Friday, April 13, 2007
what I want to be doing.
 I have so many things to do at the moment. For a person who isn't actually beholden to any sort of place of work, study or - let's face it - anyone else, I sure seem to run out of time to do stuff. The less you have to do, the less you actually do. So here's a quick to-do list, any one of which might attract my motivation at the moment. - my super-secret-sewing-thing. This is what is really taking up my headspace at the moment. I don't really want to say too much about it because expectation always makes me choke. Only, I love doing stuff like this. Stuff that's just a bit too hard for me, stuff that I need to nibble at and think about and work out myself. I know I'm going to learn lots.  - my cardigan: I have finished the left front and started the ribbing for the right. I just haven't had the right vibes to sit down and get cracking. Heck, I want to wear this thing before winter is over (even though it is, bizarrely, 30 degrees here at the moment). - read my book, 'Sleeping in Flame' by Jonathan Carroll, which Em lent me. At first I was simply taken with his elegant style, but halfway through the book it turned all magical realism on me, and I am a sucker for that stuff. - make a hipscarf for belly dancing. I want it to have tassels. Tassely tassely tassels. - finish up a dress I am sewing from a vintage pattern. I have made the top half in a flowy black cotton dotted with tiny red hearts and it looks really swell, I just have to stop debating on how I want the skirt to look and actually decide on something. - find a venue for a swing dance event Buggles and I want to put on. We want to launch our little stall and we want a cranking dance. The two shall be combined in edible form... Of course, I spend most of my time doing anything but the aforementioned things. Yes, most of them are crafty, and most of them are purely personal. But then I don't want to spend my halcyon days doing shit that bores me. |
posted by Enken at 8:47 AM
