I’ve, Got, The, Craft, Bluuuues.

I think I am in a craft funk. The funk started after a self-imposed ban on new projects and it just spiraled out of control from there. It doesn’t help that I have been unsuccessfully looking for a job. There is nothing that makes you want to craft less than a few career disappointments. Some of the jobs I have been turned down for are rather embarrassing given my education (I have a law degree and was turned down for a paralegal position…). Eventually I found a job with an non-profit organization that I absolutely love and was thisclose to getting the job only to find out, minutes before Shabbat started, that I didn’t get it. That really sucked my enjoyment out of Shabbat. I got a job! Woot!

Also, my parents are out of town right now and I am watching my 17 year old brother. He doesn’t need that much supervision, but he has so many activities going on right now (high school soccer team practice, summer job interviews, soccer camp at Annapolis, dates with his girlfriend, doctor appointments…) that it is almost a part-time job just keeping track of his location and making sure he is home by his curfew.

So, I just don’t feel like doing anything creative. And, it goes without saying that when you are unemployed, you can’t fix the craft blues with a trip to the yarn shop. Besides, I have some stuff I have never even opened: a cool Fern leaf stamp and funky green ink pad; a bunch of itty-bitty flowers; ribbon. Maybe I will take all that stuff out tomorrow and force myself to do something. Maybe a little rebellion against the new project ban will snap me out of my funk.

After I write a billion new cover letters, of course.