Busy Summer

Hey, Y'all....I'm still here.  I've just been crazy busy.

School has been out for a little over a month now and I have less than a month to go before I head back to school.  (.........sniff, sniff)  A few days after backpacking in West Virginia, I went back again for a week and a half.  I rent a farmhouse on the top of Allegheny Mountain every summer that is full of fresh air, cool breezes and no internet.  And as attached as I am to the internet when it is available, I do not miss it, not even for a moment, when I am away from it.  So, anyway, I had a lovely "Jan-cation" in WV.

My theme for the summer was going to be "Cooking, Cutting and Crochet."  My goal was to improve my skills in each area, and I did a lot of all of those things on my retreat.

Before coming back home, I incurred a nasty mountain biking injury in which I thought I had broken my kneecap.  X-rays showed that I had not, but even now I am still in some amount of pain from it.  That's limited how much I've gotten around the last couple of weeks.

I also came home to discover an opportunity for a project that has taken a lot of my energy all that time.  (More on that later.)  And since I can be pretty obsessive about projects, I haven't had anything else to blog about.

Since Mark has gone back to Canaan to backpack with buddies this weekend (we love that place!!!)  I have taken the time this weekend to do some snipping.  I've found some kirigami pieces on the web that have stolen my heart and I have decided to try my hand at it.

These are practice pieces done on tag board.  It's a little tricky to cut tag since it is so thick.  I may see if I can do kirigami cards with a thinner paper and see if it still will hold up.