I’m going to come clean about why I haven’t been blogging. It’s not that I have a dirty secret to hide, but that the topic is difficult for me to talk about, in more ways than one. But last night I was sitting in my wheelchair at a Ninja Panel hosted by Amanda Palmer (@amandapalmer) [...]

Tags: Amanda Palmer, bipolar disorder, cognitive impairment, Kathleen Hannah, mental illness, writing
Filed under: General Housekeeping, Healing Arts Charity Program

Things in moving-land are going a bit crazy. We’re having all of our stuff shipped via a container system so it’s all got to 2 weeks before we do. (It is actually much easier for us health-wise since we only have one able-bodied-ish person to do the actual lifting and carrying and this way we’re [...]

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The tumbleweeds are blowing through this blog like the West Texas desert. All is not lost, this time I do sort of have a good excuse and for once it’s not my health. You may know that for the past two and a half years I have been going back and forth between the USA [...]

Filed under: Announcements, General Housekeeping

I took a bit of time and really thought about what I could offer in a blog.  One of the main reasons I have not been blogging lately is because I haven’t been designing and I don’t really feel that just following other people’s patterns and designs is worthy of readers’ attention.  I was fine [...]

Tags: Pixiebelle, the creative life
Filed under: Announcements, General Housekeeping

I am decidedly embarrassed that it has been almost a year since I last posted. A great deal has happened, then unhappened, then new things happened. I know that makes no sense but I doubt you really want a play-by-play of my year!  The important thing is that I am *almost* at my final destination [...]

Filed under: Announcements, General Housekeeping

Ooof, it’s been a busy time here in The Sick Chick Land. I’ve temporarily moved back to the US to save up money and wait with my cat til we can go back to Australia in a few months (she has to wait as per quarantine rules). In the meantime, I decided to upgrade this [...]

Filed under: Announcements, General Housekeeping

OK, so it’s been nearly six months since I last posted. I could explain, but you’d probably be bored to tears.  Basically it involves poor health on my part and continuing poor health of relatives on my side and t’s side so international trips, etc.  I’ve been very ill and still am, but at least [...]

Filed under: General Housekeeping, Show and Tell

So the prodigal returns, at least for a few minutes before dashing off for a much-needed birthday weekend break. I know that most people here don’t like long-winded diatribes about personal life so I’ll just say that my father has been gravely ill since mid-May and I was in the States with him and my [...]

Tags: birthday, Convergence, Daddy, family, health issues, holiday, I Knit Day, jwt2008, Knitting & Stitching Show, Mom, scrapbooking, summer, The Big Stamp & Scrap Show, USA, weaving
Filed under: General Housekeeping, Projects and Plans

The update: My dad is still in the hospital in Tampa, but due to schedule conflicts Mom and I came back to North Carolina this weekend.  It was a long drive but there are lots of craft stores along the way  She’s flying back on Thursday for the long weekend but I can’t handle that [...]

Tags: Ashford, Ashford Elizabeth 2, Ashford spinning wheels, Convergence 2008, Handweavers Guild of America, HGA, Homestead Wool and Gift Farm, jwt2008, Lion Brand Yarn, podcast, Yarncraft
Filed under: General Housekeeping

I have a computer with all of my stuff on it.  Admittedly, it’s still not MY computer, but that’s because we had to leave for Florida before mine came back from the shop. We’re still in Florida, we still don’t know when or how they are going to transfer my dad (who is back in [...]

Tags: craft shopping, crafttvweekly.com, Daddy, father in hospital, Florida, road trip
Filed under: General Housekeeping