SubscribeBrowsing the archives for the Uncategorized category
From the Lady of Toad Hall
Refusing to Grow up Since 1970
I know, it’s been a while since I posted. I tend to forget, ’cause I don’t really want to be writing a boring Christmas letter in blog form!
So we’ll see how the next year pans out here at Toad Hall…
I’m taking Kelly Kilmer’s “Life Made by Hand” art journaling class this year, and have promised [...]
Havi has had me thinking about personal sovereignty over the last few weeks — it’s an important topic, because it combines control with self-confidence and responsibility.
If I own my own sovereignty, then I also own my own actions, choices, and the results thereof. And while acknowledging that other people’s choices affect me, I am still [...]
Wow, it’s been a busy month here at Toad Hall. Between everyone (including Dora the kitten if you count the end of August) being sick, releases at the day job, an upcoming newsletter/class launch at Stitching with a Shimmy, and designing away, I haven’t had time to breathe – not that I could have done [...]
I hate being sick. I caught bronchitis last week, went in and got something for it, and then literally two day s later came down with this ear infection like nothing I’ve ever had before. The doctor was surprised, said it probably wasn’t related to the bronchitis, was EXTERNAL (praise be) … and gave me [...]
I’ve got them. So do you.
Right now my pattern is to be upset and frustrated and concerned about work. And to try frantically to get my business up and off the ground at home. I’m tired, I’m trying to get designs done and posts written – both for here and my other site, and I’m [...]
I love this term. I love the connotation that I’m just stuck in the mud and with a little help we can shift the wheels and get rolling again. That it’s not me — well, it is, but it’s really just stuff – muddy stuff getting in my way. (No comments about me just being [...]
OK. So I may maintain a “salon”. But I don’t think it works online. At least not for me. So I’m ditching the “Dear Friends” (although I may work it into a new banner sometime in my non-copious free time!).
This is the place I’m going to work through some of my current phases. I’m in [...]
The entire idea of “what do I want to be when I grow up” has haunted me all of my life.
I was worried in 6th grade when the only answer I had was “a ballerina,” even knowing then that my body was going to fight me the entire way, and probalby win.
My real problem was [...]
Dear Friends-
I first envisioned this blog as a simple move from LiveJournal. I am seeing now in only a few posts, that it is going to be so much more — and so different.
In many ways, it’s because I feel more at home here – I am able to control my environment more. I’m able [...]
Dear Friends,
As mentioned previously, I am owned by three cats. In the case of at least two of them, I am only a secondary toy.
Being secondary has its advantages. If the EO is home, the Old Lady and the Queen ignore me outright and fight over who gets to sit on his lap. I only [...]