Mockingbird Hill Cottage
Dawn and I have been posting patterns for you throughout the year for our Christmas Critter Felt Along. This month, you’re going to have to rely on Dawn for a photo of the finished new patterns. I’m out of town and couldn’t make them this month.
But I can post one of the new patterns: The Snail.
Click here to download the Woodland Snail.
Be sure to visit Dawn’s post today with the new critters.
Thanks so much,
Crap-ola.
And some other words I choose not to use on this blog. But you can bet I’m using them offline.
That’s how I feel.
I’m coughing constantly. I’m waking up in the middle of the night..coughing. I’m blowing my nose…constantly. I simply feel rotten. I worked yesterday and it was a struggle: coaching actors one-on-one while sucking on a lozenge hoping to stem the tide of coughing, only to have to temporarily halt the session while I collapsed into a coughing fit. Not fun.
Today I also have to work, but only to about 12:30, thank goodness. Here’s the part that stinks…besides the being sick thing…I was planning to drive home today and spend tomorrow mowing the lawn, checking in on things, picking up the mail, etc. But, even though my heart says go for it, I know that I’m simply not up to it. It’s a two hour drive and I don’t want to be driving on the Interstate while being overcome by a coughing fit.
And, really, do I think I’m up to mowing our massive front lawn? Short answer: no.
Hopefully, I can swing a quick trip back home later in the week.
But for now, I think I have to hang out in the hotel room and get better.
Gosh, I wish Don and I had the same days off. I need some husbandly care-giving. I miss him. He would rub my back and get me orange juice and say comforting things.
Dame Scout in the tunnel position. I usually sit in that chair and watch TV or go online.
Quilt position. I got up to leave the room for a minute and this is where I found her. She moved from her tunnel position to the quilt. Who knows why? All I know is she’s awfully cute. And she’s really good company.
Hopefully, I’ll be up to taking her to the park later.
Almost forgot: It’s my dad’s 91st birthday today.
Happy Sunday.
That little cold/sinus thing became rather a big thing and I’ve been very much under the weather. I even had to miss the last day of table work yesterday. To be perfectly honest, I’d love to stay home today but I just can’t. Since I’m usually suffering from some sinus/allergy thing on a daily basis, when a cold arrives, it hits me smack upside the head and I go down for the count.
As I said on Facebook yesterday, being sick is crappy but being sick when you’re away from home is even crappier. I know that is not the most elegant use of language, but I feel far from elegant. I am grateful for a rather large suite here at the hotel. I think if I was in a small room, I would feel very confined and want to climb the walls, especially because I was room-bound yesterday. I wanted Don to be here and he couldn’t be here. I needed a cuddle.
You understand.
I’m supposed to drive home tomorrow night in order to spend Monday mowing the lawn, etc., but we’ll see about that. Right now, it’s the last thing I want to do.
A thistle turned silky.
I’ve been pondering something for a while now. I’m just going to say it: I’m really tired of decorating blogs. I find myself reading them less and less. Why is that? This is purely from my particular point of view, of course, and I’m sure many of you feel the exact opposite. And, let me hasten to assure you, I still read the blogs of my blogging friends – I don’t count them in this equation.
But in general? I’m over them.
Now, I’ve loved decorating from my childhood days of wallpapering my Barbie case to the present. I’ve spent who-knows-how-many dollars on decorating magazines over the course of my lifetime. I love to see unique and striking rooms. And I like decorating my little cottage. I’m a nester, for sure. So, it’s not as if I’m a person who just doesn’t care about that sort of thing.
I used to love reading them. But, there is such a glut of decorating/diy blogs now – so, so many that it makes my head spin. And quite frankly, there aren’t a whole lot of new ideas out there, just variations on the same theme. To be fair, I suppose that’s the way it is with most things, not just decorating.
Is this just a phase I’m in? Maybe. I do tend to do things in phases; for example, crochet. How many scarves and throws did I crochet? Over a hundred. And I haven’t picked up a crochet hook in about a year. Been there, done that. So, you see, I do tend to be that way about things.
But, further examination brings me to the realization that there is just too much out there in this virtual world. Too many decorating blogs, too many photos on Pinterest, too many faux animal heads, too many vignettes, too many, too many. I suppose I can be included in that: too many garden and flower photos. Maybe even too many decorating photos, though I haven’t really posted anything of that nature for a while now. I mean, you’ve seen my house. If something changes, I’ll share it with you, but in the meantime, nothing’s new. You may get a shot of the living room every once in a while, but that’s about it.
Your response to this might well be: “Well, Claudia, if you’re tired of all that, don’t visit those blogs. You have control over where you go on the Internet.”
And you’re right. I do have control and I haven’t been clicking on those sites lately. I’ve stayed away. I’d much rather read about a good book or a social issue or see someone blog from the heart or, if we are talking about decorating, see a room that has been decorated in such a purely individual and quirky way that it doesn’t look like anything else I’m seeing on the Web. That takes some digging, of course, but to me, it’s worth it.
Maybe it’s just me. Maybe I get bored too easily. Maybe writing the book blog has sent me in a new direction, has solidified what I am truly interested in. I’m not sure.
Anyway, when I’m wrestling with some realization, I generally try to put it in words in this online journal of mine. The process of writing about it always helps me come to terms with whatever change is on my particular horizon.
New post up on Just Let Me Finish This Page.
Happy Saturday.
