Olive Juice Studio

Hi Everyone!  I know many of you know and are wondering what in the world is up with me for not posting consistently for the past six weeks and I apologize.  I think I have finally gotten my “senses” back and feel like I can breathe again.  I wasn’t going to post about what’s going on in my personal life but so many of you have been emailing me  out of concern and some out of  irritation that I decided why not?  I feel like we’re all one BIG happy family here at OJS anway…. I figure I owe you an explanation other than just “I’m really busy!” 

My husband lost his job about five weeks ago and boy oh boy did we go into “freak out mode!”  (Remember, I posted way back over the summer that we would probably be moving to Wisconsin because of his job?  Yeah, about that..!) The good thing out of all of this is that he had an interview scheduled for just two days aftwer he lost his job BEFORE he even knew he was going to be let go (can we all say someone is looking out for us?  Thank you God!)  He did get the job which is another thing to be thankful for BUT it’s almost 7oo miles away!  We currently live in Illinois but the job is in Maryland….My husband moved to Maryland a little over three weeks ago and is employed with a great company.  Meanwhile, I’m still here with my kiddos trying to clean up our house, pack things we’re not using, getting the house ready to put on the market, working when I can, maintaining a house, continuing with all of my other obligations and all of the other mom things we  moms have to do!  Our life is in TOTAL chaos right now but we know it’s temporary and we have total faith that this is happening for a reason and that we will be provided a less stressful lifestyle once we get settled into our new life that will provide me with unlimited amounts of creativity… *smirk* (praying that it is sooner rather than later so we can get on with things!)  I swear, when my brain experiences S-T-R-E-S-S it shuts down and the creativity that once was unlimited goes into hibernation and I literally have to squeeze my brain to get something out of it!  I really believe once this move is out of the way life is going to be much calmer…

In the meantime, my posts are not going to be as frequent as I was typically posting until we get ourselves settled in somewhere.  I will continue with the challenges and will try to post at least a few times each month but if I can’t, I can’t and I apologize but…. I’m NOT disappearing forever…this is temporary and I WILL BE BACK as soon as I possibly can – I promise that!  This is just a “slight setback” that will only reap bigger rewards in the end, right? 

If anyone is interested in helping me out by being a guest blogger,a guest designer or just want to share a project tutorial please let me know.  I would be forever grateful for some new posts just to keep things moving along on OJS until I’m able to get back to my regular posts.

Olive my OJS followers and readers! :-) Thank you so much for making my blog a regular stop each day/week and for all of your thoughtful emails over the past several weeks.   You’re all AWESOME and I value each and everyone of you who come here for inspiration!

In the spirit of the season, please share with me what you are most thankful for. 

Hugs,

Kim

P.S.  I do have a few things I will be posting once I can get everything pulled together so check back in a few days…

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