Oh my, that is true, we are not just near the end of the year, it is the end of a decade!
My year is ending with a blast, I have loved hunkering down in the studio and making Sugarplum Fairy after fairy after fairy.
And I am thankful for all of the people who bought them for me so that I could indulge in my love of crafting these gals.
It has been a mixed year for me. Lots of wonderful moments and people, lots of injury and heartache and worry.
It is odd that a year can be soooo good, but yet so bad at the same time.
Teaching at Karen's Cozy Castle, and at Jenn Hayslip's retreat, seeing family members from far away, and having a studio full of Peeps come to see me a couple of times this year made up for a lot of the problems I have had.
It is hard to be too down about a minor skull fracture, multiple concussions, and other aches and pains when I have so many positives in my life too.
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The break up of my son's family and the draining work of getting their house on the market was heart wrenching. But having little Dewdrop come back for Christmas eases that pain. And while my son and his littlest girl now live across the country, I am adjusting. And still have the other 3 grand fairies with me. We are trying to get back to family dinners with the group, and while it is a change to not have two of our people, there is still a lot of love on those nights.
And seriously, how lucky and blessed were we to have an uptick in the local real estate market just as we finished the remodelling of the house we had bought for my son's family and to get out from under that mortgage in less than a week? We worked our asses off to make it happen for weeks, but yes, it did work out.
We could have been stuck with an empty house to take care of and keep up all winter.
My husband's early retirement also threw me for a loop. But we are adjusting and he is the happiest he has ever been in his life.
Life is all about changes and how you deal with them. Honestly, I did NOT deal well with having to do so much to that house to get it sold, and with the family splitting up.
Did I mention that my husband unexpectedly retired that week and that I also had my hormones cut in half at the same time? But I got through it, and did what was needed to make things work.
(I have since found out that my rotator cuff was torn and my bicep tendon was ruptured at the time, so that makes me feel better now about being so whiny while painting ceilings then! I am now in PT for those injuries.)
I have had beautiful trips with people I love (even though I came home with a concussion twice).
I have had dozens of fun and caring Peeps here at the cottage.
I have had a nest full of puppies to cheer me up with snuggles at the end of a long day of repainting a house we were afraid we were stuck with, but were not.
I had the joy of running through the waves with Sugarwings, splashing through Disney in the rain and laughing with all four girls, making seashell fairies on 4 beaches to leave as thank yous for the beauty of the trip.
I have had people let me down, but others show so much caring that I could get past the hurt of the let downs.
And I have had the joy of making all of these Sugarplum fairies. What a happy way to end the year. I was so thrilled to see that they sold so quickly, and while this is kind of late to be adding more to the Boutique, I had a lot of happiness go into making each and every one whether they sell or not.
2019 has been eventful.
These fairies might seem like a silly little thing to be so emotional about, but a lot of healing went into the creation of them.
I would like to share the cheer. Please leave a comment if you want to be entered to win a fairy of your own.
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