Still Spinning Plates

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Those of you who have known me for a while might remember that I used to use the moniker Platespinner. Back when my children were young and I was trying to home school them and keep up with all my other obligations I saw a video of an old variety show with a performer spinning plates. It was the perfect metaphor for my life at the time. A few years ago as my youngest child finished school and other things in my life started to shift I felt that Platespinner no longer really fit. I stopped spinning plates, and I got bored. Covid set in and I got even more bored as most of my outside activities came to a screeching halt. Now life is picking up the pace again. I no longer have children to teach, but I have a job that keeps me busy part-time and with a couple of weddings coming up for friends I have set myself the monumental task of finishing two quilts between now and the end of April. I’m trying to build a small business and I still have a couple of volunteer positions that keep me very busy from time to time. And just because I thought it would be a good idea to add one more iron to the fire, I challenged myself to post on myLot every day for 21 days (today is #17). Those plates are spinning again. Some days I feel a little bit like I am struggling to keep up, but overall I feel more alive and content than I have in a while. It doesn’t matter what name I use Platespinner is just who I am! The photo is totally unrelated to the past. It shows one of my favourite sewing projects. My husband took a photo of the lighthouse in Bass Harbor Maine, my daughter took the photo and made a "colouring-book" sketch for me, and I turned it into a wallhanging.