Painting, Painting, Pain......ting.

     I write this after my 2nd straight 8 hour day of painting at the studio.  It is coming along very well but I am soooooo sore.  I have bruises on both sides of my shins from leaning on the ladder and I don't think I can raise my arms above my head for the rest of the night.  The good news is ..with every hour spent; it is a step closer to being done.  Some of my wonderful clients gave me a christmas bonus and I think I need to spend it on a good massage!! I will however, wait till I am done painting. Tomorrow I have to do the second coat on the ceiling. Since I am vertically challenged that means several more trips up and down the ladder. Whoo-Hooo!! 
      I had to put things on hold for a few weeks before christmas so I could finish making all the presents.  I decided this year because we were low on cash to make presents for everyone instead of purchasing them.  I have figured out, if I gave everyone on my list a $20.00 gift certificate to somewhere I would have spent a lot less money.  Oh well the time and thought are what counts.  I made a total of 65 presents.  1 Quilt, 3 knitted items and 61 crochet items. I justified the money spent on yarn this way; I spent about 90% of it at Yarn Harbor.  That accomplishes two things, first it is supporting a local business and second if Kathy does well then it keeps me in a job which helps to pay for my yarn addiction.  See it all works out in the end.
Time to wash out the brushes and drag myself home so I can return in the morning to start all the fun again. 

Happy New Year!!

2011 Really?? WOW How did this happen?  I am sure I did not get any older but somehow the year has flown by.  I am furiously working on the new studio to get everything finished for the Open House in a couple of weeks.
New Years Resolutions.......... Well to start I will do a much better job at keeping my blog updated!  I know I have said that before but, it will seriously help that my new building is going wireless this week and I will actually have a connection to the interwebs.  Whoohooo!!
I have not forgotten about the book.  I have been writing and testing new patterns.  I have 12 completed and 5 in process and a few more rattling around in my head.  I even wrote a knit pattern!!  (Somebody stop me I am crossing over to the dark side!!)
I could ramble on about all the usual new year resolutions; spend less money, exercise more, eat right, blah, blah, blah, but we all know 1 week from now I'll blow it so lets be more realistic.

My words of wisdom for your new year are this:

 If you dream, It will happen.  Take time to believe in 6 impossible things everyday before breakfast.  I do!

 (OK, so the fact that I don't eat breakfast shouldn't change the idea.) 

Happy new year to all,

may your dreams for this year come true!