Chaotic Crafter

Howdy do friends! You are probably wondering where I have been? Mostly crafting and quite chaotically lol. I am always surrounded by craft supplies. I work from my bed mostly because of my limited mobility. Around me is always containers filled with sewing materials, boxes of ribbon, buttons, flowers, and bows. There are also  rubber maid tubs and zippered storage bags full of yarn. There is measuring tape, mannequin bodies and heads, not to mention the crochet needles that are everywhere! I read once though that all artist were "messy". I think it is just that once the juices get flowing your mind is on one track and you are trying to create, design, discover, and not loose the momentum. I really can't explain it, when I am in the zone I am just in the zone. 

One a week I straighten up the mess and the process continues. This week I decided to clean a little deeper. You know, roll loose yarn into balls, color code the buttons, re-wrap the ribbon onto the spool, put all the needles together on a hook, and roll all the thread back onto the spool and put it in its box. In doing all of this I located several projects that were started and then forgotten. That is not unlike me. I would actually consider it my style. Yes, Chaotic can be a style. I will start something and sometimes half way through I get an idea on something else and I just have to start it, you know before the idea escapes me. Sometimes I am bored and that is what motivates me to start something new. Next thing I know I have like 5 projects going at once which sounds very unorganized but for me it is not. It is my organized mess and it helps to keep my creative juices flowing. I also rather like that since I will work on all 5 projects at once I tend to complete them all one behind the other which is a serious creativity rush. It looks like I will be pulling an all crochet weekend though to get some of these projects done. I also found a few finished items that never made it to their photo shoot so I did that the other day too. Here I will give you a sneak peek.....

So, what do you think? I will be uploading these to my etsy store over the next few days. Oh this reminds me about our last chat. Remember I mentioned making myself a hat, shawl, and purse set? Well, I was bursting with creativity last time and I made the hat that very night! Wearing the hat really motivated me to finish the shawl, and I finally finished that about two days ago! I still have to put buttons on it (it is more of a cape than a shawl) and I have to start the purse but I am excited to have completed something for myself. Yay me!

I wish I could sit and talk all day but I do have a business to run, after all isn't that what this is all about? You all should stop by my etsy page and let me know what you think?  Heart 2 Heart. I have really worked hard on it but I have not gotten much verbal feedback. You can send me a message there or check me out on fb Facebook and message me there. Either way I would love to hear you what you have to say. 

I am off to craft land. I have a beautiful corner to corner blanket to finish. I am hoping to share a photo of it the next time I post. It is about 3/4 the way complete. Come back and see me though because you never know what will be next in this chaotic crochet life.