the approach

my birthday is coming.
it's a "nine"
which is right on par with the "fives" for bad birthdays.
unlike most of the rest of the world, i embrace the decades, as they have always felt, to me, like a fresh start on a new chapter.

i came across this song in my iTunes and it made me smile. i think i have the lyrics right.
it's taking myself too seriously, of course, but isn't that what approaching birthdays are for?

The Darkest Star

oh you sad one
playing the angel
isn't so easy where you're from

oh you wild one
devil's companion
you won't stay satisfied for long

i don't want you to change anything you do
i don't want you to be someone else for me

oh you dark one
eternal and silent
caught in the spider's web you've spun

oh you blind one
gentle and kind one
seeing the world as a loaded gun

i don't want you to change anything you do
i don't want you to be someone else for me

stay as you are
the darkest star
shining for me
majestically

~ depeche mode

bizzy bee

getting a lot done
none of it for halloween
swimming in a sea of crafts
swapping like a madwoman

my current project is another for my little girl
a scarf first
then i teach myself to crochet so i can make her a hat

in between i'll be making some halloween stuff for swapping
and some for home too -
i'm trying to promise myself that i'll spend NO more time swapping
than I spend on things for family and friends... and maybe me too - since i'm doing it.

in the meantime i try to work in work
and maybe some cleaning on the homefront
the laundry is still a monstrosity in three bins - no crap.

i guess there's only room for one breed of domesticity in my life at a time.
for now it's the crafty martha kind - that keeps my hands busy and my house a wreck.

bzzzzzzz...

further evidence

of my resurging craftiness

lest you think the apple falls far from the tree, this is the baby's work

(i'm trying to figure out how to immortalize it in fabric)

and as a final aside. my space bar squeaks when I tap it. i really enjoy the somewhat soft clickiness of typing quickly and hearing my keystrokes as i move along the page, but there's something eerie and unnerving about a slight squeak between every word...

that said...