My Spring Break Break officially started on Friday,  but the  University I work at is in turmoil, the administration wants to cut 20-30 Faculty positions from my College. That’s a lotta jobs for a faculty that is ~ 170 people. The faculty are rising admirably to action, but I so fear that it is too late, the decision to cut has been made, they’re just waiting to see how many senior faculty take a golden handshake and retire to figure out how many other people to cut. Although as a Sr. lecturer with a 6 year contract, (I’m one of like 3 on campus, so our fate is rather murky…) hubby and I are pretty darn sure that my position is safe, there’s so much misery around it causes me to doubt that, and in general just become an empathy sponge. Top that off with the guilt that I’m relatively relieved that I don’t have to worry, and that I’m starting to view every one through the lens of whether or not they’re on the chopping block – and I’ve been an emotional wreck these past 5 days.

I’m going to try really hard to stay busy when I don’t have emergency meetings to attend, so I hope I get a lot accomplished. I’ve been extremely unfocussed, I’m so afraid that my true  creative juices are gone astray. I’ve been planning to do some more 3-d work over this week in preparation for a juried show whose take in is 7 days away, I’m so worried that this won’t happen. I’ve got a small show a week from today that I need more scarves and going green bags for, that HAS to happen. But I needed to organize something, it somehow makes me feel more in control, so while monitoring this amazing set of communication between faculty over a list serve, I switched around how I store my hardware and paper. Before I used to store all my hardware in the little ikea drawers, and that big drawer in the printer held all the different papers & labels I use.

I’ve now switched them, using only drawers and boxes I had hanging around, and I like this much better:

I got a “bee in my bonnet” about organizing my walls, so I did spend some time on a couple of “Pocketin Boards” AND I’m about halfway thru with a tute for those!  Here’s how I did on my February Goals (note! not only are my taxes done, but my refund is IN the BANK!):

So, here’s what I’ve got to try to accomplish this month, as far as Candied Fabrics is concerned:

Here’s hoping I can get most of this done. Equally important though is supporting my colleagues and students and husband through this incredibly stressful time.

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Well, I’m halfway through the month and I’m making decent progress through my goals. I’ve made some changes to my list:

1. I quickly made a custom clutch for a customer whose needed a quick birthday present.
2. Even though I had taken it off my list, as it had languished there for months, I put a baby quilt that I’d promised this summer to my sister-in-law back on the list. I recognized the symptom of that nagging feeling getting in the way of anything creative and realized that it would be better to just “Git ‘er DONE!” Lo and behold, I worked on it most of Sunday and it’s almost done.
3. I’ve worked through my Schedule C info, and hope to sit down with hubby and Turbo Tax and get our taxes done soon. Even though I’d purchased a special inventory tracking excel spreadsheet that I wanted to start using, I realized that the system I’ve got now is working well enough, remembered my word for the year: “Simplify”, and decided that I didn’t need to set this up – so it’s officially OFF the list! Yahoo!
4. Oh, I got my head wrapped around something I’ve been mulling over for awhile: designing headers for the beginning of “special topic” posts with this “Inspiration” header I designed, what do you think? Should I do this for other topics?

The Monthly Goal Meetup happens every month over at Athena Dreams. Come check it out!

Well, I sure have been busy this month! I made some art, completing 2 commission quilts this month. I did a lot in the name of networking/publicity, sending off 2 magazine article proposals, finished up my studio submission, sent off 2 interviews (one published here and the other one I sent out an hour ago!), plus I put together a list of Moms PLUS bloggers to watch that got some attention from some Problogger readers. I got some dyeing done, for some overdue prizes, as well as a scarf I donated for Craft Hope Haiti. JUST under the wire, I finally got a bag made for my Christmas present laptop (pix tomorrow).

I’ve got a lot to do this month too. I’m gonna have to push some things off the list because I KNOW they aren’t getting done this month, and perhaps this will reduce my stress! Oh and don’t forget the day job!

The Monthly Goal Meetup happens every month over at Athena Dreams. Come check it out!

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