Our New Addition

Well, there is not much of anything to add to a beading update....ok to be honest, nothing at all. I have not even prepped the material lol. I have been working with my bf to get gifts ready for Burning Man. We have been making fused glass pendants with the BM symbol on them to give to camp mates and others we meet along the way. I have never worked with glass before and have been having fun. We did about half as pins and half as necklaces that I have been putting on braided hemp and cotton cords.

I have also been running around trying to decide what to take, wear, not wear, not take, ok maybe take, etc. for Burning Man. In the spirit of my beading this year, I am trying to step out of my comfort zone and let a little bit of my inner self show in my clothes and outfits at BM this year. Basically leave my more conservative side behind and let the Leo in me out to play :) I am also planning on getting out of my camp a bit more and trying some events like morning meditation or yoga, taking a workshop on herbal healing, a class on couples massage, assuming I can talk my partner into this :), and one camp I am looking forward to visiting.....Gnome Camp. You adopt a garden gnome for the duration of the event, put them in your camp or take them around BM and take pictures on their disposable camera, which you then return at the end of the event. You have to make sure your gnome has a good time. This sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

Oh, yeah, I forgot, the title of this post.....our new addition. Well, to make a long story short, hopefully, our house came with a feral cat, unbeknownst to us. She (Zoe, who has since been caught and fixed) had kittens awhile ago and we found ourselves trying to tame and feed and care for four kittens. One of them is a true runt that Zoe abandoned for some reason at about 4 weeks. When we noticed, he was skin and bones. Of course we had to take him in and oh my, he (Pixel) has not grown much, but is filling out and driving poor Beanie (my cat) crazy. How something that weighs only ounces can make so much noise, I have no idea, but he is a wild man lol. And to top it off, he will only sleep if he is cuddled up against one of our chests, purring up a storm, cute as can be, but cause he is so small, we want to make sure he has enough room. Our queen size bed is not big enough for a cat, already demanding in her own right, two adult human slaves and now a pint size kitten.

Oh and his one last, very charming, trait...he has decided that feeding time is 5am, give or take ten minutes. Now this poses no problem for my fellow slave as he is a morning person, but it is pure torture for me. LMAO! now I know this may sound like I am whining, but I already love the little stinker....just had to complain a tiny bit. Oh and put a huge thanks in advance out there to my mom who is just insane enough to take my two cats while we are on vacation. They will have so much fun with her cat and new kitten LOL! She is going to be a crazy cat woman for a couple weeks and I can only hope she still is talking to me when we return from the desert LOL!

July is done.....finally

It has been ages since I have posted. I only finished my July piece on Sunday after having been unable to bead for over 2 weeks. Not only did I find my life in general had a lack of balance and lots of challenges, my physical body reflected it as well. I had vertigo as a result of a sinus infection and my life literally was spinning around me for a couple weeks. Ugh.....that has to be one of the most miserable things I have ever gone through. I couldn't bead, read, drive, barely work, and just felt awful. It did leave me with a lot of time to think and meditate though.

I feel that physical ailments can sometimes reflect our emotional and spiritual states, and this one sure did. I had turned my life upside down and most of my relationships and friendships all at the same time and then lived that out physically. I am finding my physical balance and the spinning I feel is much less while at the same time I am also finding balance within myself as I come to a place of peace about where my life is heading.

I ended up with my July piece being really simple and with little adornment. I let the colors and background stand on their own. I struggled with the idea of a heart because it is a symbol I rarely use cause it always felt so girly to me and I was never a girly girl, yet I look at it now and really like the shape and feel of it. I also am so loving the feeling of have completed another month.

I found fabric for August and am planning on starting it tonite. I know it will be a theme related to an event I am going to at the end of the month. This will be my second year at Burning Man and I can't wait. I feel like a child just before a birthday or holiday. If you have never heard of it, you can check it out here, http://www.burningman.com/. The theme this year is Green Man, and being environmentally conscious and being as green as possible. Guess what color my fabric is LOL!. I am probably one of the tamer participants but I do love being out of touch with everything for over a week, surrounded by art and music and finding myself helping and depending on people, often complete strangers, in such a difficult physical environment, yet one of the most rewarding spiritually.

Have a wonderful week.

Trilly