Let's get this started... again.

It's been over a year since the last time I blogged and I said last time that I hope to be able to keep it up! I'm not promising anything right now but I do hope to be more active on the blogosphere.

I've been fairly busy, let me catch you up on what we've been up to!

We bought a log cabin out in Pine Hollow, Oregon and we have been going up nearly every weekend since then. We didn't have to do much to it but we did add a wood burning pizza oven and a covered picnic area, added a hot tub and put in an air conditioning unit. This week it was in the high 90's and I thought I was going to die, ha ha ha! I guess you could say that I'm not a fan of the heat!

I have really expanded my Etsy shop the last 8 months or so. Unfortunately for me and a lot of other sellers Etsy seller fees are going up and a lot of us have been looking for an alternative. I have decided to move my shop to Fiber Crafty, it's similar to Etsy in that it's geared to handmade items and supplies for crafting. Etsy has really stepped away from the handmade niche of shops and seem to be allowing all sorts of things. I'm hoping I am making the right move. I hope to get everything moved over there with in the next week or so. For now you can find me on Etsy .

I have a few quilt kids that I've gotten through The Fat Quarter Shop and I really need to get those going. I ordered the Pride and Joy Block of the Month kit by Kim Diehl and I just love the quilts I've seen others do on Instagram, I've heard that it is a lot of cutting and that makes me nervous. I need to stock up on spray starch and get to prepping!

Well, that is all I'm going to write about now. Let's see if I can post once or twice a week for a while

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