OK so I am not a very good blogger LOL.  It has been quite awhile since my last post and I am sorry to say that I totally forgot I had started this.  Since the last post I have been busy crafting the last of things for Christmas and then starting a new doll just for myself.  I also have been reading up a storm on my new Kindle Fire HDX that I got for Christmas.  Well I have been learning how to use it also.  There are so many things that you can do on it and I am not very android smart.  

Anyway, I am back to crafting for the sake of crafting and not for gift giving.  Although that is not to say that some of the things I make this coming year[until late summer when I start the crafting for Christmas again LOL]  won't end up being given to people as a gift.  I have been known in the past to take my paintings off of the wall and just give them away. But that is a trait that I have squashed  pretty well.  Not the giving of gifts trait but the giving away of things to anyone who happens to make a passing comment about liking my creations.  It is alright to appreciate compliments on your creations but it does not mean that you need to give them away as payment for those comments.  

I am almost finished with the doll I have been working on since the beginning of January.  When I get her finished I will try and figure out how to get a picture of her in my next blog post.  Well that is it for now.  I hope you all have a flooding of ideas in your own crafting arenas.

Well today was Black Friday but we had another Thanksgiving today.  Last night we had our other dinner but no turkey was in sight.  We had Helmuts homemade spaghetti and garlic toast.  Ari {his daughter}had dinner with Helmut and I last night for Thanksgiving and she does not like Turkey but loves her dad's spaghetti.  That was fine with me because his sauce is really good LOL.  Today we had his other two daughter's, Maya and Sasha over for a traditional Turkey Day dinner.  We were all stuffed and had a good time again.  Ari had to work today so she had to come last night.  Now we are alone and having a hard time fighting the Turkey coma hovering over our heads. :-)
I have been busy working on presents for people we love and I am getting closer to being done.  I only have 24 more days to finish things up and so far I think I will make it.  I would tell you what I am making but I might give away who those things are for and certain people who read this blog might be able to guess what I made them. So until after Christmas I will be keeping the projects I am working on to myself.  Tomorrow I am putting all of the Fall decorations away and getting all of my many boxes of Christmas decorations out and start putting up Christmas LOL.  Each year I seem to add another new box to the mix.  Mostly because I am always making something new and picking up unique items at Goodwill through out the year.  So when Christmas time comes and goes I have another box of deco's to be added to my stash.  I love decorating for the Fall and for Christmas.  I don't go to a lot of trouble on holiday decorating the rest of the year although I do bring out my bunny collection for Easter and then my owls for when ever I feel like changing things up.  Now the dinning room, it is always filled with my chickens and I am always on the lookout for new ones to add to it. 
Ok that is it for now.  I have decided with a suggestion from Maya to at least write a post once a month  to get me started.  I will write more often when I can but at least once a month to start.  I guess it does not really matter since I don't have a very big following LOL.

First Post for this Newbie

          Well this is my first post as a blogger and I must warn all that I am still trying to figure it all out.  So until I am able to get a good handle on this thing I may be extremely boring.  Of course I may end up being extremely boring after I get a handle on it so it is going to be a bumpy ride LOL.  I hope that I am able to entertain a few, and inform others on my crafting experiences or those that I have discovered.  I won't guarantee that I will always write about crafting exclusively because like with everyone else my life bleeds into everything that I say and do.  I also want to say that I am not a professional - meaning that I have on a few occasions in my life sold some of my things but mostly I create for others, or just the pleasure of it.  I am also a little bit of a jumper sometimes.  By that I mean that I will do embroidery for weeks or months at a time but then one day I will wake up and start crocheting something and then the next day I will start a quilt or some other sewing project and then go onto making a doll or sculpting things out of air dry clay and sometimes LOL I will have all of the above going on in my craft room. That is when I have to stop and step back and say "time to take a crafting break and clean up this mess".  Which I do and then pick up one of the previously started projects and carry on.  I will admit that there are many projects that I have started in mt life that never got finished because of my jumping and that is not something that I am happy about but I don't stress over that trait in me anymore.  I just let the project go and move on.  

           Since I am 62 years old I have had plenty of time to try out new crafts.  Some were just one timers because they ended up not being something I enjoyed doing or something that I just was not good enough at for me to be happy with the finished results.  I have to admit that I am my own worst critic and sometimes my inner guy overrides the good comments of my family and friends.  As an example, I used to do landscape oil paintings and I even sold a few at local art fairs but mostly it was for my own enjoyment, but then I got divorced and moved three states back to Indiana where I was born.  I stopped painting within about a year.  That was over 20 years ago and no matter how many times I have tried I have only been able to finish two paintings.  My confidence is gone and I just can't bring myself to put a brush to canvas because of my fear of failure.  I know the problem but I just can't get past it.  Maybe someday but for now I have moved on to other creative endeavors which bring me and the receiver of my crafts pleasure.  Well I think that is all for now.  Next time I will try and describe what I am working on right now.  I must warn you though that with Christmas so close I am almost to the stepping back mode LOL.  Trying to get all of the things I have set myself up to get done by Christmas is almost too much.  Till next time Happy Crafting.