I need to art!

I spend the whole day today just being in my studio and beavering away. The large quilt will shortly have a binding sewn on (this was the quilt that should have been finished by the end of last year but didn't quite make it!) and then I can continue the embellishments. I did some work in my Sketchbook Project and put the last touches (as in beads) on another Journal Quilt.

Very satisfying as the rest of the week was more or less a lost cause. What with driving to Edinburgh for my Artist's Way class (I'm realizing that I'm less and less in the mood to do so even though the book is proving to be more and more effective), escaping to graveyards when the electricity is off and to do my Artist Date, and a dental visit, my art came a poor last in my activity packed week. That has the almost inevitable result that my mood dips and I get more and more fraught with artistic frenzy.

For for next week, more arting and stitching is on the agenda, even if that means missing some of the things I planned to do. I might have to do that anyway as snow and ice are apparently on the way. We will again have no electricity on Tuesday, but that should hopefully be the end of all the electricity poles being replaced in and around West Linton and Carlops. I seem to be able to handle the unexpected failure of the supply a lot better than these planned outages. Last Thursday when we had no supply I did the washing up by boiling the kettle for hot water till John came and asked me why? As we had an entire tank full of hot water left over from the day before. And there was me, proud of exhibiting a real voortrekker attitude!

On a more positive note the snowdrops are out already. I don't think we saw them last year till the middle of February but that could have been because they were covered in a thick layer of snow! Our courtyard is full of foxgloves that self-seeded themselves there and put on their greenery during last summer so that this year they will be flowering (they're bi-annuals). Something I'm so looking forward to, even though they looked splendid today in their frozen state.