Yep, and we always have been, even before it became a huge “Buzz Word”.

Besides the fact that over 90% of our items are made by Local Artisans, which reduces our “Carbon Footprint” from long distance shipping, it also contributes to our (here comes another buzz word) Local Economy.  When you purchase one of our artisan pieces, be it Hand Thrown Pottery by Karin Seelen from Palmerston,

or a stunning piece of jewelry by one of our many jewelry artisans, your money stays local.

Spring Bling

Another way that we have always been GREEN is our own line of Candles & Bath & Body Products

Our Candles are exclusively made with 100% Soy Wax, a renewable resource that is made from soy beans to keep our farmers happy and it doesn’t contribute to the big oil companies ever expanding profits.

Hand Poured, highly scented, eco-friendly candles

Not only are our Soy Wax Candles Green but they are a healthier choice over traditional paraffin candles.  Soy wax burns cooler, longer, and has a better hot and cold scent throw with 95% less soot!

Our Soaps are made with all vegetable based skin loving oils such as Coconut oil, Shea Butter and Palm oil.  For face and body, your skin will feel soft and smooth, not tight and dry.

Yummy bakery fresh scented Vanilla Goat's Milk Soap. You skin will love you.

Our soaps DO NOT contain Parabens, Petro-Chemicals, Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) or Sodium Lauryl Sulfoacetate (SLSE).

Our latest step in being GREEN is our new hand made recycled newspaper bags to take your purchases home in, and you can reuse it as a Gift Bag!!

Made from our local newspapers, these bags are a unique way to recycle, reduce and reuse!

So, there you have it Sherry’s on Main is Green.  Bet you didn’t know that!!!

Yep, it’s been quite a while since I’ve put up a new post.  I think I was in a bit of a funk with the construction, but that is no excuse now.  The construction is done and over with, the traffic has picked up (not that they are stopping, but at least they can drive through town now) and summer has finally arrived.

So, I’m gonna lump all of my excuses into one big list and get the whining over with.

1)  June and July were cold, damp and nobody could get to my store, not even me some days, so I really didn’t have much to say other than complain, so I just shut up.

2)  On the first day of my husbands vacation, he wakes up with a cold.  Then he give it to me (he’s so generous sometimes).  The cold doesn’t go away.  Now, my husband is a nurse and he has to go back to work at the nursing home.  He’s getting worried about this cold that’s not getting better and doesn’t want to take pneumonia or H1N1 into the home.  We go to the respiratory clinic.  We get antibiotics, but we aren’t told what it is we actually have.  I actually felt worse on the drugs than before I started them.   We are all better now:)

3)  This is my last excuse… As of August 12, my husband and I quit smoking.  I really thought I was supposed to struggle with quitting, since that is all you see and here about.  People getting into fights, not knowing what to do with themselves because they are craving nicotine, blah, blah, blah.  Well, bot my husband and I have found it fairly effortless to give it up.  We don’t have terrible cravings for nicotine, what we are missing is the habit.  Like, after supper we go out on the deck and have a cigarette, now we go out and chew a piece of gum.  Or after I’ve been on the computer for a while, I pop outside for a smoke.  Well now I just pop outside and stand where I used to when I had a cigarette.  I know it’s only been a week and a couple of days, but I didn’t even want to quit.  We just said lets give it a shot and so far so good.

Well, I guess that’s it

Sherry

Well, today they are putting in the curbs.  They could have done it yesterday, but no, it was much too nice out for the construction guys to work.  So, once again, when we were told that the curbs were going to be put in on Monday , it didn’t happen until Tuesday!!  They have just pasted my store front  and are working their way up the street.  I guess I shouldn’t complain too much at least they are being done.  But, wouldn’t you know it, it was a beautiful day yesterday, today it is cold and windy and you can feel the dampness coming in and then of course, it is supposed to rain and thunder storm tomorrow.  So if everything goes to form, that means there will be no work done tomorrow either.  

I’m just sooooo sick of this construction.  It seems that the longer it goes the more our customers are getting frustrated (and I can’t blame them) and we see fewer and fewer people each day.  We still have a month of construction to go too… if they are on schedule.

