I’ve been really quiet in this space all through the holidays.  Christmas came and went.  New Year’s came and went.  And even though it hasn’t been recorded here yet, there was a lot of making and playing and singing and sledding; lots of attempted steps, wobbly steps, exhilirating steps, confident steps; and lots of just being.

Now it’s time for a fresh start.

If you haven’t noticed, my website is all fresh and new!  I’ll have rotating links to various cool things over there to the left along with my (hopefully growing) list of project how-tos and patterns.  Cool, huh?

I’m also changing my name.  Well, the name of my website stuff.  “Seedpod Books and Art” was coined many, many years ago when I got the idea to make and sell handmade books online.  I wanted just seedpod.com, but some guy “owns” it and wants a ridiculous amount of money for it, so I had to come up with something to tack onto the end of that seedpod.  Since I was planning on selling books and art, that’s what my name became.  That was before blogs or etsy or any of that stuff (2001 I think).  Eventually I discovered craft blogs, became totally addicted ( my first regular reads were Jessica’s old Very Mom blog, Wee Wonderfuls, and Loobylu) and morphed my lonely little website into a blog.  Now it just doesn’t feel like the whole “Books and Art” thing fits anymore.  It really hasn’t for a long time, but the mean guy still wants thousands of dollars for just plain seedpod.com.   We thought seedpodcraft.com was workable– so that’s it.

In the time I’ve been writing here I’ve gone from 2 kids to 5.  I’ve lived in New Mexico, Ohio, and Colorado with some short stops in between.  I’ve bound books, made paper, spun yarn, painted, sewn, designed toys, printed, made silver jewelry…  This has been the place to store my treasures.  I’m happy to have it.

So, here’s to a new year and a fresh start.  Let’s hope I can go at it with all the joy and enthusiasm he does: