Grandma Bell's Tribute

Grandma Bell's I Corinthians 13

And now I will tell you of the most excellent woman.
If she had spare time, it was filled with volunteering somewhere or making things for others. If she ever felt upset for hurtful actions of others, no one ever knew. If she ever felt any pain for any reason she would underplay it or just not let it out for others to see.

Grandma was patient, Grandma was kind. She did not envy, she did not boast, she was not proud. She was not rude, she was not self-seeking, she was not easily angered, she did not keep a record of wrongs. She did not delight in evil, but rejoiced with the truth. She always protected, always kept busy, always hoped, always perservered.

Grandma never stopped. Where there were craft supplies, she made a variety of things for people to wear or use. Where there was spare time she filled it working with and for others. Where there was someone in need she lended a hand to help or an ear to listen. For she knew so many people through all her volunteering that she met up with people she knew no matter where she went in Weyburn or even other cities where people who had been touched by her life had moved. When I was a child, there were many "Grandma things" that seemed to be all about me. When I grew up I realized that her special gift was noticing what people preferred and ensuring that was what they received as long as it was in her power to give. Now we have a chance to honour this special woman who taught so much about life in such a quiet, teach by example manner. Now I see what Grandma has done for so many people by looking to what others needed and no to what she needed.
And now these three remain: perserverance, being productive, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

(This is the tribute that I wrote for my Grandma Bell who passed away on December 3, 2007. At the funeral I was unable to read it, but my Dad read it for me, as well as my sister Stacy's tribute and also mentioned that my sister Selena had done the spray of flowers atop the casket.)

More Pictures of Santa Parade

Just some more pictures from the Santa Parade on Saturday night. It was the first Santa Parade that I can remember going to but I really enjoyed it!

It Was A Dark and Chilly Night

It was a dark and chilly night. Hundreds of people lined the street called Portage Avenue for about a mile for the Parade of Lights and Santa Parade combination. Children packed the first two rows nearest the street and the adults close behind them. They waited anxiously, popping into the street every few minutes to check, when suddenly a child yells, "It's coming!!!" People scurry to get their cameras out and conversations quickly finish. Then comes the vehicles with lights and garlands. Following those are the intricately and creatively decorated floats from a variety of places. Then, at the end of the parade, the man who was the main draw for all these scores of people - Santa!
It was a good time and there are plenty more pictures from this evening's event, some of which were taken with specific people in mind!

The Day After My Birthday

Again, I am playing "catch up" with my blog and am talking today about the event that occured the day after my birthday this year. Our Church's Annual Clothing Giveaway. During the week several members of our congregation come and sort the clothing and other items that are generously donated shortly before the Clothing Giveaway is to occur. Then on the Saturday morning there are alot of people on hand to get these items out to tables designated for each clothing type (women's, men's, babies, etc.) This year we had somewhere between 700 and 800 people who came to look through clothing and take what they or other people they knew needed. By noontime, the auditorium was once again empty of clothing and we began to tidy the tables outside and chat a bit with some people who were still looking for items.

As usual, I enjoyed myself that day because of the people I got to talk to, the weather, and disspelling the disbelief that most people I talked to had about how generous others can be.

A Few Weeks Ago

Well, a few weeks ago now I was able to babysit Nora and Levi for part of the day when Selena and Curtis wanted a "date day". Clinton, my boyfriend, came and helped out as well and I planned a "field trip" sort of day for the kids and us. We went by transit bus to the mall for our lunch, and then continued by transit bus to the largest Petland store in the south end of the city. Both kids really liked their day out in the city with Auntie, and Levi especially loved Clinton's MP3 player! It was a very fun day for all of us with lots of great memories!

Long Time No Blogging

So, now that I have probably lost all of my "loyal" readers, I am able to come back and blog more often. Tonight however I need to finish sewing a shirt for myself so I can wear it to Worship Service in the morning! Then I will be updating my blog on what has been keeping me so busy lately, and include as many pictures as I can for it as well!

Out with the Old

This past week at work has been a lot of new things for me. A new group to work with, a new room to work in, two new co-teachers to work with closely, a new shift, and a new set of responsibilites due to that shift. Oh, and a new time to be getting up as a result of the new shift. I am now starting work at 7:15 AM. I used to get up at that time for the past year with having all later shifts!