Until next time,

Sherry

 

Well, I’ve redone my window again, this time for Mother’s Day.

 

Mother's Day Window Display

Here is a close up of the shelf.  I think it looks kinda elegant in white and black with a little silver sparkle.

 

Mother's Day window close up

This is just a small selection of the things that Mom might like.  Whether it’s a nice piece of jewelry or something for the garden, whatever you get her, you know she will love it because it came from you.

So be sure to remember mom… she’s the only one you will have

Until next time,

Sherry

I do.  I just added a twitterfeed and if I did it properly, there should be updates on my twitter when I do updates here.  Hopefully it works cause I’m not really that good at updating my tweets.  Hey at least I’ve got the lingo down:)

Well, that’s all I’ve got to say about that.

L8R

I’m just in the middle of pricing some fantastic new Chainmaille Jewelry that I got in today.  Beautiful work done in Anodized Aluminum, Copper and even a few pieces in Fine Silver.   Over the next couple of days I’ll be taking picture to place here and on my website.  Once the pictures are done and I get my artisan’s bio, there will be a new blog post with pics.

Stay Tuned for a new Featured Artisan Post

Until next time,

Sherry

I was bored today because of the construction.  I really should have done some paperwork, well I guess in a way I did.  I made these cute little Gift Boxes for when I sell a piece of my jewelry!!! 

It helped to stave off the boredom for a while.  I guess now I’ll get some real paperwork done.  But I don’t wanna.

I redid my small window display today and thought I’d give you all a peek.  

Spring Bling

We have the perfect accessory to add to that fabulous new outfit.  Whether it’s a little something for every day wear, or all out sparkle for a nigh on the town!  Check out our all new collection of Swarovski Crystal watches, some beautiful sparkly necklaces, hand beaded bracelets, necklaces & earrings and wire wrapped pendants.

If you would like to see what else is available, or have some close up views of the pieces seen here, just e-mail me and I’ll get right back to you.  The prices range from $12.99 to $39.99

Well, I woke up to about 3 inches of snow this morning. Thought about not coming into the store because the construction has (allegedly) started also. It’s about 12:30 now and the snow has just stopped, but then again so has the construction (destruction). I haven’t seen a soul walk by the window. 

I said that the construction has allegedly started because they were supposed to do the work starting on Monday March 30th. Well that didn’t happen. We had a beautiful day and nobody showed up to start the work. Tuesday comes and when they finally get their butts in gear, they can’t get the big claw machine to work, so they are putzing around with it and no work gets started until late afternoon. Wednesday and Thursday they actually did some work, then Friday… nope nada. Now we were told that there would be a walkway put across the street so that the customers could get to us on the side of the street were there in NO parking. That didn’t happen either. All we have is a big mud hole that we call Main Street. 

Well, here we are now on Monday, granted it did snow, but I’ve seen construction happen in snow before. No construction crew. It’s supposed to snow all week, so does that mean that we won’t get any work done at all??? If so that also means we won’t get our walkway either for next weekend. 

I think I’m in the wrong business. I should have been a construction worker… at least in our town… short work weeks, if it rains, no work, if it snows, no work, I wonder what will happen when the sun comes out  

Well, I guess that’s my rant for the day.

Well, it was raining on Friday.  I guess our construction guys are made of sugar and didn’t want to melt.  Nobody showed up to do any work.  Now as far as I see it, since they didn’t start work on Monday like they were supposed to, they didn’t start any work on Tuesday until the afternoon and they took Friday off, we are now in the first week 2 1/2 days behind schedule.  And if that wasn’t enough, we (the store owners) were told that there would be a walkway put in from one side of the street to the other, so our customers could get across to and from the only parking available.  That didn’t happen either.  All we have now is a large mud hole to look at.  

The weather outlook for next week isn’t all that great, we got snow on Friday night, and they are calling for more snow on Monday and in through the rest of the week.  Keep your fingers crossed for us that its not going too be to bad.  We need to get this construction finished ASAP.

Until next time,

Sherry