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I’m SORTA feelin’ groovy!

In news that is not fun: my health is still causing a lot of trouble right now.  But I have fun news as well!  My supply order was made…and arrived sooner than expected!  Not only that…I made my new work area!  To do this I had to:

Move my piano.
Buy 3 bookshelves
Assemble the shelves
Buy a melamine […]

And it’s cold and cloudy out, too…

I am currently suffering a severe lack of strength and energy, lately.  I have been managing…barely…to do the most basic parts of my routine.  Listing items on Etsy daily, for example.  Eating, showering…biking if it isn’t windy…and that is pretty much it.  I haven’t even been watching TV or going for groceries like usual…I’m really […]

My hidey-hole

I have been pulled off the internet and more into ‘real life’, lately…and consequently I forget all about this poor little blog.  I think I’m still managing once a week, and sometimes more, but still…I do keep forgetting.
I made 5 or 6 sticks the other day but that was a little while ago…the creative front […]

Apple Blossom

I was intending to clean up today, particularly because it is too windy to go biking.  (It’s not a great replacement but it’s important to get SOME physical activity even on cold, windy days.)  So I took half of a half-strength (regular ones are 200mg but mine are only 100mg) caffeine pill.  (I have a […]

New this week: bead drops.

So, my place is all shiny clean and I, though tired, feel much more relaxed and enthusiastic about “makin’ stuff”. It’s just so much easier to feel energetic and optimistic in clean, orderly, homey surroundings.
I’m really into making dangle sticks with very short dangles right now…the trend continues beyond those charm loop dangles I […]

Shake up

Spring is coming, and summer will follow.  I am a very busy girl from spring through summer, and so I need to get organized before the flurry starts.  I WANT to be busy all spring and summer, because the Canadian winter (which really, lasts about half of the entire year, from mid fall to mid […]

My coccoon

Today I’m going to show you guys where I come from…the things I am surrounded by.  People are a product of their environment…and here is some of mine.
Pictures from around my town where I walk and bike:
 

 
 

Pictures from our property and inside my own home:

Some plants I have put in my garden:

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Golden Meliadese

Krista Hubert maintains both The Far Grove shop and The Far Grove Blog. She's older than she looks, loves fantasy, and wants to make real life a little more like a fairytale. Making exotic fantasy jewellery is one of the ways she attempts to do so.

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