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Celebrating a Terrific Year of Homey Blue Heron: Happy Birthday!

A large painting of a Great White Heron with blue water in the background. It is displayed on a white fireplace hearth with walking sticks and large houseplants.
A close-up view of a painting of a Great White Heron with blue water in the background.

Recently I seem to have shorebirds on my mind… a lot!  In fact, I’ve had shorebirds on my mind for the past couple of weeks! I found a giant painting on an online auction site of a Great White Heron. It’s not a blue heron, I know, but it’s pretty close… and I LOVE IT! I also purchased some fabulous bird books with some beautiful Audubon illustrations of shore birds as well. And then, it just dawned on me… the blog is coming up on its first birthday! WOW, has it been a whole year? So join us in celebrating a terrific year of Homey Blue Heron! Hip Hip Hooray!

A beautiful Audubon book by John James: The Birds of America. The cover of the book is a watercolor painting of a white egret.

new blog

This year has flown by and I CANNOT believe that it’s already March!  And it was just one short year ago that Homey Blue Heron blog was hatched! My husband and I had been toying with the idea of starting a blog for some time but it always seemed to get swept under the rug. It’s one thing to come up with this concept, but it’s a whole other thing to actually bring it to life! We had no idea what we were getting into. Oh, I’ll be honest I was definitely NOT computer savvy, not even close… I wasn’t even on any social media! So the moment we started to create the blog my whole world changed!

A sketch of simplified sketch of a Great Blue Heron as a logo for the blog Homey Blue Heron along with drawing pencils.

New endeavor

Homey Blue Heron has melded into quite an endeavor indeed… complete with my own business cards! Who knew that not only would we be blogging a weekly post, but would be starting our own eBay shop selling vintage fun finds, as well as becoming vintage vendors in a gigantic antique mall! I now have my own Instagram with over 5,500 followers and have almost one million views on Pinterest! I am incredibly thankful and excited about where this journey has taken me! It’s allowed me to be creative and share my love for all things artsy and vintage with YOU!

A vintage blue planter with a yellow flower in the front holding Homey Blue Heron business cards. The buisness cards are pastel floral on one side and blue with a heron on the other.

New merchandise

I am extremely grateful for the Homey Blue Heron blog along with ALL of YOU! And because of that, I wanted to celebrate by providing some new giveaways to our subscribers. So, with the help of my wonderful and talented son-in-law, who was able to transform my heron logo, we now have some special blog merchandise. So, starting in March, I will be randomly picking subscribers and sending them either our newly-created Homey Blue Heron earrings (what??? Yes, that’s right!!) or a Homey Blue Heron sketchbook that you can use to capture your inspirational sketches, thoughts, and ideas!

The view of the top of a desk showing a postcard of trees, a ceramic sail boat and two pairs of heron earrings by Timberside Studios.
A blue sketchbook with the Homey Blue Heron logo on it and a stylized sketch of a Great Blue Heron. The sketchbook and sketch are sitting on a desk with a wood tray and a ceramic pot as well as a blue bowl with floral buisness cards.

New year

So stay tuned… this year is surely going to be FUN as we plan to add some more features to the blog and have more giveaways! So, Happy Birthday HBH! Let’s put on our party hats! Let’s celebrate with Mr. Blue! And, let’s get HOMEY!!

A vintagw watercolor painting of two Great Blue Herons on the shoreline found at an antique store.
A Great Blue Heron standing on a green backyard shed in the suburbs.

(Here’s Mr. Blue hanging out on my shed, spying on my neighbor’s coy pond, looking for dinner! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!)

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