{"id":85,"date":"2008-02-16T21:16:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T02:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinthealong.com\/2008\/02\/16\/not-a-wrap-yet\/"},"modified":"2008-02-16T21:16:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T02:16:49","slug":"not-a-wrap-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"not a wrap . . . yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>having a bit of a blueblah day here. left my sewing machine, fabrics, threads, and other creative fiber paraphernalia at j&#8217;underneath. was only going to be here for 2 busy, filled nights, so no need to haul it home.<\/p>\n<p>then the plans changed, and we stayed.<\/p>\n<p>had a rather lazy day today. phoebe (our corgi child) woke up with a bloody bald spot on the right side of her face, so we put her on benedryl and have been applying warm compresses, neosporin, and powder every hour or so.<\/p>\n<p>spent a good portion of yesterday blog browsing, finding myself in the personal development arena. found all these programs that promise to teach you how to create the life of your dreams. that appealed to my accomplishment-oriented self, but i successfully reminded myself that what i want now is to putter creatively without being driven to check things off my daily list. i want to scratch my creative itch.<\/p>\n<p>then today i browsed fiber blogs, and fought the stinking little voice that asked what on earth i thought i had to offer that is unique and artistic and thought-provoking, but i successfully &#8211; okay, truth be known: i&#8217;m still working on it &#8211; reminded myself that this is not and will never be a competition. and anything i create will be unique to me, and that. is. enough.<\/p>\n<p>since i often think better quality thoughts when my hands are in motion and because my current barely-started creative projects are in north carolina, i pulled out my thread project jar. it&#8217;s just a little something i do when i need to slow myself down: covering a canning jar with thread. i have visions of coating it with that stiffy stuff when the spool is empty, then breaking the jar, leaving me with a, well, if all goes according to plan, a thread-covered vessel.<\/p>\n<p>that stinging, sniping, sabotaging voice is telling me i should say for the record that i know it&#8217;s of no practical use, this project of mine, and that i know that it&#8217;s a silly thing to be doing in the first place, but you know what &#8211; i think i&#8217;ll just show you a picture then get back to wrapping.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/threadjar.jpg\" alt=\"ThreadJar.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"588\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>having a bit of a blueblah day here. left my sewing machine, fabrics, threads, and other creative fiber paraphernalia at j&#8217;underneath. was only going to be here for 2 busy, filled nights, so no need to haul it home. then the plans changed, and we stayed. had a rather lazy day today. phoebe (our corgi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autoquiltography.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}