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This wee little 3 inch bunny is crocheted in a vintage Thread, with Rich brown Glass eyes and embroidered nose, thread jointed for Wonderful Pose ability

Positive thoughts… warm lovely spring weather… warm…warm…WARM !!! Well loves for those that follow me on Facebook you all know I have been SICK !!! Blah yucky kidney stones with a UTI… really messed me up for a few days. Two trips to the ER to finally get some IV antibiotics and now I am on the mend Thank you for all the well wishes ♥♥

Today I thought I would share a little more of my general life… and pictures are a great way to do that !!

These little kids where born one cold night about a month ago, We noticed one of the girls standing out in the rain rather than in the shelter with everyone else. Flash light in hand we find these two…absolutely stone cold, limp and tiny. My husband assumed premature and dead. I being the optimist that I am, that and I don’t give up easily haul their sad little bodys down to the laundry room… I mean what can it hurt if I try to revive them. It was a miracle after a few minutes in a hot bath they started to struggle, and as you can see from the photos they are doing well now.

Mom is not the brightest bulb in the box but after a few weeks allowed the kids to nurse with out us restraining her.

Our goats are Nigerian Dwarfs, they are a milking breed and a lovely small size. I just love spring !!

arghhhh… the Chaos and mess :/ Trying to balance… love the old checklist

1. The kids online School
2. Studio time
3. Blog Posts
4. and my goodness if I don’t do any marketing there is NO POINT ♥
5. My 20th Anniversary

This is my Sewing area… hmmm…. wonder if there is room for improvement..lol

We aren’t even going to discuss the kids school.. well ok just a bit… I LOVE IT ♥♥ but easy it is not… worth it I know but arghhh !!!

I have found some time to get a little cleaning up done in the studio. This is my punch thread drawer. Lots more work to do here but it works for the moment. Left 1/2 is colors and the right Body neutrals. It will be fun to share the progress I make with organizing this area.

Studio time is moving along, though at this time Fred my 14 year old is not able to work for more than 20 minutes with out having some kind of school problem. I know I wasn’t going to really talk about the school stuff but it is at the front of my thoughts :/ Lots of portfolio projects to be turned in tomorrow. Which is VERY time consuming but we can’t do any more work till they are done I have gotten a few projects done in here…. a boston Terrier with wobbly cotter pin joints and a large hatted bear was finished. Also a special order miniature chick in lace dress and for fun I did a blue bird the same style I also finished a brown faced black bear in miniature … really love this little guy he is so darn cute !! I designed a few new pieces too. I am eager to get them finished and offer a new pattern ♥

and just for fun… here are a few of the bears waiting to be adopted All but Andy Panda who will get posted tomorrow…SERIOUSLY where does the week go ??

and today “The Ides of March” is my husband and I Aniversary… 20 years. WOW the only thing I can actually claim I have been doing for 20 years. Well on June 15 I can say I’ve been a mom for 20 years… yes it was a shot gun wedding and it was him holding the shot gun. I kind of have this problem doing something for very long. I have been making bears from crochet since I was 10 but it has been fits and starts… I have been a bear designer for over 20 years. Again fits and Starts. If I have stuck with something for 20 years does it mean I can claim I am a professional… maybe an expert.

My life is full of new things all the time… never stagnant always flowing Wouldn’t have it any other way but sometimes, well all the time I realize I need patterns and list to accomplish things. Otherwise I would be starting new new new new over and over NEVER finishing anything. So going to make a list…

DEMONSTRATIVE NEED TO DO LIST

1. Blog
2. Creating
3. Marketing

BLOG

1. Entries Monday Wednesday and Fridays
2. Pictures Taken for the week on Monday
3. A basic Theme for the week….

CREATING

1. 4 to 6 hours of crocheting and or knitting every night
2. 1 to 3 hours of finish work every day
3. Once a week a project that is just for fun

MARKETING

1. My least favorite subject, and not going to put anything in writing at this time

SO today I took pictures… just wandered around and took some shots of the farm and studio. I hope to be able to share my life and Creativity with you all.  I have no doubt you who follow have a pretty good idea of who I am…  Love me or Hate me… or just plain follow to see what kind of a train wreck things our LOL…

hmmmm… One thing I have noticed is most of my blog posts are open ended… not really a completed thought… oh shiny, wonder what the dogs are barking at… CRAP !!! I have dinner on the STOVE ♥♥ No really hope it isn’t burning

I know strange title… but that is what I am feeling now. Not a great feeling :/ Well it can be but well not for me right now. lets start with why I am anticipating. I finally after many months get to see a neurologist. I had a couple of Grand mals back in October you might remember the picture of me with a lovely pair of shiners lol. That incident put me in the ER. Since then it has not been easy. Nights of waking up with some part of my body if not the whole damn thing twitching uncontrollably. sometimes Isolated like just my hand, others one side of my body. Obviously something is wrong. My mother Died at 42 of brain cancer… I am 42 her first symptoms was a grand mal. The ER did a cat scan so I am pretty sure that is not the issue. I hope it is something simple… a little pill and all is better.