My body will probably get used to the new time of getting up (which is 5:00 AM), but for now it is rebelling. It is a big struggle to get up and not hit the SNOOZE button and crawl back into bed for a few more ZZZZ's. And yes, I am going to bed much earlier than I was before, usually I am dog-tired by 9:30 PM and head for bed then!

And yes, there are children at the Centre who arrive at 7:00 AM, which is when we open, so they have much the same schedule as I do for getting up because a lot of them also have the public transit system as their means of getting places.

Long Time, No Blogging

Well, the summer is nearly over and many of the children at the centre are preparing to start school. Our kindergarten children are going to be leaving our program at the end of the week as they go into Grade 1 and another childcare program at the YMCA.

This year is especially hard on me because in two days time I will be saying goodbye to the child with special needs that I have been working with one-on-one for the past year and a half. I know that they all grow and have changes in their lives, but I also know that I am going to miss that child very much!

Finally Tackled It

After wanting to try to make some tote bags for our congregation's clothing giveaway, I finally got up the courage to try a prototype. This was the result! I am actually pretty happy with it, although I realizd while sewing that a different order of seams was necessary, so tomorrow night I will work on that!

A "Garfield" Day

Okay, some may automatically understand about the worst day possible according to Garfield. It is Monday the 13th!! I like to consider myself to be not overly superstitious, but in this one case, I must agree, Monday the 13th has a tendency to be "horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad day (I think I'll move to Australia!)"

The only things at work that made me think about this were that one of my co-workers didn't come in until noon because her father is so sick in the hospital, that our substitute was absent today, that I learned that two of my darlings in my group have their last days at the daycare this week, and that my special little friend has continued to use his profanity - louding proclaiming it as we walked in public to and from the library. But that's all that made me think of it! ;-)

Since I had such a hard day, and needed to do some grocery shopping, I took myself out for a light supper at Boston Pizza and with the number of people there one might imagine that they all had "Garfield Days" too!

The Week!

Well, this past week has been something out of a suspenseful fairytale for me. One week ago, my family met my boyfriend, and all seemed to go well (or so I hope). Monday I did things around the house since it was a day off from work with being the long weekend and I had been so busy all the rest of the weekend with my family!

Tuesday I arrive at work and discover that my co-teacher is sick with the virus that has been going around our centre all summer. As the week progresses she is only there one day, Thursday, and she was still so sick that she really should not have been there. And of course, since she is away all week, my one-on-one child with special needs is there all week, and in a terrible mood. I had a different staff member with me for the three days my co-teacher was away, and it was quite stressful because she does not know my special friend very well and that child quickly overwhelmed her.

We did get communication working between the two of us so we could effectively work with the children, but I was so exhausted by the end of every day! I hope my co-teacher is feeling much better on Monday and is at work this next week, because she has a week of holidays coming up the following week. *sigh* And I can just see my special friend being there that whole week of my co-teacher's holidays and in a terrible mood still!

I do love my work, and the children I work with. I just get stressed out at times and need to vent about it!

Sunny Sunday

Well, here it is, another Sunday blog from me! Again, Selena, Curtis, Nora, Levi and myself went for lunch and shopping since there were a few things that needed to be purchased. It is so much fun to spend time with those four people, and little Nora especially as she is so interested in everything in the stores! While Selena was getting some fabric, Nora and I went and 'browsed' the yarn aisle. She really liked all the fashion yarn on the shelves, and I looked at the prices and thought 'maybe later'. But then, in the middle of the main aisle there was a bin with similar yarn in the bags for $5.00. So I asked Nora about color, which one she liked, and she also had to ask her Mom what color would go with her winter coat. So I bought some yarn that is fashion yarn enough for the amount of time she will use the scarf and will get some other yarns for a fancy scarf in a few years.

I found a few good deals for some things as well, and feel that it was a good day overall. And now back to my regularly scheduled crafting! ;-)

Adult Code!

Today I got to go shopping for my niece's birthday present with my sister Selena! Curtis stayed with both kids so we could have some sister time and keep Nora from seeing what we were buying as gifts. Well, in the car afterwards Selena was trying to fill Curtis in on what she had bought and what I had bought. So our "code" consisted of quickly spelling all the words and abbreviating some specific brands of items. As we were talking, we kept spelling all the words we could, as quickly as we could and I commented to Selena and Curtis that in a few more years we would have to come up with a better code because Nora and Levi would be spelling more and more words! But for now, spelling it all works and gives the adults lots of fun as well!

