Hello all, I’ve been feeling pressure to write here (mostly from myself…hehe) but have had very little to say! Flutterby Gifts has kind of been set on the back burner as life has moved in another direction. This is the way my life works and I’m so very very glad that the pieces that create my life can move and be versatile in the way to set things aside and give other things my complete focus. 

 For example: My husband and I just graduated massage therapy school (yay!) and while I am so very excited about that I now feel like my life which had been on hold is now on fast forward. All the things I was waiting on and that I couldn’t do because I needed to finish school are now available to be sought after. 

We are looking into moving to anther state and building our very first home! This is looming large over my thoughts right now and the idea of it is really stressing me out. However the blessing of having our own home that is green and energy efficient and has the things that I want, where I want them…well this is certainly worth the risks and stresses! 

I have also started moving toward my doula certification (actually four of them! birth doula, post partum doula, adoption doula and high risk pregnancy doula) I’ve got a ton of reading to do!! I’ve already tore through two of the books needed and am half way through a third. I need to keep the pace if I want to finish quickly. 

I know that life will settle and Flutterby will come back around. I’m still taking and filling orders, just nothing particularly new to announce!

Ok ok..so I used this picture in my last entry but I couldn’t help it!

I got a new table that is big enough to have a seperate cutting space and sewing space! Its not one on top of the other anymore. This picture shows the lifts I put under the table which makes it MUCH easier on my back to cut. I promise I’ll have a better picture next week…lol

I’ve been tagged by Christine over at “eye pop art” so I’m getting to that (albeit late…) The thing to do is list off six odd, or unknown things. Since this is my “work” blog there are quite a few things aren’t known so this should be nice!   

1. I am almost a fully certified massage therapist. I am graduating from Southwest institute of healing arts. And I LOVE my school. I don’t think there are any other schools like it and it has been a true blessing to have the instructors that I have had. I’m going to have to round some of them up and get pictures with them and post those pictures in a place that I can think on it often. They deserve all the blessings the world can muster because they are amazing.   

2. Now that my schooling is done (almost, we have a little over one week) for massage therapy I’m adding to my specialty of pregnancy massage by becoming a doula. I LOVE birth. Love it. Natural, healthy, happy birth. Love it. I am planning on digging into my study as quickly as I can so I can get out there and help women happily and healthfully birth happy healthy babies.   

3. I have always loved dance. Its probably one of the most wonderful expressive ways to show your emotions. I’ve never taken any classes because I am clumsy, I am not a skinny woman, and I fall easily. Its sad because I wish I could dance but my body is of a different mind I guess. That’s ok, I’ve found other ways of creatively expressing myself…I dance through my sewing machine! (oh how cheesy was that!?)   

4. I love tattoo’s but despise pain. I am such a baby when it comes to it. Its sad really because I have desire for much more work across my back, actually I’d like to FILL my back. I think I may just stick with the two I have however. I have one down my spine, and one around my right ankle. They are very very special to me.   

5. My list of creative things to learn is probably longer than I’ll ever be able to finish. I want to learn to crochet, so I can make stuffed animals. I want to learn stained glass art. I want to learn mosaic (though I truly doubt I have the patience. I am a very now now now kind of girl…) I want to learn to paint. I want to learn….so much that I’ve forgotten!   

6. My dream house is a straw bale house with a stone yurt attached (a small one, one room with a loft). I think on it so often and frequently that I can see out the windows, feel the floor under my feet and I have every corner mapped out. I want to paint in lazure paint style especially in my craft room. I want a huge wonderful kitchen with stone floors at the back of the house so that I can attach a green house right off the kitchen where I can grow my tomatoes, lettuces beans and herbs. It will be a ranch, where we will raise emus, alpaca’s, a fish pond and have a separate building made with just as many green techniques and will be home to my massage room, Watsu pool and 6-7 rooms that will be a bed and breakfast. Yes it would be a massive undertaking but I’ve been in love with this idea, and this floor plan and these animals for longer than I’ve loved my husband!

Ok, now I’m to tag some other folks to do this…I tag:

Fleeting moments

Mint basil

Keyboard Revolution

True face of birth

…and miles to go

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I see that I’ve neglected my blog this week…I’m terribly sorry for that. This week has been a rough week and as such I’ve gotten about…not much done.  

I’ve not been feeling well and have been having some very odd symptoms for the last couple of weeks. Those that love me have urged me to see my doctor but I’m really not a doctor fan, and as my symptoms were odd and easily ignored I did just that. I ignored them. I couldn’t however ignore my loved ones, so on Monday I went in and saw my doctor. She was concerned. That’s not what I was looking to hear. So we did quite a large blood draw and we’ll see what comes back. I am hoping and praying for nothing. This is one time that I don’t think I’d mind for a doctor to scratch their head and shrug their shoulders and assume its nothing. Cancer is one of things mentioned and I’d much prefer nothing to cancer.  

A dear friend of mine chose to start hospice this week. She went to stand with her creator on Wed. While I was deeply saddened, and still am I’m comforted to know that her pain has ended and her sorrow is over. I will miss her so dearly. She was on dialysis for thirteen years. She was waiting for a kidney donation in all that time. She…never got it. Please. Please, if you haven’t already…please become an organ donor. If your not already..this didn’t need to happen to this wonderful wonderful woman. So please, save someone’s life.  

In happier news this week was a record week for the business! I was so so very grateful for the distraction and I am confident that it will keep up. I’m proud of what I do, I love what I do and I can’t wait to share with as many people as will allow me! The record was a record number of orders in any one week. It came at a nice flow, and I got everything out in record time as well! It was great. I thank you for your orders and I hope everyone enjoys.  

I did get the “Air” skirt started (part of the Earth, Air, Fire, Water series of skirts) I really like the color scheme I’ve chosen for the patchwork. I’ve got the idea and color scheme for the Fire skirt as well, but life needs to give a long enough break to sit down and work at my sewing machine.  

Speaking of my sewing…that’s another blessing for this week! My area (while very messy…) was all stuffed into a corner of the dining room and set up on a folding card table. Any time my sewing machine would go semi fast it would start rocking the entire table and so I would have to sew really slowly because otherwise it would vibrate to the point of not being able to see what I was doing. My neighbor moved away this week and decided to offer us his large (six person) dining room set, the table is very sturdy and my husband thought it would be best used as my sewing area! Oh my goodness….the amount of space I have now is glorious! Still a mess…cuz that’s just “how I roll” but that stems from having to have everything right at fingers length at all times. If I could just put ANYTHING away….hehe. Here’s a few pictures:  

Now I have actual cutting space that is separate from my sewing space (before in order to cut I had to put my sewing machine on the floor…and my serger was stored on the floor) Now my serger can fit on the table, all my cutting supplies, threads. Its all there!  

and I just had to share this. Anyone who isn’t lucky enough to have a cutting table knows that cutting on a normal height table is a back breaking thing. Normal tables are just too low. I knew I had to lift the table up but I had no idea what I could lift it with…I thought about it for about a week and I thought about the paper packs we have! We just happened to have four of them and its the perfect height. Now when I’m sewing and need to see close up for my satin stitching I don’t have to hunch over. Its been a life saver, for both cutting and sewing. Had to share. Cheap fix too!  

Last but not least I’ve signed up for a quilting class. I’m very excited about that, and while I know how to quilt there is always room for improvement and I think this will be a great help and boost for my skills. Not to mention I hope I can meet some other women my age. I’m painfully shy and as I work at home its hard to meet anyone. Here’s hoping!

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