Inspiration...All Over The Place!

    Isn't it cute?! This is one of the tags that I won as a free gift along with my subscription to Country Living magazine! "Inspire" is accompanied by a little butterfly and some flowers. Inspiration should be accompanied by butterflies and flowers I think! :-)
   I've been trying to get some inspiration to do something...after that UN-inspiring hat I showed you yesterday!...Don't get me wrong, I'm still crocheting just the same, but I'm finding it hard to get direction for exactly what I should be doing next...besides napping I mean! ^_^

                                        {theboldbanana shop on Etsy}
   I should be making more Hide Away Slipper Necklaces, Another Black and White Scarf, some crocheted Owl button necklaces {like the one on the gloves in my shop}, and some more floppy hats. But I'm not in the mood to do any of that! Instead I spent all day yesterday fooling around with the pattern for some crochet slippers that I want to put in the shop...something NEW! UGH! I have such a hard time going back to do more of what I just got through doing!....I need inspiration to move forward!
    I DID list a little Owl brooch yesterday...

      ...but it's one I had finished a while back and just hadn't listed it. I need inspiration to do more of that too...the listing I mean. I've got SO MANY scarves, brooches, necklaces, etc. that are just sitting here in the house, nicely packaged, but not listed online so anybody could see and buy them!! :-)) Crazy!!...But Hey! The toe part of my little gray slippers are done!!

    ....and it only took me all day!! ^_^  {It's one of those patterns with a diagram instead of words. UGH! You know I'm much better with WORDS!!}............Moving on.
    I complain about inspiration as though I'm some hard-working great artist or concert pianist. ^_^ I'm not. I'm just an old lady with a pen, a crochet hook, and too much time on her hands...to think!! ^_^
   My hubby is the hard-working one in our family! And he doesn't even have a bunch of hungry mouths to feed! Just me!

                                            {From the We Blog Artists blog}
    He says I inspire him to work hard. Hmmmm....did he mean that as a complement?! That's how Im going to take it!! ^_^ And I'm going to work hard today too, to get some inspiration to do.....SOMETHING! It won't be inspiration to cook.....

    ....where would I put it?! YIKES!!

        The cooking thing is starting to get out of hand in here!! {Do your refrigerators look like this?! :-0}
    Back to the choice of what to crochet....after I finish my slippers I mean {which at this rate could be next....

    ...or when I have a....

    ....Ha! Ha! Ha! I had to show you the other two free tags I got SOME how!! ^_^ Thanks Velma (SnowflakeDreams1)}
   I know this post is all over the place today. I can't help it. That's how I'm feeling. Maybe I'll be better after I get a cup of coffee...yes! I said a cup of coffee, not tea today!...and some breakfast. We'll see...Who knows, maybe by tomorrow I can show you these FRUSTRATING to make slippers all done! And then maybe too, I'll have it all figured out as to what will be next!.......I wouldn't count on that last part. ^_^

Decisions, Decisions

What should I do?
Don't know if I should go.
What should I wear?
I don't know, I don't know!

What should I say?
Don't need another foe.
Should I tell the truth?
I don't know, I don't know!

Who should I be?
My peppy self or keep it low?
But can they handle it?
I don't know, I don't know!

Decisions, decisions.
Coming at you every day.
You will be just fine!
Come what may, come what may!
{P.S. Guess what?....It just started snowing!}

My Wuglyee Dilemma

     I've got so much to tell you over the coming week! There's really been a lot going on with me over the last couple of days!! Just keep your eye on my blog to find out. But for now...HELP!!!
   The scarf in the header picture is my Half A Peacock Scarf that's in my Etsy shop right now. It is one of my 'Wuglyee' scarves. In other words, it was made out of yarns and thread that I had leftover from other projects. And therein lies my dilemma. I got a request for a custom order to make a scarf like this one below...

    This is my Hot Pink and Black Stripe and Block Scarf (also in my Etsy shop right now by the way). The customer would like this scarf, without the blocks at the bottom, but with the stripes going all the way down...No problem! They'd like the black stripe to remain...Again, No problem! But they'd like the green part of this scarf...

    ...to be the color that goes alongside the black......PROBLEM!!! Do you see the actually color of this green conglomerate?!

    Well, there is no such yarn! I made it up by crocheting a lot of different yarns and threads together. I don't have any of the threads anymore, nor do I remember which ones they were! And if I COULD remember, I'm not sure I'd be able to get them from somewhere again! This scarf is, in every sense of the word, a ONE OF A KIND!  It has different shades of blue, yellow, different shades of green, some burnt red, etc... That's why I called it Half A Peacock, because he had all of these colors but when they were put all together they looked like a peacock's plumage.
    Thankfully my customer is a fabulous lady who has agreed to work with me to find the color that she likes. I really want to make this "baby" pretty for her too. It's going to be traveling out of the country to a very beautiful place. It has to "represent"! LOL We can't have such a beautiful lady, and such a beautiful place, get all 'Wuglyeed Up', in a bad way, with a scarf that doesn't do it justice!!
    So please help. She says she likes a warm apple green color. I couldn't find ANYTHING that I thought fit the bill, not in my stash or in the local Michael's (where I find most of my yarns and threads). {I'm going to be checking JoAnn's later today. They usually have what I'm looking for if I can't find it in other stores. And I love how they always have new things too....But that's neither here nor there (or 'a horse of a different color', as my grandmother used to say LOL).}
   In the meantime, these are what I have around here. What do you think of these?!

    This one is called "Razzle Dazzle". Is it razzling and dazzling you?!

    Or how about "Luxury Ombre"?! Is it luxurious enough?

    The green in this one is more of a turquoise shade though, not warm apple green...

    ...but I could add some other colored threads to it, like this!

        That would make the green more of a dominant color. But I don't know. :-/
Lastly, I have this...

    It's called "Clover Colors". There's all kinds of colors in this one!

   And I have this thread that I could pair with it too.

    But that would make more of the blue stand out...Do you see my dilemma?! That's why I could use some of your expertise. I know what a creative and wonderful group of followers I have! So, What do you think?! I'd love to hear.
    And I suppose I should get my customer to come over to my blog to take a look too, since she's the one that's going to be wearing it. Yeah,  I guess that would be a good idea! ^_^ ... I'd still like to know what you readers think though, because, as you know, whatever yarn or thread is leftover will be my next 'Wuglyee' scarf!!

Decisions, Decisions

What should I do?
Don't know if I should go.
What should I wear?
I don't know, I don't know!

What should I say?
Don't need another foe.
Should I tell the truth?
I don't know, I don't know!

Who should I be?
My peppy self or keep it low?
But can they handle it?
I don't know, I don't know!

Decisions, decisions.
Coming at you every day.
You will be just fine!
Come what may, come what may!