All Over the World

We just shipped off a parcel filled with 10 'Message in a Bottle' favours to a bride-to-be in Martinsville, Indiana. Cheryl and I love the touching stories that we hear about how our customers plan to use our creations.  This particular customer plans to give out these bottles to everyone in her bridal party to write a note inside.  Then they will all throw their bottles into the sea.  What a great way to make memories on your special day!  I have asked her to send us a photo of this event and hopefully she will allow us to post it here as well.

One of the things I enjoy most about having a site on Etsy is the communication with our customers.  And it is a neat feeling knowing that our creations are in homes all over the world.  It makes our vast earth seem a little bit smaller.  After all, we really are all neighbours in one way or another. 

Micki of A2SeaCreations and A2SeaPhotography on Etsy

A Precious Time Capsule

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

When you decide to create something, you just never know the impact it might have on someone. I have always loved the romance behind the 'Message In A Bottle' concept... the fact that someone would write a heartfelt message meant for someone they love or someone they haven't even met, in hopes that someday, somewhere, someone would find it intact and read its precious contents.

We recently sold a Message in a Bottle to a mother of a young child. She explained that her plan was to give it to her young daughter with the intention of having her daughter open the bottle several years later to see the meaningful words her mother had written to her so many years before... a time capsule of sorts. What a wonderful idea!

Time is indeed a precious gift that is so easily taken for granted. We never know how long someone we love will be in our lives and, when that someone is gone, we remember vividly the last words we spoke to them, either with a smile on our lips or regret in our hearts. Whether we choose to express those words the way this mother did or whether we say them audibly, it is so important that we say them. While there is time...