Half Hour

What is the value of half an hour?

In half an hour I can shower, apply make-up and fix my hair.

In half an hour I can catch up on a mountain of laundry.

In half an hour I can catch up on emails.

I can get the breakfast dishes all caught up.

I can whip out a post for the dear lil' blog.

I can go blog-hopping, leaving enthusiastic comments all over the www.

I can (if I am extremely lucky and haven't fueled myself too much with coffee) take a nap with the baby for half an hour.

And on some days, when everything in the universe aligns itself just right, I can ignore the guilt for all the things I should do with a half hour of un-claimed time, and apply that time instead to one of my passions: Art.

This is what I did in an half hour of free time last week.






(sorry for the glare, but by using the flash you can really see the interesting texture of the tile in this photo)

I bought a large tile, 18 inches by 18 inches, and applied the kind of paint you can use on porcelain projects and that is easily baked on in your oven! I used my crock-pot lid to stencil out the oval shape- how is that for creativity? And wishing on the coming summer flowers, and my love of Tuscany and farm-land... well I was inspired to combine it all into something useful. I now have a trivet for my table, big enough to easily accomodate my largest spaghetti pot. All I have to do is glue on the back side of the tile some felt, so I don't scratch up the kitchen table.

If you have an extra half hour, what do you like to do with it?