ready-to-pretend

So it is 24 hours since I fell asleep sitting bolt upright on a couch all night.  We had just returned from a wedding. A wedding that has been in the planning since September of 2007.  My daughter Mehgan Hannam aka as shutterbug13 and Jason Arpin aka as curmudgeon75 were married At our church surrounded by family, friends, neighbors, church family, coworkers and friends. The room was so full of joy that I (aka as a blubberer) never shed a tear all day.  My only daughter has taken the biggest step of her life at a very tender age. I KNOW that it was the the right man and the right tome. We retired to a log pavilion at the shoe of Lake Super

And so I stop for a moment to say that I am still here.  I have not left the building. I am not kidding. The dolls continue to fill every moment as well as requests. I rise, dress, have cereal and put my thinble on and take it off at bed time. All is completed for the wedding. my portion at least and now the grant dolls have no competition. Ice,Snow, Boreal, Warrior, Arbor, Amethyst, Birch Grove,Waterfall, Copper, Gold and Silver. Still to come Jack,Grass and Fungi,Sky and First Nations. I will post them soon as I have to have good photos taken. I have applied for a phase two grant that would be all hands on for the gallery. I am consu

I have not left the planet or my home for many many weeks now. I am marking my time in levels of beads that lower away and reels of thread used.  I have also switched to coffee which is unheard of in this house to keep from nodding off. Indeed my husband found me working on a doll at the coffee table one day, My head was low, beading the feet and my needle was in my right hand suspended in midsitch. When I did not respond to a question he discovered that I was fast asleep with my forhead pillowed on the feet of the upright doll. My friends are starting to lose patience with my homebody self and are making comments and not coming to enterta