Pondering Cake

The Royal Wedding Cake

I made for a party this past year in honor of William and Kate

(and a fun excuse to have the girls over to party all day

as we watched the Royal Wedding)

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Has been adorning my studio ever since

(minus their photo)

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I wrapped hat boxes with white embossed wallpaper

and hot glued all those flowers on.

It stands 40" tall to the top of the crown to the base of the cake stand,

and is 18" in diameter

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I have been pondering it the past 2 days,

as I begin the process of packing up items to go into storage.

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Oh, wait, let me back up!

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We face two moves this year.

Shortly we will be putting our less than 5 year old house on the market,

and building another.  As much fun as it is to design a new dwelling,

this whole packing up and moving thing has me overwhelmed.

When this house sells we will move into an apartment

with much of our stuff in storage until the new house is completed.

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Which is why I stare at things like that giant cake

with these thoughts going through my mind,

"Should I disassemble it? But I LIKE it, it's pretty

and I could use it for all my parties, royal or not!"

"Yes, that's true, but do you really want to store a giant cake?"

"Should I find a giant box to put it in?"

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And it's not just the cake

It's looking at every item I own as I question if it's worth storing

and moving to another home. There is so much

T H I N K I N G

involved, and besides this giant paper cake,

I have 2 art rooms (Yes 2, I took over another room)

filled to the brim with art supplies,

craft supplies, things I will need for when I make _____ and _____,

and OH!  I could use this for ___________,

and

REALLY

I need someone to give me a kick and help me let go of things.

(except for my glitter collection, not that!)

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I've even prayed about it.

I so don't want to cling to things

(...cake or no cake, cake or no cake...)

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 "A womans life does not consist in the abundance of the things she possesses"

(paraphrased from scripture)

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By this last move we'll make this year we will have moved 12 times

in our married life (5 times into homes we built)

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With all this experience, I should be good at this

~ Packing, Unpacking, Saying Goodbye and Hello to Homes ~

(The saying hello is great, once the unpacking is done!)

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It's just all the W O R K that gets to me!

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{now, please excuse me while I go kick myself

and get back to work}

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~ Do you have a task this year that you are dreading all the work involved? ~

(Remember, we can only eat that elephant one bite at a time.)