2019 was exhausting, emotion, and all around rough.
i know i briefly mentioned it in the TMNT baby quilt post that our grandma passed away in late september and the whole year leading up just made it one long blur. she fell in march, and her health declined the rest of the year which made it feel like it was a never ending.
know that once she passed on, we all as an extended family felt a sense of peace and relief as she has been ready to go for years now, especially with granddad and aunt donna passing the year prior.
the day before grandma passed, my mom texted me saying elroy wasn't doing well, and he very well might be going to the vet and not coming home the next day.
earlier on in the year, we also lost 2 of his brothers from both litters prior, Murphy and Rufus.
Velcro still is with us, but also giving us some scares recently that are truly showing his age as well.
safe to say, blogging really fell to the wayside with all these losses. well, crafting and sewing in general really fell off the radar for the most part as well.
i felt like i was starting to sew when i had to, and not when i wanted to.
my maker monday sewing group was dissolved and then ultimately cancelled, so there went that outside sewing group. i have a new roommate who doesn't sew, so now we're just back to pre-maker monday sewing talk with lisa via text and marco polo.
BUT
here's to trying to make that change.
turn those HAVE to craft back in to WANT to crafts
an acquaintance from high school started a local crafting group on facebook with hopes to get together and craft and chat.
i stumbled across a posting on nextdoor about a monthly crafting get together group (which is surprising, because most of my notifications are about found cats)
i joined another facebook group about a yearly UFO sew along to get work in progresses finished. this month is a christmas quilt that i purchased the pattern and stuff for probably 2 years ago now and have tried to convince myself to do.
craftster.org is gone, but it is now lettucecraft.com which has helped revitalize my sharing online as well. hopefully that will kick blogging in to gear.
2019 had about a third of the blog posts that years prior did... so it is time to make that change!
i've got about 8 posts of projects currently that are photographed and needing to be blogged, so buckle up! things will soon be coming your way.
here's to 2020.
fresh start.
new adventures (quiltcon in februrary!)
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