Me Time

In the last month I finally decided that life is not going to drastically calm down as I hoped and magically leave me with time to do the projects I want to be working on. So I've had to reassess what creative projects I can be working on in the day to day flow of my life. I used to be the sort of person who would get a bug for an idea of something I wanted to do and then just do it for a whole day until it was done. That is not really possible with a baby. And it turns out it takes a lot more discipline to try to do projects in 5-10 minute chunks. But it has been really satisfying to get a few ideas out into fabrication. Here's that I've been enjoying for me.

Knitting a baby sweater for the Fall.


Knitting Baby Rattle Fruit Basket. The banana is done now, still to come eggplant, cucumber and orange. This is a great sit-down-for -15-min-project because the parts are so small and I get to see progress easily.


Felt Nory Rattle--

of course my original idea was a three day sit down project...but the modified "with Charlie version" still pleases me and I hope it gives that Nory girl down in CA some fun too.

It was fun figuring out how to make a 3-D object out of felt.

And all the stitching could be done in 5-10 min intervals!

Here's Charlie sending it with a kiss to Nory


Tomato Plant

Oh I just love these little guys!