Being pregnant this time has been very different, the one thing that has been the same though through all four has been that my eyes and hands go all wonky shall we say. As a result it’s getting harder and harder to make a decent piece of jewelry. I’ve been working on what should be a very pretty Chrysoprase cluster bracelet and I’d like it to stay that way, but it’s getting harder to make nice little twists. I’ve got one more custom piece to do and then I’m gong to pull back until the baby arrives, probably around Thanksgiving. after that, as baby et al will allow, I plan to get as much as possible of the masses of backlogged pieces ready pre-Christmas.
Since I’ve decided to put a mini hold on Lissenden Frost production and since I can still type (despite my broken shift button) and since I still have a small portion of my brain in working order (at the moment), I’ve decided to split the two into separate sites. All Lissenden Frost business will stay on the LF site- news, updates, photos etc- and everything else will go on the new site, life.nest.baby.toy. I’ll be posting about various things, basically the name covers it and the name covers pretty much anything- life, home, babies and toys. I’ve got 11 posts in the works already plus 2 stories that I could post, so more soon to follow.
So you have an idea of what to expect here’s a quick breakdown of what’s happening.
Life is the general catchall that will cover anything I feel like writing about that doesn’t fit somewhere else, so that’s pretty much anything at all. Nest is anything home related to house and home, mine or anyone’s that strikes my fancy. Here I would like to say how much I love House of Turquoise, Tangled and true , decor8 and Design Mom. There are of course many more and I intend to add a links list as soon as I can.
Baby is pretty easy to figure out- anything about my or any babies or baby related topics, from breastfeeding (I have a 4 part piece planned which will hopefully be the first thing to go up) to how i’m considering selling my children to the gypsies (if they would just come down my street). Which is something that I really should never say and would of course never do. I saw an episode of The Philanthropist about child slavery in Haiti. I couldn’t believe that I didn’t know anything about it and that yes, it is true. I’m horrified and sad and shocked that it does and can exist. And it absolutely breaks my heart that any child should suffer in any way for even a second, but that enduring suffering is so beyond what I even have the capacity to imagine.
And, finally, Toy, is anything that I have found or have that I love for use in said nest with said babies etc. Maybe if I get really ambitious and suddenly have more time than I do now, I might do actual reviews (which I very much enjoy doing), but for now it will just be quick mentions of products or items that make my life easier, which always makes me happier. We are consummate consumers in this house (my 4 yr old had an overwhelming capacity for logo recognition at even 18 mo and now can recite any commercial after 1 viewing), so we have plenty to comment on.
This is who I am: I have 3 little boys, ages 4, 2 and 1 and will soon also have a little girl. I have basically been pregnant and/or breastfeeding since October of 2004. Before that I worked at Brant Publications. My final title was Production Manager for Art in America and The Magazine Antiques. I started as Production Assistant for Art in America. I worked an average of 9-12 hours a day for whole time I worked there (up until 1 week before my son was born and even all day on the phone and via email up until the day he was born) and as hellish a place as it is to work, it was still much less work and far easier than taking care of these children all day. (But I am infinitely happier now.) Before that I painted, took pictures and shot video, ran a record company in Chapel Hill, NC, got an MA in Media Studies from The New School and lots of other stuff. All of which I gave up gladly so that I could have babies. They are with me all the time. Right now I have one shoved into the chair behind me pulling my hair, which is part of why it takes me so long to get anything done.
Hopefully, sooner rather than later I will have the regular posts going up. I hope you’ll come back.
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