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Here’s the story of how Moonvine’s owner Pama and I became friends. 15 years ago, My sister and I were walking around Easton, Maryland one day and she spotted a funky little shop across the street. It was between the ice cream parlor and the coffee shop on Goldsborough Street. And she insisted we go…
Who knows how and when I fell upon Samantha Dunne’s blog Dunne With Style. I followed a paper trail most likely because she, like myself, plays with paper which she parlayed into a business offering gift wrapping packages for sale called “wrap it up”. And what blossomed from that was an opportunity Samantha saw to…
This past year,when I’m creatively stuck, and need to feel the gratitude of the gift of the greater than me world, I’ve gone to the craft room and made cards to give away. I started this movement last Fall. This year, people’s gift exchanges put me in the gifting mode. I’d ask people to give…
If it’s Black Friday, shopping locally is on my mind. Happily, my gal Pama’s shop Moonvine will be open for her second Christmas season on Harrison Street in Easton, Maryland across from the Tidewater Inn. And like last year, I plan to do some of my Christmas shopping here. While visiting and gathering decorations for…
I wonder how it is possible that people all over the world can really know themselves and their talents well enough to do work that satisfies them. And also ask for the right payment. I wonder how people are making such an impact knowing their gifts and sharing them to help the world, themselves, and…
In 2004, this was the house that I rented to build the business that I named Bally Eden. Before I moved in, it was an insurance agency. The walls were wood-paneled and the floors had carpet glued to them. I completely renovated the space and it went from scary to very very lovely. This was…
Do you remember the movie Out of Africa? “I had a farm in Africa”, Meryl Streep’s voice says somberly at the very beginning in that foreboding way that you know she no longer does and you’ll find out why… …I had a shop in Denton. I named it Bally Eden. Baillie is Gaelic for ‘at…
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