PopPop's Shop

Blessed Ostara! Happy Spring! This has been a long and cold winter. I'm really happy to see that it's finally ending!
We opened another section on our dovesart.etsy.com shop. It's titled PopPop's Shop. All of the items in the section were made by my Dad, whom the kids call PopPop. PopPop will be 74 years old in April. He retired about 10 years ago from his "real" job and now works full time in the hardware department at Walmart. Mom passed over a few years ago and Dad is alone now. Working at Walmart gives him something to do every day and I know that he's not sitting quietly in the house all by himself.
For as long as I can remember, PopPop has had a workshop. The workshop has been expanding slowly over the years, but it has always been there. PopPop loves to build things. He's made shelves for everyone, Blanket Chests, and anything anyone needed. I lived in one house that was rather small. I gave him the dimensions for the living room tables that would fit and he built them. I showed him a picture in a magazine of another table I wanted and he built that one too! Recently he built himself an Entertainment Center (he needed a new one to go with the new TV!) and he built himself a beautiful computer desk. He doesn't use the computer much, but he has one and it sits on the new desk. (Or some other excuse to build something!! LOL!)
PopPop will make whatever he's in the mood to make. The items in the PopPop's Shop section of dovesart.etsy.com, are those things that he was in the mood to make. Of course, he made 3 or 4 or more of some of things! I like to think of it as a way to encourage him to keep making the things that he likes and maybe make back a little of the money and time he's put into it. We haven't told him about the etsy shop yet... Maybe we'll wait until his first sale. All of the items on dovesart.etsy. com and on wildflowersorganics.etsy.com are also available in out brick and mortar store Mystik Dove.