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A Good Day
Jan. 24th, 2019 07:17 pmHad a good day, at last. Thai food, good company, and the latest Spider-Man movie, which was PHENOMENAL. Beautiful art and stunning fight choreography, wonderful characters, and a vast spectrum of emotions. It's such a relief to get away from my problems and out of my head, and I feel so much more settled. It's like having a hot meal when you're cold, the way it warms you up inside.
I stopped at the fabric store on the way home. Got supplies for a birthday present, but also spent some quality time in the clearance aisle. I love going to a fabric store alone, because I can take as long as I want with no pressure and no agenda. The clearance aisle has provided large wooden beads for those pipecleaner dolls I keep seeing on Craftster. I think the kiddo would like them, and I think I will enjoy making them. God knows I have pipecleaners and embroidery thread to spare. I've been meaning to expand my doll repertoire, and this is an easy way in to trying armature.
In case anyone doesn't already know - I make quilts (my specialties are paper piecing and scrappy quilts), I make dolls (mostly rag dolls and occasionally stuffed animals), and sometimes I get frisky and make a bag or pouch. I'm not too hot on garment sewing, but I like costume design and enjoy making doll clothes, and can manage the occasional Halloween costume or darn my jeans. I also draw with ink and colored pencils, and paint a bit (usually watercolor, but I have painted D&D minis). The trick is, I can't manage more than one creative outlet at a time - if I'm writing, I'm not drawing, if I'm drawing, I'm not sewing, and so on and so forth. My brain has a distinct budget of creative energy, and I have to cycle through my various hobbies, sometimes going months or years between projects in a particular hobby.
If I'm honest, my main creative hobby is making presents for other people. It's just so much easier to guess what a particular person would want, and to go through with making it. Figuring out what I want and indulging myself by taking the time to make it and motivating myself to keep working is hard. My stuff is always at the bottom of the list, and it's a very long list. I need to get better at that. I'm going to have to get better at it after finishing up sewing two more birthday presents and two Christmas presents, and painting a card, though; I'm still behind. Then there's the paper pieced wolves to finish drafting, and some mending I promised... and before you know it, people are having birthdays again, and then it's never too early to get started on Christmas. That's how it goes.
I stopped at the fabric store on the way home. Got supplies for a birthday present, but also spent some quality time in the clearance aisle. I love going to a fabric store alone, because I can take as long as I want with no pressure and no agenda. The clearance aisle has provided large wooden beads for those pipecleaner dolls I keep seeing on Craftster. I think the kiddo would like them, and I think I will enjoy making them. God knows I have pipecleaners and embroidery thread to spare. I've been meaning to expand my doll repertoire, and this is an easy way in to trying armature.
In case anyone doesn't already know - I make quilts (my specialties are paper piecing and scrappy quilts), I make dolls (mostly rag dolls and occasionally stuffed animals), and sometimes I get frisky and make a bag or pouch. I'm not too hot on garment sewing, but I like costume design and enjoy making doll clothes, and can manage the occasional Halloween costume or darn my jeans. I also draw with ink and colored pencils, and paint a bit (usually watercolor, but I have painted D&D minis). The trick is, I can't manage more than one creative outlet at a time - if I'm writing, I'm not drawing, if I'm drawing, I'm not sewing, and so on and so forth. My brain has a distinct budget of creative energy, and I have to cycle through my various hobbies, sometimes going months or years between projects in a particular hobby.
If I'm honest, my main creative hobby is making presents for other people. It's just so much easier to guess what a particular person would want, and to go through with making it. Figuring out what I want and indulging myself by taking the time to make it and motivating myself to keep working is hard. My stuff is always at the bottom of the list, and it's a very long list. I need to get better at that. I'm going to have to get better at it after finishing up sewing two more birthday presents and two Christmas presents, and painting a card, though; I'm still behind. Then there's the paper pieced wolves to finish drafting, and some mending I promised... and before you know it, people are having birthdays again, and then it's never too early to get started on Christmas. That's how it goes.
