Hallmark movies have been keeping me busy up here in North Bay. Since my vacation in May to Alaska - and I'm chagrined to say I've hardly even looked at the photos I took there, never mind done anything with them - we've finished "Christmas is for Love" with Brooke D'Orsay and Daniel Lissing and "Return to Christmas Creek" with Tori Anderson and Stephen Huszar - and also a couple favourite actors of mine Steven Weber (I may have gushed when I first spoke to him) and Kari Matchett.
For a change of pace we're just finishing a non-Christmas movie for Hallmark's murder and mayhem channel - okay, they call it Movies & Mysteries; this one is called "Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For" starring Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott. The movie was conceived by Will Shortz who is the crossword puzzle editor of the New York Times, and if it is well-received there are plans for a bunch more of them. Then back to Christmas; I've already started prep on "Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe" again starring Lacey Chabert. While we don't make them quite as fast as you watch them it almost feels that way; indeed they overlap and we don't even get one finished before we're starting the next. So I've been slammed for weeks and am currently slated to work until at least the end of October - the beginning of December if we take on one more. Huh, I guess I have been making something
And if all that wasn't enough to keep me from my craft table I've also embarked on a new relationship which is really an old one; I've started seeing a guy again that I dated decades ago, whom I parted ways with because he wanted marriage and kids and I'd been there, done that and wasn't interested in repeating the experience. So now that his kids are grown and his marriage behind him we're again spending some time together; not that I have a lot to spare, but he's taking up a chunk of it. I have told him he's at least partly to blame for my lack of productivity but it hasn't scared him off yet, LOL. I'm still trying to balance how to work 60+ hours a week, find time for crafting and make room for him in my life; particularly challenging when you factor in I've basically been living in a hotel since May, with maybe a couple nights at home each month.
I can say though that most days I do love my job, and have no complaints with life in general. I'm seriously looking forward to December though!
