I’m seriously happy to be alive and back on my feet. Thank You for the well wishes. There's really no "good time" to be sick. The world stops, but the to-do list keeps growing. I’m busier than ever, trying to get caught up. For this reason, pattern orders are taking more time than usual to ship out. I appreciate your patience while I get on top of that again. (I mention this for those with emails that bounce, don’t receive my notes, and may be wondering about their orders.) Everything will get on its way eventually though, pinky promise!
Listen. Can you hear that? It's the distant drum of the local high school marching band. It reminds me, that another school term has begun and there’s no more time to waste. We always like to start our home schooling year with a trip somewhere while the weather holds up, so I’ll be laying low (here on the blog) for a few days while making those plans and getting things organized. Speaking of organizing, our new Pazzles Inspiration Creative Cutter arrived a few days ago and Grace was so excited, she had it out of the box in about two seconds flat and was installing the software before I could get my keester off the couch.

It looks promising. And it's a nice size. Not too big. Still, we had to rearrange the entire upstairs workspace to make room for it. That tells you something about our upstairs workspace:: you can’t move one thing without turning the entire room upside down. There was lots of dusting and tidying up throughout. It took all day and then some. We are pretty happy with the new arrangement though, and the cleaning needed to be done, regardless. Though I must say, the addition of a new "toy" gave our efforts purpose and certainly made it easier with that goal in mind. So. After looking at lots of other die cutters, and reading your suggestions and comments (all very helpful btw), this is the one I finally chose. It doesn’t do everything I initially wanted (or wash clothes or cook dinner), but it is programmable, giving us options. Hopefully we'll have some new projects to show for it soon. Once I'm on top of things again. Like, I should go check out the garden ASAP before we have a crazy shock like this on our hands. I still haven't forgotten last year's scary bounty. Have a great week!