Quilts completed: 1
Quilted Pillow Covers completed: 7
Cosmetic bag completed: 7
Total items completed: 15
Total items currently in process: 6
Days left in the month: 8.
Items left to complete: 15.
Days left until Small Business Saturday when I plan to reopen my etsy store: 4.
I’m starting to feel really excited about Small Business Saturday!
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Baby gifts completed: 2
Quilted Pillow Covers completed: 6
Cosmetic bag completed: 1
Total items completed: 9
Total items currently in process: 3
Days left in the month: 15.
Items left to complete: 21.
Days left until Small Business Saturday when I plan to reopen my etsy store (Did I forget to mention that?): 11.
So, I’m a bit behind, but I’m happy with my progress.
I am not a writer. I have never purported to be a wordsmith of any sort. The rules of grammar have always appealed to me in their strange, logical, somewhat mathematical way. I used to actually enjoy diagramming sentences (no really, I did.), but I digress.
I’m not a writer, but, as I’m sure you are aware, November is time for NaNoWriMo. My husband has decided to participate. And since I am suffering from sewing burn out, and my dear friend Tricia recommended that I do something for myself in order to break through the burn out barrier, I have decided to participate also. But I’m not going to write, I’m going to sew. I’ve been wracking my brains to come up with a goal that is similarly difficult to attain as the standard NaNoWriMo 50K word novel. Should I work in yardage? Sew 20 yards of fabric in November…but then, what counts as a yard? What if I use only a small square of a yard for a quilt – does that count? It doesn’t feel right. So, maybe I should work on my planned holiday gifts? But those aren’t set in stone and I don’t think that would be a difficult goal. Finally, I decided upon 1 item for each day of the month: 30.
Who knows, by the time NaNoSEWMo is over, I may have wracked up enough words in blog posts to actually participate in NaNoWriMo…
No really, I’m asking, who knows?
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If you are friends with me on Facebook, which I have to assume most of my readers are, you’ve seen the seemingly endless posts about costumes, costumes and more costumes. I am so burnt out. My fingers are numb for poking them with pins. I can’t see the sewing room floor for all of the fabric scraps on it. To be honest, I don’t think I want to see the sewing room floor, or any part of the sewing room, for at least another year. I really am that burnt out.
I’ve completed the Renn Faire costume that was a commission, and Bill’s, Caleb’s and Daisy’s halloween costumes. Mine is not yet complete, but will be, hopefully, by tonight. Pictures of all these costumes to follow, I promise.
I’d really like to sit back and rest for a minute, but, well that’s not going to happen. The first of many baby showers is coming next weekend and I have a quilt to complete. I guess the cure for sewing burn out is more sewing. At least, I hope it is.
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I’m running into the problem that caused me to make the to do list of doom: too many projects in the works and feeling overwhelmed. I have a lot of things I want to work on this weekend and I need to prioritize. I have serveral projects I’m being paid for that are not particularly inspiring, but I’m being paid for them and I need a pay day so I can continue with my other projects. And the other projects are all in some state of completion, but not completed yet and I don’t know where to start. I need a to-do list adjunct, if you will, just a to-do this for this weekend.
And in the midst of all that, I have to, you know, be a mom, a friend, make food, go to a picnic, possibly go to the Renn Faire. So…I wonder if I should invest in a case of 5 hour energy drink…………..
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