Events
Come and enjoy the 12 Days of Christmas at ILERWOODS! Enjoy the beautiful products of their Artisans. Click the above link and see the excitement.
New Beginnings
Moving to the city made it easier for me to spend time with my family. They too love to make things, so last fall my cousin’s daughter hosted a Craft Show at her house and I met a lot of their friends that also create. It was a wonderful gathering. Then enters in “The Pandemic 
” we weren’t able to do the show that was scheduled in April. This new way of life makes you think of family and friends that you can’t be with and how you would love to work from home and safely spend more time with them. The world feels like we are living in the middle of an episode of “TheTwilight Zone”, our life as we know it has gone away and now we have to live in a world where we have to worry each day about the safety of our family and friends. Where just going shopping can affect your health. Yet I have hope for our future …
Rockhound Treasure Chest
In April 2016 I began preparing a historical building up at Robber’s Roost Ranch to be my shop.
I’d like to share a little about all the wonderful people I have met. It was here that I began my love of rocks. I never sell my rocks but I will give them away.
A young man named Otis from Brussels was on his way back to LAX to go home and all their bags were packed for the trip. Otis wanted to get a rock so I let him pick out of my polished rocks one that would fit in his pocket. After he left I heard him coming back in with a prized possesion. He carefully held a purple clay creation. Very seriously he looked at me and said this was for me but I had to be very careful because it was a puffer fish and very poisonous. I still have it in my display case.
I traded one of my necklaces with a young country singer Erica “Sunshine” Lee for her latest CD.
There was another young woman I met who had just come from “Burning Man”. She had some clay pendants her Aunt had made to hand out so we traded for for a stone she liked.
I have kept these special momemtums and more from my special friends I made at Robber’s Roost Ranch. For over three years I had the pleasure of meeting so many wonderful people and continuing my love for rocks and making jewelry.
I needed to move to the city in August 2019 and I still miss the life on the ranch.