Truth is the appt on Friday will be nothing but a history chat kind of  thing with eeg etc. scheduled for later… so I anticipate no real answers and continuing on seizing… I am tired I don’t want to do this anymore. I am brought to tears often with the frustration of waking up 13 to 16 hours later exhausted. Spending hours at night seizing waking up only to try to get back to sleep and doing it again all night long :/

Hard to find hope… What if he looks at me and says, Parkinsons, MS, Cancer…something devastating?? So sorry if I haven’t been available on FB. If I have been slow getting patterns out. I am a little distracted… very worried and definitively anticipating.

I wish it was a warm Wednesday …lol But in true Oregon spirit we have had snow. Lovely warm spring February leads to trees blooming, Daffodils poking their heads up to the sun… Then it is cold again :d But that lovely little preview gets me excite for the weather that is coming. Chicks are in the feed and seed… the last group of lambs are being born, which this year I hope to get a few lambs… of course need Bantams a couple dozen of course A new gosling to join our little flock. The goose gets treated like a puppy and is loved on and sleeps in one of the kids room in a box by the bed. The gosling gets bounded to the child and make wonderful pets until they sexually mature… then they turn into aggressive butt heads for awhile…later mellowing back out and making great guard animals. No way anyone is invading our property not without lots of noise and believe me a 20 pound bird flying at your head is pretty scary. So Spring… well kind of… not really. but SOON

Good god I am seriously ill..hotter than a coal in the stove…dizzy…very very dizzy… and my back hurts. Got some kind of bug that is for sure but here I am making a blog entry. This is dedication right ?? maybe insanity. Should be interesting reading the fevered entry I am making right now :/

Lets see…………. what interesting thing has come a bout ?  I have been crocheting some punch thread critters whom I hope to have done soon.. and there is a pile of bears waiting for a nose job. Did get the studio cleaned up more. And Good news Fred is finally enrolled in online school.

Ok a picture or two of the studio. Bears posted tomorrow… and then more this week Love you all !! Thank you very much for your purchases both on my Etsy and direct from the sight

I hope to get the stacked dressers painted this summer when the weather improves…. but this is my general finishing space

And all…wellll….some of my fabric stash… I really need to figure away to color coordinate this :/ But that is for another OCD episode down the line

This is the BJD dresses I am fixating on … well that and spicy crab sushi… I am just so excited about getting my kaye Wiggs doll Actually The doll may be my next post !!

To view… ALL the bears I have available on ebay http://www.ebay.com/sch/demonstrativebears4u/m.html?item=140702535906&viewitem&_trksid=p4340.l2562

I know …WOW !! 2 posts in a row ♥ As I said in my lat post there are some things about the way I work I just don’t like about myself.. one of those is how often I actuallyp ost Another is under selling myself :.  SO…. Unfortunately This means my bears adoption fees will be going up… I don’t want sticker shock… but at the minimum I need to cover some of the listing fees and other bear related expenses. I mean it is silly that I have to choose do I buy milk or pay ebay ?? I buy milk of course but it does go thru my head :/

A List of changes at this time

• More regular time in the Studio… Tezza from FB  are going to be studio buddies and see if we can keep ourselves on task
• More posts… to encourage dialogs with other bear enthusiasts… I feel lonely !!
•  And Prices raised to reflect my time and investment

Well the lens of my glasses just fell out… and I am blind. Sorry for mistakes I can not now see the screen :/ Back to be till Greg ccan aome finde my len

This women just plain inspires me… http://rebeccadanger.typepad.com/rebecca_danger/  to be a better me to…To Boldly shout out my insane ramblings going on in my head ” ALL THE TIME”  don’t get me wrong… by no means do I think Rebbeca Danger is Crazy. I think she is inspired, Bold, Creative and a hell of a lot more organized than I am :/ She makes a lovely little jumper sleeper this week… purchases enough to make two for her son. Very reasonable, very do able. ME I would by 10 plus fabrics because well I may as well make a few for baby shower gifts… get them cut out maybe even get the zippers in probably finish one.. and 3-4 months from now shove them in a tote box and forget about them till I have grand kids :/

This is something I am trying to change about myself.. something I find very annoying… things I love to do get just plain muddled… fits and starts.  OK so the point… no more… well ok LOTS LESS… I will be forcing myself to post 3 times a week. Keep me in check guys !!! poke at me on FB… remind me remember when you said???

I have actually gotten a lot better and get into my studio at least 3 times a week… I want this to be 5 days a week for 4 hours… but jeeze four hours is SO LONG !!!  I love doing it why is it so hard to give myself that time commitment ?? What kind of things do the rest of you work at homers out there do to…  well not procrastinate ??