Well, here is the final 'pattern'. I am done thinking and only the color of the binding is possibly up for grabs.

I did get a yellow, an orange and an off white to 'try'.

I like the orange the best with the backing color. But we shall see!

Heading to the sewing machine NOW. Going to hang the corkboard and then start finishing the final patches.

I have tons of projects laid out in there...and will put some of that away too...less to 'think' about...less to 'see' right now!

FOCUS!!

Today's thoughts

I keep thinking that as human beings we need to create, feel we are here for some reason and keep moving through life 'doing' things that we can stand back and look at and say....I did that!

I have been reading other peoples blogs..and seems that everyone has lots they do ...keep their feet moving..but feel they are not getting anything "DONE". I read one knitters blog and she listed all the projects she had on needles. She was trying to get one project done and 'really' trying to not start another project until she was 'caught' up.

I guess I have to try to follow the same...I am NOT going to really start working on my wool ideas until I have Huxley's quilt finished. Even though I read how others have worked on quilts for YEARS and this one has only been 'thought' about since March '09..when I bought the first piece of flannel in Amish country...I do want to finish it NOW and not start anything else until it is finished.

I have altered the pattern 'again' and think I have it how I want it now. Going with my own color choices now and trying to LOVE it just the way it is. :)

Part of the process for the creative mind, or should I say MY creative mind, is putting things in my mist that are feel good things. Plants, my funky things I find here and there that I have been putting in my art studio...all that makes it fun. Makes something to look forward to when I find that 'little' thing that is just right to LOOK at when I am 'thinking'.

I am on my way.

Saving Ms Spider Plant

There are times we make big mistakes...like sitting plant some where 'out of the way' when you are getting ready for the holiday...and forgetting about it!

Well...I did that in November, with a spider plant that I had babied all summer and it had gone from tiny to a nice plant full of new baby life.

But when we were getting ready for Thanksgiving..and I know that Christmas was to follow, I set the spider plant on the back porch on a little stool. I had moved the kitty litter box out there to get out of the kitchen and so in a way the plant was now kind of hidden.

Most of the plants on the back porch are cactus or other succulents so they don't get lots of winter water. It has always my habit, to keep those plants back there and try to keep as much heat as possible on them for the winter...and then pop them outside as soon as the summer hits!

WELL........I went to straighten up out there..and there was my poor spider plant ..all the babies were dead but a few...and the mother plant was mostly brown and dry.

I took the poor sad fellow to the box where I have all my compose items...I thought, you will just need to go in the 'pile' and I will find a new plant like you ...you are totally lost!

After a few days, I took a look at the plant again...and took it to the sink, trimmed all I could...and soaked it. I know how it can be when neglect is just too much. And I even talked to her, and told her I was sorry and I would try to give her a chance to live again.

Well, I have kept her by the kitchen sink and today...I found a new growth coming out of the base of the plant. She had been looking greener and starting to grow, but didn't think it would start to push out a new growth this quickly.

So I have kept her alive...she is growing...I hope she can make it to spring and I have promised to help her! :)