helter skelter

We are still incredibly busy at work with no real lull on the horizon.  This is only my second year, so it's tough to tell at this point how long it takes to claw our way out of the end-of-year awards.  It's good to be busy, but we still haven't melded as a team, my crew hasn't had proper training, and survival mode has the shop looking a bit helter skelter.  At one point Nini was setting aside some food packaging from her lunch and asked if I was a fan of beautiful food packaging.  Robert who happened to be there, asked me, "does she know you're an artist?"  Nope!  We only really know the basics about each other at this point - I'm the only one who likes coffee, Chris has two super busy teens, Nini is a new homeowner and thinks opossums are adorable.  That's about it. 😂

Add three mornings of PT and still not being able to drive to the mix, and it's been bananas.  I had to ask my poor mother-in-law to run and grab some last minute awards at one of the warehouses in town!  She saved the day!

I'm hoping that I can drive soon.  I've been doing over a hundred heel raises a day thanks to my stand-up desk at work, but it's been a tough go getting my ankle to flex again.  This means I still can't press the pedals down in the car, let alone panic stop.  But soon! 

I don't have a lot of free time at the moment, but thanks to being finished with my degree, I can give what I do have back to my art.  I've been tucking into it with the ferocity of of a thunderstorm.  A few things look like they need to be scraped and sanded back down.  Too much enthusiasm too fast equals disaster for me.

Thankfully there's still sewing, which cannot be done thunderstorm style.  I don't have any progress pictures of this piece, because it went by fast all the way until the end, and then it turned into the devil.  It took about six tries to balance the heaviness of the darker blues.  I actually mapped this one out, but it still surprised me!