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What I do at 1 am...

8/11/2014

Who knew The Google was awake at this hour?

Warning: The following might possibly turn into an enormously long winded ramble that will only make sense to a very few. Proceed only if you have all the time in the world.
Consider yourself warned.

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Sometimes you just gotta...

4/24/2014

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***Warning: This post is more emotional/existential crisis & less crafty. Proceed at your own risk. ;)

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Holy frijoles Batman! She's trying something new...

10/22/2013

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Okay, I know I've been gone for a bit & for that I apologize. We've had a bit of sadness hit our ohana recently & it has sidelined us all for a time.
However, I am here right now & will be attempting something brand spanking new (for me anyway). Yup folks, I actually am going to attempt to post a mini tutorial!
"Tutorial?" you say quizzically. Yes, I know it's confusing, seeing as how I barely know what I'm doing or how I'm going to do it 98.3% of the time, but I am gonna give it that old college try.
I here you laughing. I know, its funny to imagine me planning this out, because as some of you know, I generally forget to take the pics to include. We all love looking at pics when we try to follow tutorials & in the absence of video directions, pics are essential.
But I fooled you! I didn't think this one out! I just for some inexplicable reason started taking pics of this project when I started & managed to remember to take them with almost every step. Yay me!
Are you ready?

Warning, this is an extremely long & rambly post.
Read more breaks have been provided for your sanity.

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Grrrrrrrrrr.........

1/27/2013

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So one thing I think you will need to know/get used to, is that I have many different phrases & sayings that I like to use. The title of this entry is one that I find myself using quite a lot now that my oldest is a teenager. I use it even more when I'm working.

For instance, I started a new wreath a few days ago, which I had high hopes for. Unfortunately, I decided to use a new type of foam form for it. Not exactly what I have worked with before & not something I am 100% certain I will use again.

Anyway, I have been having problems with getting this wreath/form to stay shaped the way that I want it to. It is to be another yarn wreath & of course I started having problems with the yarn once I figured out how to make the form work for me. I was more than three- quarters of the way done with it & becoming increasingly more pleased with it when I put it down Friday evening.

Well, I lost yesterday to one of those nasty beasties that many of us suffer from these days. Yes, I'm talking about migraines. They suck & we hate them, but not many of us have been able to tame them. So I spent my yesterday being miserable & really barely accomplishing getting dressed. I did manage, with my hubby's help, to make dinner. It was one of our ohana's (family's) favorite meals & I have been craving it for a few weeks now.

Oops! Caught myself starting to ramble. Alright, back to the story!

When I walked into my craftroom/office, also known as "The Cave of Wonder", henceforth to be referred to as the CoW, this morning, the first thing I did was utter a very loud "Grrrrrrrrrr!" Why? Well, the wreath form started to come apart. It was sliding out of the fastener (aka duct tape) I had used.

Of course you know this means I have to completely unravel it & start over. Luckily for me, this tends to be a regular part of my creative process. So, after taking a short break to brew myself a cuppa tea, I came back to start over.

Which is why I'm sitting here attempting to write an interesting blog post. Because I am procrastinating. Because part of my creative process is to become distracted & work on other projects while the tiny little cobbler in the tiny little back room in the very backest part of the crazy labyrinth that is my mind tries to come up with a better way to make that wreath. He will, at some point, get up & have a french fry break with the ogre that runs the random machine in the middle of the upper level, but that won't last long, because they can't agree on the amount of salt to add to the fries. No, they have never thought of dividing the fries onto two plates, they don't think that way.

Anyway, that's pretty much the point. I think. Was there a point? I don't remember. Maybe?

Either way, you have now wasted at least (hopefully) two full minutes of your day & have become at least partially distracted from whatever was stressing you before. Unless of course no one but me is reading this. In that case, I have just spent a full half hour attempting to entertain myself. Which is time well spent, because not only am I easily entertained, I am also easily distracted by ooh dust particles....

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Hmmmm.....

1/17/2013

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“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees” - Marcel Proust

I found the quote above, as I was trying to remember one of my other favorite Proust quotes. I can't decide if I like/agree, but it seemed profoundly right at the time I choose it. You can click on it & it should take you to the sight I found it on.

So, this blogging thing does not come easy for me. Even as A child I was not very good at keeping a journal.

Only once, in college, was I ever able to commit to regular writing & that was because I had decided to spend an entire month writing a letter to one of my best friends. And I only decided to do that, because I wanted to prove to myself that I could keep myself interested enough in myself to fill more than a two page letter. If I remember correctly, my thought was that if I could keep myself interested, as I have always found me to be quite boring, then my friend would not be bored either. Confounded thinking I know, but welcome to my brain. Needless to say, I forced myself to add to this letter every day & at the end of the month, my friend had thirty plus pages & I haven't put myself through that again.

I'm rambling, sorry. I tend to do that, as my thoughts (please for give the analogy) are like wild mustangs that occasionally stop at the fence to let you look at them. Or in my case, make semi-coherent sense of them.

(Realizes you're screaming "Get to the point!") Sorry again. Um, my point. Yes, my point. I had one here somewhere. I was heading toward it & then the door to responsibilityland opened & reality asked me to make dinner. That's right, my point snuck out of the room when the door opened.

Okay, I'll let you off the hook. My point was, that I am hoping to be able to keep up with this blog thing as often as possible. I honestly don't know what I'll write about, as I always seem to run out of things other people want to hear. I may just end up telling you about projects I'm working on. If I can get over myself long enough to play nice, I may recruit one of the recruits to help me do tutorials. Or I may just say hello.

For everyone's sake, I hope I can keep it interesting & fun. Until next time my pretties...

Aloha,
-Clare

Oops! I almost forgot! Please go to Janelle's blog & wish her a Happy Birthday because she is awesome & so are you! (Just click this phrase)

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