Down The Rabbit Hole Of Burnout....

Has it really been just over 6 months? Where does the time go? I was just posting about Halloween; and now here we are at Summer's door!
So it must be true.


I feel like I fell down a rabbit hole...

Have any of you ever gotten burned out?
Discovered that the carefully stacked platter of Life's Options and Obligations
has become just a bit more than you could handle in a healthy way...
without going completely postal?

I got like that recently. Something had to give.

Between taking care of my children & myself;

my home, garden & pets;

making & selling my art,
getting my ETSY Shop running & eeking a living...


BLAH, BLAH, BLAH...

blogging got (rightfully) put on the backburner.


And then of course, it becomes so hard to jump back in.
But that is exactly what I need to do :)


Besides, I was getting pretty sick of wanting to write
& share my thoughts & ideas with all of you-
and not making the time to sit down and do it!

Ideas for posts; crafts I've made;
photos backing up on my SD card;
spells & rituals that we did that never got shared...

So here I am...
Wild dogs did not eat me... I did not join a monastary..... :)


I just got a viral case of "Too Much On My Plate"...
and "Not Enough Me To Go Around".
LOL

...And no big promises to "Write Back Soon!" either.
:)

Anyways....

I hope that everyone is well. I popped in to make blog rounds when I could...
and have enjoyed seeing everyone's family, pets, homes and art...
and the many other wonderful happenings of the Blogosphere.

As for myself,
I have been immersed in my digital art for the last several months.


Getting the shop open & stocked.
Learning about running a business.
Creating, learning...peddeling. :)


*You can click on the image above to see my new ETSY Shop*

The kids just finished up their sports for the season-
Miss Red did Cheer; and Mr. Diesel played Baseball.

Now they are wrapping up the school year.
One is graduating the 5th grade and going off to Middle School;
and one ending 2nd grade.


(Last year's End of School Awards)

Now the Summertime is upon us once again...
with its promise of warm days spent by the pool,
balmy nights BBQing and stargazing; visits with good friends and family;
and excursions to fun places.

It is time to get the pool up & put the backpacks away.
I enjoy having my children home, and moving at the slower pace of Summer.

So my friends...
Here is to the changing seasons & the gifts that it brings.

Here is to you & me...and all of our families.

Here is to hopes for a wonderful time ahead of us...
and the many memories of the times gone by.

May our days be filled with sunshine-
and may we have firm shoulders to carry us through the ones that storm.

Brightest Blessings to us all! :)
~Danae aka 'Crafty'

***and a great big THANK YOU! to all of you who have kept stopping by,
and to those who emailed & Facebooked me....
I appreciate & value each of you.
I could not believe each week when my blog stats would come &
I saw that so many folks were still coming thru here.
(Maybe not staying so long- LOL- but just the same.)

*I am almost to my 200th Reader!*

It did alot for me to know that you cared, and even missed me.
It helped me to make the decision to continue blogging,
and not shut down for good.
THANK YOU!

For my part-
I will continue to come up with interesting things to write about & share :)