For some weird reason I've got the sudden urge to do crafty things. I am an artsy sort of person but it seems to come and go. Lately, it's been coming on again after a pretty long dry spell. I think that part of the reason I started this blog was just to create something, to get some of that creative energy out of my system before I went to Hobby Lobby or Michael's and spent exorbitant amounts of money on craft supplies.

Unfortunately, it would appear that this is not enough to stave off my creativeness and I fear that a trip to Hobby Lobby is inevitable. I just need to make sure I don't go crazy in there. It's just so hard though when I'm in a creative frame of mind. I want to buy every medium they have hanging around in that store. I can't paint worth anything but I get this overwhelming need to purchase paint when I pass that isle. Or I simply must have those oil pastels even though I'm equally as terrible at using them as I am paint.

I have also had this urge to make quilts. My grandmother used to make quilts. Tons and tons of quilts. They were everywhere in her house and all of our houses as well. She loved to give them away at church and to friends and family members. Mind you, some of these quilts could have sold for several hundred dollars but she just loved making them and they would have overwhelmed her house if she hadn't gotten rid of some. The hall closet at my parents house is full of them. And now for some reason I want to take up quilting as well. She seemed to enjoy it.

I have a ton of free time as well as insomnia. Quilting seems like something that would take up a lot of that free time. But I'm trying to resist the urge to go out and buy tons of fabric and a sewing machine with quilting capabilities. You see, they have them on overstock.com for very cheap and it's just so tempting. But I'd hate to spend all that money on something and realize that I just don't have the patience to quilt. Or the space at the moment.

Our house is crowded. Perhaps that's another thing fueling my creative streak. I want to have something that's just mine again. I have no time that's completely my own. I always have to take into account that so-and-so is at home sleeping right now and I have to be quiet. Plus there's just this knowledge that someone else is in the house with you, asleep in their own room or not, you just know you aren't alone. It's become rather oppressive considering that even if DBF and his friend are at work DBF's sister is here and her schedule is opposite of everyone else, so even my nights that were previously filled with TV or cooking or rearranging things, is now full of consideration for the fact that she has to get up and go to work the next day. Not that she has this same amount of consideration for me, but still.

I'm looking at the clock and the first thing I think of is, "well Hobby Lobby is open now." I think I can keep myself from spending tons of money on things I don't need. But there are a few things I do really need to finish a project that's been waiting on glue that I won't be able to find anywhere but a craft store. I think I really am going to have to venture into craft heaven and do my best to come out with money still in my account and only the things I need. We'll see how long I stay in there looking around at all the things I don't need, though.