Hmm, apparently I’m working too hard, too late in the day, if I’m having to clock-out retroactively two days in a row… though I guess yesterday’s mid-day entry kind of serves as a partial clock-out.
I’m having some Glee withdrawal. Can’t wait for the next episode to be posted this Thursday! Luckily, in the meantime, there’s this.
Woke up yesterday feeling energized. While at the symphony the day before, I’d realized that things really are different now and I need to plan out my time accordingly (instead of thinking that “as soon as I get my act together things will just go back to the way they were pre-craft fair”), so I overhauled my personal “syllabus” and goals. I’m going to keep the same basic structure I’ve been using, but crafts and the crafting business are now an equal third with writing and drawing, rather than a side hobby.
After the syllabus rewrite, I cut some more decoupage scraps, photographed bags and wrote that previous entry in this blog, and then… I have no idea where the rest of my day went. I’m sure I did something, I just don’t remember what. Pretty sad.
Oh, I do know I cut some 4.5″ squares out of the contents of my scrap bag (what with all the patches I’ve been making, I have been getting a lot of use out of the scrap bag lately!). While I was in Martinez a month ago, filing my FBN and business license, I spotted a really cute bag in a thrift shop and took surreptitious notes to try and re-create it at home. It’s made of squares of fabric. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Late in the afternoon, Erik and I went to Tokyo Fish Market to get Japanese groceries, then stopped at Bridges for some rejuvenating workout time. I like being at Bridges when it’s dark outside, and now that the sun sets so much earlier in the day, I can do that without worrying that the late exercise will keep me up all night. There is something very cozy about that place in the evenings… plus I’m just feeling cozy these days in general. The holiday season will do that to me.
After dinner, I thought I would start on that squares bag, but instead I started to untangle the beautiful recycled silk sari ribbon I ordered on Etsy… and that took me at least an hour, maybe more. Somehow I got the ribbons all mussed up and it was just a nightmare to try and pull them apart. But they’re now untangled, flattened, and stored neatly on a paper-towel tube.
The skein on the left is what I received; the tube on the right is what I did with it. Rolling the ribbon onto the tube was incredibly painful; I think I stretched my hands for about 10 minutes after I was done and they’re still kind of sore today. Just old repetitive-motion injuries resurfacing.
I haven’t yet decided whether I will use this ribbon as a trim, as wrapping, or to attach my satsuma charms to my bags.
And that was yesterday.
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