my creative side.....

is not what I want or where I want it to be.....do you ever just feel so stuck? I mean I have the drive to be creative and Lord knows I have a good amount of fabric and scrapbooking supplies to be creative, I also have Betty , poor Betty, she needs a better owner! what woman wouldn't die to have her?!!  I have not spent enough time with her  ;)  it's mainly because of one barter project that I am stuck on, sooo close to being done, just about done! but I feel like I am not "allowed" to work on much else until this is finished and it's driving me crazy, it's hanging over my head!  I did make 2 pillowcases for a friend and waiting for some fabric to come in to make her some curtains.

I am behind on my ps i quilt, quilt a long, I STILL have 2 projects to finish for family (I am a horrible daughter and sister! lol),   I really want to start a new quilt for Zach, 1 have 2 other quilts, actually 3 (I just remembered a pinwheel quilt that I started a year ago)  that are cut and somewhat pieced. I have a *to do* list of fun stuff to make for myself, my home and friends, not even gonna mention all the scrapbooking pages I want to do :)

sometimes I start to feel a bit overwhelmed with all I want and need to do but it's a good thing because I love what I am overwhelmed with!!! you know what I mean? I have my crafty, outside and inside the home endeavors :)

it's so beautiful again this week where I live (last week was cold) but overall we have had a very mild winter here in AZ, I am itching to start my garden, and plant honeysuckles and more bareroot rose bushes, which need to be done this coming weekend. Last week I trimmed up hedges, weed eated and we sprayed for weeds. I want to work on my *pretty* side area of my house (Jim cringes when I mention this project!)
On the inside of the home, I want to repaint my craft room, revamp my laundry room, which is one room that is NOT working, it always becomes such a mess! redo my pictures in the living room and hallway. I am on the hunt for a type of buffet type of furniture from goodwill, yardsales that I can redo, I am still purging, mostly trying to get rid of 10-15 things a couple times a week, I have been organizing 1 or 2 small projects a week, things are looking better!

Here is a picture I need to share with the family...

Zach ran the 10K in Londons run and did great! GO ZACH!!!

I also got to spend some time with my sister Laurie before she moved toWisconsin to start her new life

                                                                                                                                                               that was a lot of rambling! hugs                                                                                                                    

oh and my book that I am reading that I told you about last week, One Thousand Gifts  is so good and I have only read the 1st Chapter, it had me crying in 2 places in the first chapter, I have to be careful because I really want to read ahead but since I am doing it with my mom and a online community over at (in) Courage I am trying to be good! go get it and read along with me!