1,200 Miles Later.

First of all, I’d like to apologize for my lack of updates. This blog was designed to be a tool to stir creativity but instead, has begun to resemble much of my relationship with crafting: strong idea and start and no finish. However, I will not let that happen! I will follow through! And in doing so, I’d like to consider the old saying of ‘easy does it’. That’s right! I can just hear an old fisherman say it with a pipe hanging out of his mouth as his subordinates slowly drop the nets over the side of the boat: ‘easy does it, easy does it’. Much like this slightly unhelpful visual, I will attempt to actually stay on track and have a somewhat cohesive blog.

Many things have occurred since the onset of this blog. I have completed a move! This move began in Chattanooga, TN taking various pit stops in Maryland, New Jersey and as you read earlier, Philadelphia. Now the move has been completed and I find myself nestled in a small town on the coast of Maine. After a month of living out of my suitcase and the crates of clothes/shoes/misc. stored in the trunk of my car, I have unpacked and settled into a room that will be home for the next months as I engage in this new community. I left the land of fried okra and entered the land of lobsters and chowders. I have traded in my binders and textbooks for a mound of clay and a potter's wheel and am transitioning from the world of theory to application. Ahh, yes! How I've been waiting for this!

Though this blog is to be a place of ‘creative excursions’ and not another ‘day in the life of…’ blog, I’m realizing that this phase of my life is quite the creative excursion. Though I have not attacked the endless creative ‘to-do’s’, I have transported the list 9 states. That’s got to count for something!

Due to all the transition that the months of May and June have brought me, I’ve decided to post updates about my move and all the joys, discoveries and just plain “hmm’s…” I’ve encountered along the way.

I will address the following in upcoming posts:

1. How to visit your parents and NOT resort to the default maturity level which tends to rest between 11 and 14 years of age

2. What to look for when moving to a new area

3. Mission: Job and Housing… stop. BREATHE.

4. In all things, consider décor

5. Routine! Hello! How I’ve missed you!