An Update and Our New Gold Jewels

I can't believe it's the end of August already. It's been a crazy few weeks! We are officially leaving for Africa in seven days which is incredibly exciting and a little stressful at the same time. We put the banner on the website at the beginning of the month letting people know we'd be closed for most of September and were then very happily slammed with orders. We'll be spending the bulk of this week finishing those up, and then trying to figure out how to pack four weeks worth of clothing (and shoes) into a backpack.

I also went in for another round of scans a couple of weeks ago and got results last Tuesday. It looks like the bulk of the nodes they've been following are stable or shrinking. However, I do have one in my breast which is appearing somewhat larger. We think it may have been swollen when the scan was given due to me injuring it somehow, so my doctor is hesitant to count it in the overall results. Hopefully that's the case. In the end I was told to go on vacation and come back in for more tests in 7 weeks. It's tough going through this every couple of months because of course we just want to hear, "the treatment has worked!" That said, we're really, really grateful to be getting the results we are.

So... on to wedding related stuff. I just found a new jewelry line which I'm in love with. We're going to begin carrying it as soon as we reopen in October. All of the items are hand crafted using 24k gold, pink gold and freshwater pearls. Here is a preview...