Reliquary Arts: Corrupting the Common Craft: IT'S BEEN WAY TOO LONG!

Sunday, May 25, 2008

IT'S BEEN WAY TOO LONG!

I can’t believe that it has been so long since my last post but I swear to the craft goddess that it hasn’t been pure laziness! In fact the last month or so has been filled with more physical labor than I may have done in my entire life! Okay, I exaggerate for effect. The fact is my husband and I bought the house of our dreams and moved in almost entirely by ourselves. Silly of us not to ask for help, but we were oh so sure we could do it all without bothering our friends and family to do us such a heinous favor. After all we didn’t have THAT much stuff, right? I hope someone found our overconfidence amusing because we sure didn’t. We also didn’t realize that moving furniture is only half the story when buying a new home. The place was a mess and much cleaning, handiwork and yard work was required. The staff at our local hardware store practically knows us by name now, and we may have single handedly kept them in business for the next year.

Yes, yes, I know this doesn’t have much to do with a blog on crafting, but it’s my excuse for being absent for so long… That is why I have so little to report on the crafting front.

I have been sporadically working on a gorgeous top from Interweave Press’ Spring 2008 issue in what meager spare minutes I can find. Unfortunately this lovely Mandarin-style top (which is very cleverly worked from the top down) barely clears my bust so far and the darned thing is supposed to be more of a tunic length. Therefore you will probably not be seeing pictures of it on this blog in the near future. I’m aiming for sometime before the next millennium… if things go well.

What I CAN share today is the kitschy little invites I threw together for a housewarming BBQ my husband and I are planning. These invites were based on a work of Lichtenstein’s that I copied and reworked to make the characters look more like my husband and I. The likeness is in no way exact, but even if our guests don’t quite get the reference I’m sure they’ll get the intent!