Posts Tagged ‘laura jean karr’
June 10th, 2010
In trying to commit myself to updating everyday or at least almost everyday here at SA, I may not always have a topic specific post. Some days it’s just going to be a post about life in general. No instructions needed 
I have been up to a lot during SA’s hiatus period. We increased our family size for the past school year. Our niece was born. Our friends had babies, got married and some passed on. I got engaged. We’ve had birthday’s and school functions and I increased my freelance work. We’ve posted so many photos to the family website: www.thevalladonfamily.com that we ran out of room and still have a bunch of photos to upload.
We started growing our own food in the dining room through coconut fiber potting and hydroponics. Currently, we have six romaine lettuce plants that are doing really well. Also have some garlic chives, stevia, chocolate mint, tomatoes and strawberries going.
That about wraps of the general items for what’s been going on. Tomorrow, I’m going to post about the craft projects I need to do, have started and completed.
~Laura~
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June 8th, 2010
Good ol’ Simple Abnormality went down for quite a while, almost a year I think. I’m not exactly sure of the dates because under the perspective of daily life it just didn’t matter. Now, though SA is back with a new look and a new direction which also means that all the links, about and contact pages are still being worked on
Writing for pleasure took a back seat there for a while and I didn’t realize how much just being able to write for myself actually meant to me. I missed it. I missed looking at Simple Abnormality everyday. I missed the interaction with others that had been built up over time. The “missing” things part is where the new direction for SA comes in. There will still be pagan topics presented but I’m also going to throw in all the crafty things that I do and blog more from a personal place than before. With the new direction of SA, I like to think of it as one woman’s blog among the millions that are out there but it’s my little corner of the web.
A new area in particular that I’ll be looking into more is knitting. I learned how to knit a few months ago and still can’t read a pattern to save my life. The first project morphed from a blanket, to a scarf and then ended up becoming a self-designed bag. Yellow, handy and for some reason can hold three two liter bottles without ripping. There will be a post on that bag at some point and there will be pictures.
~Laura~