Old Blog Made New

This blogger account was our first attempt at blogging back in 2008. At the time it did not feel very intuitive and I (Kris) was the only one of us three that tried stumbling around here. Before long I became a fan of twitter and learned how much easier it was for me to wade around in wordpress than blogger and this account took a dive down the old Forgotten But Not Gone Road. Until . . . I wanted to put an etsy pocket shop on my Belladaze.wordpress.com blog. What? Really? Are you sure?

That's right. It won't work.Some further research showed that blogger works with pocket shop. I was led into the dark corners of memory and eventually found my way back to the beginning - and here I am teaching our first blog some new tricks.

So what happens to/with all the other portals I have typed into over the years? Does everything just stay out here forever? Appears so, but occassionally I get an email mentioning I have a day or so to sign in somewhere before they delete me forever. Most of those sites were ackward to use and lost my attention, but now it appears I will start giving blogger some real TLC!

Here is a current updated directory of happy portals for us:

Susan Effenberger will be active here at LemonBirdStudio.blogger.com
Susan can also be found at Etsy as LemonBirdStudio
and at LemonBirdStudio.wordpress.com
and I suspect here Mosaicglobe account will remain active too

Kris Tabor's photography and blogging will be active at BellaDaze.blogger.com
Kris can also be found at Etsy as Belladaze, co-sharing this shop with her daughter Kira Tabor-Lewis.
Kris has been actively blogging at belladaze.wordpress.com for several years and even enjoyed a long weekend on the front page Fresh Pressed as a featured blogger right next to Anderson Coopers 360!

RJ Ballard had a website long before they thought of making templates for those of us who will never write code. His humor and cartoons can be seen at rjballard.com and his art and music is available at Etsy as RJBallard
RJ is a regular musican at Portland International Airport. You have 3 chances every week to catch him in live performance if you are flying through.

Getting to know one another

Lemon Bird Studios is a creative house. It is the place where I go to share a huge part of myself with others, day in and day out, and now outloud and digitally. Welcome!

My good friend Susan Effenberger designed this great logo for us. Susan also does gift wrap and wonderful surface designs. Our talents are different but well suited to hanging out in harmony.

I am Kris Tabor and I make greeting cards. More about that later. Right now I'd prefer we get down to just getting to know each other a bit better. You will never find me at the mall, and you certainly won't recognize me at the store. But here are some ways to learn more about me:

Some days I write

Some days I write more

Some days I only peer through the Canon I drag everywhere

Some days are filled with cooking and noisy eating and good friends

Some days fabric and glue and threads adorn my fingertips, and probably my chairseat and eyelashes

Some days cardstock floods my table, spilling onto the floor and chairs

Some days soft earth clings to all my toes and fingers, even the corner of my eye, always to my hair

Some days I romp with the dogs far beyond the meadow and can't take my eyes off familiar perches along the way. And once we get to the river I am hunched low memorizing each rock and sound

Some days I sketch, or garden in the round, or sew, or sit and rock on the front porch for a spell

Some days I study painting and wonder why I don't make time for it

And some days I wander near and whenever I can, I wander far.

Wherever I am, each of these days are grounded in fluid thought and the creative process of art, because I can't not be involved in this process. I can't not do art in one form or another. Everyday is filled with ideas. More and more and more ... some days I can't even slow the ideas down long enough for yoga or food.

Blogging seems like a natural wonderous place to pass along ideas and thoughts. I can't get to all of them myself so feel free to nurture and expand on ideas you find here. When you are inspired to action, or are ready to share friendship, I hope you'll take a moment and let me know!