Hi Sue! How is Arizona?

Anyone who has stuck with this sporadic blog since the first post deserves her own shout out. Hope all is well for you.

Loom Plans Finally Uploaded

Loom_Plans

Here they are. I used these mostly as inspiration. These ARE NOT my plans. I found them on the internet several years ago. If they are yours and you would like them removed please let me know.

Loom Plans

I found a copy of the loom plans mentioned in one of my first post. It’s a PDF file. I don’t know how to upload it. The plans were created in 2004 by someone named T. Jacobs. They were free wherever I found them a few years ago but in addition to not knowing how to upload them, I’m not sure I should. So, here’s the deal. If you should happen to come back here in the next few weeks and will leave an email, I will send you a copy. The file size is 630 KB. I don’t know if that’s too big…

Handpiecing

my first attempt at hand piecing

Arizona

My contract position has turned into a permanent position so it looks like we will be staying in Arizona for a while.

This will mean new challenges and new oppurtunities but I think it will be a good thing. Surely. Hopefully. Maybe? haha Who knows.

In Arizona

My contract position has transitioned into a permanent position (YAY!) so it looks like we’ll be here in Arizona for a while.

Grand Canyon

Shot from our trip to the Grand Canyon

One good thing about Arizona – there’s all kinds of scenery. We were going through files (the old fashioned kind that reside in an honest to goodness file cabinet) and came across a piece of paper where we had written some goals. It was a bucket list before Bucket List. Lo and behond, one of our goals was to visit the Grand Canyon with our two sons. Well we did it! Funny how life works – and works out – sometimes, isn’t it. Although, I have to mention that when the boys realized that a “national park” and an “amusement park” are not the same thing, their enthusiasm did wane a bit.

Not Even Gonna Look

I’m not even gonna look at how long it’s been since I posted on here. I hit a wall. A stopping point. A stoppage. Life changed dramatically and I’m wondering if the idea this blog was built around is even still applicable or desirable.

For any of you who may still be dropping by to see if maybe, maybe, some small crumb of an update has been dropped here – bless you. (I don’t think you really exist, but sometimes I still look for Santa too.)

The spousal unit and I have relocated from Texas to Arizona. Maybe temporarily, maybe permanently – who knows? Either way, I really lost the desire to do anything “homewise” for awhile, and even now that everything has settled down a bit I can’t find it in me to treat this house we’re in like a home. Although, now that I write that, it seems like a selfish sentiment. Many people go their whole lives without owning the houses they live in, and yet, I would venture to say they feel like they have homes. Maybe I will have to look into ways of making “non-owned” houses into homes. Any ideas?

I know that the most popular thing on this site was my rug and loom project so I will try to get some more information for that but it really is just one episode in an ongoing saga.

(Actually, if I can just share for a moment, writing here has made feel better than I have in days. What a cool thing.)

Ok, enough. I’m gonna go get busy on some posts.

Hazardous

CBS reports that a new study shows that people with low levels of vitamin D have a higher risk of dying.

In other news, freethnkr1965, sporadic updater of Creating a Home, reports that the highest risk factor for death from any cause is being alive.

“Let’s face it, 100% of the people alive today will die sometime in the next 120 years or so. Something must be done!”

This Blog Has Not Died

It’s just smells really bad.

Sorry for the lack of posts, we have been inordinately busy lately. I promise to have steaming hot fresh posts by the end of the week.