JUST WRITE SOMETHING! I can't count how many times I've heard that since I told my family that I was going to start a blog.

The problem is... It's easier for me to write about someone, anyone other than myself. So I think that is where I will start.

My only child, my daughter Christen, my pride and joy her entire life, is unbelievably talented. She has been married for ten years now and in August 2011, became a new mother to Caroline, my first and possibly only grandchild. Fortunately Christen's circumstances allow her to be a stay at home mom and even though she sometimes feels overwhelmed by the daily "to do" lists of being a wife and mother, now she has started a new business called Belle Reve Designs. Her Etsy store is where she is selling her jewelry designs and a few of her art pieces. She is planning shows and making product and blazing along. Years ago when I started my first craft business "Victorian Accents", I had home parties, a booth in a craft mall and did quite a few craft shows. But WOW how things have changed! Back then...1980-1993, there was no "Etsy", really no "On-line" market place for crafters at all. AND O.M.G. how the crafts themselves have changed and evolved.