Month: July 2024

My stitchbook 2024

24 stitched pages on a tabletop.
Stitchbook pages almost ready for the final book.

My life feels pretty busy at times, but I do try to fill my time with something that is just for me anyway. At the beginning of the year, I participated in the #stitchbookchallenge2024. Ann Wood introduced this challenge and you can read all about it on her website ann wood handmade. Basically you create 20 pages by stitching each for 15 minutes for 5 days. 100 days later you have 20 pages you sew together in a book. I had a little laps during our spring break trip (we went to New York) but otherwise the 15 minutes were very doable. When I read that Tobia is doing the 100 day project again and it really inspired me. Have you done something like that? Would you? It was a highlight of my day and helps me relax better than any meditation would. I guess it is a form of meditation now that I think of it. I love doing things with my hands and it gave me some stitching practice. The saying ‘practice makes perfect’ really rings true in this case for me.

Morning Coffee Musings

To go cup of Cafe au lait and laptop on a table on an outside coffee shop patio because I am starting work outside today
Morning coffee outside

I wrote something up before in the past couple of month and never hit post. Honestly, most days I am just tired. I feel like I am constantly trying to figure out how to balance it all. It’s a constant. Every new school year for the kids, it’s new schedules combined with my work and the general life stuff (like shopping, cleaning the house, laundry, garden, taking care of my health and my kids’, everything). Maybe it would be easier if I was a list person? Anyway, blogging has been something that fell of the wagon in these past couple of months.

This morning it’s a beautiful day in Berkeley, California. So on my way from the parking garage to work I decided to stop at a coffee shop and analyze some data (for work) and start writing, in the hope that it will be the start to do it on a more regular basis again (for me). I am sorry I have not been checking in much with the lovely people from NaBloPoMo that San got together. It’s definitely not you! Hopefully it’s not to late to reconnect…