crafty mcgee

taken with my iPhone!

OK, it wasn't a few days, but you have to admit it's more timely than three months! After hemming and hawing about it forever, I decide to get an iPhone with part of my tax refund. It's the first cell phone I've ever had (pretty amazing for a technology geek like me), and in about a month I'll take the final leap and dump my 15-year-old land line number. Yeehaw!

The picture isn't that great, of course, considering it was taken through a 1/8" lens, but it gives a good impression of the general fuzziness of the garden. I think my grandma made the little toadstool.

I was going to show the fabric design I was working on, but I decided to scrap it. It was birds, and I'm kind of birded out. I'm going to stick with under appreciated animals. I should have something by next week.

Thanks for all of the nice comments, it's good to be back!

the long winter

I find it very hard to believe that I completely missed the winter, but I have....

If you are visiting here, you are probably wondering what the heck happened. I stopped sleeping well sometime in late July/early August and by the time December rolled around I was in pretty bad shape physically, emotionally and mentally after getting only 3 or 4 hours of fitful sleep a night. My doctors (both alleopath and naturopath) could find neither reason or cure, so my naturopath ended up recommending acupuncture. Hallelujah, it worked!! After a couple of months of treatment, I've now had about 5 weeks of good, solid, normal sleep, and feeling about 75% back to my old self. Yay!

As of now I've got no interesting craftiness to show off, but I am working on some new drawings for fabric and hope to post them later this week. I still intend to open an etsy shop, and I'm aiming for a May 1 start date. I received a Gocco Arts for Christmas which should come in very handy. Speaking of gifts, the image above is from Mother Earth and Her Children: A Quilted Fairy Tale - an artistic interpretation of one of my favorite books from my son's childhood - that I got for my birthday. Here's a post with a little bio of the artist, some more close-up pictures of the Mother Earth quilt, and some other lovely quilts. I don't often feel envious of other artists work no matter how much I love it, but this really made me feel "dang, I wish I had made that".

So after bloggily missing Christmas, New Year's, Groundhog Day, Valentine's Day (which, believe it or not, I actually forgot about), Ira Glass' birthday (March 3), my birthday three days later (we were both born in '59), Saint Patrick's Day, and the first day of Spring, we get to today - Happy Easter Everyone!!

I have not been a complete slug. I've been working very hard for Barack Obama to get the Democratic nomination for President. In our caucus here in Washington, I was very pleased and proud - after a short "speech off" - to be picked as a delegate for the next level. So that's keeping me busy now and hopefully into the fall.

I'm going to try to post at least a couple times a week (I know, you've all heard that before) - even if I've got nothing to show except pictures of my messy garden - in order to get back into the habit. Thanks for checking in, and I'll talk to you soon!