Sunshiney Spinning

I've spent the last two days out in the garden spinning. I wanted to get my Leicester Longwool rainbow batts spun up before the end of the month and I have! Two whole batts, spun! And it has been so nice to be sat in the sunshine, no music or excessive noise, just the drone of the bees and the background chatter of the birds. Today my neighbour's curiosity overcame her and she came over for a chat and I brought down some of my spindles to give a wee lesson. She didn't really have the patience but was very chuffed at the little bit she did spin!

Sunshiney Failure

Today I made the most of the glorious spring sunshine and took a whole bunch of photos, mostly of things I had been wanting to ebay. It was actually quite enjoyable being out in the sunshine with Pyro, which is a good thing because I got back in and though to check and see what similar items were fetching on ebay, only to realise there is currently a glut of them online and no real market.

Oh well.

Slip-up

There's me getting cocky - I feel like I'm doing fine and stop breaking up the day for a bit and the next thing I know my pc's telling me it's the 24th and I'm not really aware of doing much. I know we were looking after Niece3 because she was here on Ostara and I gave her Ostara chocs from my altar - she was delighted by the baby bunny choc!

Good news is that I am finally getting a psych evaluation next Thursday... or is that this Thursday? And I renewed my domain-name-hosting. That was two big to-do's that finally got done. Spoons. I need more spoons.

My Ostara plans more or less went by-the-by though. I just didn't have the headspace for that kind of devotional.

Processing Time

Today is my second day of breaking the day into hours. Yesterday really helped, I feel like I got a lot more done. Still not very aware of passing time beyond this hour and this task, but it's progress, right?

Today the "chores" continue. I want to get my room tidied. I want to list unwanted things on ebay so hopefully someone will buy them and they will vanish out into the ether. And I want to get jewellery listed on etsy. I'm also thinking about listing my handspun on etsy too, but I'm still kind of attached to it. And this fundraising needs to pay for renewal on my domain name and fees for the upcoming PF conference. Really, if I could even get as far as just photographing the jewellery I've got and posting proper photos on facebook with their prices, I would at least be getting somewhere. I could also post photos on facebook of the handspun under Dreamweaver Designs and see if there's interest? And of the stitchmarkers I've been making, to see if that generates any interest too. And getting any of that done when my mind feels like it's swaddled in cotton wool is nearly impossible. Spoon-theory can apply to many different things, but for me it's "headspace" - literally finding the space in my head to focus on something.

Today my head has been several kinds of fuzzy. One of the effects of depression that I can't really cope with is loosing my ability to concentrate. It affects everything, even my perception of time passing. Today was not a good day for this. I wanted to get so much done today and I pretty much did none of it. But I couldn't really tell you what I did do.

Perhaps if I break up the day into hour-long segments and kept track of what I do during each segment, with an alarm to break into my fugue, it might help? I think it's worth trying?

Fairy Godmothers DO Exist!

This morning the postie delivered for Disney. :-D

One of the many amazing ladies at Ravelry happens to be... get this... a fairy godmother in training. I kid you not. How amazing is that? And while browsing in a local vintage shop, this particular Fairy Godmother stumbled across a great little find and promptly decided to perform a little Random Act of Kindness. And this morning I recieved all the way from Florida two hand-painted, hand-sewn furoshiki and the coolest holographic card...

Thank you so much Teri! This has really made my day!

Blog Revival

So, umm... I'm really bad at keeping my blog updated? Not a very good excuse for a years absense, huh? Okay, okay, I'll admit it. I only remembered it was here because of Ravelry. I need another space to spam with photos and drivel about what I've been up to.

Latest "New Craft" - luceting! I am now a luceteer! :-D I will never use a knitting nancy again. This was picked up at Stitches! at the SECC Glasgow on Saturday. I took along the wooden lucet I got myself in Glasgow (and which, after two whole evenings, I managed to coax a measley 1inch of cord from) and was quickly informed by Ziggy the resident Luceteer that it was too big, designed more for rope than cord. So after taking part in the luceting Make and Take I decided to treat myself to a full Introduction to Luceting set, which had everything I'd need to go into advanced luceting. But right now I'm just enjoying making the pretty cord with the DMC embroidery thread it came with.

For anyone interested in picking up luceting for themselves, Ziggy will be on Create and Craft TV on April 12th. I expect it to be interesting as he's quite the character!