Wow. I am touched and humbled. I was choked up more than a few times reading your comments yesterday. Thank you SO much. At each of the steps along the way in this process have been many amazing moments of realization and then rejoicing (Steve asks 'how many celebratory dinners exactly does one book require?' Um, a few more, honey.). Sharing the news here with you is one of those steps that I've been excited about. Thanks for meeting it with such energy! Yay! I will keep you posted as things move along.
Before I get too far ahead of myself, I must back up to give a big 'Three Cheers for Steve' for guest blogging for the past two weeks. After he agreed to be SoulePapa (he's such a good sport), I had a moment of panic, realizing that usually the first time someone blogs there's time to get a bit of a voice, or 'practice' before anyone generally even reads it (which is generally a good thing.I cringe when I read my first few posts). And there I was essentially throwing him out to the wolves on his first try. But you were all very nice wolves, so thank you. And he stepped up to the plate in a big way, so thank YOU, Steve! And oh, how much fun it was to see him become a blogger - taking bizarre photos, writing posts in his head, reading comments and visiting your blogs, etc. And he promises that he'll come back for guest appearances from time to time. hooray!
He told you about our little house heartbreak, didn't he? I must admit that it still stings a bit (Calvin told me to stop driving by it the other day. Oops. Did I go that way again?). Oh, I had big, big dreams about that house - and the 'studio' space? Oh my, oh my. But now, we're finding some peace with it all, and settling into staying here a bit longer. And now that I've got a bit more time to play, I've been puttering around in my studio - getting organized, and just generally sinking back in. (It may appear to you that I've been sewing with regularity, but it's all been small projects snuck in frantically so I didn't get too withdrawal/twitchy!) I'm sooo eager to sink into something slow and big. I'll leave you with a few snapshots of around the room as I've been tidying. (A few notes on the Flickr pages.) Enjoy! {Phew! Shorter posts coming soon!}
