Lacy Day...uhm....

Not to make any excuses for my inability to keep up with this blog, but I have developed tendinitis in both thumbs which makes manipulating scissors and pencils incredibly painful.  And it's impossible to do any fine motor work with my hands when I have my braces on.  Boo!  But like I said, I don't intend to make any excuses.  I really want to catch up with this blog...just not right now when I have so severely overestimated the amount of free time I'd have to think/plan/do crafty and creative projects while trying to settle into my new role as a stay-at-home mom.  And it's not that I don't have some free time during the day.  The real problem is that I have zero spare mental capacity to put into dreaming up projects for myself.  It's mental exhaustion that's what's really killing my good intentions.

I actually started to make this cute fall decoration I saw on Pinterest, and I got a few felt flowers made and one letter cut out, but the parts have just been sitting on my table for weeks with no more progress.  When I have had time to do anything, it's usually taking pics of the baby.  Sometimes I even sneak a few minutes on the computer to edit them.  I have been doing okay with my camera, but not great.  I want to take a few minutes sometime to do a more elaborate setup than just laying the baby on the changing table and pulling it into the "good light" to snap a few hasty pics.  We bought a giant pumpkin with plans to hollow it out and stuff the baby into it for some pictures.  I'll post those pics when we get that done.  I'll also post pics when I get our Halloween costumes done.  I'm keeping it simple this year.  REAL simple.  You'll see soon ;-)

I picked up some freezer paper today and hope to find something awesome to do with it.  I have pinned a few things that you can do with freezer paper, but I've been it'll probably be awhile before I get around to utilizing it.  I have a couple of footprint projects on the back burner, too, but haven't had time to follow through with anything.  I should teach myself to make afghan squares because I have a crap-ton of awesome yarn stockpiled and I'm sure I could find time to make a square every day.  Then I'd have an awesome afghan to show for my 100 days.  Of course, if the whole point is to try new things and stretch my creative muscles, doing the same thing every day definitely defeats the purpose.