Tuesday of VBS

We had a few more kids at VBS today, went up to 102 from 84! My class grew, technically, by one although I had some that were there yesterday and not there today! The kids are really learning to love some of the songs we sing in our general assembly time, and I am going to try to take a video of that, although I am not sure how well it will turn out!

After lunch today we were given the opportunity to go out and see a place known as a 'buffalo jump'. For those who are not aware, a buffalo jump is a location where the hills are steep enough that the Native Indians could force the buffalo off and cause them to die. Since buffalo were one of their main sources of food, clothing, and various other things this was an efficient and effective way of causing a great number of buffalo to perish while probably not endangering any of their own tribe members!

The hill we walked down was very steep indeed, and had to walk carefully to avoid both horse(well you can imagine), and falling and rolling down the hill. At the very bottom of the hill was a variety of bones scattered about where they had been left for who knows how many years! I nearly stepped on one shortly after getting down the hill! My aunt was fortunate enough to find two arrow heads, the orange looking one of which actually still felt quite sharp!

After slowly climbing back up the hill, I found what looked like a teepee ring, and just to the side of that the circle of rocks you see pictured above. Perhaps it is just my wild imagination, but to me it looks like it could be a firepit circle!

Hard to believe that this was a short half hour drive from Weyburn, SK where we are teaching VBS!

Weyburn VBS

After all these months of planning, and thinking and perhaps even some fretting, the VBS is finally here. The trip here was pretty uneventful, with the exception of a wild turkey darting out of the grass in the ditch along the Sask. highway! Didn't move much else, just came out of the grass!

I am teaching the youngest class of students at the VBS, the four-year-olds, and had 14 kids in my group today! They are all pretty excited about being at VBS, which is a very good thing!

All together we had 84 kids at the VBS today, and it will be interesting to see how the numbers for attendance are the rest of the week!

And If You Give a Kid a Playstructure

They explore and play, but tend not to wander away too far from their safety net!

If You Give an Adult a Playstructure.....

Hmmm, I wonder about the example these adults gave to the children they were with!!

Well, actually I know that the children loved the time at the playstructure and watching the adults in their lives get going on the thing as well. Nora specifically asked her Auntie Stacy if she needed help when the going got a little rough for Stacy, but she managed just fine!

Have Finally Seen It

*sigh* After completely falling in love with the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl" and seeing it's sequel, I have now finally seen "At World's End". There have been many mixed reviews to this movie, but I thoroughly enjoyed the story as well as the tying up of loose ends, not to mention the fine visual effects and visual story-telling in it! Again, at the end of the movie I made a promise to myself that the day it comes out on DVD I will be buying it! There are few movies that I say that after, and when I promise that to myself afterwards, I make a point of doing just that!

Oh What a Beautiful Morning!

Okay, so the whole day here is beautiful, as was yesterday, but the song came to mind when I started thinking about the past couple of days here. Yesterday I even decided to walk to my errands instead of bussing it, and in doing so got a pleasant surprise. I was able to walk by a calm Canadian goose who was sitting just off the bike path that cuts through the greenspace behind my apartment building. It didn't seem to mind the people who were walking or biking by it, and just sat there calmly taking it all in. I guess it was people watching, as people often go bird-watching!

Today was our day to celebrate the achievements of those in our congregation who are graduating from high school or post-secondary education. It was a surprise to me some of the high school graduates because I still think of them as children, but here they are graduating from high school. And in just a few weeks when we have our children's program windup I will hopefully see my niece up front with her class, and yet it still seems that she is just a little child, but in a couple of months she will be three years old already. I remember driving out to Steinbach the day she was born and holding her when she was just four hours old!

So, in addition to reminiscing, and being caught off guard for how old some people are, I am busy with preparing for the Vacation Bible School that I am helping to teach at my parent's congregation, keeping busy with my work, my crafting, and my writing.

Life in Fast Forward

Have you ever felt that part of your life has just flown by and you cannot remember much of what was done? Well, that has been the past two weeks for me. But it will probably also keep happening throughout the summer time as there are many things that I have planned, and who knows what will come my way in that time too to help make me even busier!

Are you ready for the fast forward feeling of summer?

