Lately...

It seems my mind's been going every which way, to and fro, back and forth, up and down...backwards. I'm so very scattered and sleepless. I notice it in my posts, and the posts I think about writing (mostly these). They totally contradict each other and I find it rather discouraging and mildly amusing. I'm so indecisive. I spent a nice 7 or 8 minutes this afternoon (at least I think it was the afternoon) on the phone with sweet Jenny. I was telling her how I feel like I've been in a funk lately.
She understood.

Here's the baptismal gown I've been working on for the Silversmiths sweet (and handsome) little boy. I had started on it a few weeks ago, made a horrible mistake (I accidentally cut it in half yesterday thinking it was something else...I have no idea how), and then remade a total new one this morning. I was able to salvage the trim, which was super special, and had a large enough remnant that I was able to just make a whole new one. Thank God!


I opted out of an iron on cross for this pretty one. I don't have much experience with embroidery but love the idea of learning how to do it really, really well. Hopefully they won't mind an imperfection here and there. I do think the hand stitching goes well with the trim though. I really love how it turned out. It's so "silversmith"...I think they're gonna love it...as long as it fits their baby.
I think a majority of my scateredness stems from the overwhelming pile of school books sitting just to the right of me. Don't get me wrong, I'm very excited. Some of the books are just so thick and it's a little intimidating. I haven't actually opened any of them yet. I'm pretty well covered in the "freaked-out/worried" department so I think I'll save looking through them for September.

Hope you have a great weekend!