Friday May 29 Updates!

Whoa, this is a very big most recent picture of me, wearing my new VERY stylish old lady cobbler's apron while working outside in the garden. I don't know why I never made it as a fashion blogger.

Hello everyone, it's been a nice week and here are some updates of what is happening!

Effective June 25th, 2026 All My Content Will Only Be Available at ChelleStein.com

#1. My content is moving and changing over the next few months. All of my old sites are disappearing from the internet and EVERYTHING will be here at chellestein.com.

We might have a few broken links here and there but DO NOT PANIC. I have backups of everything from the past 26 years, we will find it! Just let me know in the comments if you are having trouble finding something and I will fix it or point you in the right direction!

You can learn more about why this is happening here.

#2. I now have a newsletter. By subscribing to my newsletter, i will send you one email every Friday. It might have art, it might have music, it might have lists, it might only have 8 words, but there WILL always be at least 1 cat picture for free subscribers and 9 cat pictures for paid subscribers and a brief update of what's going on + what we've published. That I can commit to lol.

Meet Our Cats

Here is today's cat photo! This is a throwback of our Miss Crystal Ball when she was just but a wee sweet little kitten 10 years ago.

My, how she has grown - this is her now!

This week is special since it's the first newsletter you get 2 cat photos. Paid members can visit this post and see one photo of each cat at the bottom of the page!

Outside in the Garden

In other news, Ray + I have been in full on gardening mode planting a LOT of plants. This will all be over at his YouTube channel - so go subscribe over there if you'd like to follow along!

My Sweet Williams are blooming along nicely!

Closing Notes

This is the last week of school before summer vacation, so while I probably won't be publishing a whole lot of new content between now and July 1st, I WILL be working hard on getting everything over here from my old sites between now and then.

This morning I reflected on what I consider is the best part of my day and the "Sit In Your Car and Listen to Music" coping mechanism that is very good for dealing with stress and chaos. If you love discovering and sharing new music, let me know what songs I should check out next and be sure to follow my youtube music playlists for what I'm usually listening to.

P.S.: Crafty Stuff

It's been a fun week of great weather and lots of time outside planting so I haven't had much time to be crafty, but I have been making quite a lot of progress on organizing all of my bead supplies! I don't know why but I enjoy just the fun of sorting beads by color, it's so relaxing and sensory and soothing!

I feel like this could be an analog version of a video game like Candy Crush or Tetris lol

One of my cherubs borrowed some beads and mixed pink with yellow! After all my hard work of sorting! WTF? *Does she hate me?* No, of course not, she was just trying out different color combos! Easy fix: we moved the pink/yellow bead combos to her own project box.

That's all for now this week, but I think it's enough to get started - if you have any questions or anything just let me know, you can ask me anything.

And, as promised, a gallery of cat photos for our paid subscribers: