The place it all comes from…
If you are here to find out about the contest, please see the entry previous to this one, on Feb. 5.
It really seems to me that everything I do comes from a love of fantasy. My love of the fantastic imaginary is why I am fascinated by exotic jewellery, which is of course why I was interested in trying to make it. I love finding jewellery that looks like it was lost by a fairy or a dryad, and because it is so hard to find, I had to consider making it myself.
Because of this, I think that you would work up a pretty good personality profile on me just by looking at my bookshelves. It being February, I am currently lusting after gardening books.
I grew up with entrepreneur parents and grandparents. My mother and father started their own nursery (greenhouse) when I was only 5, and by the time I was 10, my father was able to quit his job as an engineer at the hospital to work full-time on their business. It is now the greenhouse business with the largest selection in all of the Ottawa Valley, and still totally family-run.
Of course, having been raised ‘in the business’, for the longest time, I hated plants. There’s nothing like growing up having something as a daily chore to ruin your liking for it. Ask my best friend how much she’d like to run a restaurant 
(Her parents are restaurateurs.) It wasn’t until I moved out and got away from it all, then returned from the city to a place where I could have a substantial garden of my own that I suddenly realized that I was a dyed-in-the-wool gardener.
To be honest, some days it still comes as a surprise.
This entry may seem off-topic, being in a hair-and-body-jewellery-shop blog…but it’s not. My love of books and plants are what drive this entire operation, as well as inspire the designs. Today I plan to go to the bookstore and take a look at these books:
Who knows what ideas will come from my browsing? 
2 people have left comments
Karla commented on February 7, 2008, 7:36 pm:
Hi Krista~ Thanks for sending me a link to your contest…sounds like fun! I know this one doesnt qualify as an entry, but was glad to hear someone else ready for gardens, so wanted to say hello:-)
I just LOVE growing things, although I really am what I would call an “attention deficit” gardener…I do best with very hardy herbs (I do have thyme in my garden- its delightfully hard to kill)
Krista commented on February 7, 2008, 9:05 pm:
You’re very welcome, thanks for being interested in it. 
Haha! I was ready for the next growing season by the start of December. I can only take about a month ‘off’ before I’m ready to go again. I HATE the darkness of winter in eastern-central Ontario. Really, any part of Canada gets a woeful dearth of sunlight from October through March. 
I do NOT do well in the dark.
I haven’t grown many herbs except flowering perennial herbs like cimicifuga and solomon’s seal. But creeping thyme would be really nice in a lot of areas…
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