i’ll be honest, i’m not coming back to flat hill farms feeling as refreshed as i’d hoped after a week off. i’m still dancing the fine line between being overwhelmed and pleased at what i’m accomplishing…and it is a very fine line.
but i found that over this past week instead of sitting down each afternoon and planning out the next day’s entry, i was instead doing stuff. stuff i liked, no less.

i actually knocked off some things on my christmas list. trying to give handmade (or at least local) gifts seems like such a do-able option in october…but once november starts flying by, well, that’s when i start to panic. but the fact that i’ve gotten one or two things accomplished thanks to a blog break is a happy spot in my heart.

i also picked up my knitting needles for the first time in a very, very long time. and i was happy to discover that it’s really like riding a bike after all-it took me a bit to find the rhytm of it, but once i did, i realized my fingers had never forgotten it.

and, of course, i’ve been working on meatbagz. this saturday we’re going to a local craft show, we were selected to be in poppytalk handmade’s holiday show which also starts this weekend, and we just got a request for more bagz from a local art gallery who has been selling them on consigment. and what does the shutter have to do with it? well, that’s our latest display-i’m making some folding screens out of them to hang our bagz on.
so, here’s the thing: i’ve really enjoyed having some extra time in my life, so i’ve decided that i’m going to release myself from the self-imposed quota of posting 5 times a week…for the time being. i’ll still be posting, probably 2 or 3 times a week, it just won’t be as regularly scheduled. and i’ll still be taking a gazillion photographs (approx. number) so everything will filter through eventually, it will just take a little more time to reach the huddled masses (ie, you).
but please don’t desert me, and stop in every now and again to visit. i’ll be back in the saddle again soon, i think, but right now…right now i’m going to have a cup of tea, go work on some meatbagz, and i’ll come back later.





