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<br />Juli Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778689377058546732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293494599841673692.post-30329961998328735742016-01-10T18:15:00.001-06:002016-01-10T18:16:29.973-06:00I kind of miss writing this blog.<div style="text-align: left;">
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I've lost track of the bead sets I've made in the last few months at 1111. It seemed like a good place to stop counting. I'm having more fun than one person should be allowed which I should maybe feel guilty about but I don't because I'm working my noassatall off, y'all.<br />
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There's a long not perfect story behind this cross, and I'm going to share it if only to cinch the healing that it has brought. Y'all know I lost my Nana last year, and y'all know that wreaked a whole lotta havoc in my life for a couple of months. Fast forward and a long time friend inquired about a custom cross for her parents for Christmas. I agreed, thinking it was exactly the thing I needed to focus on to get right in the world again. And then December 9th my daddy died.<br />
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You know that girl who holds her head up and goes about life through trauma appearing to be untouched and capable and FINE? I'm that girl. Everyone kept expressing concern and I kept assuring everyone that I was completely fine. Because y'all please just let me be fine.<br />
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December 23rd I had to help my sweet Chelseagirl cross the rainbow bridge. And I was no longer fine nor capable of pretending to be fine so if everyone could just please leave me alone that would be great thanks.<br />
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Do I need to say here that the cross wasn't finished by Christmas? Probably not.<br />
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In January my oldest friend of 44 years died, and my giveadamn completely busted.<br />
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In February Poppop died and the utter numbness that followed...well, no words.<br />
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I threw myself into making beads, and by threw myself I mean I sat in front of my torch for 12-16 hours a day every day 7 days a week. It let me keep breathing with at least a tentative grasp on the world.<br />
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I pulled this cross out periodically to try. To try coming back. To try feeling something. There were days I did nothing but stare at it for hours before tucking it away again.<br />
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I took it to the beach, just me and it in a room for 5 days, and found myself slowly moving forward. On it. On acceptance. On me.<br />
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Trunk Shows. I've been doing them in a sweet little group that I co-manage on FB. If you haven't signed up yet, get that booty scootin'. There are many beautifully talented bead makers having trunk shows every month. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/lampworkbazaar/" target="_blank">Lampwork Bazaar</a><br />
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So last Friday night Scott helped me put up my tree.</div>
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We laughed a little at that.</div>
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The maid finally showed up this morning....drug me out of bed at way too early thirty and proceeded to start washing clothes and <em>cleaning</em> things making it impossible for me to fall back asleep. Across town a boy started texting right about the same time asking what time we could go get lottery tickets and sounding way more chipper in black and white than I'll probably feel in color all day.<br /><br />So the kitchen now sparkles inside the appliances and out, but the floor is laying there being all tiley and mockey because the mop is still hanging around in its bucket tucked away in the closet and I'm sitting here being all master ignorer/procrastinator. Because by maid I meant me and me might have had a couple of celebratory cocktails with the Lita last night.<br /><br />A chunk of yesterday was a mix of What...the... and face palming. I spent a few hours of it perched on one of those hard wood church style pews that you also find in courtrooms and while I understand a courtroom is probably not a place where one should expect to be cozy comfy, I can now check Get Splinter Butt off my life list. Right after I add it.<br /><br />Lita's ex, who I've also known for 30 ish years is ...hm. I don't really know what word to put right here. R was once someone of whom I thought very highly. Someone to whom I would have given a kidney had he needed it. I guess I probably still would, but the good graces, he no longer resides there. They've been court signed divorced for over a year, and there were a couple of orders from the Judge that R had a limited time to attend to...like refinancing the house to get Lita's name removed. He failed to do so. Court yesterday? He hired a very expensive lawyer and put his own negligence in front of the judge because...I have no idea why. I can tell you this though, every person in the courtroom looked him with raised eyebrows, a mix of Bless His Heart and howcananyonebethatstupid? So Meh. Its over now and ended as it should have, which is why celebratory cocktails and also why my head is on sideways and there is fur growing in my mouth. <br /><br />I think I'm finished with the typing now. There was never a point to this post save to waste my time...and apparently yours, too.<br /><br />I have to do that mop thing and change out laundry. I'm pretty sure if I go get super busy doing other actual cleaning things, the toilet will scrub itself. I'll let you know.<br /><br /></div>
