Oh my word!
The flurry of activity at our house is just completely over the top!
My blog has ground to a stop, as I just can’t keep everything going all at once right now…
something had to give, and it’s been the blog.
Here’s a little (but no where near all) of what has been going on….
Really- there are things that simply shouldn’t be combined….
Like selling an acreage that you have lived on for 21 years and buying a house in the city….
Um… a large acreage that has accumulated a lot of stuff
(I know, I know, WE accumulated all that stuff…
it followed us home when we saw all it’s creative potential) …
🙂
While working to deadline on a book (and doing all the photography and illustrations and diagrams AS WELL AS designing all the projects and weaving them all yourself…. )
eeks! The deadline is looming – pardon the pun 🙂
BUT…. I am so incredibly inspired and excited by the designs and projects for the book that I am just over the moon.
And, am seeing rather a lot of the moon lately, as there aren’t enough hours in the day, so the hours in the night are full of the busy busy of it all.
I can’t show any of the projects yet, but, wheeeeeee! I am just happy dancing and skippetty hopping over them.
I have been in love with peg loom weaving and weaving sticks for years, but that love has grown exponentially as I work on this book.
I am just boggled by the creative potential of the marvelously simple peg looms and weaving sticks.
In fact, I have passed along quite a few of my other, non-peg looms, because there is so much for me to explore with them that I just don’t have the time for many other of my looms.
Ah, the move: The downsizing, packing and dealing with all the insane bureaucratic hoop jumping has been epic. Sheesh.
Just sheesh.
Oh yes… another leetle stressor in our lives is that we suddenly adopted a darling little puppy from a relative who couldn’t keep her.
She’s enchanting- but wasn’t housebroken, so that’s been a challenge- another of those ‘don’t do this at home’ kind of things.
House training a puppy in deep dreary freaking freezing cold mid winter is not fun.
That’s not quite true- she loves gazing at the birds and thinks trips outside are marvelous. (When it’s a million below zero, I don’t share her enthusiasm)
She has taught me to keep my shoes in a box that she can’t get into…
(yes, she did chew my most expensive boots)
and to not leave my favorite glasses where she can get them
(yes, she did chew them, and my ipod earbuds up)
and to not let balls of yarn drop to the floor
(she outdoes a kitten in her enthusiasm for yarnplay- face palm)
She’s a right proper little scalliwag but we do adore her and are so happy that she’s part of the family.
There’s a million other things going on in our lives right now, but I must get back to work, so I shall just zip away and weave up some wonderful-ness.
Cheerio and tootlepip… which is what we always say to our grandson when he heads home from our time together.
I probably won’t be posting again for a couple of weeks, as we are soon to be hefting and heaving ourselves into the new (smaller, much smaller) house in the city.
And, then, it’s serious overdrive on the book….
so…. cheerio for now….
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