Overwhelmed Much?

I caught a cold and was laid up for an entire week.

All my prep time? Gone. My dayjob stuff? Not late for once, but it takes a priority now.

I managed to make this Mother's Day card for my aunt right before I decided that I should hole up in bed with a "Tiny House" marathon on TV.

 Cut file from Silhouette, color is Dylusions spray.

That break ended up lasting for about five days. The only good thing was that I was able to work on one of my books in bed. The idea was to make two cards at once, but that wasn't meant to be. I had to send the one card that afternoon and the other could wait until the morning of Mother's Day. A few days later, I crawled out of bed to make this card for my mother.

Cut file from Silhouette, color is Dylusions spray, poorly edged with Distress ink

When I started to feel better, I looked at the calendar and realized when my dayjob projects are due. I had to hit the ground running on some work here.

Melville's Moby Dick adapted by Chabouté

Ever since I updated my version on InDesign, the internal dictionary is now randomly hyphenating words so I have to really watch what happens when I move the edges of text frames. I mean. seriously, "unders-tanding"? If anybody can tell me how to fix this, please let me know!

Fate/Zero #3 by Gen Urobuchi and Shinjirō

When I took a small break, I went into my hobby room and saw I still had some of these left undone.

These still need to be domed.

 I am officially overwhelmed and seriously doubt I can have stuff ready for the next Frankenstein's Swap Meet next week. Color me a little bummed. These are pictures of stuff I've actually done. There's so much swimming in my head. Some things percolate to the top and go under just as quickly and others stay long enough for me to capture it. Needless to say, I have a to-do list that's as long as two arms and part of a leg. The things that keep surfacing is calligraphy and small illustrations as ACEOs. I just have to get these two books lettered before I can work on those things. Hopefully when I AM finished, they won't bubble under to be replaced by something else (Cardmaking! Decal cutting! Pop-ups! Paper circuits! Dioramas!).