Treasury Tuesday

Treasuries are a great way to check out many of our items at once. See our January treasuries thread on Etsy to view more.

'Valley Finds' by mystichintime

100% Hudson Valley Etsy Team

bear portrait no. 8 // ... mimiandlu $15.00	Coconut Lime Soap Handm... ComfortandJoy... $6.00	Pretty Ribbons in Pink,... wickedmint $18.00	Earth Tone Crochet Bask... GetTangled $34.00
Original Art Pendant of... EntropicGrace $40.00	STRAW Hand Dyed Yarn Me... spinningmulef... $28.00	Necklace Minimalist Col... LaurenRoseJew... $29.00	sage green and white wo... beaconknits $33.00
Small Zipper Pouch Sma... handjstarcrea... $10.00	Green Pearl Coat Dangle... pulpsushi $18.00	Earth Tone Beaded Hoop ... TinksTreasure $22.00	Chartreuse and Purple S... anjalicreatio... $15.95
Gourmet Garlic Powder, ... RockerboxGarl... $18.00	Personalized French Art... MilestoneDeca... $36.00	Pocket elder futhark r... amberhlynn $18.00	Green Jewel Felted Purs... Virtuosity $49.00

Treasury tool by StylishHome.

'Winter Toastiness' by SweetPeasGroceries

This treasury is dedicated to all of the Hudson Valley artists who make us warm every winter. Thank you!

Bulky Cowl in Fiery Red... HuzzahHandmad... $58.00	Scarf Knitting Pattern ... AtelierTPK $6.50	WINTER BERRY Hand Dyed ... spinningmulef... $23.00	Finger Free Mitts - Fin... theKnitChix $30.00
Ear Flap Hat and Leg Wa... MyStitchInTim... $28.00	Barefoot Running Socks ... MollysPurl $75.00	hand knit black and whi... beaconknits $36.00	Leg Warmers - Women&#39... MyStitchInTim... $24.00
Scarlet Flower Headband Virtuosity $24.00	meerwiibli red leia flu... meerwiibli $48.00	SALE 80's Ski Vest ... YesterdaysSil... $53.10	meerwiibli red fluffy b... meerwiibli $58.00
Sample SALE - Ombre Kni... ElenaRosenber... $30.00	SALE Vintage Hat by Ade... YesterdaysSil... $32.40	hand knit black and whi... beaconknits $34.00	Dog Coat in Felted Wool... HuzzahHandmad... $45.00

Treasury tool by StylishHome.

'Milk and Cookies' by ThePudgyRabbit

chocolate chip cookie p... amberhlynn $8.00	Presidential Drinking G... 1canoe2 $48.00	Linen Cotton Tea Towel ... wickedmint $18.00	Small Pouch Small Wall... handjstarcrea... $8.50
Fused Glass Serving Pla... GetGlassy $50.00	bear portrait no. 4 // ... mimiandlu $15.00	Plush Cookie Coin Purse... scrumptiousde... $22.50	City of Love Map Globe ... SugarLaneBake... $36.20
a Chocolate Chip Lampwo... aStudiobytheS... $30.00	Little Sky Blue Footed ... LandMstudio $25.00	Sunflower Power Gourmet... BeccaBakes $8.50	Green coffee cup cozy w... thecozyprojec... $16.00
Pottery espresso cups a... LittleWrenPot... $15.00	Last Piece- Chocolate C... DIVINEsweetne... $29.00	Mix Match Batch-O-Cooki... milkfly $36.00	Cookie Earrings on Bras... PetitPlat $20.00

Treasury tool by StylishHome.

Creating Success from the Inside Out - Developing Success Habits

This being the beginning of a new year and a time when we usually resolve to improve ourselves and our lives in some way, I think it’s a good time to put the spotlight on habits.  Whether you realize it or not, habits make your world go round.  From the way you brush your teeth to the time that you eat breakfast each morning you have a way of moving through the world that is both routine and automatic.  Imagine if you developed some new habits that have the power to propel you further in life and/or your business – habits that promote your success.  How great would that be?

