Vacation day 16 cleaning & learning

You may not think this picture is very significant, but it is. There are no boxes on the floor. I am going through my things to get ready for a 25 cent sale and I finally got some of the boxes out of the house. It feels so good to go through stuff and decide "what do I need and what is just extra weight. "
This shows that yes I can have a dining room that is mostly clean. Just a few more items to get out of the dining room and I will be finished. Sometimes I can't believe that it can look so horrendous then so nice, like this afternoon. I just love the light shining in.

OK, here is where all that stuff went. To the front porch. Yes I can't believe all this stuff was in my house; BUT WAIT there's more! After we have our 25 cent sale, I have employed my son to sand the porch and help me out with staining it. Yes you read it here, I have a commitment from the son type. In the meantime, I have to finish up going through the rest of my stuff, (you do know we don't have junk, we have stuff) and get it outside. Then we have Camp Meme where we will do all kinds of historical things around Arkansas. Territorial Restoration, Old Washington, Meme's back yard, oh sorry the last one was just to see if you were paying attention. Then Vacation Bible School and then up to Ft. Smith with part of the GG's to see my sister for a mini GG Get away. Ah the summer is so short and it is already blooming hot! Couldn't grow okra without those hot nights!

This evening I am back at college. No not for book 'larning,' but for a course on Human Resource practices. I don't know why people have to give complicated names for jobs that say what they are. Personnel tells you just what it is, hiring & firing. Human Resource sounds like they are doing experiments on people. Very creepy. Administrative Assistant is really a Secretary. Doesn't secretary say it all: this person is in charge of the office area-period. Do not attempt to do change anything, schedule anything or attempt anything new without the secretary's approval. You gotta love it. Can you really say that about an Administrative Assistant? I don't think so.

Warming up my mind

Today I was working on some curtains for a client of my daughters. You know that girl over at My little life. Well, all day I have been sewing sewing sewing! Up and down the stairs, cause my sewing room is upstairs and my dining room has the only table long enough to work on these curtains. Here is a snippet of the table in my sewing room. A summer beach/swim bag I am designing for my etsy, A Razorback bill cap I have to mend for my husband, a couple of baskets I want to put fabric in for Easter decorations ,etc. Why do crafty people have to be so creative? So much to make and so little time. Isn't it great!

I came downstairs,(again), because I was fixin' to get supper ready when I walked through my living room and saw the sun coming in the windows. That is such a warming feeling. Even here in Arkansas where we will have winter now for about two weeks. Then it is spring and sooner rather than later it will be summer. But the sun shining in makes you remember that you really like this winter pick me up. The sun makes me feel warm, not just physically warm, but warm in my mind. As if it is saying be warm, the sun didn't go away.

I really can't blame the druids for being scared every year when the shortest day would come around. After all, they didn't live around the equator so when the sun set earlier and earlier they were in darkness and cold longer and longer. But you would think that someone would see that the same thing happened year after year.

Which brings us to faith, (wow that was a really cool transition), because if you thought that what you did would influence the earth and natures cycles and of course that included the sun, you might think it was up to you to save yourself and those that you love. Hey does this sound like anything we are hearing about now. You might do something drastic like have a human sacrifice or set things on fire to bring back the sun. And, you would see by golly it worked! The sun returned. So now you have set a precedent. If we have a sacrifice to appease the "sun god" the earth will obey. Jeez, and we think they were crazy. Aren't we being told the same thing today. It is our fault the earth is warming. We have to sacrifice our lifestyle to the "earth god." Not only am I insulted by that thinking, I feel the shamans of today's world want to hold sway over our lives. But I'm not going to go along.

Here is what I believe 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Wow! It is all about Him. Not what we do, but what he does. So now I get to enjoy what he has done. Which is why I love the sun in the winter. He called the light "day," It is good.

Just warming up in my mind.

Homebodies unite! Oxymoron?

Today I was working on my mantra. Oh, I don't mean I was trying to find zen or anything like that, but I was trying to get my mind around doing what I love. That is what I am telling myself these days. Not that I haven't been doing that most of my life, but I find myself in pecular situations where I have the opportunity to work outside the home, but I absolutely hate it. I don't mean I hate the people I have to work with, I hate being out of my home.

I love being in and around my home. I am a true homebody. I can remember even when my husband was going to school and I had three children under the age of 6, we were living in an apartment in a complex where there were many people, but I loved being in my "home" as it were. I just have to accept the fact that there are many days I would just as soon stay home as go anywhere else.

Today I was up in my sewing room on the second floor where I can view my domain, (you remember the kind that is an actual place, not an internet cyber-nowhere place) and I just sat in the sun sewing and just enjoying my life. I have been sewing aprons like this one which is at my etsy shop. It has been a very satisfying experience. Creating, executing and hopefully sending to a new home. I was emailing a fellow fabriholic, (person addicted to fabrics) about loving fabrics. Not just certain fabrics, all kinds of fabric. And mostly if they are very colorful. And not only do I love fabrics, I feel like a mother of adopted orphans. I want to give them new homes where the people will love and take care of them.

The window was open, because of course it is January and it should be 70 degrees outside, and I sewed and sewed and sewed loving every minute of it.

So, when I begin to feel myself wanning and I feel the tug of Outside Job I repeat my mantra:"Do what you love. Do what you love." I am always encouraged and feel myself going again for another session of glorious creating.

So do what you love, do what YOU love.