Getting back in the groove

I was pleased to get moving on creative projects again last week, but I wasn’t certain about maintaining that momentum.

After work on Monday, I spent the night at my son’s Scout meeting, and then the bulk of Tuesday was spent on Independence Day activities with his unit as well.
I managed to put in some time in the kite room on each of the rest of the weekday evenings, putting along on the new grab bag. I was tickled with the way a couple of the kites turned out, especially this Koala shield.

2.5 inch miniature shield kite from cocktail napkin mounted on easel card

After wrapping up that package on Saturday, I returned to a birthday themed napkin that I’ve posted about before. Earlier in the week, I had noticed in passing that there was a small part of the graphic that I hadn’t noticed before. It pleased me that I would get to use a little more of this material, but irritated me that I had already tossed what I had considered scraps at the time. I won’t get to make a package with them, but they will make a fun on to include in future grab bags.

Also on Saturday, I was a bit surprised to realize that I needed to liberate more sparring from the whisk broom that it was sold as. Here are a couple pictures of the remnants of the broom, and a bundle of the bristles. I was also pleased to take a little time from the creative work to tidy up the kite room and make it a bit of a better work space.

Sunday started out with me writing up this review of the week, and if I have any energy left after some chores, I’ll return to cut out some more kites.

I’m glad to have maintained some momentum this week, but I’m starting to get concerned over lack of sales. I know that it is summer and many of my kiting friends are busy at festivals hither & yon, but I need to work on grabbing some attention and getting these out the door so that I have better justification for the time and space.