She has new bears that I haven’t seen yet up on her site. I love their uniqueness, their quirks, their circus clothes. They are just so cute I can hardly stand it.
I am in search of a style as distinctive and irresistable as hers. What talent!
And for the most part, without casualty. Unless you want to count the wake of destruction Ellie left in her path through our house, but what’s one new, striped, favorite wing-back living room chair more or less? I’m sure repairing the damage will cost less than it would have to board her somewhere, so I’ll try not to dwell on the very large hole chewed in our dining room carpet. I wanted new flooring there anyway and this has just expedited the process. So thanks, Ellie. We were crazy to leave you home alone for ten days with only baby gates to deter you from chewing up furniture and 3 neighborhood kids to run around with you in the yard a little every day.
We had a nice trip. We drove a lot. We stayed with family. We saw the ocean and some church history sights, played with cousins, went to a birthday party, listened to lots of books on CD…
After all the excitement, we are all VERY ready to sleep in our own beds.
We’re in New Hampshire to visit family. It was a nice drive and today we went to the beach. Just wanted to let you know that I’ll be back in a week with good stories to tell 
New site design!!! I’m so thankful I have a computer genius husband, because it would take me a long time to figure all the programming jargon out. All I have to do is show him how I want it to look, make a graphic or two, and WALA! It’s on the internet. Well, maybe not quite as fast as WALA, but close.
I even made an “about me” blurb, but we’re having a hard time figuring out static pages in Word Press.
Also coming soon– shop seedpod! I have “learn to spin” drop spindle kits ready to post, and also some niddy-noddy-nostepinnes for anyone out there that wants to learn how to spin their own yarn. I’ve got some good journal ideas rolling around in my brain too, so hopefully this fall I’ll have some up for your Christmas shopping pleasure.
Also, I’m venturing into flickr. There are lots of cool things it can do. I just need to sit down and figure them out. I want to have a handspun yarn gallery. If anyone out there has bought a spindle from me and made some yarn, e-mail me (jessica AT seedpodbooksandart DOT com) a picture of it and I’ll post it. I just think it would be cool to amass a bunch of pictures of handspun yarn, you know, because pictures are cool.
On a totally unrelated note, but noteworthy nonetheless:
It is a good thing that my boys have nicely shaped heads. Because you can see them very well now. Because they have no hair–well, next to no hair. They were pretty shaggy and I just never got around to giving them haircuts, so, when I went to a meeting Tuesday night, Barry gave them haircuts. Logan’s blond wispy softeness is now about 3 mm long. I had quite a shock, but today I think he is the cutest thing ever again and I love his fuzzy head. I am very thankful to have a husband to helps so much–even if he doesn’t do things quite the way I would. (Stay tuned to Barry’s site for pictures.)
*UPDATE*
There are some glitches with the categories over on the left. If you’d like to look at the posts in a category and get a file not found error, try clicking on “home” first, then going to the category you’re interested in. Not that anyone really cares that much, but I’m just trying to figure out this new layout 😉