short hair & our cyber Monday sale!

The littlest one hates - and I mean HATES- having his hair cut. The last time we gave him a haircut  it ended with Alex holding him down while I desperately tried to not cut his ear off with the scissors, him screaming his head off the whole time. Terrible...
So we decided to give the electric hair trimmer a shot yesterday. I wouldn't call the experience a breeze, but it was certainly less traumatic (for him)  than with scissors. I will admit however, that I am a tad bit traumatized with the baby of our family looking so much older, but I will adjust.

Just look at those to-die-for highlights.... *sigh*

At least his still has his sweet baby fur on his shoulders and arms... ♥

 Also, I forgot to tell you about our Black Friday / Small Business Saturday / Cyber Monday Sale happening RIGHT NOW! Our Holiday 20% off sale ends tomorrow night~ so if you are thinking about getting a Seed & Sky gift this season, now is the time!

xxx
Kelcey

It's a skunk!

Skunk Art for Seed & Sky Jewelry. Skunk Jewelry

bee art

Honey Bee art Design for Seed & Sky Jewelry

I made two new designs for Seed & Sky this past week. This little honey bee is one of them. I have a lot of friends who care for bees~ and I hope to someday join the ranks of beekeepers... but for now I will have to settle for bee artwork. :)
There is so much to love about bees, and this one goes out to all those bee lovers out there. I am all set up to work on turning it into some jewelry this evening! If you aren't already, make sure to join our facebook page to keep up to date when new designs are released in my shop!
Also, stay tuned for my other new design tomorrow. I will give you 3 hints as to what it is:

1. It is the primary primary predator of the honeybee.
2. They are also known as American Polecats.
3. They have terrible eyesight but excellent hearing.

Can you guess what it is? 

my sister's baby shower

Alex made carrot cake cupcakes (or pupcakes as Lil calls them no matter how many times we tell her they are called Cupcakes) with the BEST cream cheese frosting. I made little flags out of toothpicks and washi tape for them~ super easy and cute!

 Everyone brought favorite books for the new baby's library. A lot of great classic children's books from the 70's and 80's showed up. :)

 Kristi made rosemary infused lemonade. 

 Scones, tea sandwiches, and soups (roasted squash and sweet potato & cream of cauliflower.) Those pink and red flowers are the very last stragglers from my garden. I had purchase the yellow ones to supplement them. I am going to miss our fresh flowers so!

It couldn't have been a prettier day here in western North Carolina. The baby shower went really well much to my relief. Throwing or hosting parties is not my strong suit, so thankfully our friends Kristi & Jeff and Alex were able to help co-host it and make it fun, super tasty, and extra pretty. My sister and Dave are really humble and shy about people focusing too much on them, so it was fun to have a reason to celebrate them and their new life. It would be impossible to explain how thrilled and excited I am for my new little niece to arrive at the end of this year!

little bird nest

 Little Bird Nest

Kelcey Loomer

6" x 6"

paper, acrylic, pen, glue, mica

The kids and I celebrating our friend Lucas with a picnic next to where his ashes are. It had been too long... ♥

all that we are

Kelcey Loomer

All That We Are

6" x 6" 

2012

I saw the most amazing shooting star a few nights ago. It was low, bright, and had a long tail that sparked like a sparkler as is fizzled into the night. It was so magical. I have been feeling extra grateful for all that we have this week, and my heart goes out to all those effected by the hurricane in the Northeast.  (((hugs)))

plaster!

We moved in to our home in December of 2006 when it was too cold to plaster the exterior (You can't plaster in extreme cold or extreme heat). So we stapled house-wrap on the exterior and vowed we would do it first thing in the spring. umm.... welll, that didn't happen. And didn't happen that next fall because we were busy having our first baby. Anddddddddd it didn't happen the next spring, and so on...

In previous years during high winds like we are having tonight the house-wrap would break off and flap in the wind. It would tap against the window and scare me. So this fall it feels good knowing things are tight and secure and even more importantly, we knocked one more thing off our mile long to-do-list.

shift

This morning Seo was running around outside with only in his pj bottoms on, his toddler belly hanging out. We had all the windows wide open as we rearranged our house into "winter mode", pulling the furniture away from the wood-stove in anticipation of the cold snap that was due.
Then midday the shift happened. Rain and cold erased the cheerfulness of the morning weather. At dusk a white full moon rose over the half barren trees, and mountaintops, and the sky was crisp and windy from the hurricane churning off the coast.
We lit the first fire of the season right on cue tonight. And I sat in front of it thinking about my family and friends that will be in the path of the storm. Thankfully, there is something soothing and peaceful about a woodstove. 

reflections of the leaf festival

We are recovering from two weekend shows back to back. Both were located at Lake Eden- a gorgeous location to be. The fall colors were so pretty reflected on the lake.

 The view looking out from our vendor booth.

 Big puppets marching by in the parade!

 Our kids (and their little friends) watching the parade.

 A peek at our organized stock behind the display. 

 We camped (that's our tent with the maroon top) right behind our vendor booth. All weekend long family and friends came by to visit around the fire bowl. 

 And we all kept warm by the fire at night and made s'mores.

On Saturday night the boys drove home to sleep and Lili and I camped out. We stayed up dancing and watching the fire show way past her bedtime. We took a long walk to look at the stars and take silly photos of ourselves. We cuddled to keep warm in our sleepbags... It was such a treat to get some quality one on one time with my girl!

In the morning we watched the steam rise off the lake and drank hot drinks to stay warm (coffee for me, hot coco for the Lil). 

We were all dirty, exhausted, and overstimulated by the time we packed up all of our camping stuff & all of our art stuff and drove home on Sunday. We met some wonderful people, heard some great music (mostly from our booth while we worked, but it still sounded great!)  The Be Good Tanyas, Tinariwen (what a treat), The Mickey Hart Band, to name just a few. We reveled in the vendor comradeship that happens at a longer show...

It will be a few weeks before we open up our vendor display, whew! 

kids

The kids building a fairy house

"Mom, I wanted to find a four leaf clover to give my teacher today but all I could find were three leaf clovers.... But that is okay, you know why?"
"Why?"
"Because the three leaf clover will make seeds into baby clovers, and then it's baby can be a four leaf clover." 
~ Lili

Southeasten Women's Herbal Conference

Once again I had an amazing weekend vending at the Southeastern Women's Herbal Conference.  I met so many amazing people, and basked in the radiance of 1000 women taking time to go deeper and enrich their lives. Such a blessing!
My assistant Nikki gave me so much support during the long weekend (Thanks Nikki!) and she also snapped this photo of my booth when I was having so much fun I forgot to take any photos! 

from the vault

Pocket

Kelcey Loomer

10"x10"

acrylic, paste, pencil, wax, thread

2006

birthday love

From all the way across the pond, all our love on your special day!
We let the kids pick whatever they wanted. So here they are with their choice, "superman" ice cream, and strangely enough it turned their poop green. gross right? Love & miss you!

some rainy day jewelry making

Lacy Field Pendant  :: Seed & Sky

Yesterday was wet and cold in NH and I put in a few hours building some necklaces at my mom's coffee table while Alex and Seo napped. Alex has been having some asthmatic sickness the past few days which has been really hard. I wish I had a magic wand I could tap his chest with that allowed him to breath.

My mom and Paul live on a small lake and today Lili and I went for a long ride in the kayak to give Alex a quiet house to rest. The loons were swimming and calling out right next to us as we floated along, and the colorful trees on the shoreline made the most beautiful reflections for us to cut through with our boat. Lili's sleeves were soaking (and freezing) up to her elbows because she had her hands danging in the water as we moved across the cold water.