Pretty Little Adornments...

Well hello my Lovelies,

Like many of you, I have been a busy little Siren. Toiling away on projects for the upcoming Holidays and this doesn’t leave much time for crafting witty notes or updating blogs but I wanted to give you all a sneak peek at some of the goodies I have been working on recently.

Here are some of the dangly earrings that will be available for purchase via my ETSY account later tonight.

Sterling Silver and Labradorite

 

Moonstone and Quartz

Sterling Silver and Labradorite

 In case any of you were wondering, I only use Sterling Silver and mostly natural stone beads (sometimes glass if a specific color is desired). I would also like to ask that you not

Judge my photos too harshly. Remember this is just a sneak peek and I took these photos EARLY this morning with the cell phone camera.

And before I forget, my super sweet Sirens Sugar Scrub is available now on ETSY.

Let your inner Siren out… Leave the scales to the fishies!!

Ta-ta for now,

M.

Black Friday Week? Really?

Ok maybe I'm just getting old, but in my day we didn't start Christmas shopping until the day after Thanksgiving, and Santa absolutely stayed up at the North Pole until the very end of the Macy's thanksgiving day parade. But these days you can't even get through Halloween before some stores start stocking their shelves with the red and green. And something else that has been bugging me for a while: a certain coffee shop (who shall remain nameless –mostly because I don’t want to take the chance of getting banned from getting my yummy Americano with soy milk) was handing out their special edition holiday cups on November 1st. Come on now i hadn't even gotten the pumpkin off my porch by then. And now we have BLACK FRIDAY WEEK (that doesn’t even make any sense). Add to that the threat of employees picketing Wal-Mart for opening on Thanksgiving day (honestly, I think there are more reason than that to protest them, but that is a whole other rant). Am I the only one who thinks this is freakin’crazy?

My hubby thinks the only reason Black Friday is so popular is so people have an excuse to behave like the true animals they are. Maybe he is on to something. He is a pretty smart guy, after all he was able to tame this Siren.

That's it for now my lovelies. Happy thanksgiving eve.

Ta-ta,
M.

Even Sirens Get Dry Skin

So here in the Great North West the weather has taken a turn for the cold and wet and as anyone who has lived in a chilly climate knows this often means dry, itchy, uncomfortable skin. This is not pretty to look at, and not uncomfortable.

What is a Siren to do? I tried lotions, and salves, and creams and nothing seemed to work. So out of desperation I went to my kitchen and mixed up a concoction of coconut, olive and grape seed oils. Tossed in some chucky sugar and a dash of vanilla and mixed it all together. The smell was divine! But would it help my dry limbs? Only one way to find out, off to the shower I went.

I’ll skip all of the nitty gritty details of showering to clean the skin and jump straight to scrubbing to exfoliate and soften the skin. I dipped my fingers into the little jar and started to gently rub the sugar and oil on my skin. (Did I mention that this stuff smelled DIVINE?) After thoroughly scrubbing all of my skin I rinsed off the little bits of sugar and extra oils that remained, turned off the water and grabbed my towel and blotted the water droplets off my skin. You will notice that I said “blotted” as opposed to wiped. This was so that I could leave as much of the oil to soak into my skin as possible. A very important step if I do say so myself, and well I guess I just did.

Now normally right after I get out of the shower I have to slather on the lotion before I dress but this time I decided to forgo the lotion and see how moisturized this scrub would make me. This as it turns out was a great decision because by the end of the day my skin was still soft and moist, almost dewy. Could it be? Did I just find a way to beat the dry skin blues? Or was this a fluke? I needed to test this out on other Sirens. So back to the kitchen to mix up a few more batches I went.

With a few freshly mixed jars of this lovely elixir I set out to meet up with a couple of my favorite Sirens. Within a month both of them had nearly used up all of their scrub and were requesting more. I was more than happy to oblige. This time I made a bigger batch and tried a few more scents as well as recruited other Sirens to give it a try. This lovely creation was a hit; I even had people asking if they could buy it… SQUEEEE!!!

“Well of course you may.” I responded, with a huge smile on my face.

So I ask you again, “when her skin is dry and uncomfortable, what is a Siren to do?” Well this Siren’s remedy was sweet, make SUGAR SCRUB.

The only down side is this can leave the shower a tinsy bit slick so you may have to use care so as not to slip. Other than that this stuff is exactly what the Siren ordered.

Will have 16oz jars of my Sirens Sugar Scrub for sale on my ETSY site by this weekend. Watch for them, they will make FANTASTIC holiday gifts.

Ta-ta for now,

M.

The Siren is Back!!

Hello my lovelies,

I have been away for awhile. OK I have been away for a LONG while, but alas my pretties the Siren is back. Later this week I will be posting some of the goodies I have been working on but right now, since this is Thanksgiving week, I felt it was the perfect time to express what I am thankful for and what better place to do that then right here?

I am thankful for so very much this year, so I’m not quite sure where to start but here goes. I am first of all thankful for my health and modern medicine because without these two things I would not here writing this. I am thankful for my amazing hubby for everything he does and is. I never thought I would find someone as wonderful as you!!! I am so very thankful for my dear friends (you know who you are) for always being there for me. I am thankful for my family for all of their encouragement and love. I am thankful for my two wonderful puppies even if you both can be a little bit sassy. There is so MUCH more that I am thankful for but this is a good start. Got-a save a little for the rest of the week ya know?!

Ta-Ta for now.

XOXO,

M.