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Aeropostle was all "Hi There unsuspecting email reader! 50% off CLEARANCE PRICES!", so I was like "Well Heck Yeah! Let me go look!" A pair of sweats, 2 shirts, and a pair of sandals later... LESS THAN THIRTY DOLLARS and that includes a Christmas present for my baby brother. I totes rock.<br />
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My waiting on the postman list is long right now. Glass, new torch tools, bead backing, Beadables from Karen Thomas, new biz cards, 2 pairs of closed toed shoes because other than boots I don't own any, Aero, and my main pressie to myself ~ Beach Body PiYo which according to the tracking is sitting at my local PO for delivery tomorrow which Yo!, my body ain't gettin' any beachier with them holding my Pi.<br />
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This is the first in a lot of years that I've had any breathing room at all to shop post Thanksgiving sales. As design would have it, Glass and tools that have been on my wishlist for the same length of time hit the discount shelves. I can't wait to play and grow. It is something pretty amazing to be this excited about a job I've been doing for 12 years. <br />
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But I haven't forgotten what destitution was like. Stress is a killer, y'all. Of the body, of the mind, a crusher of the creative spirit. I had so many key people in my life telling me "Stop stressing!" for so long that, as much as I love them, they all started to take on the look of a punching bag walking around on 2 legs. The advice was solid, but once you let that worry take root...well, y'all know. You're alive, so you've dealt with it also.<br />
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I gave it to God so many times, again and again after I kept taking it back.<br />
Here you go, Lord.<br />
Psyche! That's mine!<br />
Okay here. I want you to have it.<br />
Wait. No I don't. <br />
Take it.<br />
GIMME THAT!<br />
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It will drive you crazy, and for some of us that is a short trip. The horrendous break up a year ago finally broke me in a way that I couldn't have taken the stress of it back if I'd wanted to. It made me question everything about my life, about my choices, about myself. It was awful. But it also made me realize just how strong my faith is, how loving my Lord is. In the midst of the hurt and anger and fear there was always that quiet still voice inside assuring me that no matter my human frailty and failure, I am still good enough. That experience changed me. It planted me firmly in a place of peace and trust, where no matter what happens I once again Know that every little thing IS gonna be alright. And that awesome far outweighed the awful of it all.<br />
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A lot has happened in the last year. Most importantly, I lost my Nana. Everything that followed for 2 months is now sort of a blur. Doing the estate sale and donations. Cleaning out and up our family home. Walking around those empty rooms and finally leaving my key as I walked out the door for the last time. That was so hard, y'all. I could never have done it had God not prepared me, had not first reminded me that He is always there.<br />
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Some of you are struggling right now. Responsibilities, loneliness...whatever is burdening your heart please know...trust...believe...what you are going through is only a stepping stone in your journey. It is not final, but maybe in place to prepare you for the somethings to come. The difficult somethings, the easy somethings, the sad somethings, the happy somethings. </div>
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Juli Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778689377058546732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293494599841673692.post-74947205800617760452014-11-16T09:19:00.002-06:002014-11-16T09:19:37.719-06:00Roll Tide y'all~ Now give me back my toe rings.I'm not going to sit here and whine about how cold it is down here in the Southern South. First because some of you are already trudging through snow (Jelly!) and fighting the kind of cold that never happens here. Secondly because I am a fan of the cold and snow and college football which just so happens to coincide with the beginning of cold and snow season. And I am a fan of the wearing of boots, which, yeah, also rolls around at the same time.<br /><br />What I am not a fan of is giving up my sandals and the beach and toes in the sand. Toes that 8 months out of the year boast cute little rings that make me happy when I look down at them. Yesterday was the day of giving in though, of taking them off in order to wear something called a "closed toe" shoe. The sad of it, y'all. The sad.<br /><br />I'm consoling myself this morning with fat fluffy marshmellows melting in a big ole cup of hot chocolate. I'm also feeling the thrill after an excellent football win, the sort which reminds you that your team is the best team and no other team is as good as your team because your team is the best team and Yay, team! <br />
