It’s been a little while…

It’s been a little while since I’ve been here. Life got crazy and priorities got skewed.

Today I’m back, and I’m here to stay.

I’ve got some things lined up for myself that I think are kind of biggish. In no particular order, they are:

Developing new healthy habits. I re-joined a gym a few weeks ago. Then last week I started taking a yoga class. And this weekend I’ll do the cleanse and start the Hot Belly Diet for real.

Crafting. My row marker for my Rain Gauge Blanket fell out a couple of weeks ago, and I have yet to count the rows, put it back, and knit the rows I’ve missed since then. I’ll post progress pictures and the design concept once I’m caught up, and have a non-rainy day to take pictures outside.

I also have enough of the right sized fabric scraps now to make a good start on my denim orange peel quilt. So I’ll start that in the next week or two.

I recently finished a pair of hand-sewn linen palazzo pants. I love them. The waist band needs a little bit of re-doing since either the elastic is too wide, or I need to undo the stitching around the waist and make it a teensy bit wider to accommodate the elastic. I also cut the elastic a little too long, so the fit is just a little too loose to be completely safe from accidentally baring my backside to the world. These are just minor adjustments, though, and I know what to do for the next pair. Pictures and details are coming, probably next week.

Priorities. I’m going to be around here a bit more. The big part of why I started this blog was because I have ideas I want to share with the world, and goals I want to reach. Some of those goals include:

• Writing and publishing at least one cookbook before I turn 50.
• Feeling good in my own skin and company.
• Restructuring my priorities to better reflect my values.
• Enjoying more music, books and blogs, and art.
• Entering a quilt into a judged quilt show.

I’m not yet sure how I’m going to do most of those, but I’ve got a pretty good handle on how I’m going to do the last one. I just need to finish one or several quilts, and enter them into a local, or somewhat local, quilt show.

Learning new things. I’m always researching and learning about something. A week and a half ago, I took the first in a series of herbalism classes. This makes my inner foodie-crunchy-hippy-“do it myself”-toddler happy in so many ways. It’s more than likely that I’ll be sharing my thoughts on this, and what I’ve learned about herbalism here.

Have a good morning, all. I’ll leave you with this picture of this morning’s sunrise, from about where my bedroom window will be once our house is built.