An Enlightened Moment of Effervescent Clarity
So many things have changed for me in the last month that I can’t help but take a moment to think about them. And think about this- see me sitting on my comfy bed writing in my baby blog? I realized recently that I never really took the time to settle into this whole blogging thing. I wanted it to be about crafting, and not be personal, but that’s kind of absurd because crafting is so personal. I wanted to blog often, but my personal life has been so intense over the past few months, and the crafting has been sparse, so what could I blog about?
So here’s a super quick rundown- Summer happened and I made the awesome wallpaper. Remember I said it was a top secret project? Top secret because it was for my interview at The U.C.C. and I was still in the interview stages. So the awesomeness of the wallpaper totally did the trick and they hired me (Yep, I jumped up and down about 80 times and squealed with joy about 500 times). In the beginning I was only working part time, and it involved lots of learning incredibly cool new crafty stuff, and thanking my lucky stars for managing to get this incredible job. I put my own crafting on hold so that I could practice my spinning techniques and knitting and needle felting and so on and so forth. Just when I felt like I was getting a handle on having a job again I went full time. That meant sitting in traffic for an hour and a half in the morning and then an hour and a half at night- before picking up Eric from work and then sitting in traffic for another forty minutes. I did that every day for two months and it literally turned me into a zombie. No crafting happened. My once deliciously bright and cozy crafty room got cluttered and dusty and cold and empty. Plus my lovely little sewing machine decided to give up on me. It was dark times. I focused my creative energies on other things. Like my increditastical Halloween party (I’m seriously going to blog about that, I swear!)
The dark times lasted even after we opened. It’s hard to emerge from a darkness cocoon. My schedule changed, us girls worked out some issues and blam!- sunshine! A later shift is mind-blowingly improving to a crappy commute. No more traffic. My drive went from an hour and a half to a measly twenty-five minutes. No more zombie me!
Anyway, what the whole point was, was that I wanted to say that I’ve managed to get back to my real self! I get to to craft at work, craft at home, and even though my house is in a constant state of mess, I’m ridiculously happy. Did I mention that I GET TO CRAFT AT WORK? yeah. ‘Oh, it’s time for a break, I think I’ll spin some yarn.’ Uh huh. ‘Gosh my feet are tired, I think I’ll sit down and knit for ten minutes’. How about, ‘Hey guys, let’s play with the new interference stamp pads’. It’s pretty f-ing rad to be me.