My Weekend in Saskatchewan

This weekend I went to Saskatchewan for my cousin Tamara's wedding to Matthew! It was a beautiful day for them, and everything with the wedding and the reception were true to their personalities. I am so glad that I was able to get there!

The picture of the blanket is what I made for them as their wedding gift. I think it turned out beautifully, considering that I drew it out on paper and used different colors of markers for the different colors of squares that were not true to the colors in the blanket.

On our way back today, as Stacy and I went in her car to Regina, there was some bad accident close to Broadview involving a chemical spill, so we had to find our own detour along the gravel roads around there, after we had sat to wait to see what was going on for quite a while!

All in all, it was a great weekend of visiting, laughs, fun, and emotions (yes Dad, I know!), catching up, and seeing people that I had not seen in several years!

If You Give a Kid a ......

Yesterday I got to go out for lunch with Selena, Curtis, Nora and Levi. It has been a while since we have done the food court lunch time, but Nora remembered very well that Auntie Charlotte shares her Chinese food with Nora for lunch. And Nora went with me to the counter to help pick the food, and carried her own little extra plate back to the table so I could balance the tray of food and drinks. Then, after she was done and she had heard her Mommy and both Aunties talking about ice cream, she looked around for where the ice cream was going to come from. She was the first one of us to get an ice cream and enjoyed every moment of her dessert! She was so careful not to waste any of it that Stacy even made the comment of "like grandfather, like grand-daughter"!

Levi is also getting into the Chinese food a bit, and loves the fried rice. Curtis shared more with Levi than I did, but Levi also got to try some of the noodles that his sister loves so much! Soon I'll be needing to get a bigger meal to share with both of them! ;-)

Individual Crafts

These are the individual craft that we did this past weekend! The children, for the most part, were very excited to be heading for the craft portion of the after skit time. One child even made me a gold ribbon bow to wear because I was the "Queen of Crafts"!! How cute, eh??

We split the children into two, fairly even groups, and each age group had a half hour to complete their craft. I also planned two extra crafts just in case there were some children who finished their lesson themed craft early. Those two are the styrofoam ball head/pipecleaner robe man, and the plastic fork/swathed in fabric man! Two of the children who came this weekend got all 5 crafts done!!

Kids Rally 2007

Aaaahhhh! After all the planning and all the work, Kids Rally 2007 is over. We had 25 kids there last night, and maxed out at 30 kids today, which was GREAT!! The organizer for Kids Rally this year had me pick some crafts to do with the children, and I had plenty of help to get these crafts finished in the half-hour after the skits to help teach the lesson that I had!

Here are pictures of the shear number of crafts completed by all the children!

Criminal Minds

For those who know me well, you know that the TV show 'Criminal Minds' is one of my favourites! Well, it's such a favourite that I will carefully pick and choose who I will answer the phone for if you happen to call when a new episode is on! ;-)

Well, tonight I heard about a contest that CTV.ca is doing with the show 'Criminal Minds'. I played the game, and my first "arrest" was the correct one!! Go me!! Anyways, everyone with correct "arrests" get to enter a draw for money, so I am now entered. It was fun to play, even though I will likely not be drawn for the prize, I had lots of fun playing and feel good that my first arrest, and my 'gut' instincts with the various clues, was right!

If interested in playing too, go to ctv.ca!

On Holidays

Well, day 1 of my holidays and I am taking care of myself-relaxing, crafting, opening the blinds, making sure that I do things for me. I have two weeks of holidays straight, and I am sure that the time is going to go by fairly quickly, and I do have plenty of things to keep me busy with crafting, writing, and developing new exercise and eating habits.

I was able to laugh alot yesterday as I took care of Nora and Levi (my niece and nephew) so
Selena and Curtis could have their anniversary date. I and the kiddos stayed for the potluck at Church, and then came back to my place. Nora was very excited to be going to "Auntie's house" and even told me when she saw my place. They had a very full afternoon of playing with the toys here, and picking up things that weren't their toys. It was so different from the other times I have taken care of both of them because Levi is walking around on his own now, and that makes for even more vigilance on my part.

But all of us loved the time together, and I like to think that the kiddos enjoyed their time of being (moderately) spoiled by Auntie!

