What I've been working on

I've  gotten back to the point where I have several partially finished posts, and have been too much of a putz to work on them. While regular adulting is a boring drudge, adulting during a pandemic is soooo much worse. It doesn't help that I work in an essential department in a hospital, so we don't have the luxury of staying home in quarantine if we are exposed. I have been making a little bit of lace. I haven't really been working on bobbin lace, but since the IOLI convention had to be converted to being held online, I did make some decorated masks. I finally had a reason to pull out my art tatting book and try some things out. I kept it pretty simple because I'm still working full time, and I don't have hours to devote to making the perfect piece of lace to cover a mask.

Cherry blossoms on my mask to promote lace making and the well being of lace makers. I call it saved by the stash.

This was my entry for a decorated homemade mask. It's pretty simple, but if you look closely, I used multiple threads together for depth of color. 
I didn't win any prizes for my masks, but making them was a nice distraction. I also find that I'm drinking a lot more tea just to cope with life. I figure it's better than turning to copious quantities of alcohol (especially since I have to go to work after I have been drinking since I am too tired to care about having a glass of wine or something after work). Thanks to my tea pets, I no longer drink alone.

I've been working on discovering the names of my tea pets. While I originally referred to my dragon as a male, I have discovered her name is Jane. Okay, I admit the name came from the cartoon "Jane and the Dragon", but that was a fun show. Too bad they only made one season. 


I've also taken my tea outside a few times when the weather was nice. It's nice to have a change of scenery. I'm definitely not doing that this weekend. It was already in the mid 50s outside when I woke up.


So, I will  be working on getting back to making more postable content soon. Life is just a challenge right now in so many ways.

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  1. Poppy CrockerJuly 26, 2020 at 8:33 AM

    Take care of yourself and be safe.

    I just got a new dragon, but mine is a Beanie Baby. It's black and there's something about its facial expression that kind of reminds me of Grendel.

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    1. Lace makerJuly 26, 2020 at 9:39 AM

      Cute! Grendel the carbohydrate loving dragon. Hide the bread! So far, my dragon likes tea. I forgot to point out that I was drinking snow dragon green tea with Jane. It seemed only appropriate (well, except that there definitely isn't any snow around right now).

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    2. Poppy CrockerJuly 26, 2020 at 10:57 AM

      And hopefully, there won't be for quite some time!

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