My Creative Space

First things first: I should have said a big "thank you" for all the kind responses to my BMW project. It's one of my favorite things I've done so far, so I'm glad to hear other people feel good about it too. And, of course, comments are always fun to receive! ;)

Next, golly wow, has it been a week already? I had such nice, simple projects to work on, and they should've been done over the weekend. My children had other plans. Plans that involved clinging to me like spider monkeys and forgoing naps and waking at night afraid of the dark and midnight play sessions and ... Well, I'll spare you any more detail. Suffice it to say that all waking and many non-waking hours were consumed before I could even blink. This is not so conducive to needlework. So the wips are still wips. (sigh)


In the meantime, since I have nothing else to offer, and it is Thursday, here are some creative space photos. Above you saw some crayon nubbins that have been collecting on my desk and some Little People watching the rain outside (placed there by my daughter). Below is a glimpse at my crafty area (collecting random piles of things in this non-creative time).


More creative space fun to be had at kootoyoo. Back soon ... I hope!

My Creative Space

I enjoy looking at other people's creative spaces. I like seeing how they store their supplies, how they've decorated their spaces, and I like seeing their little collections of in-progress bits. Since I like this so much, I also take photos of my own spaces, and you'll have noticed I occasionally post them here. This week I figured if I'm going to do this, I might as well participate with the My Creative Space project once in a while. So here are my photos this week, slightly wonky thanks to a toddler who kept lunging at my legs each time I pressed the shutter button. Head over to kootoyoo for more from other crafters.

The Comeback Crafter

I was going to take pictures of the mounds of wadded up, used tissues overflowing from wastebaskets, stuffed in pockets, collected in little piles on side tables, to show you why I've been silent so long, but I decided that would just be gross. And I don't want to spread my germs. So instead, here's a photo of a different sort of pile.


I was all set to start crafting again and building back into more regular, serious creating and posting when whammo, I am hit with The Cold That Won't Go Away. Normally when I catch a cold I am miserable for two or three days and then life returns to normal, but this one is just hanging on. And on and on and on. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm just not able to rest much, even at night. Children are tough task masters. They prefer you not call in sick. So I've been rather out of commission, and my little stack of ideas and project hopefuls has been growing taller and more precarious.

This is, in part, thanks to this:


and this:



I have so many other things to finish, yet I am itching and scratching to try something new from one of these lovelies. I may be entering another shift, in which I leap to a new medium* and get obsessed with it at the neglect of all other interests. Hmmph.

*Are you watching Lost? Can you see the influence?

Anyway, back to reality. I did manage to put together one simple project, which I'll post tomorrow, complete with a bare-minimum-to-get-it-done tutorial for ... Tutorial Tuesday! I'd like to start a semi-regular habit of posting tutorials on Tuesdays and/or freebies (patterns, likely) on Fridays. I can't guarantee it will happen every week, and I might just point you to someone else's instructions if I like them a lot, and this might fail miserably and I'll quit, but we'll see where it goes starting tomorrow.

Until then, I leave you with one more crafty space photo. I promise it is completely devoid of snotty tissues. It was late last night, but I swiped the tissues to the side of the frame just for you.