For Now

I'm taking a blogging break for a month....If you're interested in my reasons, keep reading. I'll see you at the end of November.

I've been feeling frustrated lately. I've been doing creative things, but not enough...and not much that I feel is worth blogging about.

I may just be feeling overwhelmed by all my ideas and unfinished projects. It's not the first time I've been in this place, but I don't like it.
I'm stuck on what to do next with this page

I want to finish this quilt

Half the quilt blocks on the design wall

and start journalling in this

and make some more pieces to add to this

and make more progress on this (which was going to be my "Creating a book a month" for October)

I know I need to spend less time on the computer looking at what others are doing instead of creating things myself, and being tempted by more new things like Alisa Burke's new online holiday class when I've already got so many unfinished workshops!
So I've decided to take a break from blogging for a month, and spend more time in my studio and less on the computer.
It'll give me a chance to focus on finishing a couple of things without feeling like I have to have something regular to blog about. And then I'll think about the way forward. I just can't think of any projects I want to give up

Journal page created Nov 2009

Anyway - I didn't want to just disappear and leave you wondering about where I've gone. So I'll see you back here in a month, and let you know my progress. 

Feb 2011

Have fun - I'll still call by your blogs occasionally to see what you're up to :-)

Stitching, reading, watching...

This week I've been stitching again.
Making progress on some quilts

and preparing an altered book with stitched edges.

And I have to show you the result of my request for a "simple" frame for my fabric house which my father-in-law constructed.

He even matched the position of the windows & door!
I'm getting very inspired by Frances Pickering's new book which arrived this week

Highly recommended...just as beautiful as her first publication so don't hesitate if you've been considering purchasing.
And finished reading this novel :

Find out more at amazon

- great strong female characters and absorbing, fact-based, story.
Enjoying watching this series on DVD with Craig

and so glad the new series of this has started up again on TV

If you are in New Zealand - happy long weekend. Hope you get some creative time wherever you may be.

White pens

Happy to be Letter Loving while on holiday. Having lots of fun using white pens - I love that what I am learning in this class has built on and reinforced techniques from other workshops.
Cool fun to use my new metallics with a stencil too.

Boys back to school on Monday...wonder what Term 4 has in store for us