Peppermint Poppies and a Holiday Meltdown

At 10:43 pm last night, I was seconds away from complete mental breakdown.  So close to finishing up my packaging  for the  season, and everything was going wrong.  There  were three separate landslides: a fabric avalanche, a shipping box avalanche, and I accidentally tipped over a miniature container and 144 plastic pumpkins went flying through the air (almost as if it were snowing.  Snowing point-ended cupcake toppers, that is.)  I had just finished the last strawberry scented sachet set, and the whole house smelled like the eraser section at Sanrio.  (Which may sound fun at first, but after a while, that  candy-strawberry smell makes me just really nauseous.)   It was not a pretty sight, people.  I did the only thing I could think of:  I stopped everything I was doing and made cupcake liner flowers, from the how-to by Miss Martha.  I didn't have a reason, or a purpose for making them.  It only took 15 minutes, but somehow it grounded me.  I was able to relax, regroup and return to my work.   I was saved from crafting....by crafting.  You figure that one out.      

Comments

[Jeannine]

Hee hee ... being saved from crafting by crafting is kind of like the old wives cure for hangovers which recommends having "a hair of the dog that bit you".

Crafting is the dog that bit ya!

:)

[Cassie]

very cute!

[kari and kijsa]

LOL- loved this- now we know what to do in our moments of crafting chaos- switch gears and craft some more- makes complete sense to us! Love the flowers-great inspiration!

blessings,
kari & kijsa

[Carrie]

hahahahaaa!!!! I've dumped over entire 8oz bottles of soap scent... I still hate lilac and refuse to make anything lilac scented ever again because of it ;) Also... I have a rule... if I'm tired and running around, if I break something that's worth over $10.00, it's time to stop :) That's how I've kept all 10 fingers. Martha is a grounding agent... I agree!!! Here's to beads in the sofa for all of eternity, enchanting smells that linger and crafting until dawn with Martha as the bookend ;)

[julia]

i've definitely found that sometimes working on a different project (even if it's only for 15 minutes) can get me re-fueled to go back to what i need to finish.

[Jennifer]

There does seem to be some weird law-of-things-gone-wrong at work in the universe -- it is hardly ever just ONE thing that goes south, but so often it's a slew. Kudos to you for pulling through, and it makes perfect sense to me that a little craft project that worked was the perfect antidote! A very merry to you and yours ;-)