Okay, so I spend too much time looking at lolcats, but I'm still struggling with the issue of focus. I love the jewelry I've been knotting and have way more designs floating in my head and on paper than I can complete in a year or 7, but there's so much more I want to do.

Like playing with fabric, and fabric and beads, and fabric, beads and ribbon. And digital work, playing with brushes and filters and my photographs. OH and I have more photographs to take for my cemetary documentation project and LOOK! something shiny!

*bangs head on desk*

If it were that I only had one passion it would be so easy to focus, but that seems to be my challenge. Last night, I had occasion to present one of my necklaces to my friend Aubrey. Just a little background...she's the daughter of some of my oldest and dearest friends on the planet and she's just turned 25. She's a wetlands biologist (which means she's in her element chasing, catching and photographing reptiles) and has recently discovered that she likes being girly...sometimes. I took it upon myself to make sure that she's properly attired whilst being girlie, so I made her a sunstone and pearl necklace. She opened the box, her eyes got wide and she ooh'd and ahh'd over it. Then she asked where I got it and seemed surprised when I told her that I made it.

It seems that she wasn't surprised that I made it, but that I could do this *too*. Her question was..."What can't you do?" My response...I don't know. There has yet to be anything that I've tried my hand at that I haven't whooped in some way shape or form. That, in itself is a problem. I love the challenge of learning something new.

Ah well...Time to go look at more shiny things...