To Do List and Stubbornness Versus Illness

[shazrasha]

There is nothing that makes me more aggravated than having a long list of things to do and suddenly falling ill. Getting hit by an inner ear infection only two weeks from my deadlines took 5 days of crafting time from me.

I'm nothing if not stubborn and focused when on short deadlines however. That and I seem to have an insanely high hit rate for things I make up as I go along.

Leather Pile
Originally uploaded by shazrasha

My favourite¹ new craft that I had to work on was a leather bag. On starting the project all I had was the pile of stuff displayed in the picture above.

With a bit of ingenuity and thought I finally worked out how to make the entire bag out of just one piece of leather and nothing else. All right maybe a small bit of wood for the fastening. Everything else came from the one piece of leather.

Leather Bag
Originally uploaded by shazrasha

If you click on the image it will take you to my photographic step by step piecing together of the bag.

So now my illness has finally gone in time to relax a little before the weekend of crewing. Then it's right back to a new set of deadlines.




¹ Ok so everything else share second place. I kind of seem to be coveting everything I've made recently...