Thank you all for the kind comments regarding my crochet. I feel inspired and motivated now! I am meeting so many amazing artists as a result of Kelly Rae’s e-course. I am enjoying that immensely.
I had a couple of projects that I had laid aside a few months ago. Here they are, completed:
A pencil cup holding my i-Pod. 
A fiesta of a basket. I’m thinking it could hold picnic table supplies.
I started and finished this basket over the weekend. I used silver rat tail cord. I enjoyed making it because the cord was very soft.
This “acorn” is one of my first designs. I included a squirrel charm from glamourgirlbeads on the cap.
I truly do feel inspired, but I also feel a bit overwhelmed. One of my biggest struggles is with balance. I am a stay-at-home mother to my two children. I have them to think of as well as a home and garden. I want to learn how to stay involved in all areas of my life. It feels as though as soon as I start concentrating on my artistic goals, something or someone is getting neglected. Any suggestions on how to manage everything and not feel completely wiped out? I would appreciate any feedback.
Here I am after nearly three months of silence. Once spring arrived, I ran immediately to my garden. I am growing a few veggies this year. I harvested some broccoli as well as snow and early peas yesterday. The peas taste like little green balls of sugar! Yum!
Sunday began Kelly Rae Roberts’ online class, Taking Flight. She designed it to help hopeful artistic types (like me, yes, ME!) launch our creative businesses. Our most recent lesson was about blogging and how important it is to document our process and our growth. So I have made a commitment to write at least one to two times per week. I realized that I had only 30 posts since starting this blog back in September 2008. I am looking forward to changing that habit. I want to share more of myself, my goals and dreams.
In my last post, I talked about some crochet projects I had been working on. I photographed them on our patio table this afternoon. As I was displaying and photographing them, I realized what has been holding me back as far as opening an etsy shop. It was that nasty monster called PERFECTIONISM. I thought my creations had to be absolutely pristine and perfect for anyone to be interested in them. I want to change my perfectionism to “high quality and attention to detail”. That should be a more achievable goal. Here are my creations:
The first is an oval basket made out of satin rattail cord.
A square basket made out of the satin cord.
An oval basket made with three colors of hemp cord.
A square napkin basket made with natural hemp cord.
A round beaded hemp basket.
A purple hemp pencil cup.
Red hemp pencil cup.
Purple hemp tiny square basket. Right now it is holding my favorite rocks, but it was designed for business cards.
Today is my 44th birthday as well. I feel much better about my life and myself than I did a year ago. This is going to be great year, one of growth and wonderful opportunities.
