My mum and stepdad have just returned from a cruise in the South Pacific to celebrate thier 20 25 (sorry Mum XOX) year anniversary.... on thier travels they saw this hilarious clothing shop called CARLY! HA! you can't find my name on one of those silly personalised mugs let alone a whole shop.. I have only ever known 3 other Carly's in my life and all others that I have met briefly were born around the same time... looks like all our parents were Carly Simon fans...
Speaking of anniversaries ... today is kind of my one year birthday for Moopy&Me... I say kind of because I actually started it in October 2004 (just a coincidence Hillary :D ) ... It was my trial session... I of course became addicted and 5 months later I got things going for real.
I discovered this wierd and wonderful world one afternoon while looking online for fellow arty business women, I was working from home after having Lily and had suddenly started making stuff for her??? then oddly these things (toys) started to sell in the Reading book store in Melbourne. I had of course stumbled across another girl at play and then found Keri Smith , Lori Joy and Claire and then through Claire I found Hillary. It's all a big blur really, I just remember being overwhelmed with joy and anger over this comminity of like minded people... in one mind I thought GREAT just what I have been looking for all my life and in another mind, I was angrily thinking WHERE have you been all my life!!!
I bought Keri's book and started having little craft nights at my house .... we made stuff, I found little projects in MSKids and then blogged the results... it was then that I opened my big mouth to a shop owner (Bek) that I wanted to teach art to kids (utilise my tertiary education.. graphic design and teaching) .... before I knew it I had Nest Studio art classes for kids running out of a real premisis.... So anyway long story short, this blog and more importantly, all the blogs around me, have really changed my life in the most amazing ways. It has given me an avenue to make my dreams come true.... Chris and I (quite bizarrely) discussed this very topic the other night and it was then I realised I hade been only doing this (blog) for just over a year... so much has happened, it feels like I have been doing this for years, like a part of my everyday life. Everyone is so encouraging, inspirational, generous, kind and patient (i must be the worst parcel sender!! I do send them in the end, I promise). Sometimes I feel a visual overload from blogland... all the wonderful things almost depress me... I just want to make everthing... but time and Lily just don't allow it. So I take a break and play with my fabric... I love Barb's tag line ... 'a good idea starts with a good yarn' how profound!!
well if you are still reading you have certainly read my longest post ever... love you all :D
