i think i need more sleep.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon

One of my intentions in beginning this blog was to become more involved the art world, whichever world that may be. To that end I wanted to participate in challenge blogs. In the first issue of Artful Blogging, there was an article on wednesdaystamper.wordpress.com. Every Wednesday (or every other Wednesday during the summer) a new challenge is issued. The only requirement is that you use at least one rubber stamp.

So last Wednesday I checked and the challenge was summer tea party! Yay, what a fun – and I’ll admit it, easy – challenge. I decided to go for it and make something. Immediately I thought of a bracelet I made years ago that I called my “garden tea party bracelet”. It was my favorite bracelet for several years.

This served as the inspiration for my piece. I would use a scrapbook paper background, have a teacup with a fairy peeking out (using a picture of Lily as the fairy) and cut out some flowers and butterflys, and voila! Done. By August 20th, anyway.

Except….I checked the blog today just for the heck of it, only to discover that I had my dates wrong and the summer tea party challenge ended today! The brain malfunctioned again. That seems to be happening with increasing frequency these days.

Since I already started the piece, I decided I might as well finish it, as a celebrate-summer-even-though-it’s-pretty-much-over sort of thing. And the new challenge is keyholes, which I’m not particularly interested in.

And I’ll see what the new challenge is on August 27th. And check the date at least five times.