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What is it about January?
Posted by aliaslaceygreen in organizing..., Posts...., quilts... on January 27, 2012
All gung-ho at the end of December, raring to go, resolutions in hand, and then…
A month, one 12th of the year, is almost gone, and yet…
….
That …. pretty much sums up January, and I don’t quite know WHY.
MOTION is my word of the year, and I HAVE gotten out and walked (after forcing myself out of bed in the mornings; the direct result of staying up too late re-reading the Outlander series ) ….the running part of motion seems to be eliminated because my knees protested too much, but I am going to need to do a LOT more walking to be ready for the 10K….
I DID make it to both quilt meetings I had on my calendar, but I DIDN’T remember to get any art into the PRAC show…
I HAVE sorted through 2300 digi images of the Year on the Appomattox and culled to 1300…
And so far, for my organization and decluttering project, I have cleaned out ONE closet.
Can’t even blame it on the weather, because we are on day 6 in a row of over 60 degrees, we *may* have seen 20 minutes of sleet one night….
I have to get my arse in gear, don’t I?
So, I’ve joined the CEO challenge at Quilting Adventures.
Sometime in the next 6 months, THESE six quilts are to be finished.
The Highwayman
Batik Cats
a VERY bad shot of Dresden plates
Chinese Coin
Wild Goose Chase
Autumn Leaves
This will dent my quilt pile of UFO’s not the slightest, sad to say. And the desire to work on these will more than likely be overtaken by new projects, and other things as well….
But, little steps. Something has to get me out of the January doldrums!
I need Novembers off…
Posted by aliaslaceygreen in Posts.... on November 4, 2009
Is there a career which would allow me to have Novembers off?? I feel the great pull of time, of the pages of the calendar turning turning turning, the pressure of all the things I planned to do this year, staring me in the face…
I want to be a part of Art Every Day month, and of NaNoWriMo but I don’t have the time, what with the escalation of pressure (Christmas music has made its way to my job) to make my Christmas lists, and then commit to the making of said gifts (which, of course could be part of Make Art Every Day…)
The great American novel may not be really floating around in my head, but I would love to challenge myself to write every day as well. (The goal of 50,000 words itself isn’t off-putting; I’ve written two fiction stories over three times that length, but the time-frame: 30 days, of which I have already lost the first 4….and the topic…)
Yet these have to compete with the new crisp visions I’ve had, the visions of quilts I would love to get back to, the desire to start new ones…
And the recipes! They come at you from everywhere– holiday cooking, holiday baking; it all looks so much more satisfying and so much less like another chore than at any other part of the year….
And of course all those things to do don’t even touch on all the time needed for pesky routine things like sleeping, and cleaning house…
So, if anyone is aware of a vocation I could take up, that would free up my NOVEMBERS, do tell!
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