A Humbling Experience

Last night was the International Dinner that my Church puts on every year, and this year was wonderful in so many ways! The food was, as usual, incredibly delicious, and there was so much of it that you really had to pick and choose what you wanted to eat. The visiting time was great, as several of our members invited other people that they know from work or their neighbourhoods and I got to meet several new people. Nora, my niece, was old enough to try a swing at the pinata that they had for the kids and was so cute at it!

I also had a very humbling experience because of one of the entertainers last night. He was a drummer from Trinidad, excellent man, excellent drumming, and so very friendly. I had passed by him many times on the streets close to my workplace as I waited for my bus to go home, thinking that he was just some homeless busker trying to scam as much money out of hard-working people as he could. Well, he may not be a scammer, and he may not be homeless, or really a busker because busker's are by nature more transient and therefore no permanent home address, but he is a child of God, and a wonderful person, covered up in grubby clothes that is all he can afford, and using the talents he has, and the abilities he has to be useful, and to pass on a love for music to all who pass by him in downtown Winnipeg, and other places he is invited to.

I think I'll be stopping and saying hello to him when I see him next time!

Spring Break is OVER!

Okay, so the children loved being away from school, but spring break creates a very long and tiring week for those of us who work in childcare! The first two days of this past week we had relatively lower numbers of children, which let some staff do other cleaning type things. Then Wednesday hit, and we were full to the brim! And that stayed constant for the last two days of the week as well! You know how there are weeks that just seem to drag on and on? That is spring break week for me. It was last year, it was this year, so chances are it will be the same next year as well!

But for how long the week felt, I got a lot done at home as well as I am working up a variety of crafting projects for gifts, and for myself. I look at the calendar and see that the gifts need to be done fairly soon, and yet I keep working on the crafting for myself as well. Oh well, there is only one gift that I want to be finished before my holidays come up. Only three more weeks until my holidays.

Movies, Memorials, and Misery

This past week has been quite full of a variety of things. On Monday, Anthony took the two of us on a date to see the movie '300'. It was a VERY good movie, and I am planning on getting the DVD when it comes out of course! It had been a very long time since I was last in a movie theatre watching a movie, so it was a good way to go on a date too!

Then on Tuesday, I attended a memorial service for a very dear man who passed away on Thursday March 8 of this year. It was very well attended, and Anthony also came with me to that! It was unlike a lot of memorials I have been to because while the attendees were saddened that Merle Johnson was no longer with us, we all knew that he was much happier with God, and that his life's work and life of faith had taken him to where he wanted to be.

Of course, through all of this I was still fighting a cold, and a nasty headache just where the nose meets the forehead. And the headache worsened greatly when I would bend over to reach something, and usually my head felt like it was going to split apart! So I ended up taking one sick day on Thursday because I was so dizzy and feeling so terrible. But I am feeling better now, although I still have a touch of a cold.

I am working on crafting gifts for people to help me pass the time, and getting the apartment cleaned (since spring is coming, I am getting into that spring cleaning mode).

Good News, Bad News

Today I did a lot of stuff that I have been trying to get done for a while, but haven't had the energy with the cold that I came down with almost four weeks ago! That's the good news!

The bad news is that a friend of mine, Brian C., lost his father to cancer on Thursday. He and his father were extremely close, and I know that his death is going to affect Brian greatly!

Sad Day for Shopping

Well, today was the last day that I could go shopping at my favourite store in St. Vital Mall. At the close of business today, that particular store would be closing. Now I need to travel further around the city to shop at an Addition-Elle, or else lose weight so I can wear clothes that the other stores sell. Hmmm, wonder which is going to happen first?

Other than that, I am still sick, did some basic grocery shopping with Stacy today, and am looking forward to going to Worship Service tomorrow. Oh, and I will be going to the doctor at the walk-in clinic close to my place tomorrow too. We'll see what the doctor says is wrong with me!

Living Mute in a Speaking World

Today Stacy and I had to do a few errands, and pick up a few things to help my throat feel better. Unfortunately I still had no voice! So, I pantomimed to Stacy for most of the stuff, and she verbally explained to the person what was needed. I had lots to do at the bank, so Stacy volunteered to be my 'voice' so it would go faster. She did this for lunch as well as most everything else. I found myself only trying to get my point across to people when she wasn't there. These included: getting people's attention to let me past in the store, asking for two Loonies instead of a Toonie, and letting others past me in the store. I had to reach out and pat the people on the shoulder to get their attention in the store, and frantically pantomime at the cashier for the change difference. And I nodded when people said 'Thank You' for letting them past.

