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<\/a><\/p>\nand moving forward with dressing some of the them. I had a fox girl that I had promised to make so those are moving forward first.<\/p>\n Soon I will have some finished pieces to show. But, the thing is, that really isn’t why I’ve been so quiet.<\/p>\n *** trigger warning for liberal politics- stop here if you can’t stand anymore<\/strong><\/em>***<\/p>\n I have just been so overwhelmed and distracted by what is happening here in the US. I have had a hard time focusing on my work. I get sucked into checking the news multiple times a day. My social media feeds (twitter, facebook) are filled with all the terrible news. I find myself thinking, I will just go peek and see what horrifying thing this new administration has done since the last time I looked. I know this is bad for me. I have to limit my exposure but I vacillate between feeling like I need to be informed and wanting to put my head under the covers and block everything out. I am a person who has struggled with depression my entire life but focusing on my work is what has kept me stable and functional for years now. I have to find my way back to my focus, and I know I will, but it is mental exercise and that is hard work.<\/p>\n This blog has never been a place for politics. Someone once told me that my blog was their little oasis from the real world. I am not planning on changing the focus of the blog. I will give a trigger warning if I feel like I need to vent again. But, I can’t remain completely silent. Someone in my life recently said to me, it doesn’t matter who won the election, they were both the same. Honestly, it ruined my day to think that anyone believes that and I consider it to be deliberate ignorance. We are at the beginning of a very scary time. I will be participating in some art projects as one of the ways I will express my resistance and that will be showing up here.<\/p>\n This is what I worked on all of Inauguration Day. It is for a community art project for the window at Gather Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n And this is what I posted on Saturday in solidarity with all the Women marching.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been working. I’m doing that part of the job where I am getting all the parts sorted out (matching dyed “tattooed” body piece to plain flesh color pieces and then cutting parts out), stuffing groups of already sewed … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Now that I’ve finally written this post, I am hoping I can get things back to normal around here, posting and all. I was feeling completely blocked so phew.<\/p>\n