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Well I’ve been talking about canvas for a week.. maybe even more perhaps? I had ongoing projects and I’ve completed a couple and I promised a certain someone *cough*Kecia*cough* I’d post pics. I finished Randy’s bookmark Monday but I sent it out before I took a picture. I do have mine that I finished, along with 2/50 states since I’m doing somewhat of a puzzle on my wall with them, and my biggest accomplishment is my two bears with the heart. That has taken me the longest. Pardon any mistakes because I’m far from perfect, I’ll get better with time and experience.

In a way it’s bittersweet though. My grandma used to really be into crafty stuff but since my grandfather died of lung cancer, although it wasn’t mesothelioma in 2000 she’s really fallen into a “I don’t care” attitude and watches tv the majority of time now. She used to make some pretty amazing things, including her own patterns for crocheting blankets and such. (more…)

I feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day anymore, it’s driving me nuts. The time pacing is never right, either too fast or too slow. W-T-F? I keep mentioning canvasing but I don’t want to show anybody the states until we complete them and I can’t show my bears/heart thing until it’s complete. So… I promise eventually I’ll show you all what I have been doing when it comes together. I want to send the bears to Randy but I don’t know if they’ll let him have them. We’ll see, if not I’ll get them back. There are so many possibilities though, it excites me.

I’ve been keeping very busy lately. At first I decided I’d attempt to start knitting and ran into a wall after learning to cast on so the needles are sitting in my tote. Then my grandmother attempted to show me how to crochet and I can start but it’s confusing when things keep getting crossed. FINALLY Dianna (Randy’s mom) showed me how she was doing plastic canvas on Sunday when I was there and she actually helped me make a magnet right off of the bat. It’s cute. So I decided to initiate a burial policy for my knitting needles and crochet hooks for now and do plastic canvasing for time killing instead. My first project is 2 bears holding a heart that says I love you. I found a ton of patterns online to do and Dianna has hundreds. Now all I need to do is build up my yarn collection. I now have coffee, cherry red, white, aran, teal, and black. I need SO many more to do all the things I want. I’m going to be doing a harry potter tissue box and maybe a set of carebears. Dianna and I are also talking about doing this state magnets one and then assembling them on her fridge but it’d take a LONG time. We’ll see