Crafting slowly OR too many projects....

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While I want to release The Deadfern Miracles I'm also updating Liner Notes, as well as Part 6 of The Hawk that I was going to edit about now. Then there's hand quilting the Mandolin cozy but I began crocheting a hat. Log cabin blocks anyone, yellow panel, or finishing the quilt on the design wall? Don't forget making curtains or the Peace Round the World quilt. Insert facepalm and smiley faces here, lol.

Here's the hat from last night! I wore it this morning to feed the hens. Then washed it, lol. All ready for another adventure....

How am I supposed to have time for contemplation with all that? I still have the Alvin's Farm series to update as well as early standalone novels. Here's the blurb:

Feel free to share your thoughts; drop me a line at annascottgraham at proton dot me. For more tidbits about the writing, visit my blog A Contemplative Life. And while this novel (like all my books) is free, if you enjoy supporting good causes, I recommend Food for People and the Healy Senior Center as well as Arcata House, all of which are located in marvelous Humboldt County, California. Again, thanks for reading!

I did change books to collection for the poetry collections. Otherwise that's how Feel free to.... now appears in half of my books. Maybe more than half. While log cabin blocks await on my sewing machine, aching to be sewn.

But laundry is underway. Dishes are washed. Metamucil still needs to be ingested. Dinner tonight will be.... I don't even know, oh wait, I do! Leftover baked potatoes and a delicious brussel sprouts dish that is really more about well cooked bacon, walnuts and balsamic vinegar than sprouts. Tonight I'll fold sheets.  Maybe write to the grandkids. Definitely craft a thank you note. Read a letter from a dear friend. Watch a little on the telly. It wasn't a cold day, odd for nearly mid-November. Will I do any sewing? Writing/revising fiction? No.

Is my creative To Do list overwrought?  It is what it is, and while I wish to have eight extra hours a day and maybe two or three additional arms.... Wouldn't that be something, to suddenly possess time no one else seems to own or limbs allowing for stitching whilst crafting a blog post? But God has his reasons for all these shinies to catch my attention.

In the meantime, my husband just texted that he put French fries in the oven. Better take that Metamucil so I can nom on chips! More about projects another time....

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