New Site!

I am super excited to announce the launch of my all-new website:  ajperspective.com!  This has been something I've wanted to do for a long time now and am so excited it's finally happening.  It will be a little of everything I love in life:  my family, crochet, quilts, photography, design work, and crafting in general.  It will house a special showcase of products I am selling as well as a portal for placing orders, including custom work.

Thank you for all for the years you've spent following this blog.  It will always have a special place in my heart.  It was an outlet for me through some of the most crazy, insane, difficult, and wonderful times of my adult life.  I have already transferred all my posts to the new site so I can remember everything that's happened (you know my memory is terrible)!  I will continue to blog through the new site and have already posted a few new things there for you, including a new section called MY QUOTABLE KID!  You're gonna love it!

If you want to receive updates of when I post at the new site, I'll make an RSS link available on the homepage.  You can save it as a bookmark in your web browser.

And finally, here's the link to the new site... go crazy, spread it around, share it with your friends and family:

ajperspective.com

Don't Worry...

... Be happy, mon!  This oh-so-happy hat is my latest completed crochet project and is now for sale in my "shop" to the first person to claim it!  Click read more for all the specs!

For Sale

Hey guys, I've been working the last couple weeks on a few items for sale.  I only have a limited number so the first people to claim them get them!  :)  Check them out!

Back-(B)logged

I've got such a back-log of blogs.  In the last few months I've been busy sewing, crafting, creating, cooking, confronting, and designing... maybe too busy because I haven't been able to blog about any of it.  So... this blog is dedicated to Design Work!

Back in the Kitchen

I cooked my first meal post-Katelyn's-surgery tonight and it really did feel great to be back in my kitchen!  That said, it wasn't my best:  Shepherd's Pie with corn that definitely needed more spices!  I tend to over-salt my Shepherd's Pie so I was trying to avoid that... which I guess I did, I just also avoided any flavor at all.  Oh well - there's just something about eating a meal you cooked in your very own house that makes even the most bland meal taste great!

Faithful to My Heart

I know it's silly.  I know it's irrational.  But it's still what I laid awake thinking about last night.

My child is lying sick in a hospital bed - she's 18 months old and had surgery yesterday.  I should have been thinking about doctors and antibiotics and stitches and gauze.  But all I could think about was her Easter basket.

Katelyn's Story

Click the pic of my baby girl to be taken to the story of what's going on with Katelyn right now.  Thank you all for your many prayers and sweet thoughts - it's really been overwhelming!  We love you!