Updates / Kara's Big Feature Project!

Hi There Devlings!
Well, I feel sheepish! It's been almost 6 months since I last journaled. Life in the interim has been good and bad. I spent the fall quite busy with teaching and a last craft faire or two and didn't have the mental energy to spare for anything else, but after that my depression reared it's ugly head for about 3 months straight. It was particularly bad timing too since those 3 months were supposed to be my inventory creation months. Instead, I spent November, December, & most of January escaping into books and in a fog that clung to my mind in heavy banks and drifts, obscuring everything in gloom. I couldn't do anything creative or productive. It was pretty bad. Finally one morning I woke up and the fog was lifting. It took a couple more days, but my mind finally felt clear again and I have been able to start working again. I also just devised a daily schedule with blocks of time for creating, updating online, business work, etc. I'm also trying to start walking 3 miles two mornings a week. I just got back from my first walk and other than the fact that I got blisters on the balls of my feet and had to walk the last mile with my toes curled on one foot it was great. My dog really enjoyed it too. Hopefully I'll get that figured out and things will get better from here on out.

Since I now have scheduled blocks of time dedicated to updating SoMe, I am hoping to really be able to get into the community here. In that spirit, here are some great deviations that were participants in Kara-a's "Big Feature Project". It was really fun to participate and see all the wonderful work! I hope you enjoy it!

I stuck mine on the end there so the rows were even. Also, there is one more, a poem, but the title is a swear word I'm not very fond of, so I didn't feel comfortable posting a thumb. If you'd like to read it you can find it here.

Well, I hope you are all doing well! I'm off to put an update on my blog, which has also been badly neglected!
Cya!
- Jülz