My Daily Craft Blog

• My Friend Darvix

  On a whim I went to the Etsy chatroom for the first time in months where I bumped into my good friend Darvix. She's a quilter and makes aprons and Christmas stockings and dresses. She's very talented. She is someone I trust to always represent her items honestly and she wants you to love whatever you order from her. Her mother was a seamstress too. Anyway, it was good to visit with her. She's on the east coast so I'm always up way too late when she's up way too early otherwise we'd never see each other. Speaking of which it's almost 3 AM so I am off to bed. My sleep schedule is all screwed up because I've been taking decongestants. Hopefully I'll be well soon and can get back to a normal schedule, whatever that is for an artist.

• All is Calm, All is Bright

  Just when I thought I was all done being sick, my cold came back to haunt me. I'm too tired to go anywhere or do much of anything. But this morning I started drawing holiday cards with my watercolor crayons and pencils. I got some business sized Christmas envelopes at the .99 store, so I know what size to make my paintings. I'll probably glue the paintings onto scrapbooking paper. That will minimize the expense of the more costly watercolor paper. I can paint 2 cards on each piece of watercolor paper, cut around them, then glue them onto the scrapbooking paper. At least that is the plan at the moment. Since I don't celebrate Christmas, but rather Yule, it gives me a chance to customize all the cards and even put people's names on them if I wish.

• Achoo to You Too

  Sorry for the lack of posts lately. I'm fighting off a miserable head cold. Right before it got the better of me I did manage to cut out a new purse and a stuffed elephant out of some cool prints I got at M & L Fabrics near my house. And I already have an idea for another patchwork purse in red with Asian prints. So many projects, so little time. Right now all I feel well enough to do is type on the computer and read novels. I'm behind on Nanowrimo now and haven't written a thing in two days. It's one thing to write a blog post. No pressure there. It's trickier to figure out what the characters in my novel are supposed to be doing next. One is having a baby, one is being held by kidnappers, one is learning to play violin, and they just got 5 new cats for their house. Things are getting more complicated by the minute. I'm not even to the halfway point of 25,000 words and the thing ends Nov. 30. Sigh. The photo is of me last Sunday at the archery gathering writing my novel long hand in my journal. Sometimes I feel bad I can't afford a laptop, but then I remind myself that Shakespeare didn't have a laptop and he did okay for himself.