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a fresh start
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:
He’s all arms…
This isn’t a very Christmasy post, but I HAVE to make it.
The kids have been really into Owl City lately. Look what we found when we downloaded the pictures off of Barry’s camera:
I love that kid. I think this is from the day he told me over and over that he is going to be a rock star.
Merry Christmas!
We’ve had our annual Messiah sing along Christmas party– to continue the Christmas music theme here. There were about 40 people crammed into our house, over half of which were banished to the basement to watch Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus is Coming to Town because they were too young to read or be interested in trying to sing along with us. We blasted some MoTab and tried to sing our parts while following along in the score. There was lots of food too. A fun time was had by all, but there are no pictures to prove it. I was too busy hallelujahing to even think about getting out the camera. Hence the retrieval of Sybil the Christmas Elephant from the archives. I think she’s a fun, festive little gal.
Here’s hoping you have a wonderful holiday. Being a mother continually makes Christmas more meaningful for me, not just because the magic of watching my kids surprise and glee with all the gifts on Christmas morning, but because the Creator of worlds without number saw fit to come to earth just like we do– as a tiny helpless little baby– because he loves us. Because he loves me.
Merry Christmas!