Labor Day. Long post warning!!!

While the intention was to re-open the Etsy shop this weekend, I decided mental health was more important than the possibility of earning money and took a road trip to visit old friends instead.


Posted here are two of the lovely vistas we were fortunate enough to behold. The first was taken looking over the mountains that surround the quaint village of Morris, PA. The second is one of the many pastoral views coming into Wellsboro, PA. Shumway Hill area.

On other matters...

Since April, most of my free time has been spent working. Both at my regular 40-hour a week job and making items to sell as "Petunia Magpie" at a local festival. Even break- and lunch-times at work were spent crocheting baby items.

Our first event this year...

Springs first event was a disaster. More money was spent than made. Sad. Upsetting. Disheartening. Depressing enough that I decided to concentrate on only doing one more festival for the entire year.

Perhaps not the best decision, but life perpetually offers other challenges that make some decisions seem almost prescient in hindsight. *sigh*

Then came time for the only festival of choice. Why that festival? Well... First and foremost because the town was so very welcoming! Local folks took the time to stop by and visit a spell, offering words of encouragement. Encouragement is always appreciated. Plus, I actually made a few dollars there last year -- and had fun doing it!

The last few weeks leading up to the event were very stressful. Family, work and relationship issues, mostly. This scene from Dead Poet's Society (starting at about 24 seconds in) kinda shows the internal mantra from those days. Yeah. "Gotta Do More. Gotta Be More."

Setting priorities...
A few days before festival I had a talk with the mirror.