Time Flies When You Have Too Much To Do

Well this week has certainly slipped by at breakneck speed!  Thank goodness I've been wearing my seatbelt and crash helmet!  Speaking of crash helmets, did anyone else watch the new ABC show last night called "Crash Course"?  Yep, my secret's out, I'm somewhat easily amused... but it was sort of a combination of demolition derby with stock car racing.  I'm telling ya, it reminded me all too much of some of the experiences I've had on the road myself lately.  I live in (well, actually, a few miles away from) a 2-college town...Ithaca is the home of Cornell University and Ithaca College, and much of the local population is college-related and transient.  Students come from EVERYWHERE and have various driving skills, customs, habits, and styles...lordy, it's quite a challenge just going to town.  And our students are back, so the roads are filled with carloads of people who don't know where they're going nor that they are about to enter the Twilight Zone of Ithaca and its (in)famous one-way thoroughfares.  I'm sure the planners of the traffic patterns thought their blueprints were absolutely brilliant.  For chimpanzees, perhaps.  (sorry to insult a closely related species)  Those of us who live in the area are used to the psychosis-inducing jumble of pock-marked streets with one-ways, some for the entire street, some for only a certain section, some for use only between the hours of quarter to rush hour and half past hell; for the many visitors to the area, I'm sure it's very befuddling.  If not life-threatening.

I've had a stack of work waiting for me for the past three days, but before I forget, hop over to "Cart Before the Horse" and help Jo and Dylan celebrate the 200th post on their blog...in honor of this momentous occasion, Jo is doing a giveaway, so follow this link and you can add your congratulations and be entered in her giveaway simultaneously!  You will recognize her unique and whimsical pieces if you read Cloth Paper Scissors (she was featured in the Jan/Feb 2009 issue), and she has an Etsy shop as well, named, aptly enough, cartbeforethehorse.  The giveaway runs through October 1st.  Congratulations, Jo, from a new follower who plans to visit often. :)

Now about the stack of work that is waiting: let me begin by saying I am a "process" person.  For me, it's all about the journey; the destination is secondary and often not even on my radar.  This translates into pieces that I've finished the "art" part of the work, but it needs something more to move from UFO to saleable/giveable/hangable art.  At times, I am very prolific, so I tend to have a LOT of UFOs.  This is the pile to which I am currently alluding:

 

"Bubble Fish"

These are bead embroidered pieces on handmade wool felt that are all done EXCEPT they need a backer and/or a hanger to be finished.  I keep hoping that elves or fairies will visit me in the night whilst I'm sleeping, but so far, no luck.   Maybe the wee folk are on strike.  It appears that I am on my own, so I have vowed to get these finished off and listed in my Etsy shop (The Beadfelter's Bag) by the end of the coming weekend.  

I am also working on this blog and will be making the rounds of my favorite blogs to hopefully round up some readers/friends/followers (i hope i hope!) cuz it's berry berry lonely without friends!  

Okay, enough of shameless self-promotion for now.  :D  If you've come by, leave a comment please!  I very much look forward to hearing what you think.  About most anything!  He he he :)