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well, i put two pieces into the artstream studios show and they got accepted, although i am not sure if anyone will get turned away or not. anyway, they are available and are priced lower than i usually sell my things for, so go and check em out. it is for breast cancer research. also, i got a nice note from the peeps at lime and violet letting me know that i was mentioned again in their podcast, which i thought was really nice. there is a link in the toolbar to that if you are interested.

the photos above are of some of my most favorite mixed media pieces. i really need to mount them or frame em. i don’t think i can bear to part with them. i love that woodgrain wallpaper. it would be horrid as wallpaper, although it would be cool to cut out on a larger scale and stick on the wall for a larger version of that piece, ya know? hmmmm… what does jake think?

i have been working my bum off to get caught up on everything. as always, i am really behind. i got my yarns for orders spun up, plus several extras. i did 6 or 7 big bobbins full today, which was about 8 hours of work. i don’t tend to take breaks because once i stop, i realize how exhausted i am, but i have been pushing past being tired like i used to when i was in college, and then i realize how i did that and why i got really bad migraines and strange maladies (like mono…a half dozen times) all the time. it is sort of like dieting…once you push past the hunger, you kind of forget about it. will it bite you on the ass? yes, but at the moment, you can handle it. that said, i have been having a horrible time sleeping. i push past it when it is earlier because i don’t want to sleep for a couple of hours and be up all night, and then i am not able to sleep at all. i will be tired, but overtired, if that makes sense.

it is so hard to balance things. i can’t really shift gears, so if i am spinning, i have to just be spinning all day. i don’t check emails until i am done, i don’t stop to eat, i don’t go anywhere, i don’t pack orders, whatever i am on board doing on whatever day, that is all that i do. when i switch gears, i realize that i am exhausted and that is it.

i got another circle piece done last night. well, not totally done, but i want to add crocheted lace around the outside of a few pieces but i think as barbe suggested that drilling holes in the piece may be the only way to attach it other than glue, which i don’t want to use.

my eyes are really tired, so off i go, but i do plan to get the yarns skeined and photoed so you can check em out. packing orders, etc, and skeining yarns is on the slate for to-morrow. and then i have to get my studio cleaned up. and then the bedroom. it is a stye. i cleaned my desk up in the studio and i look at it longingly, wishing that the whole room was like that. le sigh. i explained to jake that when i look at organizing and cleaning, i can’t just do one thing, or one small part, i want to do it all at once, which i can’t, so i don’t do anything and it gets more and more out of control and i feel guilty about it, as well as anything else i am too tired to take care of. so. i really need to get organized and try to do a bit of daily maintenance no matter what i feel like.

here are some rings i crocheted. i am not sure if i posted photos of em before. they are so fun to wear. so happy.

xo
n.