Cyber Fyber Postcard Finished and an ATC Swap

After I wrote about fretting about this postcard and ripping out stitching, procrastinating and starting again, Susan sent me a lovely comment saying that I should get too worried about the postcard, there wasn’t any high expectation for the postcards being sent in and I do lovely work, so I shouldn’t worry. I wrote back and said:

1. It was bad because I was trying too hard

2. The new one is better

3. I am a dreadful exaggerator – I don’t like the truth to get in the way of a good story

4. I like to poke fun at myself,

5. I am enjoying the process of making the postcard

So it is finished and I am fairly happy with the end result. I always have very high expectations for my own work (unfounded based on my skill and tolerance level). I don’t think it is ‘me’, but then I am not sure I could pin point any one item I’ve made and say ‘yes – that defines me as a craftsperson’. Not that this postcard was meant to be a definitive piece….but so often I see something and think…yes that reminds me of …..

Anyway it is done, and I now am thinking of an ATC to make for Dominique from Doms Chiffons who has proposed a swap. Dominique does lovely work and seems to understand my hideously mangled attempts at French (which I write in Aussie and get the computer to translate – goodness knows what comes out the other end).

Enjoy Earth Hour tonight …..or Earth Minute if you happen to live in the wilds of Michigan