i cannot believe its already mid December!! I've taken to writing love letters to my fleeting lover time! as he is truly evading me these days..
its like i'm in a long distance love relationship with time...he comes...fleeting into my life...only to leave me hanging and longing for him to stay around longer.
one day i'll marry time!...until then...i'm happily very busy!
so let's get down to business...what the heck have i been up to to stay away for...i don't want to know how many days?
1. homeschooling still...going well...kids are amazing
2. started going to acupuncture...and its working!! thankfully...
3. wonderful holiday rush, more orders in a couple of weeks than I've ever had (thank you wonderful customers!!)
4. finished up a 3 quilt, quilting commission
5. looking at schools, and wondering when and which way i'll finally finish my degree
6. creating my facebook fan page, won't you join please?
7. tea staining fabric
8. creating artwork for an upcoming gallery show (February, 2010) on: play
9. and finally creating a bag and writing a corresponding article for haute handbags magazine (woohoo!)
let me be honest here...even though it gets "hairy" sometimes...i crave being busy...i crave it like i crave kisses and hugs from my lil loves...and do-nothing, veg-out time with e...its just better to have something to do..than to sit with idle fingers...staring back at me holding nothing.
now that i'm caught up with shop orders, and i think my holiday rush has passed...i'm happily getting excited and working on all sorts of things...
i'm really excited about the upcoming art show...as i'm going back to cloth...working with art quilts...and falling in love all over again with quilting. this time i'm changing it up...working in smaller dimension...and doing it all by hand (except for piecing some seams).
i'm also excited about the upcoming article in haute handbags...i just sent my article out this morning...and will wait with my fingers crossed, eyes closed and breath held till it comes out. i've been told its coming out in april, 2010...but sometimes these things are held over to another publishing...so we'll see. nothing is set in stone...till its well...set in ink. ha!
the month is almost over...i'm so freaking excited about the holidays i really can't stand it...but i'm excited to get started baking and crafting this week...i've got plans...and plans...and plans...lets see how many of them we i can get done.
I've decided to put together a little picture stroll...of everything that's happened in the past few weeks...what's a post with out tons of pictures?
let's go!
yummy food
vegan cornbread...for my dressing....so tasty!
simi-vegan homemade thanksgiving dinner...only non-vegan item is the chicken (e will not go totally vegan...), this is e's plate...so the candied yams were missing.
p.s. i did make 2 vegan sweet potato pies ( i ate an entire one by myself that weekend...no joke) and a vegan pecan pie...which the boys ate...they were too devoured for pictures...the other sweet potato pie is in the freezer, vacuum sealed (so that I wouldn't have eaten two in the weekend by myself)!
shop stuff:
beautiful tomato red petal bag made for a lovely customer jenn...i ♥ her!
front...
back...
inside...
pencil cases...
inside pencil cases...
this lovely set of goods and zakka was made for a wonderful customer's 3 year old daughter. these are some old deer-skin hides from her deceased father...that i made into bags for her (earlier in the year) and now for her daughter...with accompanying pencil cases (2 for her, 2 for her brother)...
this was one of my favorite projects...i channeled my 7-year old self...and designed from things i remember drawing at that age.
new moo cards...love the new case..though i love the old ones too.
my 3 designs...
yogi tea bag tags i've been saving...
i've been organizing all my embroidery floss as a productive "unwinding, vegging out" project at the end of the evenings...
thanks to a promotion with verizon fios (and good cyber monday sales)...we got a new laptop...for almost free...its not a mac, but i and e have loved using it during the evenings...this means i can finally get his large desktop out of my studio (yay!!!) and have more storage space...and the room officially to myself!
my only wish for it being mac is so that i could use photoshop on it...so i could blog from it...i have elements...so i'll install that eventually...it is already loaded with eq6 and this!
my side of the bed this morning...and last night...while working on my article...i kept taking breaks to look at the new books i've gotten recently...and brush up on my sewing techniques. i'm being very ambitious in the new year...making all my clothes! stay tuned!
i got this wonderfully beautiful card friday night...just because, from the boy...look at the worm in the lower left hand corner...and the lady bug in the sky amidst the falling colored snow...and aren't i cute in my pink dress? that's charlie our bird on the tree limb in case u were wondering...this was the greatest gift!
we decided to homeschool in my studio today...like we did before the kids started kinder...this is today's lesson books that we had to cart upstairs...see why i'm so busy? one day's worth of lessons!
my sweet boy...getting ready for school this morning...in his guitar p.j.'s that he's been refusing to take off until santa brings him his electric guitar...sigh...gotta love childhood...
my lil lady...who always comes to class dressed...and accessorized...while me and the lil guy look like bums...she wants to start designing her own clothes...wait till she sees what "santa" brings her to help her with those ambitions!
art work in process...more later on the kikasa blog...
my latest collection...weaving yarns...can't wait to have time to weave again! my towels are already stained up from much use at the dinner table!
and finally...a sneak peak of our christmas so far...we got our 2 trees a couple weeks ago...decorated one of them...and will be decorating the other tonight...can't wait to share more christmas pics!
so there...this is the jest of what i've been up too...of course there were wonderful meals that i didn't get to snap pictures of, holiday cookies...and gingerbread dough...rain and hail storms...
its been a rush, these last few weeks...i'm so excited to bring in the new year...to celebrate the holidays...i literally can't stand it! i've never been this excited about a new year...like now!
i'm excited to see what wonderful things the universe and i dream up together!
peace...ki
p.s. i hope to stop this binge...purge..blemic posting schedule that i'm on...but truth is...i can't make any promises...when i do post...i'll make it worth while!! i know i'll be back soon...something special is coming in the mail wednesday...i wonder if you all can guess...one of the pictures gives a good clue!
thanks for accompanying me on this journey...thus far...we're almost 3 years strong!
p.p.s my sis is back! pay her a visit over at www.neosewmama.typepad.com she's had some amazing life changes...wonderful...go tell her hi!
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