True to my blog name…

Sure enough, I seem to be finding a path. It’s been keeping me so busy I haven’t been blogging regularly. It’s interesting how I seem to go through cycles with that – and it seems like I’ve seen the same with other bloggers as well. I would like to return to blogging more often though, as I find it centering.

For now, I will keep it short and sweet with a little What I’ve Been Up To report. I’m slowly sussing out how to structure a life that feeds me well, and right now a lot of my focus is on a site called Squidoo. To explain what that is, let me just quote from their site. “Squidoo is a hand-built collection of nearly 900,000 pages built by people just like you. Squidoo is about giving you a free, easy place to set up a page online. About anything you’re interested in. Squidoo is about finding people when you care what they know instead of who they know.” This means it’s a great platform for me to teach, to write, and to learn. And the way the community is designed, I’m not limited to one niche only. While I want to write a bunch of articles on paper punches, like “How to Save Money on Craft Punches” if I’m suddenly struck with the inspiration to write a Zombie Gift Guide I can do that too. The cool part is, Squidoo splits their ad revenues between their authors and charity, taking just enough to keep Squidoo running smoothly. So this could generate a bit of revenue for me as well. Woot!

I’ve also finally bought a laptop, which will enable me to do computer stuff when I’m on the go – and is also a good deal more powerful than my old machine. I hadn’t quite realized how out of date my PC had become. I also bought the latest version of PhotoShop Elements, which I’m working on figuring out (I’m used to PaintShop 8!) so that I can get back to making digital collage sheets. I hope to finally launch my art supplies shop on Etsy in the next few weeks – I’ve been working on ideas for this for nearly a year now. With the laptop, I’ll be able to mail out the collage sheets even if I’m out of the house for a day or two (and I often am.)

Oh, and I forgot to mention – my sweetie has started working from home full time, which has shifted a lot of things subtly in happier directions. The most noticible change is that we moved the living room furniture around so that it’s an office on one half and a living room on the other; and now my desk is right by a window, which really seems to help with my SAD. I’ve also upped the amount of vitamin D I’m taking to 6,000 IU. I had a very rocky few weeks through January and early February, but things are evening out a lot. Things are really syncing up, at last! I’m even getting a bit better at writing effective To Do Lists and remembering (relearning, really) how to play and relax.