The Week in Review: March 10-16

Last week was a crazy, mad dash, scramble kind of week! School was busy, home was busy, I was busy. All the trees were in bloom and we ventured out for a viewing. So pretty, are they not? I did a little baking and wrote that paper like I was supposed to. I even eeked out some gocco-ing on Saturday.

This week I had great dreams for tying up loose ends but I woke up at three in the mornin' with a suspiciously sore throat. Methinks I have finally succumbed to the great sick tat has been knocking everyone out in these here parts.

Today, I had a wonderful visit with my witchy friend and just got home all tired and sore throat cranky. It's time for an iced cold coke and a magazine. I need to make a list of the zillions of things I have to do tomorrow, sick or not. Like, mailing out bunnies and finishing up super swaps and gocco-ing early so the room won't be too stinky come bedtime. It looks like tomorrow will be a half day in p.j.'s Whoo-hoo!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

photobooth friday: faceless in mary-janes

For the March challenge I dug though my box o' strips and pulled this one out. It was taken seven or eight years ago and I wish I still had those shoes. I'm known for my fondness of the strappiness that is a mary jane. There was a time when I had more than nine pair I think. Some of them got too worn to worn out, others I threw away in a fit of purging. I wish I still had them. there were stacked plumb mary janes, blue fuzzy leopard print, black & white zebra striped, clownish reds and even a pair of linen pink ballet flats. Sometimes I'd like to think I am evolving into a more rounded person and maybe I am, I just want to be in happy, strappy shoes.

More booth disco fun can be found here and here.

Friday!

The paper got written and now gets to be rewritten...phew! I had an excellent class session yesterday. I feel so lucky to be able to take part in such a progressive school chock full of diversity. It's pretty awesome. Too bad the tuition scares me to bits! Not only did the paper get finished but belated birthday presents got wrapped AND shipped and a new gocco/swap/shop design got drawn up and now I need to figure out what I am going to make with it. So excited about it, can't wait! Today I am off for a breakfast visit (oops, I gotta skeedaddle in about ten minutes and let's just say my behead could make you jealous!), a granny visit, and a couple of market visits. I want to be home by lunchtime so that I can clean, craft and cook. I'm thinking of making some savory St. Patrick's Day muffins. The ingredient list has me all drooly already. A Photobooth Friday post will show up sometime later today. Happy Middle of March folks!

Still Blurry

what I have is a lack of focus...this isn't news to me...i only halfway slept. The entire time I did sleep, I dreamt of poorly written papers and angry professors who were downright mean. They aren't really, but in my dreams they were evil! I woke up wanting to cry I felt so poorly but then I brewed some minty tea, popped on over to flickr and suddenly felt inspired to create...anything but my paper!

Note to any classmates or professors...my paper is mostly written, by hand, in my notebook. I need to transfer it over to the computer, I know, I do...but what I really want to do is make the birdie plush I have been doodling since August and the nesting dolls for the five things swap (I have a new idea) and then something else that came to me in a rush as the mintiness of the tea woke me up. Why is it that we get our best ideas when we don't have the time to make them? So for now, I leave you with this fun shot of the mister and I jumping off the fountain. I need to simply let go and jump into this darned paper! Here I go!

Blurry Vision

This is one of those weeks where I have soooo many deadlines that my brain shuts down and my thoughts get all fuzzy. You know how it goes. You have a three page paper on attachment due but all you want to do is attach yourself to the kitchen and bake cupcakes. Or you have an article to write about making something but all ya wanna make is a nice cozy bed to nap in. Seriously. I have deadlines and papers and exercise and resumes to write and all I want to do is nap, nap, nap. Too much to do so why bother? Don't misunderstand, there's no doom and gloom here right now just bafflement at my utter lack of confidence and discipline. This is something I am always talking about working on and yet I never seem to accomplish it. I will, I know, baby steps. The paper is due tomorrow and while I do have notes and bookmarks and more rereading to do, I do not however have ink in my computer. I also do not have the car today or the time to fetch said ink so I will type it all up and do that magical email thingie and print it up at school. The way I see it, at a gazillion dollars a unit, the least I can do is print all my papers at school. Right?

Sigh. I've got a hiking date today that may or may not still be on. I'll find out in moment I'm sure. No worries though because if the hike doesn't happen that means I really have to get my act together. Etsy orders will be going out for sure. That at least that can get checked of the list. Then I suppose I must muster up some energy or magic or something and write my litle heart out. Or maybe I will sweep the floor and do a little crafting or perhaps a little baking...or napping...

Super Drats!

picture courtesy of Sew Darn Jenny

How bummed am I that I missed out on the super duper fabulousness that was the CRAFT:06 release party? I was hope, hope, hoping to be able to squeeze it in, alas, granny needed me and the mister was sick and I had birthday pizza to eat up with a birthday gal and friends. Why is it always all the good stuff comes on one day? Anyway, if I had been able to go I would have made fun monsters with all these nifty folks. The Los Angeles party was held at one of my favorite emporiums for nifty gifts and handmade items, handmade Galleries. It looks like everyone had a blast and I am going to do my best to make it to the next release! Maybe I should volunteer, that way I have to be there! Release parties were held in a couple more cool places! check out the flickr pool for pics from them all.