Sugar Daddy likes to say- you can take the girl out of Utah, but you can't take the Utah out of the girl.
We took a picnic up to North Fork Canyon. This is the place I learned to cross country ski when I was a child. This is where I went to Girl's Camp and learned how cruel girls can be to each other. This is land that my father knows like the back of his hand. Today, I took my son there and stood at the waterfall and watched him cry big crocodile tears because we wouldn't let him scale the rock wall. It seems he got a healthy dose of the Campbell gene for outdoor adventure.
I find my western roots are peculating to the surface of my life. I love that there are so many country western stations here. I love that just up the street from my parents house the Barker family still runs a small dairy farm. Although my home town has grown and is no longer the "Mayberry" I once knew, it still has a small town feel. People still smile and wave from their pastures as you drive by.
The Skipping Stone necklace was one of the first things I listed on Etsy. I have sold every one I have listed. I picked up a few stones on our little hike tonight. I can't wait to get home to my work bench to make them into jewelry.
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Hold on there . . . are you an Aussie or a Utahn?
And if you are talking about the North Fork of American Fork Canyon--above Tibble Fork Reservoir--then you were just close enough that you could have tossed those stones and hit my house. (Our girls camped there just two weeks ago.)
Your work is truly beautiful!!! I was just about to buy that ruby necklace in etsy until I realised it was gold rather than silver!! I will definitely be keeping an eye on your etsy store as original jewelry of quality is so hard to find - LOVE these stone necklaces!!!
Your work is truly beautiful!!! I was just about to buy that ruby necklace in etsy until I realised it was gold rather than silver!! I will definitely be keeping an eye on your etsy store as original jewelry of quality is so hard to find - LOVE these stone necklaces!!!
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