Today, Susan is moving to America. As you read this, she is flying over the Atlantic with her family and a few suitcases to start her new life.
It sounds dramatic, but it really is the end of an era. When I first arrived here, 7 months pregnant, jet-lagged, lost, and home-sick, she adopted me and saved my life. Maybe not my physical, breathing life, but definitely my social life, not to mention my sanity. She immediately took me under her wing and showed me all the great things this place has to offer. She made me take my GPS along when she drove me around so I could mark everything for future reference. She forced her other friends to invite me to girl’s nights out.
Then she must’ve mentioned something about sewing or craftiness, because I immediately went wild with suggestions for sewing circles, and may or may not have said something about a pillowcase dress sew-a-long. That’s when she realized I was nuts. She probably wondered who she had invited into her life. Like, up until now the movie featured a sweet girl, new to the area, but the next few scenes will establish her as a bonafide psychopath.
After this, it gets a little fuzzy, maybe because I gave birth and ran away back to America for a hormone-crazed few months. But at some point, there was a shift, and Susan was on board. In fact, she was steering the ship. Suddenly, she was a sewer. She was the first to build up a fabric stash, the first to buy a serger, the first to get a dress form, and the first to suggest we start a blog. I was anti-blog for a long time, guys. I hemmed and hawed and dragged my feet. Then Susan booked our URL and posted this, and figured I would have to commit if she pushed me off the ledge. She was right.
And now I can’t imagine NOT blogging with Susan. Or heading over to her house at a moment’s notice to lay around on her couch, or eating her delicious snack foods, or having a crafternoon, or talking about all things serious and silly, many times in the same breath, or packing up all my new creations to show her, or going through all the stuff she’s been working on, or feeding off each others’ ideas until they become something bigger and better than they were when just 1 person was dreaming them up.
But there are some positive things about her living far far away in America. Like……..
…….
Ok, no, really, let me just embrace my inner Pollyanna for a moment. Hm..
Ok, here’s one! Like, she can send me all the cool clearance rack crafty supplies that you just can’t get online.
And, because of the time difference, she can call me the second she wakes up to discuss all the ideas she dreamed up in the middle of the night (she can’t do that now because she and her kids wake up approximately 3 hours before me & mine).
Um, well, that’s all I’ve got so far.
So, we are asking you, beautiful and talented readers, to bear with us. Susan will be without crafty supplies for a few weeks (maybe months). And you will be stuck with me and my very sporadic sewing. Oh yeah, and it’ll just be sewing. Because I can’t cut or glue or mod podge to save my life. If it wasn’t for Susan, this blog would be called something really lame like “afterhours sewing”. (also, there wouldn’t be a blog at all, as previously discussed).
Although I titled this post “The End”, if you’ll just give us a few weeks, we promise it’ll be The Beginning. The beginning of a friendship and co-blogger-ship spanning 2 continents, 4000 miles, 7 time zones, and 1 ocean. And hopefully the beginning of something really new and fun.
good luck on your move back to america, susan. and good luck to you adrianna, staying back. it’s so hard leaving friends or being left behind :-(.
i am looking forward to the ‘new beginning’ of the blog, when you are all settled in the new situation again.
We will definitely hang in there with you – and I’ll be thinking of you both as your settle in and adjust. :)
K, you just made me cry. I will be the one leaving soon and though I am ecstatic to be going to the place I’ve chosen I am leaving behind some of the best people ever. If you ever come up north you’ll love em….
My heart skipped a bit there when I read the title … then I read on and became hopeful and then very glad that this is indeed not the end of a wonderful blog I have come to love (I found you only recently!). I wish you both all the very best and like many others, will be hanging in there with you.
awww – just imagine all the future holds for you two! It’ll be grand. :-)
Safe journey Susan!
I wish it will be a new beginning to this blog, and all the best for both of you.
This is a lovely post. Having half my family and mates in Australia and half in Canada, it is so hard saying goodbye. In whatever form this blog develops, we’ll keep reading.
And with that, I’m sitting here in my office, getting all watery eyed about your post. And I’m really not an overly emotional person, not one that cries at the drop of a hat. But can seriously relate to leaving good friends. It’s just sad. But a good friend is a good friend. That never changes.
Your post was so beautiful and heartfelt. True, authentic friends are so hard to find. It breaks my heart that the two of you had to say goodbye. What a gorgeous story the two of you share. Thanks for letting us enjoy it, too.
So sad that you’ve had to part ways… Finding a friend who you connect with so perfectly is a rare and special thing.
I look forward to seeing what you two come up with — even from such a great distance. I have no doubt there are endless fabulous projects in store!
I’m interested in this cross-continental adventure. Although I will miss the “I ate all your ice cream” ‘Between S&A’ posts.
Aaaah, I hate goodbyes! -sob- Good luck ladies! How amazing to have your special kind of friendship that can last oceans apart:)
Awwwww…I think I got a little teary eyed too. You guys are too cute.
Oh that made me cry! It’s so hard to say goodbye to a best friend. I hate goodbyes period! Good thing she is committed to you for life- at least in the blogging world, because I couldn’t imagine life without the Crafterhours duo!
Good luck Susan!
Sniiiiiiiiiiif! I know you two will make this distance blog-relationship work wonders and inspire the whole blog world with your over the ocean team planning. I can’t wait to see all you have in store.
And I still expect early (okay, not so early as before) morning Skype conferences. Oh, and bonus, now I’ll get bonus Susan ones in the afternoon.
Ok… I’m teary-eyed!
Awww, so SAD! I love the pics of you two cute babywearin’ mamas, though!!! Good luck Susan, and you guys will make a great transcontinental team :P
Aw! You guys got pregnancy hormones in emotional overdrive now! (hubby is rolling eyes…”why is she crying NOW?”)
It’s so hard to find good friends. I look forward to stealing Susan as my new crafting buddy once she settles down. (;
Susan is very good at getting people to jump off ledges (figuratively of course). When I had the pleasure of Susan as my neighbor, she knew the way to get me out of my occasional funks. Essentially, she said “oh shut up and let’s go. We’re doing this.” No one before or since has ever figured this trick out. I miss that!