Here is the fabric figure "Light Man"

A commission from Miles

I couldn't work on my quilt today because I forgot I had a time crunch to get this done.

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This is going to be a complaining blog entry. Abbi is in the hospital and I can't stand it. I want to be there with her. I hate reading on her blog that she has to blink to respond. She has Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome caused from pneumonia. Man I love that girl. Please pray for her.

Here's my problem. Everyday I want to start a new project. I am totally out of control. I started a mobile about 3 months ago (not finished), I started making a dress about 2 months ago (not finished), I started a quilt that for some reason I thought I needed to stitch by hand (not finished). Why do I do this to myself? The new rule is I CANNOT start another project until these things are done. The sad thing is the mobile and dress are probably only a few hours from being completed but do you think that makes me want to finish them? The other sad thing is I haven't been working on any real artwork just stupid crafts that my baby will barf on. Here's my other problem. I am completely afraid of anything getting dingy. If it looks at all dingy I immediately try to dye it. This rarely works. It almost always turns into a tye dyed disaster. so then what do I do. I think oh I'll just stitch something over the ugly parts. But then what do I do, I think oh now the piece seems unbalanced, I better stitch all over to balance things out. Then what do I do? Then I step back and look at whatever thing I've made and think oh that looks like a piece of stinkin crap and then I throw it in the closet and don't finish it but I know I'll probably work on it later because I can't stop thinking about how it used to look cute before I washed it with the darks and it became dingy and now it looks like a freakin clown came to town and got into my stuff and barfed all over it. So today I'm going to work on the quilt.

shoes

Look what I made today. Man, I love how if you want to make something you can just look up how to make it and in just a short while you have it. Ok, so my craftsmanship needs some work. But what, this was my first pair of shoes. The buttons are antique, Alex gave them to me for Valentines.

Here are some shots of Alex and his new found hobby. This was spinach pasta. I couldn't believe how truly bright green it turned out. I love that Alex likes to do things like this. He also is amazing at making bread.