Flame Princess Wig Part III, and new endeavors

It's been a busy weekend! I had a wonderful time -- visited with a dear friend who was in from out of town, heard great music at an outdoor music festival, AND got to hole up and make things. Every weekend should be three days long.

So! First things first. My wig is finished!

Flame Princess Wig Part II

Whooooo, boy. This is going to be an image-heavy post -- sorry, folks!

I'mma just drop the cut right here. In case you don't want to see the wig business in excruciating detail.

Halloween 2014: The opener.

So. Long time no post, eh? Yeah. Let's skip the traditional apologies and the traditional promises; I have better things to say.

It's almost Halloween.

Let me repeat: it's almost Halloween.

And there are Big Doings in the works this year.

This is going to be the first of a series of posts, because I've been working on my costume in fits and spurts, but have been trying to document as best I can. So I have many, many photos to share with you. And there will be more. Oh yes, there will be more.

So. Without further ado ...

Wow.

OK, so ... last week happened. Probably the less said about it the better, frankly. But I'm trying to use all the chaos and tragedy and drama to remind myself how wonderful my life is, even when it feels like nothing is going the way it should.

In celebrating being alive this weekend, I did some sketching, which I'm too embarrassed to show you (I've never used colored pencil before, and it's kind of disastrous). I wrote a terrible poem, which I'm too embarrassed to show you (angsty angst is angsty). I made a video of myself singing which I shared on a social media site, but I'm not going to show it to you because I'm trying to maintain a modicum of anonymity here.

So, really, this post is just checking in. I'm still here, I'm still up for this. Daily is maybe too ambitious, but it's really good for me to have some accountability.

Something with pictures coming your way soon!

Brief update

Sorry for the silence yesterday! Last night was an evening of knitting (as was tonight -- I managed to get out of my house and visit some friends at my favorite yarn shop for a few hours of knitting), but still don't have much to show for it.

I think I need some kind of plan to keep me on track here. Maybe I'll give myself a 5-post-per-week minimum, with some kind of breadth requirement? Like, not every post can be "Yup, kept knitting on that same big project for another few hours. It looks pretty much the same. Eeyup."

Ooooo, only allowing myself one knitting day per week could be a lot of pressure -- it'd be better for anyone reading, since you'd actually see progress in the things I make, but ... eep! Knitting is by far my most comfortable creative outlet. But maybe that's a reason to encourage the others?

Sorry!

Another evening of not much to share. I wrote another bad song tonight (worse than last night's, I have to admit). Did have a kind of exciting moment on Ravelry, though - I posted the one from yesterday, and someone asked if they could write music for it! So maybe my bad song lyrics will turn into songs :)

Still knitting, but haven't started anything new. Watching Archer. Really ought to do laundry and dishes, but ... tomorrow. SO TIRED. This week has been exhausted exhausting. Wow, I was more tired than I thought.

Whoa, today's only Tuesday, isn't it? Crap.

Later, y'all!

The end of the night

No photos tonight, sorry! My creative project for the day has been writing. But what I've written is a little too private (and embarrassing!) to share, so ... I'm checking in, but that's all you get. Sorry!

But tonight, I knit quite a bit on my 10-stitch blanket (I might need to pick up another skein -- I think two will make an OK baby blanket, but I bet I'll need three for a decent-sized lap blanket), and I wrote a very sappy, sad song. It was maybe cathartic? Or maybe I'm just wallowing, but whatever. It feels good to be writing again.