Escape

The last couple of days I have needed an escape from all the stress in my house. Between trying to find a house in California, securing financing, dealing with my son's increasing meltdowns, pre-teen drama, my 3 and 1 year olds (who we have affectionately nick named the Tornado Twins) and wading through the mess I call my marriage, I needed to escape for a little while.  Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of leaving the kids with a sitter and spending the day shopping or at the mall so I had to resort to the only form of escape that is open to me.  My craft table. Mind you, there is not some magically force field surrounding my craft area that keeps all my children and problems from attacking me while I am seated there, but it does get me one floor above them where it takes them a little longer to track me down and the yelling and screaming isn't as loud.  So, over the past couple of days I have stolen every available moment to sit down and work on my latest project. Big surprise, it's another felt book. I decided last week that I would list my books on my Etsy store, but since I have to charge so much to make it worth wild I decided that I would whip up a smaller version that I could list at a lower price. This is what I came up with.

As you can see it's just a simple book naming the colors with a corresponding animal.  It's smaller than the others I've done (it's only 8" x 8"), there are less pages and the pages aren't as detailed, but I think it turned out pretty darn cute.  My favorite is the Fish, you can't quite see all the details on him but he was pretty fun to put together.

Now that that project is done and listed on my store it's time to decide what to do next.  I am thinking and ABC book or trying my hand at creating a felt doll.  We'll see how it goes.