Issues with scheduling a routine

I want more than anything than to have a day to just create, pound metal and get my hands dirty. However, I am having issues. My life is pretty out of whack right now, and am working on getting it to make sense again. I truly am excited about all the new endeavors and good things coming my way. I am just struggling with channeling all of these things to make my new life make sense again...I like a good routine, ya know?! My first step is to get back to running. I really miss it. I miss my running buds too! Running is a great outlet to make all those things come together and make sense for me. Another big step is learning time management, and coming to terms that I can only do things in little bits. Baby steps...that's what it's all about...and having great friends & family helps too!

A Come Back!

It's been ages since I blogged. I owe this reunion of blogging to a new friend, Laurence. She has a really cool blog about her home life and her country of origin...France. Very cool!

AMAZING RACE!!

What an exciting moment for our country. It's about time we had a dramatic change. Congrats to Barack & Joe!!

How does YOUR garden grow?

Well...I have been up to my elbows in dirt. The family & I have been working on getting our garden going. So no time for designing jewelry...just designing our garden space. Building raised garden beds, potting bench, herb "stairs", butterfly garden. This is just the beginning! We are going to start our second raised garden bed....but it has to be built first! Oh how I love tools! :) We have started the very large project in becoming more enviromentally savvy and GREEN! We have a "worm factory" that is taking care of all our kitchen fruit & veggie scraps. Worms? Yep. Worms. Red wigglers to be precise.....these hungry critters are going to town and creating some very rich "soil" that will eventually be added into our garden. Here are some pics of our work. It's still in progress, but we are on a roll! I can't wait for some fresh tomatoes! Yum! We are growing all kinds of goodies: savoy cabbage, broccoli, lots of herbs, onions, tomatoes (4 varieties), arugula, okra, green/red/yellow peppers, jalapenos...oh man!

That's our rottie, Bear....he's posing for you. He's quite the ham. He even winks! LOL Nah...that was just a freak accident....but too cute!

Ok...that's it for now. I have take a break from this blog thing. I don't have the hang of posting just yet. All these pics took forever to line up right! Uggh! LOL

Thanks for reading!

~Stephanie