I seem to be having Post Pandemic Malaise. It started during the pandemic, and now refuses to leave. I have to force myself to sew, to design fabric, and to write.
I design fabric, and before I can sell my designs in my Spoonflower shop, I have to have each design proofed. https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/deb_thuman I can proof 42 designs in one yard of fabric. I must have at least 12 yards of fabric filed with proofs of my designs. Fabric doesn’t go to waste in my house. I badly need shorts, so I got out a pattern and muslin. I picked the size for my measurements, and made a muslin version so I could check fit. If I gained 60 pounds, that muslin would have been way too big on me. I tweaked the pattern and made a pair of shorts from fabric covered with proofs. It’s ugly, but it fits perfectly. At the moment, I’m working on a second pair made from white linen/rayon fabric.
I’ve been having vertigo, losing my balance, and falling lately. I saw my doctor a couple weeks ago, and she referred me to a specialist. I called the specialist and the first appointment was for late October – three months away! So from now until late October, I’ll be staggering, losing my balance and falling. Bleah! I haven’t been doing much photography because I can’t squat down to photograph flowers. Were I to squat down, I’d fall and likely land on a cactus.
Brady rarely lets me photograph her. For some reason, she kept still today and I got to take some shots of her.
This cactus is about 8 inches tall. Ideally, I would have squatted down and shot the cactus. Instead, I had to remain standing and rely on my telephoto lens to get me close enough to the cacti what I could get a half decent shot.
This is one of the barrel cacti in the back yard.
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