Inseparable Nomads

“It’s not perfect, it’s handmade” is the personal motto I lived by for the past few months while working on a rather large crafts commission.  It kept me going whenever a little bump would arise in my work because it really is rather true.  You want something that’s perfect, a machine is probably going to [...]

Andrew’s Birthday – 9.9.09

Andrew’s 23rd birthday was the 9th of September which was unfortunately right after we first moved into our new place.  We had an apartment that was in the just-moved-in state, practically no money and we had both recently started new jobs.  Andrew has frequently commented on how his past birthdays [...]

After being pampered at Andrew’s grandmother’s it was very difficult to hit the road and face “real life” again.  We were heading into Boston to settle in indefinitely and the reality of the sitution was that we were arriving homeless and unemployed with no real prospects in either category.  Thankfully we are blessed to have [...]

After spending the previous week on the Rez, Upstate, we moved on through our journey and found our way to Canton, OH.
My grandmother lives in Canton, OH, where (of all places) I was actually born! So it was a very special event to return to the place where I have lost memories of being a [...]

After all the chaos of moving all our stuff out of Ithaca and into storage in Boston we were more than ready for a vacation!  We had decided that we would still go visit a few people along the first leg of our original trip out west after the decision to move to Boston since [...]

On July 31st, 2009 Shelby and I woke up in an empty bedroom on our bare mattress, ready to start the trek to Boston…
By 8AM that morning we met up with our friend Amalia to pick up the Budget rental truck. The original plan was to ship all of our stuff to Vancouver in a [...]

There are some rumors going around about our change of plans and I would like to formally anounce the details here so everyone can hear what’s *officially* going on!
After a small bout with the application process to work in Vancouver, Shelby and I have realized a few things:

I would be able to live legally in [...]

As you may have noticed, Shelby and I have been a little MIA from the blog recently. I can assure you that we miss posting frequently for all of our friends and that we aren’t as lazy as one might assume (although we do enjoy a fair bit of laziness, just as much as the [...]

There’s never a dull moment in the life of Andrew and Shelby and this past weekend (Memorial Day 2009) exemplified just that!
Here’s the run down of how it went down:
Friday-
Ryan Rutledge, a good friend of both Shelby and mine had just come into town to visit for the weekend. I had been let out early [...]