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I've beaded some since we last spoke. This smaller cross was a custom order based on the larger. I got to work with my very talented cabinet maker friend again, and he made a handful of the smaller crosses using scraps of beautiful woods. They're gorge, y'all.<br /><br />
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Juli Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778689377058546732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293494599841673692.post-78915001796159630572014-11-14T20:23:00.000-06:002014-11-16T10:58:37.167-06:00This may be the first post ever without a photo, but new computer = no photos yet. I'm pretty sure you'll survive it...but I might not.Yeah yeah. I know its been 2 months since my last wordfest. I'll make you a deal~ if you pretend not to notice and also to still have an interest in my rhetoric, I'll spare you the gigantified whinefest that has been my mental state regarding my laptop and internet experience during the same period, K?<br />
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New computer, y'all. Custom built mack daddy iwanttohaveitsbabies flippin' awesome new computer. I'm going to sit right here playing and surfing and typing and reading and googling and shopping right up until I starve to death, or can at least slip comfortably back into my skinny jeans. <br />
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I don't even know what I last wrote about. My Nana passed, estate sale, move, settle into my new digs, make beads, sell beads, washrinserepeat...2014 has been a whirlwind year ~ a flurry of things that happened so close together I didn't catch my breath until...well...now.<br />
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I finally have an office again...a dedicated desk for my computer and printer and whatever else I want to pile on it. Right now there are a couple of books, a lamp, a bowl of sand and shells, spider killer spray, Mr Clean spray (but no rag. Odd), a piece of wood (heh. heh heh), a label maker, a pair of pliers, some beads, a measuring tape, a bin of receipts (if you're a Monica, come on over!), 4 pens, 2 empty bags (um...k?), a quarter kilo of (the wrong)glass, a paintbrush, and wow I'm gonna stop now. If you're a Monica forget what I said. I don't want to be responsible for your brain exploding. Plus who would clean it up?<br />
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<br />Juli Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778689377058546732noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293494599841673692.post-6476322663423864872014-09-19T11:22:00.002-05:002014-09-19T11:25:28.817-05:00Y'all.I thought maybe I'd write a blog post since right at this moment I'm stuck between laundry loads and waiting for the kiln to cool down so I can clean yesterday's beads and you're probably wondering why it isn't cooled down already from yesterday's beads and that is because SEC football on a Thursday night will interrupt your flow and make you forget necessary things in your jobby job like starting the down cycle on your kiln before shutting down for the day and aren't you excited that I have not lost my ability to write super long run on sentences that should end with a question mark but don't.<br />
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Hey y'all. I've been busy. blah blah. But really. I moved again and not to the beach just yet. I prayed about it much and after the last few months (years) I pretty much told God I needed the decision to be very very easy. As in Please Smack Me in the Face with Something Easy otherwise I'm not going to get it right and I'll screw up making the decision on my own. And He made it very very easy. The perfect little house pretty much fell into my lap. I looked at it on Monday and moved in on Thursday. Other than the snake thing it is absolutely a perfect space, and the 3 of us are comfortable and happy here.<br /><br />This dining room nook is the first room I unpacked, because of course it is.<div>
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Juli Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778689377058546732noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293494599841673692.post-41443323074008851322014-07-14T11:59:00.000-05:002014-07-14T21:24:18.962-05:00You know how you think to yourself "I can totally do that!" so you sign right on up and then the actual doing kicks in and you think "What was a I thinking!?" Uh! Me Too!I've spent some time in the last week deciding that I must not like myself at all for agreeing to handle the following, but then I realize I love my family second only to God~ which is super awesome so I remember to like myself very much.<br />
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I posted in passing last month that my Nana moved to Heaven. On June 13th she slipped peacefully in her sleep surrounded by her children. Her children who I later found out had been holding hands and were singing to her at the time. What a testament to Lillie Beth and the magical love she freely gave to all. God was alive in both of my grands~ joyful, strong~ and I selfishly miss them so very very much.<br />
