Wasting valuable time

I admit it, in the past I have wasted so much time doing meaningless things. To the point of feeling guilty about spending so much time, wasting it. I’m talking about (apologies in advance if I get anyone else here hooked on this) isketch.net

My husband knows of this site and knows the sounds that come out of it when participating…. So if I’m still playing when he comes home from work, and the first thing he hears when he opens the front door is “dun¹ dun² dun³!” he knows what I’ve been up to. Instead of asking, “how was your day?” he would ask, “how long have you been on that?”

It took a few months, but I have removed this wonderful time waster from my life. No twelve step program needed, just a re-assessment of where my life was heading ;o)

PS: Thanks to my husband who mentioned I should make the ‘dun, dun duns’ a bit more musical by adding descriptive pitches to them. So who’s wasting time now???

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¹ low pitch
² high pitch
³ medium pitch

Another idea at stupid o’clock

At about 2am again (up feeding the tacker), I got thinking about an idea I had a while back about making sunglass covers – and how exactly I would make them. So my thoughts were technical based… and I had to write them down before going back to bed.

Which got me thinking about all you other creative types out there. Surely if we’re all that similar (according to one of Lara’s posts, it’s frighteningly clear that were are that similar), how many of you have found yourself in this situation:

You go to bed (apparently tired) and your mind ticks over with a few ideas. One idea leads to another, hours pass and you haven’t slept yet, you try to convince yourself that sleeping is good and that’s why you’re in bed, your mind still ticks over with ideas. Enough is enough you think, you get up to write all these ideas down otherwise you’ll never get to sleep. However, sometimes this isn’t enough to get back to sleep, so you give in and continue thinking away until your mind has run out of ideas in its own time ;o)

Some of my best ideas come to me at these ridiculous hours, so I have learnt that sometimes giving in is better than fighting the fact that I should be sleeping instead. These times don’t happen often though, if I had to think of how often, I’d say about 3-4 times a year maybe?

Slight Sidetrack…

I made another item before starting my next bookbinding project. Well, I guess I had started the bookbinding as I have spent time putting together all the colour combinations of covers, threads and inner papers...

Here is my sidetrack item, a cherry iron-on patch.

Next project: Bookbinding

Now that I’ve made all the things I had in mind for Valentines Day in my shop, my next project is to make blank journals. Or should I say, continue making blank journals... I have about 10 of them that are near completion – I started them about a year ago and got somewhat side tracked with other hobbies ;o)

I will finish them and list them on etsy and start my new design idea for blank journals.... *or* I will start my new idea first then finish the others - let's be honest here, this sounds more like me!

But first, to photograph the last items for the Valentines Day section that I have aptly titled the "Heart Felt Collection" as all the items are made with felt!

Creation: Lovey Kissy Mushy Stuff

Wellllllll, apparently Valentines is around the corner and now'd be a good time to start thinking about creations to sell for the *special* day. So, I thought I would try my hand at lovey dovey versions of the recent baby girl card I made.

I have listed some on etsy and will be listing the rest of them tomorrow.

I've also made a couple of plush toy / pin cushions (whatever you'd like to use them for)... I really love the flame version.

I have a list of other things I'd like to make and add to my shop, but I guess we'll see how much spare time I have after the number one priority in my life at the moment... my little boy.

Featured on Etsy

My Tiki painting featured on the homepage of Etsy the other day!

(Bottom right hand corner image.)

Because of this feature, the image received 190 views compared to my other Tiki image which had... well, less ;o)

Creation: Baby girl card

Our friends have recently had a baby girl and my husband mentioned that perhaps I could make a card for them. Now, having a baby ourselves (2.5 months old) I said that I wouldn't promise anything and that I didn't have any ideas for one anyway.

It's very important for me to be inspired to begin with otherwise the outcome will be less than satisfying... and then I'd probably scrap the whole thing and have a less than perfect day ;o) Not to mention that it wouldn't be fun to create - and that's just wrong!

Well, while I was up at stupid o'clock feeding our boy (it was about 2am or thereabouts), the idea came to me! I thought I could make a felt flower just like the one on the recent photo album / brag book I had made, and go from there.

So here's the outcome, I'm very proud of it and I'm considering making them to sell on Etsy as well. I'll make a boy version first so there's more than one card to choose from ;o)


Hubby really likes it, what do you think?