
Good Morning! Up and at'em!
I get in these creative flows that have really no foresight or organization. A blur of yarn and material, cleaning products (natural of course), recipes and food surround me. In other words, I want to clean, cook, knit and sew. And two children to take care of in the midst of it. (Yes, in the midst of it, I make myself take them to the park. I don't really want to, per se, but I do it anyway.)
First, let me talk to you about the Big Lace Scarf. I call it a Big Lace Pain in the A**. I love, love, love the pattern. But. You can not..let me rephrase that..I can not successfully pull out rows on this thing when I make a mistake. All the yarn overs and SK2P's and all that stuff...come on! How in the hell can one make sense of a pulled out row? You can't. Or, rather I can't. And so I have to start All. Over. Again. when I make a mistake. But I'm determined. I will finish the Big Lace A** in time to give it for a Christmas gift. I will. I will. I will.
So, there was that mayhem this weekend. The trying ever-so-hard not to hang myself from the rafters when, for the 9th time, I am pulling out about 30 rows. I'm sure it isn't healthy for me, The Big Lace Scarf... but it beats chain smoking or binge drinking or abusive relationships so I'm feeling pretty ok about it as far as obsessions go.
Then, I decided I wanted to make some sock elephants for a non-profit that saves Asian elephants (I will tell you more about the organization in a later post.). I put about 7 hours into sock elephants. One turned out hella ugly. The other just a little bit worse than that. I emailed photos of my sock elephants to the head of the organization who I had been emailing back and forth with. I had been trying to figure out how to help her and so came up with the sock elephant idea. I have not heard from her since. I can feel her thinking to herself: How can I tell this nice lady that those sock elephants are really scary.
My mom asked me this weekend: Why do you take on so much? Sock elephants? Now? It's right before Christmas! Don't you have enough projects going on?
DUH Mom! Just trying to save an elephant or two! K???????????
Then, I realized mid weekend I needed to clean The Brads studio. WOAH! This is not a simple or easy task. He is a photographer and does all his own matting and framing. Which means there is a LOT of paper waste that needs to be recycled. AND, he does not pick any of it up. So, I left all 800 lbs. of the recycling up at the top of the stairs for him so he can't really get into the studio unless he removes it. Smart, right?
Then I did a deeper clean on my sewing/craft/whatever room. Pretty no? Not perfect, but certainly ready for the finishing of older daughters quilt. (Oh, and for making more sock elephants! Much to the annoyance of the head of the elephant organization.)
K. Still with me? Come on! Keep up, would you? I then had an impromptu dinner with some friends (The Brad was gone all weekend for work, by the way.) And I tacked this recipe WHICH rocks. Though it came out a little dry. Still, I fully impressed my dinner guests! Wow. Can you imagine if I would have showed them my sock elephants? Right. It would have ruined everything. Which is why I did not. And I why I will not show them to you. Ever. I know you say you would not laugh. But you would. And then my feelings would be hurt. I'm ever so sensitive like that.
posting late to weekending with A.