Another day

This week has been nothing but ups and downs. Yet I am surviving and feeling okay, despite the incessant waiting. Ugh. Making progress with day to day activities and looking forward to a fun filled weekend. Tomorrow will be busy and take me out of my own head. It's good to be in touch with ones own feelings, but not so much to be burdened by them from having no outside stimulation. 

  No photos lately. Sorry. Stay tuned. 

Just for fun

This new design is pretty good and I need a change anyway. Life has been stuck in a holding pattern lately and changing the things I have control over helps right now. The old template and design were getting corrupted somehow. Lines appeared around the blocks of text and I didn't know how to make them go away.
  The big change in my life that I've been working on, seems far away most days, but I know it will come soon. It HAS too or I will fall into madness. My creativity is at an all time low and that is NOT good. In fact, it's killing my soul. My only relief these days is to turn on the music and dance around the house when I can.
 Fortunately, I sleep fairly well and my dreams haven't abandoned me like they did a couple of years ago. I am very happy to have them back. The time while they were gone was a scary period.
  I want to keep up with this blog experiment and try to find the time to post. My depression is lifting and hopefully there will be good news to report soon and lots of champagne to drink!

So I lied......

On my last post, I said I wouldn't wait so long between postings. Hmmmm....
So much is happening right now and most of it is NOT related to fiber art, which was the purpose of the blog originally. I hate that I've been sidetracked from creating art and sharing it with all my faithful readers. Hahahaha...
  In the future, when things have settled to a new normal, I hope to get back to more creative pursuits. Mainly for my own peace of mind. I'm looking forward to a dull and boring existence, where my mind can roam free and take refuge in inspiration for projects that speak to me in kinder gentler tones than what is clamoring in my head in recent months.
  Wish me luck.

Still here

Gosh, I can't believe how long it's been since I last posted here. There has been a lot going on, so I will use that as my excuse.
Yard work has occupied a good bit of my time, but I manage to squeeze in some sewing and artwork. My most recent ATCs for the Fiber Antics swap turned out better than expected, especially since I did them at the last minute. And they were fun to do. I asked a couple of the gal pals to take my picture, printed it out on cardstock, altered the photo, scanned and reprinted to the size of trading cards, then embellished with a rubber stamped caption. Whew!!

You can see the finished card on Fiber Antics blog. The theme was "On the Fence".
  The dress I am working on is nearly finished, and will make its debut at Sewing Guild next Thursday. The dress is kind of a birthday present to myself, since I hardly get to sew for me.
That's all for now. More later and I won't wait so long to post.

Summer

This has been an incredible summer here in the midsouth. Usually this time of year is brutal with high temps and higher humidity. So far the weather has been great and many days have been perfect for yard work. Of course the tomato growers haven't loved it so much.

after photo of corner near pond

after photo of space near house

  My yard is shaping up, slowly but surely. Probably by the time I finish it, it'll have to be done all over again. I took lots of before and after photos and put them on Facebook, so as soon as I get them off my phone and figure out how to post them here, you can see what has been accomplished.

Surprise!

The naked ladies are coming up all over the yard especially since we've had so much rain lately. I will have to make an effort to get up in the morning and pull more weeds since the ground will be nice and soft. 

Summertime

So far this summer has not had the usual killer heat as summers past. We've had a few miserable days sure, but for the most part, there have been many days when the humidity has been reasonable. Today was one of those days. The sky was blue. And it was hot, but the breeze was sufficient. Now if the mosquitoes would go on vacation.......