no pics…
i started a job last week (teaching 1-15 yr olds english!)… big learning curve for me. and so i have felt a bit wiped out for making anything. oh and teaching is so ‘creative’ (read: i have to make so many props and revamp a four year old tattered classroom so that students will actually like it and i can meet my ‘quota’ for getting in new students)… so i think it’s sapping my creative energy. even my boyfriend asked me why i wasn’t making anything tonight.
however, i managed to send out my first ever fabric swaps this week, and eagerly await their arrival. (i’m wondering if i did it right?) and i 95% completed a bag.. but i can’t top stitch it because the sewing machine has decided to break the thread and foul the bobbin.. oh… about *every* 5 inches. (what do you expect for a machine of 3000 円 – about 30 USD)… and i’ve promised to make 9 more of them.
plus, i wrote a post for whip-up this weekend… and i flipping clicked ‘publish’ when i meant to click ‘draft’… honestly! so it was not well-edited or considered. i had meant to let it simmer for a little while. and i regret that it was not rigorous enough, and considered enough… and the dialogue that came from it is good, but i feel like i said some stupid things. well, i did.
so feeling a little out-of-sorts.
and needlebook, who writes one of my most-often-visited blogs (meet her doll hatty) asked me to do a swap with her, and i was very pleased. … and she asked me what i wanted on my needlebook. at first i didn’t know what… but then i thought… a house. i want a house. and i suddenly realized how very homesick i am! and i don’t even know where home is anymore. can i go home now please? is this home? it doesn’t feel like it, and i don’t know if i’d even recognize it if i was there.
so i just wanted to link to this bit of craft comic relief.
you knit what? (found from a link via crafty minx).
…because i feel all kinds of awful lately.













Sounds like your day is not going very well. Don’t be too hard on yourself, teaching can be hard! Trust me, I know, I did it for many years and I agree with you, it can be very creative and tiring too!
If you need any teaching ideas, let me know.
Hope things improve soon!
So sorry to hear you are feeling down, Heather. Teaching 1-15 year olds – yikes! Just thinking of that freaks me out…Take care, hope you feel better soon.