~Time Marches On~

One minute you're coloring (and hiding) Easter Eggs, wrapping handmade Easter baskets with bright colored cellophane and leaving powdered bunny tracks around the house after they've gone to bed and the next minute one of them is grown & moved so far away you're spending your first Easter without them :( I speak of that beautiful girl of mine...Jenna...

I could swear it was yesterday she was still this little....

...Time goes by so DARN fast.......

Just look at her now...living it up in Florida..basking in the glorious sun....

She looks so happy doesn't she....THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS!

I WOULD like to know though..just exactly who gave her and her brother permission to grow up so fast! It certainly was not me!!!

Speaking of Kurt...my baby....this sweet little innocent fellow right here....will be 22 on the 29th!!!
TWENTY TWO!!!Gosh he's handsome....
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Time goes by so darn fast.....(did I say that already).

So anyway..as I mentioned above before I headed down memory lane..Jenna & and her sweetie Ben will not be here for Easter this year....they will be snorkeling off the Coast of Florida and camping on the beach..definitely not a bad way to spend Easter...I would have preferred her to be here though :)Gosh I MISS HER SO MUCH....it's okay..she'll be home in June for a visit..and then we will be going there to visit in the fall.....................

Thankfully Kurt will be here for Easter diner.. We are also celebrating his birthday tomorrow night with the family..... cake and ice cream and such..I'm pretending he's still little ;)

Kurt will be home for at least a little while longer as he has another year of college left.....my goodness I do not know if I could have handled both of them leaving at once...let me tell you though....his sister is trying her very best to talk him into joining her and Ben!!!!

So Easter will be different for us this year but we will get through it...time marches on.....

Published...... ♥

Young W.P. Pawlet has been honored with a "Most Wanted" Feature in Teddy Bear & Friends Magazine. He will appear in the upcoming Summer 2011 Antique's Issue.


This is truly such an honor. I have wanted to be a part of this beautiful magazine since I began my bear making journey almost eleven years ago and I am thrilled beyond measure :)

I have a long way to go with my bear making, having not really worked at it full time until just this past year, I have much to learn before I feel I have truly mastered it....so many techniques I want to try & learn and SO many more bears to make before everything looks exactly how I want it to look. But this......this is a step along the way...a wonderful validation & one that I didn't expect to find happening for quite some time and I am so absolutely delighted.

~Thank you Teddy Bear & Friends Magazine~
Fondly, Doreen & Young W.P. :)

~And The Winner Is...................~

Sandra P from Texas. CONGRATULATIONS Sandra & thank you all so very much for participating.

I apologize for the quick post but we are headed out to a Pig Roast, Chicken BBQ & Silent Auction that is being held here in town, to raise funds to rebuild our local (and only) general store which was lost recently to fire. We couldn't have asked for a nicer day..it is sunny, in the 60's and absolutely GORGEOUS!

Thank you all again for participating in my Spring Giveaway. Many blessings & have a wonderful day :) Hugs, Doreen

~A Spring Frolic & Spring Giveaway~

Good afternoon. Tis a beautiful sunny afternoon here in Vermont. Mark is busy at the Sugar House boiling and I've been busy preparing my website for "A Spring Frolic" which is now OPEN & taking place on My Website. I hope that you will take a few moments & stop by.

A Spring Frolic is not the only thing taking place today...I am having A Spring Giveaway!!!

I would like to thank each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart for being such wonderful customers, friends & associates over the past few years. Your patronage, encouragement & friendship truly means the world to me and is what keeps this small business of mine going. As a small way of saying thank you I thought I would hold a Spring Giveaway

The lucky winner will receive two small bottles of our pure Vermont Maple Syrup...fresh from the evaporator and made just yesterday, a package of 10 Vermont Maple Beeswax Tarts, A large Blackened Beeswax Hare & four of my handmade postcards.

Simply leave me a message here saying you would like to be entered and I shall add your name into the hat. You may sign up for the Spring Giveaway until April 9th & a winner will be chosen & announced on April 10th.

~Again, Thank you all so very, very much for your continued support & friendship. Many blessings to each & every one of you. :)Doreen~