A future home for JaJeJems!

Well here is the new future home of JaJeJems, the former Child's convenience store in York Harbour Newfoundland!  We have recently made the purchase and are taking the leap into a new commercial adventure on the beautiful island of Newfoundland, Canada.

As some of you may know we have had a cottage for several years in a little village on the west coast of Newfoundland called Lark Harbour.  Here is the cottage - check out the view across the harbour!

It is here that we first discovered sea glass and started collecting it along the beaches near our cottage. Our daughter Jessica moved to New Brunswick in 2011 and she also started collecting seas glass and actually taught herself how to wire wrap it to make lovely pendants.  Now it has become the inspiration for most of our jewellery pieces.  Both Jessica and I make the jewellery which we sell from our own website and from our online store on iCraftgifts.

By the Sea

Adam's Apple

Today, my husband Roy and our business partner Blake are in Lark Harbour staying at the cottage and having a closer look at the store in York Harbour which is just a five minute drive away.  The new business will be called "The Roost" and will become the  brick and mortar home for JaJeJems.  In addition to selling our jewellery we hope to have a small cafe, a gallery and a fully functioning lampwork studio where I can pursue my other passion, making glass beads and hopefully teaching bead making.

My plan is to update this blog weekly, if I can, to let everyone know our progress.  There is a lot to do to get ourselves moved to Newfoundland from our home in Ontario and get the business up and running so we are optimistically looking a the summer of 2014 but more about that in another post.  Until next post and lots more news from JaJeJems!