beadless me time

Normally I spend all of my me time working on flowers or thinking about beads. And I’m always happy that’s how I spend it, but over the week every spare moment I had I worked on flowers. I spent hours on Monday lacing all the leaves in my new bouquet. Pumpkin leaves are a pain to lace up too, they take double the time. Lacing is finished, beading is finished, all that is left of the new bouquet is to assemble. Last night I couldn’t get myself to work on it. I didn’t want to force it b/c really assembling is the last step. If you mess that up it could potentially ruin the entire project for me.
After dinner last night I pulled out my favorite comfy pants and realized that the stitching holding in the elastic band had come out. So I dug out a needle and thread and sewed the elastic back in, which will be wonderful in TN. After that I took a long hot shower, curled up in bed under 3 blankets and read a book until I fell asleep. It’s been a long time since I’d spent my me time like that. I miss reading.
Soon I will be spending some time learning metal enameling. I signed up for the class at the Peoria Art Guild with a friend of mine. It is every Monday night and I’m more than excited to learn something new. This will also be the first class I’ve ever taken, well since college, but biology classes don’t count. It starts this Monday, I will post an update saying how it went.
I have more exciting news, but it is for a different post. Come back soon for pics of some finished pieces. I should have time to assemble this week.

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