Would you look at that!

 I blinked, and suddenly we're in 2026. Well in, in fact. The Twilight Zone that is the days between Christmas and New Year were over before I knew it. The Summer holidays were a blur of sleeping late if the warm weather allowed, stressing over the fires that were ravaging the country and trying to survive as the savings dwindled and work had not yet resumed.  My vegetable garden got a makeover and many of the seedlings went in late. Because of this, it's April and I'm picking the last of the tomatoes.  We had a great feed of zucchini and cucumber, which are the perfect Summer staples.  The garden is now due for a big cleanup of the fading plants, ready for Autumn/Winter plants.

The freshly planted vegetable garden.

I usually have a holiday craft project that I like to focus on, but that didn't happen this year.  I still haven't finished the one I started last year. It's sitting unloved on the frame, with the urge to pick it up again non-existent. Each time I think I'll get back to it, I remember the neck pain and tingling hands from working on it. One day when I have nothing to do, it might call to me again.
I have so many unfinished projects and it's getting to the point where it's holding me back.

I've picked up the beads again, something I do at least once a year. Usually, it's because I'm making something for myself for an event. That lead me to making a whole bunch of beads and pendants out of Sculpey, as I was missing beads in certain colours that I wanted, and discovered that it was easier to make them myself that it was to find them in op-shops.  I have quite the selection of colourful, patterned beads now.  The hard part that comes next is deciding how to string the selected beads.

A box of Sculpey beads, ready to be made into necklaces.

I've got a couple of other projects that are taking up space in my head right now, but motivation is low. The fact that we are in the midst of a fuel crisis thanks to the Orange Shitgibbon AKA The President of the U.S, starting a war in the Middle East, as well as the ongoing genocide in Gaza by Israel, and a general sense of regression in this country, well, it's all adding up to kill my creative vibe.