Welcome

Saturday, May 30, 2009 Posted In Edit This 0 Comments »
Hi and welcome to my very first post.

Up until February 2008, I worked for a Corporate Bank located in Portland, Oregon. Twenty Years of employment with the same Bank, and they decide to close it's office and relocate to Houston Texas. So after 20 years, I found myself with out a job.
So what do I do now? I have always had a passion for ceramics, and did a lot of it as a hobbyist only. So with no job and a new found desire to operate my own business, I launched Ceramic Parties to Go in May 2008.


It has been a learning experience, and is slow going, but I am looking to a bright and happy future. My husband and I are also working on our other business Moonlight Merchants, LLC. This will be a Tee-shirt and sublimation business. We have the supplies and systems in place, and we're working on the launch. So with God's Guidence, we're hoping to have this buisness up and running soon. We know that all things are possible through God who is at the helm of all we do. So It will be something wonderful, and I will certainly blog about it soon. Also in the fall, I will be teaching ceramics through the Camas Community Education Department. I am very excited about this wonderful opportunity.

We have lived in Camas, Washington for the past 20 years.This is the wonderful view from our back deck. When we moved to Camas, it had a population of around 7,000. It was very rural with beautiful open land that had cows, and the hillsides were covered in forest. We had a beautiful view of Mt. Hood and the valley from our back deck. We felt like we were on vacation everytime we stepped outside. We moved away from the big city of Portland to raise our kids. We were blessed with wonderful schools, and a giving community. But over the past 8 to 10 years, our little town of Camas has grown to a population of almost 18,000. With that of course comes building and more building. Clear cutting of our fields and forest. Big electronic industries have also joined in. With all that said, Camas still has a hometown feel to it. It does saden me though to see all the growth. I am happy that my kids grew up when it still had green pastures and forest. The schools were smaller, and they had a wonderful education. They still have good education here though, big industries, bring big money. But hey, I still love our some what bigger town of Camas, and I am very happy to be living here. Camas still has some great hometown activities, great community educations, parks, recreation, and they have a lot of fun things happening all the time.


Camas was incorporated as a town in 1906. It is said that the name of this quaint town comes from the Camas Lily. A beautiful flower that grows in the meadows. The Camas lily was known to the Pacific NW Region Indians as a food source. They would cook the bulbs and then reduce it to a flour, and use it for making bread. The called this plant Kamass. Camas is an old Paper Mill town. The Mill was established back in 1883 , and is still operating today. Although, I have heard rumors that the mill is in the process of closing, I do not know this for sure.

The Camas Mill is full of history.














I hope to bring a wealth of information to all of you through my blogs. I will be posting all the things happening around Camas and Vancouver. I have a passion for parties and childrens activites so look for all my party and activity ideas.

I encourage you to leave me comments and your thoughts.