Past Month In Photos...

Birthday Breakfast!
First week of November!

Shopping solo at my 'happy place'
Ikea!

A few of my favourite things!

Great Falls!!!

Great Falls Virgina

Thanksgiving Day
and
I'm not baking a thing!
Total WIN!

I crocheted myself a beard!

Now my daughter will have warm ears!

At the game...

DC Wizards playing!

Nose bleed sections...

As of today I'm STILL working on this blanket
for my grand daughter!
Thank goodness
they are celebrating their winter holiday
in January! I have about 5-10 more hours till complete!

Moved And Creating Once More!

Autumn inspired doodle!

Lil' lady likes her new beanie
albeit TOO big for her!
I'm making a replacement one today!

Happy warm noggin!

Happy lil man sporting another Nana creation!

Have managed to adjust to the new (temporary) place
Just in time for fall too!

And fall is moving along rather quickly!
This is only 11 days after arriving here!

And here is only one week from previous photo!
Mother nature is somewhat in a hurry!
Soon winter will arrive, here in the north!

My Summer 2015

So, here I post about moving 

and taking time away from blogging only to up

and stop blogging again!!!

I had intended to start blogging.

Then something happened...

But before I tell you my story please enjoy 

this picture

of a recent 

crochet project

I just learned how to make.

A crochet rag rug!
Made from old sheets.

                                  Now on with my story...

I hopped into my car and decided to drive from
the east coast to the west coast.
This was on day one
of my solo travels
 June 2015.

I visited loved ones in the very hot desert!

104 really is too hot for me!

Thank goodness for refreshing pool
and air conditioning!

I crossed bridges in the rain on my way to and from that hot desert!

I drove during the day, at night and everything in between!

I borrowed a bit of nature on my journey.

Sunrises mesmerized me!

Sunsets calmed me.

The smell of the Pacific ocean made my heart jump for joy!

Seeing palm trees made me giggle!

And the smell of rain comforted my weary gypsy soul.

                 Some may wonder why I took this solo drive from     

                                   one coast to the other... 

This is why!

My second grand baby needed her Nana there before
she made her big debut!

And I made it just six days before her arrival!!

Happy Birthday little lady!

And this too!!

My first grand baby needed his Nana too.

Little man spent many hours nestled with Nana!

                   Once home I returned to crocheting! 

                                                

                               Here are just a few items

                                                 

Minion creations for Little Man
and other little fellows...

                                                                         

Minion creations for Little Lady
and other frilly, girlie stuff!


Crocheting for my grand babies
brings me so much joy!

Love!

From Here to There...

Have you ever moved?

If so, you understand the stress (physical and emotional) it causes…

This post is about our move…

The fountain outside our loft.
It was cold for weeks
AND
we were indoors...

packing!
After three years here at the loft
we'd found a HUGE house to lease
just in time
for family to come and stay with us!
Or so we thought...

The snow fell and we continued to pack.
The snow cleared one day
and luckily it was the day our moving truck
and movers arrived.
Good-bye Fountain.
Good-bye city loft.

Hallo new place!

Blues skies and bitter cold day to move on!

New art studio
a.k.a. formal living room.

Formal dinning room filled with boxes.

Dining room...

The next day
after arriving here
at the huge house
it snowed!

While inside I had allot of work to do!

Studio took a back seat
so I could work on kitchen area first.

And it sat for one week.

So I got the kitchen done
and only began in the art studio
when the problems really got bigger…
Turns out this house had a few hidden features
that slowly began making me sick,
REALLY SICK.

Long story short,
after only 4 weeks in this house
we broke lease and moved again.

I decided to take a break from blog
and mostly everything else so I could deal with
belongings, moving, and stress that mounted over the course of
a two and a half month period
which started in February
and only really ended about two weeks ago.

I sold allot of furniture!
Most from my art studio collection.
Put ninety percent of what we own in storage
and moved into a small
five hundred and fifty sq ft flat.
I hung my bird mobile up
to remind me that home is
wherever we are!

Despite all the stress from moving
twice in under five weeks
(HUGE MOVES)
I do like the view outside our window now.

The girls like having their own
spots in the sun

However
they are not too keen
about bathing
but I like their new bathing area
(instead of stooping over a bath tub)
this is much easier.

The girls aren't so sure about that though.
Home Sweet Home

Paper Clip Hanger

Keeping with the 'wire hanger' theme
I tried my hand at making a mini
paper clip wire hanger.
not a perfect as this
Pin of it
But it's close enough to satisfy my urge!

Wire Hanger Book Holder

My first made item from
this year's Pinterest Challenge
which I started
because I realized I'm spending
hours LOOKING at creative things
and too few hours making them!

This book holder was inspired by
 this Pin

It is not a perfect match
but somewhere in the ballpark.
It took me less than five minutes to make
and I plan to spend a bit more time perfecting
in the future.

Happy Creating!

Retrieved Reverie

Happy New Year!

It has always been my habit to burrow when faced with weighty matters. Whether matters of the heart, pocket book or life's general 'bumpy road'.  

Some have viewed this 'process' of mine in varied judgement, mostly they accept that it's done infrequent enough to weight importance, when needed.

I've been burrowed a bit longer than I anticipated, these past several months. 

The reasons or circumstances are not important at this time but I imagine will be revealed through my artwork, crafts and the occasional 'personal share' posts much like this post here, in future.

For now, I am happy to be back online and swimming with creative thought. 

This year I hope to inspire, encourage and teach others who desire to either renew creative spirit or learn a new hobby, skill, craft.

Post style will remain as they have, however, one thing in particular will be different…I will be adding my YouTube channel link here, often. 

I plan to share free video(s) on 'How to' many of the things I  create.

In addition to this, for those of you who are interested, I will be conducting beginning lessons like: Drawing 101, Crochet 101, Cooking 101, Painting 101, Jewelry 101 and so forth, and will progress with these lessons, as the weeks and months grow.

So often I wish I had my Mother, Father or Grandparent to visit or call, to ask how they made something or to remind me of a certain process or procedure in creating.  Sadly, both parents and all grandparents are gone.

I am a Mother and Grandmother (Nana).

My time is full of wonderful technological wonders.

Gone are the days when writing in the family cook book to preserve a 'family favorite' was sacred.

Gone are the days of handmade blankets, from old worn out kid clothes. The handmade gifts that layer beneath the holiday tree or the lovingly made birthday gifts, crafted instead of purchased, not because of finance but because it was just what we did.

To this day, I still prefer a handmade gift over store purchased!

Now don't get me wrong, I do love modern technology too.  I treasure FaceTime and how close it brings me to my grandson, who lives on another coast line, far away.

It is my genuine hope that in my own little way, I will be able to create an online 'gathering space' here with my little blog, for others who would like to either read and receive the information I give and for others who would like to connect and grow in the creative process, together.

Please ask me questions, ask for help, if I've shared something, creative wise, that might be perplexing.

One of my daydreams is to have a creative space that others can come and enjoy. Where the tea pot is always warm and the treats always delight.

Won't you join me this New Year for some creative expression? 

I truly hope you will.

Happy New Year!