Moving…

That’s the theme of this post.

First, because we recently moved to a new place. Its been hectic hauling all our stuff from the old second floor unit to the new ground floor unit. We must have made almost a hundred trips hand carrying furniture, stuff and more stuff.

The new place in the ground floor, this time. No more hauling groceries and laundry up and down the stairs to the old 2nd floor unit.

Second, because after taking a break to recover, I dealt with back orders and realized my hands have not really recovered or gotten better from tendinitis and CTS doesn’t go away even after a good rest. So I have decided to just sell out my current stock of Leaf Flowerbeds™ and put my happydollthreads etsy store on vacation mode. I’ve already put my other etsy shop, creaturesmith, on vacation mode. I have closed the custom request queue for cloth creatures and have decided to stop making them.

I have enjoyed making dolls and creatures in cloth, but it was this medium that actually aggravated the CTS and have resulted in chronic pain in my hands.

The last creature I made. A dragon called, Ligaya (the filipino word for joy).

Happily, I discovered that clay is kinder to my hands so I am finally making the switch. I can’t postpone it any longer no matter how much I enjoy cloth as a medium. I have to move on for the sake of my hands.

Third, its been a year since I moved from the Philippines and it was a year ago, too, since we were married. There’s been rough sailing but we pressed on knowing that love always wins. So we’ve moved forward.

I will be busy settling into our new home and working on new projects in clay.

I shall post, for now, photos of the chaos before the new creations emerge. That means photos of our new place and life in a new space and life in general.

Happiness!