Poetic Images

Hello Everybody! One of the many items we are creating are pieces we call 'Poetic Images'. These are a combination of our loves for photography and poetry. We will post more options as time goes by, but here is an initial sample using one of Rick's poems entitled 'Lifted' and a photograph of the Creede Valley from the South near Clear Creek Falls.

Prices:
-8" x 10" - $15.00
-11" x 14" - $20.00
-Larger or Custom - priced per project

*NOTE* Poor quality of online sample images is intentional to deter copying.

Custom Knitting Prices...

I am SO sorry that this has taken forever to get out to you!
IF I had done the item I will post a picture of it. IF I haven't done it...I will be doing it SOON So I will be putting a picture up as soon as it's done. :)
The yarn used is good quality 100% wool or alpaca or a blend of the two. All natural fibers UNLESS you want other wise just e-mail me and let me know.
Square Baby Hat -- $15.00Cable Hat -- $25.00The MAN Hat -- $20.00 (Custom team colors $30.00)
Button Flap Hat --$22.00Basic Hat --$20.00Latiss Hat -- $25.00Hat & Bootie Set for Babies --$30.00
Hat & Mitten (Thumbless) Set for Children & Babies -- $35.00
Hat & Mitten Set for Adults -- $40.00
For Flower attachment -- $5.00
For a color change (not in the yarn but a different color) -- $5.00 extra
I will be adding very soon...
Drop Down Scarf
Baby Blanket
Knitted Bag

Shipping costs:
Local to the Des Moines Area...FREE!
Depends on how much items we have to ship to you BUT.
$5.00 should roughly cover it. We will let you know if we have to do a different size and if the price will be higher.

**All prices pending cost of yarn. We will notify you of pricing change prior to finalization of purchase.**

Sorry it's been SO long...

Hey...sorry it's been so long. BUT I have been trying to figure out a price list for the handmade knitted items...Mainly hats!
So please understand that as though I am trying to make a great deal for YOU...I am also trying to make some sort of income for my family. HEY we now have 5 followers...PLEASE pass it on we would love to do a giveaway SOON!

GIVEAWAY! YEAH!!!

We have some followers!!!

We are so excited! Seeing that I am making a post directly involved with following this blog...
SO we are going to be doing our very first giveaway! I know, I know it's hard to tell what we have when we haven't posted any pictures or details about the items. But we are going to let YOU the winner choose 1 of 2 different items. You could win a Custom knitted hat - for any size person (baby, child, adult) I think I will do the basic but let you choose the color, if you want flowers, pom-pom, tassel or ribbon on it. OR you could win a Poetic Image...custom or one that we will post.
The deal is we have to have 50 followers before we do our giveaway. IF you refer someone make sure they leave a comment on THIS post. You ask why...that means that you get your name into the hat for EVERYONE you refer!

So here is a recap...

~WE need 50 followers before we do the giveaway.
~If you are a follower you get an entry for the giveaway. If your not a follower BECOME one.
~If you refer someone and THEY remember to post a comment YOU get an extra entry.
~If you make a purchase BEFORE hand then YOU get an extra entry. (Of course you will take notice that you see nothing up YET...but don't worry day by day something will get added or if you have something in mind that you would like we might be able to work it out...just e-mail and we shall see)
Hopefully this makes sense...sorry we cannot ship internationally at this moment but if you reside in the United States of America then we will.

True Beauty - by Rick Rapp

True Beauty
© 2006 by Rick Rapp

I hear her say acceptable things
about herself, at least things the world
in all its stereotypical ways finds
acceptable to say about yourself as a
young woman...but when I look
deeper I see the happiness she feels
with herself, her current self, the
beautiful and intelligent woman that
she knows she is, yet pressured
deeply by the world to conform
to standards outside of God’s definition.
Why do we do this to her? She is
amazing! She knows it! But we
do not let her express it, live it.
Be free young woman!
Be the beauty, the strength that you are!

Young Woman Seeking - by Rick Rapp

Young Woman Seeking

© 2006 Rick Rapp

A young woman walks along
a path through meadows and
trees speaking to her in images
and voices that are her life,
her friends, her loved ones.

Onward she walks towards independence
that is not so independent from the God
who guides her, nor the love for
and from the man who is waiting
around a bend not too far ahead.

Despite her hope, her confident pace,
one notices in her a longing for
a certain companion who is familiar
with this path so unfamiliar to her,
this path wide enough for two.

For as this young woman presses on
towards a faithful, spiritual, and romantic
future...husband...home...and children
she longs for her mother to be
by her side, loving her, listening to her.

She longs for the intimacy of a mother
who recognizes the woman her daughter
has become, and cherishes the time
spent together in friendship unique
to the mother and daughter bond.

The young woman prays as she walks
and the familiar voices around her
echo her words...”Oh Father, please
give this woman the mother she needs,
and the patience for your will, your time!”

And tears of frustration give way to those
of peace as a God-given smile crosses
her face...

Haight & Ashbury Revisited - by Rick Rapp

Haight and Ashbury Revisited

© 2005 Rick Rapp

Riding the 7 to Haight and Ashbury
with lost and silent souls,
neglecting themselves, neglecting their
desperate search for themselves
in the multi-faceted reflections
of their crystals and cannibas dreams.

Ozfest and earth energy are
sterile topics of a one-sided discussion
from a lost sheep to one that’s been
devoured by conceptual wolves time and again,
and bleeds indifferent confusion
into the storm drains of Haight and Ashbury.

A revolution was born here
that indeed changed the world
yet, here too it dies behind
the listless faces that smile
without joy. Ideals of inabsolute
truth crushed by separation from
the absolute truth of Love...
the Love that formed truth.