Hi Dear Friends!
Sandy and
Pet, it's great to hear that you were both thinking of me -- I was thinking of both of you too! It just goes to show you how connected we all are!
Wow, it appears that I haven't posted on this thread since December 18th, way back on page 97!
I've gotten busy and distracted with various things of late (more later in this post), and have missed posting here and talking with all of you too! But I have at least been stopping in and reading this thread as often as possible, keeping up behind the scenes with the goings-on.
One thing I noticed at one point is that this glorious thread bypassed the "100,000 views" milestone a while back! I've kept meaning to write in and commemorate that by updating that image I created before, when this thread reached 1111 posts, then again when it reached 2222 posts, so I'll do it now:
*~*~*~ THIS THREAD ROCKS! Yay! ~*~*~*
We had a fun Christmas, just me and Ron here at home with a veritable feast that lasted for days!
Our "representative" from the gallery, and her husband, also an artist in the gallery (the new, re-opened one that has now been rid of most of the really negative folks, fortunately!
) stopped by our place on Christmas Eve on the way to visit her sister and family in Carmel a bit south of here, and picked up our latest set of scarves to take back with them to the gallery. Then her sister ended up buying one of my scarves before they could even make it back to the gallery!
I've continued to just "follow my bliss" (as Joseph Campbell said) by making and swapping lots of artist trading cards. I've now made over 100 of them!
You can see the latest ones, if you wish, by viewing them at this link:
http://www.aquadeb.com/artgallery.html#atc . The latest ones are way down at the end, so just keep on scrolling down to the end of the ATC section!
Ron has now gotten interested in making ATCs too, so we've both been making tons of them!
The latest news is that, spurred on by just the sheer fun of it, as well as the state of the economy, we're now planning to start trying to sell them as ACEOs ("art cards, editions and originals") online, first on eBay as a start. We've now each got the required state seller's permits and city business licenses, and we've ordered a better printer that can make art-quality prints, which should arrive tomorrow (Yay!
), so we'll see what happens!
It's been exciting gearing up for this newest endeavor, but it has also stirred up both of our inner resistors quite a bit, so we've been taking all sorts of flower essences, and have had lots of emotional ups and downs of late (mine exacerbated by hormones, of course
) and a couple little "episodes" of discord here and there.
In fact, I had to wait a couple of nights after you all asked where I've been lately before I was in a good enough space to actually post here, because I was afraid of sounding too negative!
I'm feeling a little better today, at least, and we're really doing some great things here, but growth and change, and dealing with the resistance it can bring up, are not always completely smooth sailing, as we all well know!
Well, I can't possibly catch up on everything everyone's written here this time around
, but here are a few things I wanted to say, at least
:
Gypsie Deb, so glad to see you posting here, and to hear that you're resting up and healing and drinking wheatgrass!
PP, wow, sorry to hear of the rough holidays you had this year, with your friend's passing and all the bad weather and everything -- that was a lot to deal with at once!
That's a good idea you mentioned, that I could perhaps streak my hair, either the red part brown (probably with the herbs amla or indigo or a mix) or the brown part red with henna. My hair's about half and half, brown and red, at this point
, and I still haven't done anything with it!
Brenda, great to see you posting; I've thought of you and wondered how you were doing!
Laura, glad you made it back safely from all your travels!
Lilly and
Pet, I love both of your latest avvies, by the way!
Heather, that's so cool that you've been teaching yourself Suzuki violin! I too have always loved the violin. Several years back, I tried learning "old-tyme" and bluegrass fiddle out of the blue, without ever having played it as a kid or anything -- a challenging instrument to learn, but a truly beautiful one. I didn't get that good at it before my whole life completely changed (much for the better in the end!
) and I had to quit it at the time, and have never gotten back to it again since (but who knows, maybe one day). I loved playing Irish jigs and the like, but the dogs would start barking at me to stop if I played for too long; the screeching was hurting their sensitive ears, poor things!
Sandy, I've dabbled here and there in raw food from time to time as I get the chance, as I've mentioned on here at times -- Have you heard of the "salad spiralizers," these little hand-held gadgets that can cut some of the harder raw vegetables, like sweet potatoes, etc., into little thin pasta-like strips that make them easy to eat raw? I have had one for like a year now, but haven't used it yet!
Here's a link to a picture/description:
http://www.therawfoodworld.com/product_ ... 1f3c9bf8db . I also have a food dehydrator, which I've only used once so far
, and a juicer (which I've used a fair amount, but only in phases, it seems). I hope to keep looking into it more and more eventually.
Well, I'd best get going for now, but I hope to write in again much sooner the next time around!
For those of you I haven't addressed here by name this time around, I've been thinking of you too and enjoying your posts as well.
Lots of love to all
,
Aqua Deb
Oh well, That's okay! More for me! 
~Have a great day Everyone~ 
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My clothes were starting to get that tight feeling....lol 
Hello Lilly,
Best to let it release..