I got so much done yesterday it’s almost ridiculous. I packed up preorders. I packed up soap club. I uploaded all of my work social media for the week. I went through my website and added two categories, reworked the front page of HaldeCraft, and went through a few pages …
It’s gonna take me a while, though. (I actually took that screenshot a couple of days ago; I’ve gone another 9 miles since then and am only 10 miles away from Old Man Willow.) Only 1800 miles to go! Yay! Those Hobbits sure were a lot faster than me, though. …
The heat is melting my brain, y’all. And I was writing a post about how hot it was, and what I’ve been doing the last few days, and then the power went off — between the house AC, the studio AC, me firing the kiln, and then Cetty and Joe …
I call it multitasking. Here’s a typical example… I’m on the treadmill, I’m watching a documentary (Unseen; about a serial killer in Cleveland who had previously spent time in prison as a sex offender and had been let out – deemed “low risk” – and then he went on to …
Lately I’ve been on a rant (I know, when am I not, right?) about those memes that go around… I know you’ve seen them… they all say something along the lines of “here’s you” (small dot on the page) and “here’s all the good stuff that happens way the hell …
The rest of the story of that road trip Sharon and I took going on two years ago now. Did I ever blog about our week-long trip to Disney with Aunt Gay and Uncle Joe last fall? Some new things at work. New products, updates to old products, discontinuations, new …
I’ve been storing photos on Flickr since… gosh, I don’t know. 2005? Earlier? … although it looks like Instagram may have stopped talking to Flickr sometime last year. Hahah, whoops, I should get around more often. For the most part, once I started using Instagram for work, Flickr was where …
Dear Goddamn Diary; Let’s have, as my friend Becca says about her knitting sometimes, a “come to Jesus” moment. We need to talk about your future. I don’t want to be one of those bloggers who posts every couple of months and the first paragraph is all, “whoa, what’s happened …
Helllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo What the heck, you guys. Time. It’s like a flat circle, like a frisbee, and someone just flung it out of my reach! August Lots of new tortoise activity around the property (Gramps went missing and at least two new tortoises moved in)… lots of blacksmithing… Amanda brought me …
I feel like I’m working in hiccups these days; fits and starts. Part of it is the weather. We’ve been getting hella rain this summer, and there’s at least an hour a day when our Internet doesn’t work because it’s satellite internet and can be hobbled by heavy southern cloud …
…. ah, shit. It’s Saturday, isn’t it. Well that pretty much sums up my week. I haven’t really gotten much work done this week, but I have arranged travel plans for the Florida Fiber-In, for NecronomiCon, and for a week-long Disney birthday trip with the fam. So I’ve accomplished things… …
I never liked naps as a child. I mean, who *does*, right? You could be up doing things and grownups want you to lay down? What’s WITH that?! There’s stuff to do! Books to read! Playtime to have! Dogs to play with! Swimming pools that need splashing in! Who wants …
I’m writing another blog post, but it’s taking longer than I thought, so I thought I’d just spew forth a quick one instead. I found out yesterday that an old high school friend, whom I hadn’t seen or talked to in close to 30 years but I have always thought …
Sunday I had a “fun” hangover (it’s when instead of too much booze you’ve had too much FUN the day before, and you’re exhausted and unmotivated) and then Monday morning I had to do all the social media stuff for the week for HaldeCraft that I usually do on Sunday …
The lecture series I took earlier this year (even though it’s only March and I feel like “earlier this year” is too early to be a thing). Some of it was very interesting – the lecture with the guy who mostly sells just through Instagram, by posting and saying “DM …
I’m in a whirlwind of trying to catch up with work and home, and so many pictures to share here, or on the work blog, or on Facebook with family… I’m really running around like a chicken with my head cut off this week. Yesterday was devoted to reclaiming the …
Yesterday’s Jacksonville trip was somewhat successful. I got a few new glazes and a couple of tools and some new clay to try out… but they were out of the clay I usually use, which means I’m going to have to go back in a couple of weeks. — All …
I didn’t write a post yesterday because I thought I had a knitting post pre-scheduled, but it turns out I accidentally skipped a week when I was pre-writing them all. That’s what I get for writing all those posts at like 4 in the morning when I couldn’t sleep. Oh …
I got really busy yesterday morning with writing a long blog post for work, posting it in the three places it needs to go, and then catching up on Pinterest for work, that before I knew it, it was after 8 and I really needed to go get ready for …
I feel like I used up all my words on a blog post for work this morning, but I also feel like if I say to myself “I’ll do a personal blog post later today, from work” that shit will never ever see the light of day. So here are …
Which means I slept great! I love the sound of rain. Even the dog didn’t wake me up trying to crawl into the bed because of thunder, so either I slept through that too, or there wasn’t a lot of thunder. Oh, hey, I finally got that picture of rain …
So far this morning I’ve gone over to the studio and let the boys out, come back to the house, launched a new product on HaldeCraft, finished writing a December recap newsletter for work, written a work blog post about the new mug, finished uploading social media for the rest …
There are a couple of air vents in our house that, when it rains, the rain hits them and it echoes in a metal, ting-tang, wind-chime kind of sound and it’s kind of restful and meditative. You can’t really hear it all through the house, but you can in my …
We had dinner with Chris and Sharon last night – we’d been trying to have dinner with them for about two months but kept having to push it back, and Sharon gave me the loveliest little sampler she cross-stitched… It’s not that 2016 has been a personally horrific year; in …
