It boggles the mind how long it has been since I updated this.  How much my life has changed since my 'oh I'm going to write what makes me happy' blog. My life was torn apart and I have spent the last several years trying to put it back together again, with varying amounts of success.

     My friend Gayla and I had SomethingShiney.com with the intention of linking it to my Etsy shop. We had grand plans of posting lessons and how -to posts, and  setting up an Etsy shop with all our beautiful creations.

    As is so often the case with grand plans, something always gets in the way.  Her cancer, my... oh hell who can pick one thing... my LIFE... it never got beyond the basic planning stages.

    I lost my dear friend a week ago. I am still not completely adjusted to the world without her in it. So often I go to text her something, show her some interesting article.... and realize that I can't.  When my ex-husband took off to 'find himself',  or whatever the excuse for dumping 25 years together without so much as an actual discussion is this year, I found that she and he..... well lets just say they were closer than I realized.  But as so much of the last year or 2 of my marriage turned out to be, it was all a lie. He lied to her as much as he lied to me.  So I found it in myself to forgive her. It was hard, but ultimately worth it. Gayla came to say that she got the better side of the deal, though I don't think she thought so at first. What does this have to do with anything? I don't know. But as I was working  from home today (I had major ankle surgery and am still recovering) I suddenly had the need to find our website, and continue what we got interrupted doing. Grief does weird things to a person. I have found that out the hard way time and again the last few years.

So I'm going to start with blogging again. Hopefully it won't get sabotaged like my LiveJournal did. I don't think the ex remembers this blog so its probably safe. No one is reading it anyway :)

So look here for yarning, and crafting and jewelry and what ever else pops into my brain.

As for why my avatar is Alice and the Cheshire Cat? Well one of my high school nicknames was Alice.... and I have been down the damn rabbit hole since 2010...