Pushing through the Grunt Work

Some weeks I feel like I work hard, but have little to show for my efforts. This week was one such seemingly thankless week.

I spent two evenings this week ironing piles of ribbon like the one pictured above. On those same evenings, I also made kanzashi flowers from some of those ribbons. I considered this ‘my treat’ for the tedious ironing chore. After all that ironing, I’m still not even half way through all the ribbons in the laundry basket. Sigh.

I also spent two evenings cutting cardboard. I have been cutting the same size pieces of cardboard here-and-there for months for a project that may or may not work. I have just about enough cut pieces to move on to the next stage of my vision. I pray this experiment doesn’t turn into a disaster of which I refuse to speak of in the future. Sigh.

I spent one evening testing friendship bracelet weaving techniques that both worked with plastic shopping bags and seemed easy enough to for children to do at the Ferguson Farmers’ Market during my scheduled demonstration Saturday morning. Then the following evening I prepped cardboard frames required for said technique that I could hand out during said demo. Yes. I was cutting cardboard again. Sigh.

The demo seemed go well and a colleague of mine seemed impressed enough that she said planned to teach the same project at a summer art camp in the coming week. That’s something right? Well, it’s definitely better than ribbon ironing or cardboard cutting.

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