This WONDERfilled Life...

I am (and I am cringing as I type this) cautiously optimistic about the future.  I think almost eight weeks of isolation has been enough of a pity party and I have decided to try and actually get some things, REAL things accomplished.  I've been sitting on several blog posts since last year and what better time to get them out to the world than right now! I have some time, you have some time...maybe you'll be inspired to create something? Stranger things eh? So, one of my most favorite things about crafting is HELPING others to learn that they too can in fact be as crafty as me...I think because I am a musician I understand more easily that anything you want to do in life is absolutely attainable with practice.  I have literally been practicing crafting since I was P's age...I have amassed all the cool tools, read various blogs, soaked in the info and most importantly tried and failed at many, many projects.  So when I have folks come to me and ask me to make somethi

I haven't posted a blog since the beginning of February...and that whole Twenty in 20? HA! I'm not counting it out but it certainly has been put on the back burner.  Right after I posted in February we had some things happen here at the house...in an effort at keeping ourselves safe I will just say that we were the victims of an attempted home invasion...TWICE...and I was home both times.  I spent February looking over my shoulder, depleting our savings in upgrading parts of our security and having new security doors ordered and installed on the house.  It was traumatic and time consuming and I didn't sleep well for weeks.  In fact I didn't sleep well until our new doors were installed.  I had about 5 days of blissful, we're going to be okay sleep and then the P-A-N-D-E-M-I-C hit.  What. The. Fudge. So I don't have to tell any of you how crazy this has all been.  It's kind of weird and also endearing that we (the entire world) are all going thru this, to