Two Squirrels News

It's about time Vanessa and Warren had some good news. They've stayed strong and smiling in the face of losing both their wonderful vintage stores to the ravages of the Christchurch earthquakes, as well as the carefully collected and curated (and irreplaceable) stock within. We have all felt so helpless - how can you fight against something like this? But now there is some good news at last! Vanessa announced on the Two Squirrels Blog that they have a new location for their vintage premises (exact location still secret!) and hope to open in November. Hooray! This is so exciting, and such a wonderful development in what has been a very sad story - a story filled with courage and spirit, but sad nevertheless.



Vanessa and Warren have been salvaging what they can from the damaged shops.




The stock they have managed to save is damaged and covered in a thick film of dirt.



These two squirrels have been so brave.


Vanessa sent me this little bluebird brooch for my birthday (which is on Monday). It made me think of her journey over the past few months, and the way she rises above all the hard times and stays joyful and optimistic, as she always has been.

Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

- Emily Dickinson