This time of year please!!!!!!!

I don't know about everyone else but when you are bound by the TNNA trade shows, that frankly come at the most inconvenient time of year...when your life outside the studio , is making so many demands on your time....it is the middle of November and frankly I haven't even given the holidays a thought....this January's TNNA show is a big deal this year because the Squiggee line will be there..the line is my pet...my baby...it lets me express the side of me that is happy and believes that the world is a wonderful place to live... the enjoyment out of seeing how well received Squiggee has been the last six months makes me oh so hopeful....let's face it..it is now or never for me to make all of what I have worked for these last 36 years really come together...I turned 59 this July and for the first time I realized that time is ticking away , and I don't have all the time that I had when I first started out....No grand kids to spoil, because I had to have children first..funny how there is always a catch.....a large part of my life has been devoted to honing my craft and becoming a really accomplished needlepoint artist....I am precisely that....so now is the time to have it all come together...granted this wasn't my life plan when I started out, but things just take on a life of their own...somehow, I ended up in this business, and there is no going back for a redo...
the trade has changed 180 degrees from when I first started.......I have always tried to be true to my craft and take no shortcuts...
no computer generated designs...I create the same way I have since I first started so long ago...
every stitch is painted with the thought that , one stitch one color...when you sit to work one of my designs...your only problem is what colors or stitches you will decide on, to make it yours, but never do you have to wonder where to stitch ...the lines are clear.....I know that I am a purest in this regard, totally unbending....but that is just tough...if you want to spend hours deciding where to stitch...then clearly my canvases are not enough of a mystery....or a challenge...my question ?..if you want to work a canvas that is clearly just painted..than do it yourself.....think of the money you could save...
...I didn't spend the first years of my needlepoint training, painlessly painting each stitch.....learning to think of an image in pixels...lol...also worrying that at such a young age that I was going blind.....to give up and just do a more or less job....I take great pride in keeping my craft pure......now if I could change something I would change how the holidays get pushed aside because I am so involved in getting ready for Jan.....
I have good holidays...only if I am supper organized and have everything done by Sept 1...all done and sorted...I am afraid that this Christmas is the opposite...so far I have missed Halloween...it came and went before I could even decorate my little scary tree...Thanksgiving is coming and I am so behind in my work, because I have had so much to get ready for the big trade show...that now with all that in place, I have to catch up on all I have pushed aside....and for the first time in 30 years I haven't even decided what the dogs will be( in costume) for our Christmas card...........
I even have a personal assistant NOW..but still I have big holiday issues....no plan no list...
there is a coupon for a free Turkey on dinning room table , from the local market...I guess that is a start, but frankly I am not sure what day Thanksgiving is...we never go anywhere this time of year, because I am always so busy........
my life has taken on so many changes this year......needlepoint has just taken over the house.......needlepoint is everywhere....so I fear that this holiday season will be catch as catch can...we will just have to roll with it...I am losing ground as we speak......
Maybe I should just make plans for Easter...????????