So you may remember me always blogging about how I need to organize my craft room.

When I have crochet deadline after crochet deadline, picking up my mess always takes a back seat! And I still do need to finish my 2012 bookkeeping (which I’m doing now!), but I REALLY had to set aside time to deal with my craft room because I was asked to be video-interviewed in there yesterday! (I’m not sure yet if I’m supposed to keep the interview a surprise…)

If you “like” my Facebook page, you would already have seen little snippets of me picking up the place, but I was also taking video from time to time, and I sped it up, so you can sort of see what took place within the span of 4 minutes (but it was in reality like 2 days).

My craft space has been featured in various blogs, and I always just shoved piles of yarn in my bedroom to take photos and then put it all back. What really intimidated me was doing it RIGHT. I wanted to separate out the yarn to giveaway or sell (happening after aforementioned bookkeeping!), and approach everything in an organized fashion. So everything is sorted through now, but it’s also living in bags and boxes in Hairy’s man cave…. and it’s A LOT.

So here’s the video. Enjoy!

Soooooo, I am really really late to the game, but I just started playing DrawSomething.

When it was popular, I refused to play it, because it seemed time-consuming and like I might get addicted to it. I’m not big on video games or apps or stuff like that, because I think people end up with their eyeballs constantly glued to their phones or computers or whatever.

But for reasons I won’t discuss yet (or ever… we’ll see what happens!), I started playing a few weeks ago for research. I was immediately frustrated because I have terrible finger-control, and I couldn’t let go how of HOW AWFUL my drawings were!

But then Manda agreed to play around on it with me, and it became fun. It’s actually a nice way to relax my brain for like 3 minutes and then go back to my business.

When I was in college, I kept a sketch journal. I always made myself sketch something for only 5 minutes, once a day. 5 minutes, only. But every day. I preferred to use pencil and crayon (sounds classy, right?). I’m so not an artist, but at that point, I really liked making myself use my brain differently for a little bit. I’ll scan some images from the journal when I remember to!

I have forgotten to save some of my most excellent DrawSomething work (sarcasm!), but here is a small sample of what I happened to catch.

This random person I play with, “Julia S.,” is actually pretty good. I messaged her once and was like, “Your finger control is amazing. Do you use a stylus?” and she responded, “Nope, just my finger!” And then we never messaged again, and just kept playing. I feel creepy now.

Okay, there’s a lot going on right now, but, sometimes you need to relieve your stress by creating a horrible animation loop of you and Manda, in your mom’s Lexus SUV, wearing her fancy coats, and getting KFC and cheezballs.

I know you are like, “What. The. Eff.” It’s kind of an inside joke. Now you’re in the inside!

In anticipation of St. Patty’s Day, I put a few marshmallow charm headbands in the shop!

Grab ’em quick! There aren’t very many! 🙂

Sorry again that things have been quiet around here. I haven’t quite found my groove yet after getting sick last week, and I have two gigantic deadlines this week. One is top secret, and the other is PREPPING MY TAXES. YUCK!

I also need to make my house look less hurricane-disaster-y. I’m getting video-interviewed here on Sunday for something fun, and my craft room is still bursting at the seams. I’ll letcha know more about that video soon! It’s pretty cool!

Yep, now you can make your own ice cream scoop hair clips.

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