Movin' along.....

Blogging is, unfortunately, near the bottom of my priorities the past year or so. I wish that wasn't true, but it seems that it is. Also getting short shrift in my life is art work - and that's even sadder to me than the lack of blogging time. I am going to try to remedy both conditions this spring.

As of Feb 8, I started training for a new job. I'm still in social services work, but with a different company, and at a higher level of responsibility and ABILITY to help families and children. I'm excited about what is on the horizon at this point, and am eager to finish official training next week. One little glitch, tho, and that is my suffering an accident 3 weeks ago during training. As a result, my right knee was quite severely injured, and I'm still not able to walk much (or even sit) without my whole leg swelling to nearly double-size. wow. I do NOT want to be disabled, and I'm not ready to retire yet. What I do want is to get my knee fixed, at the expense of the city where the hazard was permitted to exist on public property. And then I want to get on and serve my families.

As for fiber time? Been doing a little of that now and again. I finally modified a small jonome sewing machine into a needlefelting machine. Not sure it works as well as a true embellisher, nor even as well as my hand needle-felter works, but it's ok. I can imagine some good uses for it.

Today, I'm assmembling some new frames for screenprinting. And catching up on laundry from being on the road for the past 2 weeks. And resting. When I get the frames assembled, I'm going to make some temporary screen resists (either freezer paper or interfacing) and try them out during the evenings this week, since I will be home at night from now on - or at least until another far training is scheduled.