It’s been a lovely day. The weather isn’t pretty, but all sorts of nice things are coming my way. How could I complain?

First, I’ve been getting some very nice compliments on my new site and my jewelry. I can’t take credit for the site, but I’m happy my jewelry is receiving so much praise.

Then, I was contacted by a fellow indie designer to collaborate on a project. We’re still working out the details, but needless to say, I’m pretty excited. It’s a PERFECT collaboration for us both. My head is spinning at the thought of it.

And then, if all that wasn’t enough, my site relaunch was written up on Purple Pink and Orange.

I feel warm and fuzzy.

It’s finally ready! Okay, so there are a few minor things I’m still working on, but it’s ready enough to be seen by the public.

What’s ready?

My new website, of course! I’m proud of it, and I’m relieved it’s ready to be unveiled. But now the really hard scary part begins.

Poppy Fish

(Yeah, yeah, I know I’m supposed to write something more to make the link more valuable or something.)

I know. It’s been so long since I’ve written that there’s no point explaining. By now, I’ve blogged long enough to leave a record of my habits of unexpectedly disappearing once in a while.

So what’s new? Lots. Nothing in particular has me writing today though. I’m taking a yoga class. It’s fun. The boys are taking swimming lessons and yoga. They’re staring the baseball season soon. 

We remodeled our basement and we’re enjoying it. At the beginning of the year, we had a water softener and filter installed. I regret not having done it sooner. 

I’ve been very confrontational lately. Can’t quite figure that one out, since I normally avoid confrontation at any cost. It’s working out well though because there have been so many issues I’ve had to deal with these past few months. My phone service was all messed up, and I had to call about that. After the fourth time, I cancelled. NFLshop.com owes me $14, and I’m still working on getting that back. My carpet installers arrived 4 hours late. The furniture delivery guys damaged my kitchen wall (and didn’t even manage to get the sofa in the room.)  My neighbor’s aggressive dog keeps coming to my house. And so on, and so forth.

I’m feeling disappointment about the boys being back in school. There’s so much nonsense in school. The school fundraiser is on Saturday. I have a new dress. I’ll probably freeze my ass off like last time. I didn’t donate a piece of jewelry to the fundraiser this year. I considered it, but decided against it for some reason. 

Re-branding is going well. I’m almost on schedule. I’ve always struggled with getting the photos the way I want them, so I invested in some new lights which should be delivered today. Then, I just have a little more writing to do, and I’ll be ready to launch the new site. So, I’m somewhere between 1-3 days away from the launch. All the really hard scary stuff comes after that.

My mom is retiring tomorrow. Well, her last day is tomorrow.  It’s… weird.

That’s all I have for now.