags...).

Have a great weekend, everyone!