This time of year often finds me in a pensive mode. I often set myself up in my room working on one creative project or another. This year was no different. I think I made some good progress but I’m a bit worn down from using parts of my brain I don’t exercise as much as I’d like. I worked on a digital painting which came out pretty rough, as I was repeatedly interrupted and my hands weren’t steady enough to draw lines straight enough with the mouse for my liking.
We don’t have a tree this year due to there being absolutely no room in the house for a sizable one, and also it’s a hazard for both an 18 month old baby with age-appropriate but low spatial navigation skills, and a 7 month old puppy who loves to jump up on things– and people when given the opportunity. We do have multicolored lights up now which I can tell are on by looking at the space between the bottom of my door and the floor.
I spent most of today attempting to read while listening to a bunch of podcasts and music. I got through about 20 pages and realized I wasn’t absorbing anything so I put that down and crocheted a scarf that I started over five years ago. In five years I managed to crochet about 7 or 8 inches of it. As of 9:30PM tonight it’s a full-fledged, wearable scarf in a deep crimson monochrome color. I plan to give it to a family member for Christmas. I hope it’s well received. It definitely looks homemade in places.
Anyway, enough about my corner of the world. Go be good to each other.
Merry Christmas!
A Mad Notepad 
December 26th, 2011 at 10:40 am
I get the same way too around this time of year, I don’t know what it is. It’s good you were able to finish your project! Inspires me to finish mine that has been sitting in the basket for a year and a half now…
January 5th, 2012 at 6:00 am
Did you end up giving the scarf away as a gift? If so, I wish you would’ve taken a picture of it. I’d love to see your handiwork, which I’m sure is 10x better than anything I could craft with yarn. 🙂