RELEASE

Release i - The shop will be updated at 9:00am Saturday December 1st, Sydney, Australia time. As a gauge, despite what international time zones will tell you, we are 11 hours ahead of London (time zones don't take daylight saving into account). The upload takes forever at Etsy, so I'm likely to be plugging away for a while uploading. I wish Etsy had the ability for you to upload everything, and then publish it, so all pieces go up at the same time rather than each piece individually (or have I missed that function?)

Release ii - Working away these last few weeks I've become re-inspired about what I want to achieve with the shop, and what I want to make for it, and what I want to make myself with it all. So I have been planning another shop update sometime around the end of January that will accommodate some of the pieces I didn't get to make, or remake (like Fold Tops), this time. And I've been sketching out some new patterns, and things to try as well. I do like this well of ideas stage - the coordination of a schematic, the consolidation process, and then the launching into it!

Release iii - For the first time in a year, I don't feel like my head is going to snap off, and I realised yesterday this week has been the first in months I haven't had all day everyday pressure temporal headaches as a result of constricted neck muscles. Maybe I am relaxing out. Maybe I am a little calmer. Maybe the hundreds of dollars spent on osteopathy are starting to ease it.

Release iii - Pia had her second round of osteopathy yesterday. She screamed. Very loudly. But the difference in her arm and shoulder area over the last two weeks has been fantastic. She no longer holds it up like a teapot, and it now hangs down normally like her other arm, and her cranial fluid is moving better and back to normal. She has been released from osteopathic care now, and we just need to stretch her out and massage out her shoulder muscle each day at home. I'm hoping her leg and her walking sort themselves out, but we'll watch that.

Release iv - A few quiet moments reading through Pattern Magic Vol 2. If I thought the first one was good, this second one is just inspirational. A handy distracion at work. I even made up some little paper pattern models while I ate my sandwiches.

Release v - The end of an era in my little boy's childhood, as he starts his transition to school and kindergarten. I think that's another post. A mother post. Because I can't say what I need in a few sentences.

Release - I must go, and wrap little things, a little collaborative effort with Amisha for the update and do her soaps justice, sew seams up, and write out product descriptions, bake a belated cake for my husband's birthday, think of something for lunches, get a coffee (very important), buy some milk (also very important), and play in the park in the warmth: perhaps the most important thing to do today :)

Comments

[shannon]

I load everything on etsy then hit the 'edit' button and let them sit there in the inactive listings until Im ready to 'list' them. Then you can get them in all at once, or atleast a minute apart.

Ill be shopping. Totally dig those pants.

[cari]

Clear up some knitting time in your schedule. There's something on its way to you.

(PS: Will set up the scanner this evening)

[michelle]

I'm excited for you!

How awesome will you feel on Sunday morning to wake up and know it's all done and dusted and ready to be loved.

Hope the coffee was good. I would have made it an iced one if it was me - Mmmmmmm treat. :)

[Donyale]

I was just going to say put everything in and hit inactivate - then activate when you are happy to go

[joyce]

i already see things i like =) i really can't wait!!
yes...we're doing school tours now to pick the right kindergaten for our son...decisions,decisions, decisions...

[Claudia]

Hey! You sound wonderful - glad the tension has released. Looking forward to the update - possibly can't buy anything, but will be drooling into the keyboard nonetheless. Have fun in the sun!

[di]

All wonderful. Can you make me some pants in that fabric too? Pretty please? Just so I can lounge around the house feeling a little more girly...

[Carson]

I like the theme of release very much.

[Michele]

such a nice cheerful post!

finding a huge benefit in having southern hemisphere blog friends. besides the fact you are all wonderfully creative - it's so life affirming to read about you enjoying sunny days in the park as we head into a deep freeze.

[cloth.paper.string]

osteopathy is like magic. i wouldn't have gotten through my pregnancy without it, and my little one had some treatments soon after her birth to realign her little body. so good. great to hear that pia is responding well.

off to your shop to see what everyone bought -- i can't imagine there will still be stuff left, with those inticing sneak peeks.

[Camilla]

My mom took my last bar of Amisha's soap when she visited this summer... oh, how I miss it. Your blog makes me want to get going on *things*, and as we are headed into winter (it snowed in the night and the roads are icy) I feel a new sense of urgency to "do". You are always an inspiration. Sorry about the growing-up boy. They have that annoying little habit. My solution was that we homeschool, but I've had many days where kindergarten/grade school would have been a lifesaver (that's where the Xanax comes in!) Have a wonderful day... we're off to bed on this side of the world. Cami

[amisha]

a beautiful release (and i will tell you how much i love my scarf, which is a lot, in a long overdue email...) xoxo