Guess What....garden bounty?

My new shopping cart is working well for the website.  Very happy to have new traffic and from so many different places.  Visitors from over 25 countries and the majority from about 10 different countries. Surprised to see visitors from so many countries. 

and drum roll please......

The long wait is over.  My Vegetable garden has produced the first ripe tomatoes.  I harvested them this morning. these are the first two cherry tomatoes form the 2015 garden.  Behind them are kale and leaf lettuce, all going into a great salad for dinner tonight.    Prior years tomatoes were ripe by about the 10th or 12th of July.

This second pic shows the greens better.  I enjoy gardening.  Wish my father and his Mom were here to show them what I have in my yard.  Many thanks to both of them;  my love of tools and growing things is due to they love and teaching me when I was younger.

This is Genny From Charlotte, a stunning Sterling silver pendant. I collected the beach glass myself in Charlotte on Lake Ontario. To see this & many more of my creations, website link is below.

Have a happy summer day.

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                   Cabochons and Supplies

 
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New Shopping and Site Improvements

The Panda Wear website has just been updated.  We recently added a shopping cart to make the customer experience more enjoyable.  Fell free to to take a look around and let me know if you like it.  I was surprised it took about 2.5 months from start to finish to add the shopping cart.  It only went live after extensive testing.  Link at the bottom of this post. 

Here is one new section for gifts for the stone lover in you life.  It features gem trees and polished geodes.

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I am working on more gifts for the men besides there items.  looked at belt buckles but did not like my choices for setting.  working on tie chains and rings.  I have a few unisex necklaces. 
always happy to make a custom piece for the special person in your life.   

The jewelry designers will like the Cabochons section.  Also great for the bead embroidery people.  Many of my stone are natural on the back which makes it much easier to glue them for bead embroidery.  The stone at the left is turtilla agate.

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New items are being added daily to all areas of the site.   There are several hundred to be added.  if there was a fast and easy way to snap my fingers and have in all done in a day I would go that route.  

Working on some new earring designs and a few rings and pendants.  my next show is local in the city of Rochester, NY. The Festival is August 16th.   It is the annual Susan  B. Anthony festival. this year we celebrate the 95th anniversary of the 19th Amendment! It is always fun way to spend the day.  I admire Ms.Anthony and all she accomplished for women.  More details closer to the event. 

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Hello Summer

Water lilies in my Pond

Well it is beginning of summer here in Rochester, NY.  Spring is over and it was a wild season. It started super dry and ended extremely wet with flooding in many counties in my area.  Hoping for summer to be more average and better conditions for all to enjoy the season.

My tomatoes are all flowering and I am waiting patiently for the cherry tomatoes.  they seem to be the early ones in my garden.  starting new lettuce seed this week.  regular planting keeps me in fresh lettuce until the late fall. 

Excited about the fresh raspberries this year.  It was a long winter and recovery for me.  Happy to say my last PT session was a week ago.  I am closer to 100% -  just need to build up my stamina or endurance.  Swimming for 40 minutes and still continuing  to trim and tone with my new diet.  Eating healthy is working great.  Not one of those fads, either.   I still have not taking any allergy medicine this year.  The first time in many years without the pills and the stupor that follows.

Today's raspberry harvest is shown at the left.    Happy for the garden to give me a a great harvest and something I work on every day.  Right after my second surgery, crutches and I would go out to look at the garden.

Another pic below to give proportion of the amount of beans, snow peas and berries.  still harvesting cooking greens and lettuce like crazy. 

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May the sun shine on your garden today.