Happy New Year!

I'm sitting in this boring brown little house. Did i mention that every room but the bathroom is brown. Including the outside and the carpet? And the ceilings are only 8 feet high?  I don't put up any curtains because I need as much light as I can get.

So I've start the new year alone (What's new) and thinking about financing. I will be starting tomorrow to get the financing together for the trailer that I don't even know where I'll get it from yet.

New Years Day I start the annual ritual of going through all my paperwork and getting everything wrapped up for the last year, while prepping for the New Year as I watch the highly edited Rose Parade.  My other goal for the rest of my last weekend of freedom is to clean out one closet of stuff. The less I have the less I have to move.  My land lady is 90+ and I don't know what might happen if she is called on to the next great adventure, Her son is taking care of the rental homes at the moment but I have no idea what the 'family' will do with the rent house that I'm in if anything, Goddess forbid, happens. I want to be ready for anything.

My New Year's Resolution is start and finish the Vardo. 

Happy New Year anyone that reads this.

Happy Solstice

I can't believe I missed the total eclipse of the Moon last night. ]

Jessh, I thought it was tonight. Oh well.

I'm not able to talk out loud about my build plans at the moment because my mother is visiting from Ohio. I mentioned to her that I wanted to build my own Vardo/travel trailer for camping and SCA'ing and was told very firmly that I didn't need it. Shrug... So I'm going to keep researching and planning and build it anyway just not mention it to my mom.

Our solstice altar is up and the libation has been offered, no candles yet. (It's my mother again. but lets not go there.)

Blessed Day everyone!

Happy Solstice: AKA Going Wiccan

Greetings Everyone!

Winter Solstice will be on December 21st this year. So my older sister and I are putting up a Winter Solstice Altar in the living room. As soon as I can figure out how to post a picture, which I'll need to learn how to do once the construction phase begins, I'll get you a look at what the Altar looks like.

Which leads me to the point of, "What does this have to do with the Vardo?"

I am thinking of making the Vardo green with a yellow roof and adding Celtic and Wiccan symbols instead of the standard Roma/Gypsy images.

Hey, I never said I was normal.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Save your money!

So I got the small house book by Jay Shafer. It is a beautiful small book, with the wonderful pictures from the website and the general outlines of small home building, small living lifestyle and conservation. But for actual construction information, there was little to go on. I found that the Go House Go pamphlet from Portland Alternative Housing to be far superior. Personal opinion here folks, buy the Go House Go book instead, get the Jay Shafer book from the library and save your money. Oh, I sold the small house book so I'm taking it off my total spread sheet. FYI.

Dreary December

I've spent the last two days in bed recovering from the flu. So nothing has been done on the vardo, research or actual construction. The book Tiny Houses by Jay Shafer is on the way, and I've been able to get a copy of the Tiny House PoPoMo plans. But now that I think about it there are going to be three actual phases. I'm deep in phase one Research. The second will be Planning and Finance and of course the third is Construction. I'm hoping to be able to get through Phase One and Two by say March, (There is still one last cc to be paid off). With an expected start date for Phase Three in April. Well plans never work right for me but it's nice to dream.