I am continually amazed at how fast a month can zing by.  You'd think I'd have figured that out by now, 12 years into child rearing.  12 years?  Really?  I can still vividly remember the joyful glow of being seriously nauseous for nine months, ha ha!  And now look at the size of those sweet little darlings...yes, look at how Number 12 yrs old has outgrown his mens size 9.5 shoes again!

I have finally changed around my blog page and website.  I have had a site on Big Cartel for a year and a half which I finally cancelled today.  I had hoped to create an opportunity for some online sales, but it didn't work out.  Instead, I'm switching the whole works over here to my Posterous blog site.  There is now a Products & Ordering page.  There are product descriptions.  Once my internet is hooked up again, I will be able to load some product photos too!   It's not too exciting, but it's another big leap for me out into cyberspace.  Check it out and let me know what you think!

As for time warps...has it really been two months since I did my lavender distilling?  I STILL haven't got those darn photos off my cell phone.  Maybe tomorrow...today is already done!  My husband was all keen to distill some lodgepole pine, after listening to a CBC radio presentation on the wonders of  pine essential oil.  It sounds like one of those Contributes to World Peace things - does everything for you, plus makes you happy!   (Hmmmm....did a quick google search but only came up stuff on Turpentine.  Definitely NOT what we're trying to make!  I'll try to find the CBC link to the radio program).  We've now got three wine bottles of pine hydrosol sitting on the counter, adding to the general clutter and mayhem, as I try to figure out what to do with the stuff.  Maybe I will bottle it and bring it to the Christmas Farmer's Markets at the Quesnel rec centre.

And time warps...yup, being tossed back in time to the days when my kids were wee and little and could completely turn my day upside down by being home sick.  Claire is home sick today, which means all my best laid plans to do pottery today have gang awry.  But thankfully she's a little older, and doesn't need quite so many cuddles when sick.  That means I could doodle on the laptop and tackle changing around web pages, a little job that I've procrastinated about for a few months but only got to thanks to an enforced day at home.  Thanks Claire!  A day well spent :)

And now...with the best intentions to post again very soon, preferably with lots of photos of lavender distillation... I'm off to work on halloween costumes.

talk to you soon,

Lisa