Makes me wonder about how I would get around if this were a permanent voice loss!

Oh, and Stacy has stated several times that she cannot wait for me to get my voice back because it is annoying that I cannot talk! ;-) This from the one who has said several times before that I talk too much!!

What a Day!!

So, today I awoke to discover that I was not yet completely better as my throat was incredibly sore, and my voice was gone! I kept telling the children at the centre that I lost my voice and they kept trying to find it! One child even kept bringing me handfuls of 'voice', which she fed to me, to see if it was my voice! Quite the imagination that one!!

So, here I am, tired, sore, no voice, and heading home, only to remember that I still needed to deposit a cheque (money isn't always the first thing thought of when I'm sick). So I hopped on an express bus that would hopefully get me to the bank on my bus route, and allow me enough time to deposit the money and get back to the bus stop for the bus that goes down my street. Well, as we got closer to the bank, there were all sorts of police cars, and the street was shut down, and the traffic was all rerouted! So I got off where the driver offered to let us off, and walked to the bank, only to discover that the emergency situation was in front of the bank and as a result they were closed. The emergency situation was a pretty severe water main break - the entire parking lot of the bank, and the street in front of the bank was full of water!

So now I have to get myself across the street, down a few more streets, back across the street where it is dry, and keep walking to the street where the busses were coming off the reroute from. And I am doing this in this bitter cold, with a severe sore throat, a mild head cold, and feeling very achey! *sigh* AND I still have to deposit my cheque!

Thank Goodness Tomorrow's Friday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feeling Better, At Last!

Well, since Thursday morning I have been very sick. I'll spare you all the gory details, but suffice it to say I count myself fortunate that I was feeling a little better enough to be able to help Selena and Curtis with their move as I had promised, even though I am now off of work for today, in addition to the half day yesterday. I started running a really high fever Sunday a couple hours after getting back from Steinbach, and that fever kept going until well into the early hours of this morning. I really don't like being sick, as I am sure that no one does, and am looking forward to being back at work tomorrow!

At Long Last!!

Well, it is official!!!

As of today I am finished the toy inventory at work, having sorted through every toy in the centre, put sets of toys together, made my list (and checked it 3 times), moved toy buckets around so they were more convenient for all the groups, and drew a map of how I organized the cupboards of buckets! And how does the director reward me for all that work?? Gives me something else to do! *sigh* Oh well!

Proactive Management

So, Stacy met me at work tonight and we decided we were going to celebrate the end of her training at work with a supper out. We decided to go to the Boston Pizza near our place since we were both bussing it from downtown. It was extremely busy there, but we did eventually get seated, and our order taken. We both ordered something to start before a light supper item, and the starters took forever to come. A couple of minutes before they came out, our server came to us and let us know that because our starter items had taken forever to come to us, that the manager was 'buying' those items for us tonight! Considering my years of restaurant experience, I was impressed with the server's wording, and with the fact that we did not have to ask what was taking so long or what could be done to make our experience better!

The Shopping Trip

So today was my sisters' and my shopping trip together. I had a lot of fun, and found a lot of really good deals! I even found something to buy at a store that I am not in their size range, and two things at a store that I never find anything at! I was actually quite happy about both of those!
I enjoyed the company while shopping, which made shopping that much more bearable! Especially when you are clothing shopping you want to be with other people, and my sisters are a blast to go clothing shopping with!
I still have yet to figure out the difference of what I actually spent on everything, and what the regular prices would have been for the same items, but I'll do that!

Saturday Afternoon

So here I am, on a Saturday afternoon, looking at my 'To Do' list and deciding what to do first. I had thought I might go to the mall, but am planning on doing a shopping trip on Wednesday anyways, so what's the point of going today? Sidewalk sales are lovely, especially for someone who does not like shopping. I know, strange for a woman to not like shopping, but my Dad influenced me alot on the shopping part, although when shopping is a get-together time for me and my sisters I will go along.
So today I have sewing, accounting, cooking, laundry, browsing for patterns on the Internet, culling through my piles of magazines, and other crafting to occupy my time. Think that is enough to keep me going? ;-)

Starting Anew

I have been finding that I am unhappy with where I have been blogging, so here is my change! Perhaps this will be a better venue for my thoughts and ponderings, at least it will be better for potential comments!