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I looked at the phone as it whistled, seeing "mom" on the caller ID, knowing what words were coming. What I didn't expect was the sound of her voice. My 67 year old mother's tone was that of a 5 year old as she said "My mama's gone." The tears came immediately. Not for the broken heart I had prepared myself for, but instead for hers. For the grown up little girl on the other end of the phone who had just become an orphan. There is no empathy strong enough to affect that. <br />
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In the following weeks I watched her with her sisters and brother begin the necessary process of closing that chapter in their lives. All but my mom live out of state, so they came and stayed here with me...at the house they grew up in, the house we all grew up in. Room by room they collected tangible reminders of memories, belongings that Nana had specifically assigned to go to each of them. I have heard horror stories of families falling apart over stuff or money after someone passes, but as I watched them from the shadows I was overwhelmed by the compassion and selflessness and love they showed one another. I have never been so honored to be a part of something as I am to have been blessed with this family. <br />
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It was the last time any of them would be together in this house, and I couldn't find a way to be present as over several days one by one they said goodbye in the living room that hosted our Christmases, Thanksgivings, reunions, lives. I can't even imagine what they must have felt, and I could do nothing to help.<br />
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Which brings me to the point of this post. I was asked if I would be willing to handle the disposition of the remaining physical estate. It wasn't really a question I could say no to, because were I to be unwilling meant one of them would have to do it. And as emotionally overwhelmed as I feel right now, I can not imagine how much more difficult it would have been for them. <br />
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If you've never handled the preparation for an estate sale, especially that for a loved one, it is not something you should undertake without first understanding that it will rip your heart out and stomp all over it several times a day. But it is also the last gift you can give to a loved one who has departed this life. With every dish I wash I can picture it on the table filled with an awesome southern cooked something. Like the syrup dispenser that held my grands' homemade blueberry syrup that my brother and I used when we had our pancake eating contest 36 years ago. This is all taking some time, eating away my days and both breaking and filling my heart, but every minute spent comes back to the love, to my Nana and my Granddaddy, to my mom, brothers, aunts and uncles and cousins and <i>life</i>. I feel honored to be doing this one last thing~ to be closing this chapter in my own life with the care and attention it so richly deserves.<br />
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Juli Cannonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04778689377058546732noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6293494599841673692.post-67790628027296164592014-06-25T13:44:00.000-05:002014-06-25T18:59:19.408-05:00The Second Half of this is the reason my bestie is the best bestie ever.My heart shattered into a million pieces on Friday, June 13th when my Nana flew to Heaven. I don't want to talk about it because I can't talk about it. I had promised her I wouldn't move out of her house, our family home, until she was gone. And now she is. So I am.<br />
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This morning in conversation my aunt tells me that she is just sort of "over" the beach...in a language I don't speak using words that made my ears bleed...and that they are considering long term renting out their second home in Bid A Wee, which if you were to ask anyone who loves PCB would tell you is THE place dream place to live on the strip. <br />
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M: And I know it is going to be WAY out of my price range so I am considering investing in stripper heels and red light bulbs for the front porch.<br />
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M: Because you're awesome.<br />
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I haven't been able to fit in much bead making these last few weeks, but for the last couple of months I've slowly been rebuilding my website with some new work. I'm having a quickie flash sale over there ~ all lampwork beads, focals, AND cabs (dragon eyes too!) are on sale 20% off.<br />
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Poppop is still with us and making us smile so often my cheeks hurt.</div>
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Every day is a blessing.</div>
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I'm pretty tired in it, but this beauty from Wednesday is one of my favorite pictures ever.</div>
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