I played with them this morning, thinking about Deb's comment, "There is a sense of seasons". It happened rather quickly. Each of them seemed to fall into place with a feel of a certain time of year. A visual calendar, at least to me. Thanks for the idea, Deb!
Something else that I've learned about myself lately... After finishing a project I seem to just run out of stitching steam. I wander around, sometimes carrying cloth and thread (in case the urge to make happens), but usually it's a nothing day. Often it feels wasted, which leads to guilt, which leads to glum.
This time I saw it coming. When the trees were finished I made a list of doable-things-to-do and none of them were stitching. Yesterday was spent ticking them off. Pencils were sharpened, the piles of cloth all over my table were sorted, threads gathered and put back into their places, emails were returned (emails that had been written and thought sent, were actually sent), the missing eye glasses were found (under the cloth), a book was read, etc. Nothing terribly exciting or productive, but everything that was expected to happen did. I'm calling it a win!
New to me bird sounds woke me up this morning- two birds in a call and response conversation, high and low songs, and then there was an old familiar calling from the sea...
(PS. The tree tokens will be in the shop this Friday, April 16th, 9 am Pacific Standard Time.)
