Oh, well another one gone. The morning coffee got my brain up to speed, at least for couple hours, one can only hope.
Sometimes I feel the overwhelming urge to get into a project to revive my crafting soul and I always wonder how my own mother did it while working outside of the house from 5:30am till 4:40 five days a week. May I add she also cooked all the meals from scratch, did the laundry (no automatic washing machine in our house), ironed everything for 4 people. She also designed and frequently redecorated our apartment, sew clothes and toys for us and made leather jewelry. This list is not complete by far. I always compared myself to her and as long as I can remember I feel like not doing and being enough. She is my great inspiration and the worst enemy at the same time. I drive myself to the deep end of the depression pool and then waste energy trying to save myself while not destroying my family. We all have our demons and taming them is our life challenge. I remind myself yet again to remember to look at the bigger picture. I have many many things to thankful for, most of them came at a price not everybody would be willing to pay, but I did it (and therefore I shouldn’t bitch about the results, eh? :))
Where did I start this post? Oh yeah, crafting… so the big project for this year have been chosen, it’s a doll house for Sara. I know I will end up with one just for myself too, because I will not stand for Sara to touch my room :))). As usual I imposed some rules to keep myself from being unreasonable;
* $100 for the house (includes trim and surface decoration)
* must be made for Sara, so the collector pieces will be in mommy’s room (you see how sensible I can be? I said room, not a house)
*open end materials to facilitate creative play (that’s the Reggio in me, can’t help it)
* will be given as a Christmas present, so I have the whole year to work on it and I might just get some furniture pieces to start with and introduce Sara to some serious doll house play during the year 🙂
So here it is, black on white. Let’s get started, happy crafting year 2012
ktojoy 