An Exciting Announcement!

First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage…We are so happy to announce that our lovely daughter Haylee and her husband Christopher are expecting a baby on March 18th 2014!!

“Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord;

and the fruit of the womb is His reward.”

Psalm 127:3

Vera Bradley

The new Vera Bradley area in the new store location. We also have a few new prints and styles in!

The new prints are… Cocoa Moss Lolaand Heather! This is our current display of the Heather print, its such a nice happy print!

We are enjoying being able to still work with the Vera Bradley products and all the wonderful customers that come in looking for the special find!

New Store Front Location

Gladheart Acres, Cranberry Cottage, Home Again Decor, and Alaska Chicks are now all under one roof with the name Boardwalk Home & Gift Shop @ 701 E. Parks Hwy Wasilla, AK 99654.

We are enjoying getting to know the other business ladies, all the wonderful new customers, and the location!

Here are a few pictures of our space….

Some of our products…

The Baby Room…

We are so pleased with the way the new store is working out so smoothly! And our new ‘Boardwalk Home and Gift’ sign is now on its way to being complete!

We hope you can come by and see us sometime, the shop hours are Monday-Saturday 10am-6pm

We’d love to see you sometime!

Back to Blogging!

To all past, present, or future blogging friends, I do apologize for my absence for the last several months. I can hardly believe its been so long! I have wanted to keep the blog going, but it has been difficult to keep busy with our business, being a mama of 8, working our shop, etc!

Our winter show season did indeed begin in November and we had two busy months of Craft bazaar season. Also in December our beautiful daughter Haylee married a wonderful young man Christopher and they are now living their happily ever after :) ! In January our daughter Harmony moved to Juneau Alaska for the legislative sessioin and is now living in Eagle River. Our little grandson Nathan is growing up fast and will already be a year old in August!

After breaking weather records for the latest snowfall on May 18th, we are now broken records for the hottest summer weather. We have enjoyed a quite unusual Alaska Summer with the temperatures in the high 70’s-80’s and our beautiful sunshine is continuing late into July, with not many days of rain!

As of June 1st our store location has moved, which I will share more on in another post! We are now in with 3 other businesses and share square footage and days to work, right now our day is Wednesdays. I hope to be able to be back at blogging and create posts here at the shop!

I am very pleased to see the blog to life again and hope we can keep up with it a little better (especially now that dear daughter Hannah has offered to help me with the blog :) )!

Hope you all take a moment today to have a glad heart :)

Make It Alaskan Festival Postponed…

Due to an emergency repair to the Sullivan Arena the Annual Make it Alaskan Festival that was to take place this weekend (Oct. 5th, 6th, & 7th)  has been postponed until November 2nd, 3rd & 4th when it will be held at the Sullivan Arena once again.

We hope to see all of you then!

First Snow of the Season

We woke up the other day to a blanket of white outside our windows!

By mid-afternoon it had all melted, but gave us all a friendly reminder that winter is just around the corner!

There remains only a few leaves on the lower bushes and the trees are empty, awaiting their long and heavy winter load.

Pictures of Fall at the Shop

Our Limited Edition Serendipity Soap!

Our Upstairs nook is now open!