So, today marks the tipping point where Chris and I have been together and married for more years than we were together and unmarried. Eight years ago today we threw a big party on a mountain and made it official. We had found out the week before the wedding that I was pregnant with Jonah (and I swear it was after we had already ordered the ( Read more... )

What an amazing weekend. My other 32 birthdays might get jealous, but oh well... that was the best one yet. To anyone who can read this in the various places it will broadcast, thank you. Thank you from the very core of my soul for being a part of my life. I love you all.

I'm in the market for a room. It can be a space in someone's room or an individual room. Chris wants to go, so he's said if I can find a room and make him a new set of Wolverine claws, then HOBBITON, IT'S ON ( Read more... )

The jewelry thing is rolling. It is slowly but surely building steam. I've got several shows lined up and a few commissions in the pipeline and I'm shipping out Etsy sales more regularly. I just ran a half marathon over the weekend and am looking for the next race so that I'll keep running. I think I might start transitioning to trail running for ( Read more... )

Burlesque. Burlesque is going on. I just wrapped up my second semester of a 101 class last night. We did a fun boa routine to the Flying Lizards version of Money (That's What I Want), which I mostly know from this scene in Empire Records (apart from more widely known Beatles version, of course):

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For the first time since I started this little ( Read more... )

Whatever I have done over the past year, whatever blocks I removed, whatever I have accomplished internally is now manifesting on the outside as true, unbridled momentum toward making all my dreams come true. But I also recognize and respect where I am on that continuum ( Read more... )

I feel like the space between moments grows smaller and smaller and my task list and catalog of commitments only seems to grow larger. I'm busy getting ready for a craft show three weeks from tomorrow. Chris has been amazing, taking up so much of the housework that he practically only leaves me with the task to create. But I have other obligations ( Read more... )

My dear, sweet, amazing grandmother passed away in her sleep sometime this morning. She was 94 and lived a blessed full life now punctuated by the most peaceful passing any of us could ever hope for. I am so grateful to have had such a rich relationship with her right until the end. I'm sure I'll have more to say in the next few days, but for now ( Read more... )

There was a good turnout last night. I expect a very good turnout next week, as well. The five of us shared a moment in space and time where we collectively called out our demons and allowed them to be swallowed by the Earth and then called in healing and cleansing energies to scrub clean the gunk on our souls. Struggles were shared. Perspectives ( Read more... )

I'm working on this bracelet design today that incorporates chips of tourmaline and copper wire into chain links. I'm making each link and threading them together as I'm wrapping them, not with jumprings. My thought is that the structural integrity of such a design would be superior to one that might be slightly easier to put together (i.e. one ( Read more... )