I have been talking about moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico for about two years and now it is happening!  Tomorrow morning all my stuff will be put in a big truck bound for Santa Fe.  I’ll be so glad to get out of this house that has been in the “packing to move” state of disarray for about a month.  It is exciting to have a new place to fix up and make into HOME.  I can hardly wait to get out my jewelry making things and start creating again.

I was going to post a photo of The Jane World as casa de Salley is right now, but apparently while unhooking and re-hooking my computer world for moving the what’s-it that makes posting a photo possible has disappeared!!

Having these beautiful flowers in my yard is a privilege, while so much of the country is still covered in snow and ice and expecting more, I feel blessed to see these beauties pop their glory from the ground.   To me it is exciting to see the sunshine change from the hash white of winter to the golden glow of spring and summer.  However the summer golden glow is more of a dingy brown from the smog.

This time of year lifts my spirits - a mild form of “spring fever” I guess.  The past week I have been out pillaging my neighbors landscape by pinching off flower buds and supple, new leaves.  As I write this sentence, I realize I a vandal.  No one notices, but I’m a small time vandal just the same.  As a fan of the network crime shows I expect to have those beautiful, cleavage bulging characters to show up and confiscate my purloined bits of botany for DNA testing.  Thank goodness everyone in my neighborhood is either off on their morning commute by 5:30 am or sleeping till 10 am.

Keep an eye out for jewelry creation featuring Mother Nature’s offerings.

Spring Has Sprung in MoVal

The wonderful R and I have a new tool.  It’s a die cutter to cut out perfect circles in our favorite metals - 11 different sizes.  Oh, the earrings, pendants, and charms I could make are just the beginning!  So, what’s the dilemma?    We are moving to Santa Fe the first week in June and I’m supposed to be getting ready to move, not make more jewelry!

The dictionary defines a dilemma as “a choice, or a situation in which a person has to choose, between two equally unsatisfactory alternatives”.  So there it is: the choice between not getting to create new things with our cool tool or not being ready to move in 12 weeks.  Those who are creative will understand how unsatisfactory it is not to be able to create.

Twelve weeks sounds like a long time to pack but the sheer amount of stuff we have is mind boggling.  The number of things to sort though is intimidating.  My latest fuzzy brain storm is to pack everything I know I want and then just start tossing the rest.  The problem with that is how do I carry on my daily life with everything I use packed up.  I’ve already packed my off season clothes, my fancy dishes and extra stuff and my house is still pretty full.  How long can I live in a sea of packed up brown boxes?

HELP - any suggestions from an experience mover will be greatly appreciated.