Tonight was our first craft night in a long time. We had 7 people show up. The room was filled with laughter, friendship, creativity, and just down-right-fun! I have been wanting to do this for quite a while and finally just picked a date and did it. There was crocheting, beading, jewelry making, knitting, card making, and cross stitch. At one point I stopped beading and watched the creativeness of my friends just fill the room. My friend Nova was crocheting so fast I was pretty sure there was smoke coming from her hook. Then there was Sam and her massive amounts of beads, all mituculusly put in their little compartments so she could find everything by size and color. And I thought I had a lot of beads. Wowzers! Next there was Casey & Thorsten (the newlyweds) - watching them create cards together just made everyone "ooo and awe". Across from me was Bev and Gwen. Bev was knitting a baby hat and Gwen was cross stitching a snowflake pattern. This night was one that I had dreamed and prayed about for a long time. I am so thankful for all that came out! I am hoping that we can do it more often and even more people will come. Last but not least, at the end of the night my friend Nova said, "so we are going to do this next week? Same day same time?" My heart is full. It has been so long since I have taken out my beading/jewelry making basket. I just haven't been in a creative mood. So when my hubby told me he was going out for guys night, I decided it was time to break out the FUN, clear off my favorite table and get to work. At first it was a bit of a struggle, coming up with designs that I liked. I would slip the beads on and off of the wires so many times, I started to feel somewhat defeated thinking I was in a creative slump. I started throwing myself a "pity party". I admit - it was pathetic - lol. BUT as you can see, I pulled myself out of the moshpit of my pity party and just relaxed. I mean this isn't rocket science, it was supposed to be fun - gosh darnit! I mean at this point the cats were having more fun then me - lol. So relaxing is what I did, and the creative juices started to flow - to the point of losing track of time and not realizing that it was 1 in the morning when I stopped and put everything away for the night/morning. Now my challenge to myself is to do more projects more often. Recently I received a Visa gift card from a friend for helping them with their website, so I decided to take a little online shopping spree at my favorite Bead store in Olympia, Washington - Shipwreck Beads. At first I just added everything I have wanted and needed to make more jewelry, I figured once I was done filling my cart, I would go through and weed it down to how much money I actually had on the card. To my surprise I only had to remove 2 things that I was if'y about and the card covered the rest - including shipping! Praise God! Now to wait patiently for the shipment to arrive so I can get more projects completed! |
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