If I'm being honest with you

-I find 1 ply toilet paper to be down right unkind.  Gas station bathroom stop, you know the type. -I wonder why we are measured via weight and length from birth?  As if knowing that a # pound whatever # ounce really matters in the grand scheme of life.  Just makes me wonder.

- I appreciate linens far more than I should.  Seriously I feel like each room should have at least 3 comfy blankees.

-Cats and dogs little sleeping snores and dreams are the cutest things ever to watch and I can't even imagine what it will be like once we produce offspring.  The possibility of that kind of love...  To watch innocents sleep.

-All I can think about today is a gigantic banana split. Traditional, 3 scoops, whipped cream sub walnuts for pecans, no need for a cherry.

What's on your mind today? Wednesday already! Lacy

Status Update.

Stream of conscious, stay with me.
Status update. Whatcha doing?  Whatcha up to?
A quiet day.  Yes I know I am late to post.  Payroll at Breathe today.  It usually takes up most of my day. 
Multi tasking but being impeccable with numbers.  Something I am very serious about.  Numbers.
Which is funny because I would have always chosen English over math but now-a-days the numbers are what draw my attention.
The Hinge is screaming.  Something that has started in her old age.  It's troubling.
She is screaming now as I type.  It's like she's lost and looking for us so she moans, and shouts.  I've videoed it for the vet, they say it's normal.  I always go to her.  Hold her, tell her we're here, it's ok.  And for a moment she is reminded, oh i'm ok.  Cool.  And then I am back to creating in my studio.
In my studio... Singer Simple.  She and I have finally made friends.  This weekend 4 needles broken but lessons learned, always the hard way.  And so I am crafting.  It's sanctuary.  And soon little love gifts will head out into the world and maybe a few limited edition sales too.   I do that make a few things, send them out to a small group and offer them up, my little love projects.
Projects... Lacylike herbal line.  My little pride and joy.  There's nothing better than seeing and order come in and packing the box with love or delivering it to a local store for sale (yeap, wholesale orders too, pretty awesome).  Playing with some new formulas, I love it when customers send the "oh it'd love it if you could turn this soap in a this or that..." and then it happens... mixing potions, trying then out on Cliff.  He totally loves it.  Comparing this to that, trying it out, feedback, the journey.  We invent well together.  We troubleshoot well together.  We create well together, this week reed diffusers and I think we've finally got it!  It's exciting and fulfilling when I finally get the right combo. Our bedroom smells of rose.  As all bedrooms should of course. 
The Hinge is in her donut now (cat bed, high walls, very cute) sitting next to me.  She's ok.  Good girl.  Sweet little one finally knows that I am her mamma.  After all these years she knows.  The adoption is complete.  Our little  blended fur face family is a happy one.  Ned is of course on top of the shelf in a basket resting in a pile of fabric.  Naturally, where else would he be. It's our studio after all.  ha!
This studio.  Perhaps my favorite room of all time, on the whole planet.  It's perfect.  Soon I'll make a fabric tent of sorts, more like a canopy, I see it in my mind... will have to create it in time.  It will be a corner nook, pillows on the floor, streaming from the ceiling free and happy.  Something for Ned to bat at and something for me to sit in and read... and just sit... meditate.
Meditate.  Cliff and I meditate each night before bed together.  One of my favorite things we do together.  Though I have a lot of favorites but there's no harm in that now is there!
So yeah, status update... whatcha doing?  Whatcha up to?

xo
Lacy

What's Real

What's real.  Right now.

1.  24 hours in a day feels veryreal right now.  Though sometimes lately it feels like I almost squeak out 25.

2.  Sitting on the couch of a girl friend talking and talking and seeing hours pass like minutes.  Thank you sweet friend!  Spending time near you always brings me back to myself in the best ways.  Walls down, heart open-- just plain goodness and perspective.  The world seems right side up today.

3.  Meditation every night with my love and getting into bed together.  There's nothing quite like that end of the day unwind and reconnect.

4.  The magic of the Internet and finally, finally being able to talk to my sis in Spain through the computer.

5.  My cousin, Derrick and his girlfriend, Jaymi had a baby and he's perfect and I feel old and nostalgic thinking about when Derrick was my sweet baby.

6.  Speaking of old- I'll be 32 this month.  That feels really... good.  I love birthdays, especially mine and I love this process of life and how we mark it with age and how sometimes that means everything and others it doesn't mean squat.

7.  Sunday.  Silent Sunday.  Part of the year of Lighten means a Sunday unplug to recharge and there's nothing I look forward to more right now.

8.  Lacylike herbal line orders.  They are really coming in and I can't tell you enough how much I appreciate your support.  Your feedback via email has been amazing and I am so appreciative (feel free to leave remarks on this post too).  Sewing lip balms into paper bags and packing up boxes with little love notes has become a delightful little ritual around here.  Things went so well with the roll out I will be bringing you a few deals for Valentines Day very soon.

9.   This amazing California day.  It's 71 degrees and sunny today.  It's perfect.

10. And of course.  Ned.  Ned is a constant source of reality in the best kinds of ways.  He reminds me to slow down, that meal times are exciting, that what goes out outside (we call it watching outside TV when they sit at the sliding door and watch the world) is very entertaining and that being held is always wonderful.

I hope your weekend in progress is really wonderful! xo Lacy

p.s. thank YOU for being really beautiful, kind, thoughtful, terrific.  I mean it.  I got some really lovely emails this week that really touched me. So thank you.

2011. I see you over there!

I am so looking forward to a brand new year!   Any other time of year I'd say change is hard but on the 1st it always feels like a gift.  It feels completely exciting and the dress I have for the NYE party tonight at Breathe makes me completely happy.

I've made three little goals for myself for 2011. And it should be noted that since 2 of the 3 involved my love, he's on board too. ;)

 

So what about you? What's on your goal list for 2011?! I'd love to hear what the year holds for you!

xoxo for that last time in 2010! Happy New Year's Eve! Lacy

p.s. Nadia sold an Arnica balm yesterday at Breathe when I was at lunch and when she told me you would have thought she bought me a new car.  Feels good.  Feels so good to see these little lovlies go out into the world.  Whoever you are, I hope you love your arnica balm and thank you!