I’m back.  Sorry about the confusion - I think there was a slight mix-up at my hosting provider.

Thank you all for your concern about us during the ice storm - I will post photos soon (as soon as I have a few minutes to figure out how to put together a little slide show or something - if you’re on Facebook, you can see them in my photo album, “Devastatingly Beautiful”).  In the meantime, a recent project.

Knitted newborn hats.  I cheat.  I use the Knifty Knitter loom.  It makes it so easy, I can do one in about 40 minutes or so (depends on how much I’m concentrating) and NO knitting needles.  Every year the ladies from our church put together baby kits for the hospitals - hats, onesies, sleepers, blankets, socks, and sometimes bibs or other items.  It is a service project we all really enjoy. It gives me a “reason” to make the hats (see Creativity Question thoughts below).

These are three of the five I made.  So easy, and so cute and so fun.  You can get different sizes of looms, and you can also make scarves on the looms, which is something I like to give as gifts sometimes.

Someday, I would like to learn to knit “for real”.  But until I have more time to be patient with it (I tried once, and it was somewhat frustrating), the looms work for me.

HEADS UP - I will be moving my blog to a new home sometime soon, but I’ll give plenty of warning.  More details later.

Creativity Question - How often do you tell yourself that “someday” you’ll get to your art/project/creative pursuit?  (I may have asked a similar question before.)

I do this WAY too often - I’m speaking of painting, mostly.. And, part of doing this blog for me, is to motivate myself to actually DO something.  Looking back, I wish I hadn’t said “someday” quite so often.  I can’t ever get that time back.  But, here I am, and I’m now trying.  And, I’m trying to do art/creative things without always having a “reason” other than that I want to and I love to (vs. only for a baby shower, holiday birthday, etc.) Those reasons are great motivators, but I need to move myself beyond creating things only for an occasion or out of necessity.  I’m getting there, I think.

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