Thursday, March 24, 2011

Adding Greeting Cards

We're currently working on adding greeting cards which use our photography to our website! Starting with Birthday (age specific), it will grow to include holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. You can check them out here: http://www.scenicnewyorkstate.com/Greeting-Cards/

We're also drying more driftwood and will be working on adding unique individual pieces as well. And the weather decided it needed to prove me wrong by not only getting cold and snowing, BUT also sticking! SEVERAL inches as well! So, we aren't collecting any new pieces, but we still have more stocked to dry so we're patiently waiting out Mother Nature and Old Man Winter.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Driftwood back in stock!

After waiting for the ice volcanos to melt along the shores of the lakes, we've been busy collecting freshwater driftwood for your craft and hobby needs! Of course, this time of the year, it takes a lot longer to dry on our outdoor racks, and we're REALLY limited on indoor drying space, so it took about a week from when we brought the first batch home to when we made it live on the site ( http://www.scenicnewyorkstate.com/driftwoodmainpage/ ). We have a lot of really nice pieces qued up and drying right now too, the lakes outdid themselves this season. The weather can be somewhat unpredictable this time of the year, so we try to gather as much as possible as soon as it's warm enough because it might be snowing again any time (there were a few flakes in the air today). While it probably won't cover the ground again, it can certainly make it cold enough to make it really uncomfortable along the lakeshore with the winds blowing! Hopefully the sun will shine tomorrow and it will reach into the high 40s or 50s so we can collect even more beautiful pieces for you!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ok, so, long time no blog. Can you believe that that little farm is still in limbo land?! Of course, we still want it! But it's still probably impossible. Pretty soon we'll know if our test lavender from last year worked out anyway-just in case!

We've been busy here at Scenic New York! We've started our own website, and it can be found here at http://www.scenicnewyorkstate.com . Currently only our natural supplies are housed there, but it will grow to include our photography!

We were out this evening collecting our first batch of driftwood for the season and have it set up and drying already. It should be available for purchase soon. It was a bit chilly at 38 degrees! We decided to shoot a quick video to show how we collect the driftwood and added it to our youtube and will have it up on Scenic New York State soon too. We'll be doing that for all the supplies as we come to the right seasons. We think it's important for everyone to see that we really do collect everything by hand in reusable, ecofriendly totes.