23
I turned 23 on the 26th... wasn't too exciting but we had a potluck & Sen got me a keg of Scottish Ale. :) My parents sent me a big box (thanks Mom & Dad!) with some awesome birthday goodies such as a travel guitar and organic cotton sheets. I got a tarot deck from my friend Dominique that has some really awesome art, my friend Tanya got me some beads, and Seneca ordered me a cleansing kit since I've been wanting to do a cleanse. Seems kinda nasty based on the pictures I've seen of what came out of people's colons, but I'm sure I could use it. Perhaps the best part of my birthday was that I got a 4-day weekend! One of the best benifits of this job is a paid holiday for birthdays, so I took the day after my B-day off so I could sleep in. It was nice. :)
We also had a yard sale on Saturday and got rid of lots of crap. It feels good to get rid of stuff. Our living room is looking much more open now, and much nicer now that I just finished cleaning it. We gotta condense our belongings down a lot if we're gonna get a van! Speaking of vans, we found one in Victoria, BC that we're really interested in. Hopefully all goes well. This time it's not on e-bay, but the guy has several people interested right now, so who knows if we actually end up with it or not. It sounds like he'll give it to the first person that shows up, so we may be making a trip up to Canada soon. Keep your fingers crossed! This one's a great deal, in beautiful shape, and a diesel with a rebuilt engine. And it's bright yellow.
Well, I'm off to make Chinese vegetable & tofu soup. Mmmmmm.....
Earth Day & Hempfest
This was one crazy weekend! Hempfest on Earthday was Saturday, and I designed the t-shirts and posters for the event (see previous post for visuals) so it was good to get that finished. The shirts sold out, so apparently people really liked them, and money was raised for next year's event. Yay! I also had a booth and sold hemp & gemstone jewelry, home made herbal products like body scrub & candles, duct tape wallets, etc. I got up super-early so I grabbed a great spot and made some money, just in time for my birthday! This year marked the 10th annual Moscow Hempfest. It surprised me that a tiny town like Moscow has such an event, modeled after the
Seattle Hempfest that I also attend regularly. Of course, ours is much smaller, but with much of the same spirit of the hemp movement. All the musicians were local, and we had poets, speakers, and vendors from all over. It was a beautiful day, too, so it was so nice to see all the hard work come together in a great event.
I'm getting excited for festival season, and finally got the
barterfair.org site back up & running on my server. There's a lot of fairs and festivals this spring and summer, I hope to go to a few of them! I ordered tons of organic soap & oil making supplies, including some new bottles, so I'll be busy making herbal products and selling them at festivals. With the success of some of my recent designs, I've been motivated to get a cafepress store started so I can sell my shirt designs (most notably, ones from Hempfest and the Peace Coalitioon rally) online and at festivals this summer.
The search for the bus is progressing nicely. We think we may have found the dream car in Oregon. It's a camper van that's been running on bio-diesel. There's a few repairs to be made, but hopefully we can get it and start the grease conversion process. No more oil dependence for our fuel! I'm so excited, after a few months of searching we're hoping this one pans out. We may be headed to pick it up as early as this weekend if all goes well! I'm already planning to make colorful curtains to make it a little home sweet home on wheels! I never thought I'd be into RVs like my grandparents (ok so I'm sure I'll never be into the HUGE RVs they drive around) but I'm pretty stoked about this mini-RV greasemobile. Time to start planning camping trips, National Park stops, and festivals to hit this summer! Woohoo!
...And it gets better. Wednesday is my birthday! Yay! Not sure what the plans are yet, but I'm thinking a potluck will be involved. I have a big package from Mom & Dad waiting to be opened (aren't they sweet?!) so I'm trying to keep away from it until my b-day. Every year birthdays seem to get less and less exciting, but this year I actually get a paid holiday, so that's reason enough to celebrate! Ok, I guess I better calm down and get some work done now... :)
Labels: holidays
Spring At Last!
It's been raining almost every day the past couple weeks. Today it was finally sunny when I woke up, and warm enough for me to sit out on the porch for a while. Alas, I don't get to go out on a hike since I'm working all day, but it's such a nice break from the rain... I finished the Hempfest posters and shirt last week. The posters are up all over town (bottom design with the recycling symbol) and shirts are being printed this week on hemp shirts (top design, with parts of the poster graphics on the back of the shirt). I'm doing crafts like mad to get ready for Hempfest. My friend Hallie and I have been making stuff almost every night. I've got gemstone & hemp jewelry, duct tape wallets, candles, and a couple of dog collars made. I ordered tons of organic soap and massage oil supplies, but I don't know if they'll arrive in time for me to make everything for Saturday. Eek! I'll also have lots of PETA leaflets and stickers at the booth.
Seneca comes home tomorrow! I'm so excited to see him after 2 weeks! It has been way too quiet around here and Juneau sure misses his daddy. His dad and grandma have both been in the hospital recently, and he's visiting them. His dad is recovering from colon cancer and his grandma has emphysema... so not exactly a joyous family visit but it's good that he got to spend some time with them. Hopefully his dad feels better by this summer so he can do some backpacking with us.
So other than mad crafting to prepare for Hempfest and working on the Hempfest poster & shirt designs, I've been preparing for a huge yard sale we're planning and still looking for a VW camper van to convert to a greasecar, as well as keeping busy at work as usual. I'm also just dreaming of summer, and hoping to be able to do some traveling. There's lots of good concerts and festivals I wouldn't mind seeing (if only money grew on trees!) and I am definitely going to try to go to the Rainbow Gathering in Colorado. There's lots of backpacking to do as well, and it would be nice to visit a National Park or two since we didn't get to go to one last year. Along the way we'd like to visit a few places we're thinking about moving (Montana, Oregon, Colorado perhaps... who knows!) and just get out on the road for a bit, especially if there's a VW to travel in!
Ok enough day dreaming for now... time to get back to work! :)
April Showers
I can't believe it's already April! It's been really wet the last couple of days, and it's still a bit cold. It seems like spring is coming late this year, or at least later than everywhere else. No blossoms on the trees yet, just a few small early bloomers. It rained ALL DAY yesterday, but that spoiled pooch still got a walk after I got off work. It's actually light out when I get done working at 7pm! Yay! I think I'm ready for spring, it makes my work days seem shorter. :)
Seneca went to Pennsylvania for 2 weeks to visit his dad and grandma. He left yesterday morning. It has been eerily quiet in the house, and Juneau already misses him terribly. I do too, but it's kinda nice not to have to clean up after anyone but myself. I hope to be super productive while he's gone. I gotta make all sorts of crafts for Hempfest, get ready for our yard sale at the end of the month, and get some projects done. So far it's going well, I got a good start on a Peace Coalition poster and the Hempfest logo & poster last night. The Hempfest one is pretty fun, when else can I plaster a poster with hemp leaves? :) Hopefully both of those will be wrapped up by the end of the week, and then I just gotta start on the Hempfest t-shirt. I haven't done much crafting lately either, other than making some new neclaces. I got some silver wire and started wrapping crystals to use as pendants. So now I need to use them on jewelry. I'm also going to make soap, candles, massage oils, body scrubs, and hopefully some baked goodies. I got some big fat hemp to make belts and dog collars, too. Juneau will be modeling one shortly.
I got the Co-op newsletter finished and it turned out great. The staff were apparently commenting on how nice it looked. YAY! It's good to be appreciated. I'm sure as I get more used to it, it will only get better. It's been a while since I've designed anything that large, but it's good to get some print design experience. I will have to post the Hempfest poster when it's finalized. The Hempfest committee wants to start posting it up by this weekend. Yay for fun projects! :)
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