The One Where I Come Crawling Back

 Well, well, well, here I am, trying to start this whole thing again. (If you could see me, I'd be gesturing vaguely at everything and nothing.) Haven't blogged in at least a year or posted any of my projects so this will basically be an attempt to reinvent the wheel, if the wheel was a blog and inventing it was just following through.

I don't want to get into what all has happened in the last year or so - it's so much. Too much to just dump on someone in a blog. So instead, let's focus on what I will be doing now. 

#1 - I have a million hobbies and there are a million more that I want to learn. I'm going to have a schedule so I can keep making progress on my endless Works In Progress (WIPs)  and learning new things. I'm thinking about something like this:

Maker Monday - for mosaics, Cricut, Mod Podge, painting, wood burning, etc. 

Trinket Tuesday - for my jewelry-making

WIP Wednesday - for whatever project needs to get completed or has activated my obsessive attention

Crochet Thursdet - lol 

Knit Friday - I could think of nothing cute. Happy to revise this with your suggestions

Sewing Saturday - learn with me! We can suck at it together!

Sculpture Sunday - Why can't I quit you, polymer clay?

I'm sure there will be wildcard days too, when I break my own rules. 

#2 - To hold myself accountable - and to hopefully build a community of like-minded nerds, I'm gonna post about it on Instagram and here. We can talk about our obsessions and failures and share weird memes. I'm @stone.and.star on Instagram. 

#3 -  I'm going to be writing again everyday. Not just the blog,  I'm participating in NaNoWriMo - look me up if you are too! Let's muddle through together. I think we all do better when we are inspired by others. I am open to wine and commiseration! I'd very much like to cultivate a writing group for feedback and banter.

So that's the plan guys. I did knit today and I recorded some of it; it's painful to watch because I'm not great at it yet but I DID IT! That's the important part. 

Be apart of the journey, let's do this together!

Projects for Daaaaaaaays!

As you know, I love making things. Unfortunately, I do have trouble completing projects. If something is a quick fix (just needs a drop of glue), I will never get around to it. Never. I have no idea why. If I'm working on a new skill, I will hammer away at it until I feel confident about my technique and then lose interest in the project as a whole. For instance, I learned how to make a quilt out of fabric pieces that are crocheted together and I probably did about half of it before I put it down and forgot all about it. That was like, 5 years ago! Remember that Thug Life cross stitch I did for my good friend John? Still unframed as are the 2 watercolor projects I completed a couple of weeks ago. I look right at them everyday; still, no progress.

Just staring at me and waiting....

I'm trying to improve as a human being and make myself proud so I've been working on this. I found like 5 things that just needed super glue and *boom* finished them. I also hung up 2 pictures that I'd just never gotten around to, cleaned my craft room, and went through my fabric. Wow, this is what it feels like to complete things? I felt like a super hero! I pulled out an unfinished crochet project to continue my streak of success.

But... then one of the pictures fell off the hanger because the material was too porous and I realized that the crochet project was tedious so, naturally, I ABANDONED EVERYTHING AGAIN AND STARTED A NEW PROJECT.

Here's a picture of the shawl I just started:

To be honest, I haven't picked up this guy in a week either lol

Siiiiigh.... Much like my projects, I am a work in progress. I have good intentions and enthusiasm but it takes me a little time to get out of my own way.