Friday, so we meet again. I am up to my ears in projects that are almost-finished-but-not-quite. I have vowed to plow through all of them today. I will not rest until they are done! (Sorry, if this is getting melodramatic, but I’m trying to psych myself up here.)
I’m also hoping to squeeze in some cleaning (see above re: almost finished projects = little bits of thread and sparkles and random scraps of fabric scattered everywhere). Do you think vacuuming counts as a Valentine’s Day present?
Anyway, back to the grindstone for me. I still have some chocolate mousse to make. (Hmm… I wonder if we can just eat that for dinner.)
Don’t forget that there are some Valentine’s Day madlibs if your sweetheart is a little bit silly. (They are completely appropriate for sweet kids, too.) Hope you have a great weekend whether you’re celebrating or not. See you next week! I’ll be back with some alphabetic inspiration – we’re getting down to the end now (T, U, V, W, and X).
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By Kelly
February 12, 2010
I’ll be back next week with some more letters of the alphabet, but I’m taking a little breather today.
True confession: One of the realities about being self-employed is that Friday loses some of its TGIF appeal. Friday shows up, and I think to myself: already? I’m a motivated person, but I find it hard to stick to personal deadlines – especially when there is creativity involved. I want the work to be done, but it also needs to be right. I have my game face on these days. The pages of the calendar are tearing off so fast.
However, the good news is that I am working on a secret something I really, really love. I have a huge heap of shimmering, silky fabrics next to my sewing machine (yes, the ones that slip and slide all over the place and mess up your machine’s tension if you’re not careful). This is one of those projects where you are not sure how to reply when the lady at JoAnn’s says “what are you making?” I find myself thinking “maybe I should just lie because I don’t think she’ll believe me if I tell her.”
One day I hope to tell you, too.
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By Kelly
January 29, 2010
Yesterday, I promised the unveiling of a new mini-project. I think a little structure will be good for me this time of year.
For the next 26 days, I’ll be working my way through a whole alphabet of things that inspire, entertain, and cheer all the way from A to Z. That’s it. That’s the whole plan. It’s a little bit Sesame Street and a little bit 4th grade creative writing assignment, but I shall start with A and sift through all of the Aardvarks, Adversaries, and Apples to find something Adorable and Apropos. I promise it will heavier on the eye candy and lighter on the puns. At least, I’ll try.
By all means, please feel free to play along. It’s January. We might as well start with something easy and just a touch optimistic.
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Today was one of those days, where you look up at the clock and think how very late it is. Then you survey your desk and are almost surprised by the amount of things you finished. Ok, if you’re feeling irritated and disagreeing with me – maybe it was not one of those days for you, let me just say that yesterday was the complete opposite. I got to the end of the day and felt like a total failure, so believe me – I know both ends of this spectrum.
However, today was good. I decided at 5pm to take out the recycling, and there in the basement garage I looked up through the gate and saw that the sky was pinkish-lavender. I had been inside for so long, that I had a little moment where it was as if I had forgotten that the sun did that. I went upstairs and down the sidewalk watching the sky turn deeper shades of orange and dark orange and impossibly dark orange and red and then finally, gray.
I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time hoping to be inspired and it is a walk outside every time that does it. (You would think I could remember this.)
I am craving a little more structure in my life, and here on this blog, too. So I’ve come up with a little project to help me re-focus. I’ll be back tomorrow to share.
Things to remember from today: when all else fails, go outside.
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January always makes me think of spongy pink erasers. As the last few days of December slip by, I can almost hear that squeaky-squeal of erasers in a sketchbook. I blow away the pink eraser dust, and think ok, let’s try this again now, shall we?
2010, you’re sort of different. Aren’t you? I think a lot of people are hoping for that.
Usually, I’m a big fan of New Year’s Resolutions. I don’t like to make them too hard. That’s probably why I like them. They are mostly priorities – I realize more and more that I have to pick and choose where to put my focus. First come, first serve and all that. If I don’t pay very close attention, it seems that a lot of goals I think are very important would drift right down to the bottom where I’ll never quite get to them. January is a great time to shake the barrel and see if there is anything really special down there that might get lost underneath all the daily dust.
This year I’ve been working towards a different deadline: March. It was last March that I left my job in the corporate world and decided to try my footing on my own. I find that my list of goals and resolutions is already pretty full. I’ve gotten started on some big things, but there is still a lot of work to be done. So this year, I’m gathering up all of my papers, reshuffling a few, and straightening the stack. Back to work!
Is it a coincidence that while cleaning my desk, I found this quote on some scratch paper?
“From Socrates to Edison, every forward step taken by mankind through revolving centuries, every advance by humanity towards the ultimate goal, has been led by some valiant dreamer whose eyes were fixed upon the dawn.” – G.E. Dinger
Carry on, friends.
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