It's been quite a while since I updated this! Quite a few things have happened since then. Let the updating commence (in no particular order)!:
1) I had to re-home dear Neville :( He was starting to bite people and and refused to be groomed. I couldn't have that going on in the house. If he were an outdoor rabbit, I would have kept him, but being an indoor pet, he needed to be friendly. I miss that little guy :( I might try again with a new bunny, but we'll see. We didn't have much room for Neville when he was here, so unless we can find a better space for a different bunny, I'm guessing it's a no-go. Someday, I'll have angoras again. It just might be a while.
2) I am officially signed up to take art classes in the spring! :) I have it arranged where I can still work mostly full-time (35 hours a week) and take two classes: Color Theory and Human Anatomy and Design. Guys. I am so happy :D This current plan I'm on has me taking two classes per semester for 4-ish semesters, so I should be done by spring 2014, or fall 2013 if I move things around. We'll see what happens :)
3) I've also started a 365 Days of Art project where I draw something every day :) I've got it going over on deviantART and it's going rather well so far. Here's the link to my profile: http://jayropedawg.deviantart.com/. If you go to "Gallery," there should be a link to my "Scrapbook," and that's where most of the doodles will be. The better ones will be posted to my actual gallery on there, and I'll post some of the better ones on here, too.
4) I haven't been doing much baking with cakes and such, but I've been learning a lot about better eating habits and better food over at Nourished Kitchen. It's pretty interesting, and I'm hoping the techniques I'm learning will help me and the hubs eat and feel better :) I bought some kefir grains online for morning smoothies. I'm thinking about trying kombucha, but to be honest, it freaks me out a little. I might look around to see if someone around here makes it and would be willing to let me try it first, and maybe even share a SCOBY with me.
On top of that, I found an egg lady! Now I get to eat farm fresh eggs from pastured chickens like I did when I was little :) I'm a little embarrassed to say this, but when I took my first bite out of my eggs over easy made with those eggs, I cried. True story.
Anyway, back to cakes: most of my baking is going to be bread and such, but I'm still doing cakes for birthdays, etc :) I'm wanting to make some Christmas cookies soon, so keep an eye out for those!
5) I've also been striving to be more green. I grew up recycling and buying second-hand and conserving electricity, but that's because we were poor and not necessarily overly eco-conscious (though, to be honest, we were still rather concerned with the environment). Now that I'm all grown up and actually have money and am married to someone who has never had to experience being poor, it's harder to stay focused on being economical and environmentally friendly. I like impulse-buying. I like buying new things. I like buying expensive new things. I almost even jumped on the Keurig bandwagon because of my lust for good, easy coffee (and tea, and hot chocolate...this was hard to turn down, my friends!). But, I've slowly been taking steps to revert back to my simpler way of living, and it's been great :) I'm definitely not as dedicated as some (a pretty hard-core green blogger), but what I do helps, even if only a little, and that's good enough for me :)
6) I've done a few neat crochet projects. I can't believe I haven't posted those! :\ I did post them on Ravelry, though. I'll get right on posting those here, too.
This is slightly unrelated to crochet projects, but on the subject of posting to other websites, I think that's why I never post on here anymore. For day-to-day stuff, I've got Facebook. For art stuff, there's deviantART. For needlework, there's Ravelry. (Oh yeah, and I discovered Pinterest yesterday...this could get ugly.) I find it hard to balance it all on here sometimes because, frankly, nobody reads this blog. Lol, I actually post this to Facebook if I want people to read it! But, I guess that's the nice thing about the internet. It's all linked together.
7) Speaking of Pinterest, I found some neat Christmas decoration ideas on there, on top of the stuff I found using good ol' Google, so keep an eye out for posts of those too.
I can't really think of anything else, but that was a lot anyway! Hope you enjoyed it (Mom and whoever else reads this blog)! ;)
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