Tuesday, August 26, 2008

So Ready for Fall

I'm ready, I'm ready!! So ready for the fall to fall in here in the (almost) Midwest. I cooked Chilli today and that's a sure sign that fall is on its way. I love turtlenecks and suede, boots and sweaters, socks and leather purses. All the things I put away reluctantly each spring. I must say it doesn't take much passing of time here in Michigan before its time to pull all these wares back out. I'm feeling the urge to change my decor , and exchange my bright fake flowers gracing my table with dried grape vines, fall leaves and wreaths. Time for new (old) drapes and furniture rearranging and actually cooking with a shopping list in hand to make good old fashioned meals for a family that'll gather around the table, eat together, talk together undistracted from the heat. Yes the Fall is for me. I feel a surge in energy for schooling and a overwhelming nesting instinct that settles upon me just in time to rearrange the house for the cold days ahead. I'm ready to wash quilts and dust off blankets and resist the urge to weather proof the windows just yet. Womanly instincts, yes its a beautiful thing...

Tuesday, August 12, 2008


F is for fun!!! A recent little altered piece I've been working on for the shop, I love the lively colors and playfulness of this piece! Reminds me of days I never knew. (Oh I love those days!)

New Hatchlings Work in Progress

Sugar Says...
Start every day off with a Smile and get it over with.-WC Fields

I've been in a serious creative rut lately. I look at all my goodies, I've accumulated and quickly turn my head so as to hide the shame I feel in having not touched any of the things I just "had to have". **sighs** I have a few items I've almost completed just a few finishing touches, one last thing to glue down here, one more tap there, one last button over yonder and they will be all ready to go on to the world wide web! Yeah right, I then have take a picture of it, download it to my computer, measure it, define it , post it and promote it. Is it any wonder the daunting task of creating is slowed down, no, completely halted? But I'll get back on track and oh boy, when I do...I'm working on it I think I'll be for the rest of this system of things a WIP! I must stop procrastinating and start doing today what I shouldn't put off until.......etc, etc,...