A holiday weekend of art

[storytimewithjoe]

Dragging my tired butt in to work this morning, I feel completely exhausted after another horrible night trying to sleep. Somehow, a full hour of intense yoga and two lingenberry-tinis did nothing to calm down my zoom-zoom-zoom brain last night. When I did finally fall asleep sometime around o-dark-thirty, I found myself in the middle of an anxiety-plagued dream involving a plane-crash in South America, and trying to make my way out of the wreckage. Ugh!

 

Why so much anxiety? Darned if I know. If anything, I should feel relaxed after this weekend. I made a lot of progress on artsy-fartsy things. Hmmm… maybe that is the source of my anxiety. Progress is not the same as crossing an item off of the list. So despite making a lot of progress, most of the projects are not actually “Done”. (I don’t try to make sense out of my brain. I am just as lost with what makes me tick as anybody else).

 

In any case, projects worked on this weekend included:

 

Finishing off the calligraphy and illumination on a Norman-conquest style SCA scroll;

Pattern for my new farsetto;

Progress on the reconstruction of a Tudor era English dance;

Cooking projects;

Embroidery (opus anglicanum and canvaswork);

Soapstone carving for a casting project;

And a massive amount of gardening (roses, alstramarians, sweet peas, hydrangeas, azaleas, and we finally got our Anglo-Saxon era apple tree in the ground. Woot!)

 

Gods, now if I could just get some restful sleep!!!!!!!

Comments

[aliskye.livejournal.com]

We're kind of twins today.

I didn't sleep well last night. I have a major kink in my neck that's giving me a headache today.

I made a lot of progress on an art project also over the weekend. But I realized today, that I need to start over.

[eowyna.livejournal.com]

I'm anxious too, for no reason. I'm trying to avoid even thinking about the lack of a state budget. Don't know why that in particular is bugging me.

[joeguppy.livejournal.com]

Probably because it should. It should bother all of us!