Between these two cuties and mountains of papers to grade and end of the semester meetings to go to, I have not had much crafting time lately. Today I did pull out some beads for a cool necklace/bracelet combination that I’ve been imagining, and it was like a kitty magnet. However, in about two weeks I will be off for my long summer vacation, which for me means crafting and writing. Here are some of the task I’m hoping to accomplish:

• Finish the baby crochet afghan I’ve started. I’m about half way through it, so that looks promising.
• Write a book proposal. I’m teaming up with another author on an idea that I think is awesome. Hopefully, we will be able to convince a publisher that it is a great book idea too.
• I plan to write a magazine article about my college crafting club. I have a few magazines in mind that I think might like it (fingers crossed).
• I have a number of jewelry projects on the drawing board that I hope to make and publish over at my About.com site.
• Speaking of jewelry, our guest room is still trashed from the last jewelry book we did. I can barely get in there to take photos in the photo tent. I plan to get that room cleared out.
• Then one more writing project is on the computer. I’ve actually already started it, but I need to do some more research before my ideas jell. This project is a literary article that I will present at a conference in October, so there’s lots of time, but I think I can bang it out over the summer and have it off my plate when school starts back in the fall.
• Finally, of course, I have to get my summer 2 classes ready. Teachers do get time off during part of the summer, but we have to use that time to get ready for the future semesters.

Yes, I may not get all of this done while I’m off, but hopefully, I can manage getting it completed over the entire summer, even if I do work near the end of it.