I love this time of year. The time where it is getting warm, although I really am not a fan of the heat. The sun is up earlier and within a couple of months my crafting will start bright and early and I have to move inside by 11 a.m. to take a nap. The excitement builds for market and my husband ... well, I promised to lay off a little bit this year. It sort of gets all consuming.
So I start with the lists. Why I make boxes when I love to highlight and add color is beyond me. But I make boxes and highlight as I finish. I'll probably start with new lists every week. Need to order this or that. I have these specific supplies? Great ... they can go toward making some fantastic Pinterest find. We all know that crafting is my sanity. Lately though .. even that has been too much for me to handle. My mind has been stuck in the numb that is a part of grieving. Sometimes I've been capable of doing nothing but staring into space without a thought in my mind. It has been beyond thought. So mired in the muck that even a spark of creativity hasn't been in evidence. I think I am on the upswing. I have started making lists and adding post it notes to journals.
I watched these spools listed on a swip swap site for weeks. I wanted them almost as bad as I sometimes want chocolate but more stuff?? What on earth was I going to do with them? And when would the truck be home to go pick them up? And when ......
Saturday we went and filled the back of the truck with spools. My initial thought was using them for display, but I've been on Pinterest since picking them up. Oh my. I want more of them. I see tables. I see a bar height table. I see a coffee table. I see a clock. I see ...
On my list for this weekend was "sand cabinet doors". I don't know how many there are in this pile, but they all got sanded! Highlight that bugger! I also managed to get a coat of paint on about half of them. Signs of some sort or other are going to be happening. None of these doors have a thick panel .. they're all thin inserts. I do have a few other ideas for them but nothing that requires weight bearing. Can you feel the progress??!!
Not only do I have piles of spools and cabinet doors ... I have piles of other stuff. Craft stuff is spread hither and yon around here. I had 2 kitchen towels left over from making some gifts and a stamp that I am sort of in love with. Towels are stamped with fabric paint and waiting to be heat pressed and packed away. I really need another package or two of towels so I can use up that paint. I should make a book about if you give a crafter a brush then she'll need paint to go with it and then she'll need something to paint which means another trip to Hobby Lobby or Home Depot. That kind of book. This is so fun and fast ... and who doesn't like a fun towel in the kitchen?
I painted every bead I had left from last year (well, maybe not every bead but the size I was wanting) and it looks like I have an abacus going on here. More beads are ordered (1,000 or so of them in different sizes) and many will see paint before being sealed. Do you ever have visions of sugar plums that turn out to be raisins? I'm hoping the bead ideas I have work out to be sugar plums. Seriously ... fingers are crossed with hope.
That's the crafty for right now. We have some fun stuff in our world for the next few weeks so crafting will take the back burner ... unless I stitch or crochet while I travel and visit.
Get creative. Hop on Pinterest and dig around until you're so overstimulated and exhausted that you just take a nap. So totally worth it!
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