Yes, I know I've been MIA for quite a while! I'll explain in a minute, but first... as one of the prizes in the Bring Out the Trash Contest held by *ArtisanCraft I promised a two week journal feature to the winners. So, without further ado:



Great work to all who entered and congratulations to the winners!


I've been practicing being invisible lately... I'm pretty good at it, aren't I?!

Wow, it's hard to believe that it's been nearly a month since my last journal post. A lot has happened since then. I got sick on my vacation and spent most of it medicated and/or unconscious. I wasn't even able to work on a single craft project. Got back to work in time to deal with a ton of paperwork as well as my boss's taxes. Things have been so busy at work, in fact, that once I get home, I have just enough energy to make dinner, feed my fish and fall asleep, although there have been a few nights where I've actually missed the "feed the fish" part. Just when I thought things might finally improve, my boss let my assistant go yesterday, so now I have to do all of the accounting by myself. What this means is that I no longer have time to visit dA during my work hours and now I'll be working about 9+ hours per day to get everything done, so it's unlikely I'll be stopping by after work either. I'll try to catch up with everyone during the weekends, but with my dance classes and performances I don't know how much time I'll have on the weekends, either. And with Obon season just around the corner, once we start dancing for that, I won't even be home during the weekends. This doesn't bode well for my crafts, but I'm still going to try to finish everything in time for the contest I want to enter at the end of September. I also have a few items that I've promised to friends and I will be making a special effort to get those done. I really hope the boss decides what he wants to do about the extra work, because I can't keep doing all of the paperwork and accounting by myself... I'm already exhausted and I've only been doing this for a week. A couple more months of this will be the death of me. Anyway, that's why it's taken me so long to comment on some of your deviations. Right now my message board is saying I've got nearly 400 deviations to look at so it might be a while before I get through them all. Hope everyone is doing okay, though! I miss you all!

Yes, my gallery is rather random, mainly because I have the attention span of a three-year-old. My main craft is crochet, but you'll also find all sorts of other crafts, plus the occasional drawing, painting, and, every once in a while, I get lucky with my camera and capture an interesting shot. I also have a bizarre sense of humor, which is reflected in more than one of my pieces. Enjoy!






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