Game Plan

I found this card today at Trader Joe's. I love their cards by the way. I get a lot of cards there for events at work. But I also get cards for myself sometimes too. But I won't be giving this to myself later for a special occasion - it's going to be my prompt for every day. My marching orders for 2016.

I think this vacation has been enlightening because I've seen how easily I can waste time. I did really need this time off,  but I also realize that I have a lot more that I want to do that I enjoy, but that I don't actually get off my behind and get started on. I need to get out of my own way and start doing what comes naturally. Game on.

World's Slowest Going Needlepoint Project

So this is where it all began. I made this 'drawing' over 30 years ago. It was done with colored pens on paper that I had drawn my own grid lines on with pencil. It was my own handmade wrapping paper for a present I gave my mom. Thankfully she let me keep it after she opened the present.....

So fast forward to 4 winters ago, and I was feeling a deep need to do something creative and not wanting to just sit there watching TV during the dark winter nights after work. So I started this needlepoint using the drawing as my inspiration.






My intention was to create a throw pillow cover, and work on it while watching TV. I did not plot it out as much as I should have before I got started, but for being essentially a free hand design, it has worked out pretty well. The shape of the original drawing being rectangular, and the shape for the pillow being square has of course led to some adapting.

I worked on it pretty faithfully up through the summer of 2010, and then an unexpected thing happened. I got a kitten, and then it got put away for a while. A long while.

But can you blame me for falling in love with this little guy? This picture was pretty much me every day with my little boy.

Munchkin as a kitten

So the honeymoon with Munchkin lasted a long time, and the needlepoint got put aside. It had also become apparent to me that even when I wasn't going to be cuddling him all the time, he was so playful that I wouldn't have a chance to actually do anything without him constantly swiping at the yarn.

Well he's 3 1/2 years old now, and I picked it up again in December during our two week holiday break from work. So far Munchkin has been good and not gotten in the way of my working on it. I'll post an update, and hopefully a finished project by the end of the year.