Greeting Card from Wishbone Letterpress

Yet another principle in Jack Canfield’s Success Principles book offers suggestions for implementing new habits of success.  Come up with four new habits that you would like to adopt this year.  To generate this list, you may want to write a list of your bad or unproductive habits first and from there develop your new “success habits”, as Canfield refers to them.

Here are some unproductive habits that came to mind to get your juices flowing:

·         TV channel surfing

·         Reading the whole internet in one sitting

·         Going to bed late/not getting the sleep you need to function properly

·         Procrastinating

·         Blending work time with family time

·         Avoiding the things you don’t like to do

·         Starting a project and not finishing it

·         Arriving late for appointments/meetings

·         Not returning calls/emails in a timely manner

When you have created your own list of those habits that hold you back from being/doing your best, use it to generate a list of four success habits.  Don’t worry about adopting them all at once.  As we all know, it takes a lot of effort to create new habits and rid our lives of pesky bad ones.  From your list of four habits, pinpoint one that you would like to focus on for the first 13 weeks of the year.  Once you have adopted that habit, you can move to the second and so on. 

That’s the easy part…

How will you ensure that you stick with it for the time it takes for a new way of doing/being to become a habit?  If you spend too much time TV channel surfing, maybe you can set an alarm for yourself so that your TV time is limited.  If you avoid the things you don’t like to do, perhaps each evening you can write a checklist of the three most important tasks you need to accomplish the next day.  Then, do those three most important things first and don’t do anything else until those tasks are done.  These are just suggestions to help you get the idea of what type of action plan you must put in place for yourself for the habit that you are trying to develop to ensure successful adoption.

Points Tracker Bracelet from Tinks Treasure

Here are my success habits that I am going to try to develop, in the order in which I plan to adopt them:

1.       Drink 8 glasses of water a day

2.       Take my vitamins EVERY DAY

3.       Spend 5 minutes every morning acknowledging all that I have to be grateful for

4.       Spend 5 minutes each evening visualizing my business goal and experiencing the feelings of it already coming to fruition

To tackle that first one, I plan to put sticky notes everywhere to remind me to drink my water, get my husband to text me to remind me to drink my water, and put it into my calendar. 

What are your success habits and how do you plan to follow through to adoption?

Good luck!

Signposts and Guides for the Creative Life

We are surrounded by signposts and guides for the creative life.   Beside the sampling of quotes from well known people that I've been sharing over the past six months, you will be aware of the limitless resources in your own circle - family, nature, friends, books, movies, music.  Sometimes it's a good idea to explore beyond your circles, too - to really get a sense of the abundance that is out there.  We will each gravitate to certain kinds of messages and messengers, and trying new things will help you learn what it is that you find most helpful.

We spent New Year's eve with friends, talking, eating, singing, playing old folk songs.  But on New Year's Day we attended a wonderful concert in Kingston organized by Amy McTear:  the 2013 New Year's Day Community Harmonic Choir.  The space was beautiful, the participants dressed in white adding to the ethereal atmosphere.  It was a very different concert experience for us, with gong, drums, guitars, flute, digeridoo, singing bowls, and gorgeous haunting chant.  The audience was invited to join in whenever they felt comfortable doing so.  There was a pattern to the evening related to the breath: focus on exhaling to release sorrow, pain, waiting in stillness, then building to a celebration with focus on inhalation.   It was a moving way to start the new year.   Rather than making resolutions, I liked her emphasis on setting intentions regarding who you want to be in the new year.

Here is a quote from her Life Creed that she recited at one point:  "My inner lover knows I am on a holy mission, a grand treasure hunt of finding out through what I love, what I have come to offer."


As you create yourself  in this new year, may you be alert to the clues offered by your passions, may these guide you in your journey.

Tuesday Treasury: Happy New Year!