I've been making a lot of ornaments this week. I really should be sewing but making monsters is more fun than making bags. There's glitter involved! I'm bored with sewing, I hate to say it. Maybe I've just done too much of it lately.

I'm counting down the days until the BB, after which I will be able to focus on gifts I'm making for friends & The Boy. I've been so consumed by making stuff for shows and wholesale orders I only realised yesterday that December is here. I was aware of my deadlines and all the day-to-day stuff I need to do (I haven't forgotten to pack The Boy's lunch yet!) but the reality of time passing didn't really hit me until yesterday. Oops.

I'm ready to be on the other side of all this. While I work my mind is occupied with plans for quilts and prints and pretty much anything else but what I'm doing. It's been a lot of repetitive work, dozens of one thing at a time, and I get bored easily with things like that. I'm ready for something new.

I'm trying to take one day a week and stay home instead of going in to the studio. I have huge petrochemical guilt, so one day of not driving back and forth makes me feel a little better. Besides, there's plenty for me to get done here. All my paper crafts are still here and there are so many things I need to add to my store. I could easily spend a whole day just working on updating the site.

I submitted my inventory for Craftland this weekend. I am probably insane, but I'm hoping to have (among other things) 240 sticker packs and 200 magnets. Those numbers are still nice and abstract but it's starting to seep into my brain that I have to MAKE all that stuff in a month. Plus get ready for the BB in Boston, keep all my wholesale customers stocked up and still have something to sell to anybody who shops online. Wheee!

I totally enjoy the craziness of all this. I really do. I just hope I don't get sick. Last year I got sick while trying to finish everything for Craftland and then I tore the connective tissue in the arch of my foot a few days before the Bazaar Bizarre. (The previous year my Beautiful Assistant got sick and had to endure the entire day of the BB with a fever. And then I got what she had and was sick the following weekend for a show.)

Any bets on what'll happen this year? Short-term memory loss? A broken bone? Temporary blindness?