Blue Savannah...

The video is a bit distracting I must admit...but the song itself is one of my very favorites.

I have long loved Erasure, and this particular song has special meaning for me.

18 years ago, while "racing 'cross the desert, at a (nearly) 100 miles an hour...." this song played on repeat as I drove across an Arizona desert. 

Except in that case I was racing to a new home in Texas, and away from the only home I had ever known.

Filled with anticipation, and wanting to live and experience something new, I was excited and scared all at the same time to begin a new life...

But nostalgia always creeps in and brings with it home sickness....even so shortly after just leaving Nevada I was home sick as I raced across that desert, and Blue Savannah imprinted onto my heart and soul and will forever for me be a tribute to my feelings for my home.

I have been particularly homesick since hearing of my cousin Anna's passing.  And Blue Savannah has been on repeat in my brain for the past 4 days.

I even made a leather pattern that I named Savannah...

"my home is where the heart is" and today my heart is in Elko.....

I wish I were there where all my family has gathered to say goodbye to Anna.
I am with you all in heart and mind today.....

Getting to know.....Leather

Just finished this morning, and they are all ready to fly to the fabulous women in my life who just happen to also be Mothers.  

Working with leather has been a bit of a sanity break for me.  

I have not sat down to work at my bench in over a week.  The full 2 weeks before that I was having bad dreams about metal working.  

I don't know why for certain.  I think it had a bit to do with trying to sort out where I was headed in working with silver.  The rapidly rising cost of silver really threw me for a loop.  

I can't lie.  

I don't even know what led me to working with leather.  All I know is late one night I was lying in bed surfing around the net and somehow landed on a leather site that sold beginners leather kits.  

I thought, why not?  

I've told you guys before that I'm a craft jumper right?  :)

I never used to think so, but I'm pretty sure I must have some form of ADD.  Things pique my interest, and I dive in.  The bad thing, is once I have them figured out, I tend to lose interest.

I'm not giving up metal.  I do love it.  And I have more invested in it than I have ever invested in any craft.  

But I also don't want to limit my creative flow.  I want the freedom to follow wherever that creative path wants to go.  

We received some bad news yesterday.  My cousin Anna passed away at the age of 28.  She had health problems all her life, but she was the sweetest, kindest, most gentle person I've ever known.  She lived her life knowing that she would never have the things other women have.  A husband, children, a home of her own....yet she seemed content and touched all of us right to the core of our hearts.  I will miss her greatly.  

My heart hurts, and hurts even more that I can't be in Nevada with my family.  I'll miss you Anna....