when i go stir-crazy...

i walk around until i pick up something, work on it, put it back down, come back to it when i have that same stir-crazy feeling.  I've obviously been feeling this way since after I peruse the daily job announcement sites I find myself with a whole day of what could be boredom or possibilities.  It drives me crazy sometimes.  Sometimes it's good because I clean.  I have the recent desire to clean out my parents fridge, but I have to wait until trash day so that the food won't stink up the garbage...hopefully the feeling will last till tonight when i grab the giant trash bag and start tossing.  

With my love for crafting, you'd think that I'd be on that sewing maching all day long, but I'm in great need of motivation.  In my mind it sounds ideal.  But it is good I've realized this because now I know I should not turn to crafting for a career for two reasons:  motivation comes and goes, and I've enjoyed so much thinking of the recipients of my crafts while I'm working on their project.  

So that brings me to this recent come-and-go project, the Apple-Picking Tote, a free pattern from the ultra-fabulous purlbee blog.  I finished it this morning, realizing if I just put another 10 minutes in the last time I worked on it, it would be finished a few days earlier.  But, here it is:

I was happy to put to good use the red linen that I purchased from IKEA and the Sashiko fabric for the handles that Kalin's mom gave to me back in August.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out.  Shyloh even liked when it was plumped up with bagels and bread for a picture.

I finished a few projects a week ago to ship up to Darcy and Liz in Seattle.  I figured they'd enjoy this crazy Sublime Stitching pattern for some dish cloths.  I mean, who doesn't love a hybrid russian doll/robot?
Darcy, who has been knitting up a storm while she had been unemployed, was looking for a tool roll for all her needles.  This is another pattern from Lotta Jansdotter's "Simple Sewing" book.  I also made the tote from the book for Liz.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the background gothic rose fabric from Amy Butler.  I'm happy that I was able to use it here.

Here's a look at my crafting space.  Being that this purple-felted pool table often serves as a multi-use table, I'll have to eventually move my stuff elsewhere when guest arrive and would actually want to play pool.
Ok.  I know I can't go total stir-crazy because I have a pretty hefty handmade project that I'll probably be working on until Christmas.  I'll post it's pictures after it's officially gifted....

BUT, although I am waiting on the edge of my seat to see if one (or both) of the two jobs I've interviewed for lately actually call me back, I know in retrospect I'm going to envy all this time I have had to work on projects whenever I wanted.  But a job would be nice too...