Here’s my heart crochet hooks- 2

I’ve been carving crochet hooks with hearts on them.

There’s the Ladybug Valentine Heart hook

and a few other ones

AND…. I have just finished painting and burning one of the new Heart hooks:

I have been mulling over and contemplating lots of issues-

Like….. what is home……. (we’re in the process of getting ready to move a BIG big move…). How do we create home when we leave a place that has been home, to make a new home….

Also, a door just snapped shut on a project that I’ve been very hopeful about.  Rats.

So, to re-group, I have really needed to spend time thinking about what it is I love to do.

And, to spend time DOING what I love to do.

So, I have been weaving up a storm on my small looms, and even if I say so myself,  I have been doing some REALLY terrific new designs.

And, one of the other things that really helps me get my head on straight again is to spend time working with wood.

Anyhow………. so………. I have been really thinking and doing stuff that is vital to my sense of self……

and here’s one of the things that has come out of that response to the pain of disappointment, rejection and frustration:

It’s my way of saying: I just have to stay with what I love, and find my way home in that feeling of love……….

Yep. One of the heart shape crochet hooks now has a portrait of a little house in the woods

The flash on the camera washed it out. Also, I photograph them before I varnish them, as the varnish flashes out, too, so the richness doesn’t show up.

Anyhow. This crochet hook says: Home. Love…..

and on the back:

a dragonfly. Because my best friend and I both saw a dragonfly on the uncarved hook.

So, the dragonfly stands for love and friendship, too…..

I have several friends who feel very strongly about dragonflies.

I am always awestruck when the dragonflies hatch and whirl and flicker and investigate their newly found wings.

It’s like they are saying:

‘Ah, so this….. T H I S ! is what I do now!

Yesterday, I lived in the water,

today I live in the air!’

Hmmm…. seems like a pretty good metaphor for someone who is wondering,

‘What next?’