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Tami Eveslage Original Teddy BearsBake something for Shelli, Chrissi. She needs dessert!! 
I do work well under pressure to a point. I think when the pressure becomes too stressful my work suffers.
Posts: 8,574easy busy work and sketching-doodling-playing with body parts -sometimes a really neat pattern developes...
I am sorry about your stress level....I think we can all relate to the kind of stress you are under...at one time or another. However with you taking care of an elderly parent, its the kind of stress that doesn't go away, or at least we don't want it to go away.
My Mom in law moves in at the end of the month-I am nervous. Not from the nursing point of view, because that I can do with my eyes closed. But I am worried about the loss of privacy, the amount of work involved, and the stress on my relationship with my hubster.
So I have thought of you often over the three months while we get things ready....hang in there Hon,
prayers going out for your strength and for a decrease in the intensity of the stress....
gollyhugs and neat kisses
dilu
Claudia's KnuffelbaerenWhat is "stressed" backwards
DESSERTS
I eat when I am stressed and the creativity is gone!!
:crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
I can feel with you!
But this I abolished!
Now, when I am stressed, I start cleaning or tidy up our flat 
BrisbaneHmmm I really had to think about this...I am always stressed 
But when my stress levels are over the top I lose myself in Teddy Bears so I guess I make more bears, but I also eat and clean (although the cleaning is probably guilt from spending too much time sewing!!!) But when I get depressed, usually after being really stressed then I don't do anything and all creativity goes out the window 
Bearz by IlzeI can't make bears when I'm stressed out (all creativity flies out the window then), but I don't start cleaning either...I tend to give myself over to retail therapy 
Strange BearsWell thanks everyone for assuring me I am normal..........I have at least 4 bears sitting here. Heads are stuffed but no noses, eyes or ears attached not even needle-scultping attempted. Limbs stuffed and attached to bodies. So there they lie sit or hunch.......all waiting for faces and heads to be attached and I just can't get the concentration level to where it should be.
I have even threaded the needle to sew the noses and then wandered off to "tidy" and re-arrange the pantry once again!!!
I just wish I could move past the pantry to another part of the house.....that would be productive too. It must be the need to be near those desserts....which I DO NOT need to eat........ :crackup: :crackup:
bearhugs
Cincinnati, OhioShelli,
I would love to give you my avatar bear, but unfortunately he is one of the few that I have made that I can stand to look at!!!!! But thanks for the compliment!!!
I don't sew well when I am stressed.... I'm another stress cleaner.. lol. Not sure how that works really. :crackup:
Although I do find making new designs to be calming.... on the flip side too many orders and I tend to shut down and do
nothing at all.. lol.
Bear Hugs!
Melanie
Matilda Huggington-beareIf I am upset I wont be able to sew create do anything creative for at least two weeks. Its truely horrid.
If I am stressed I can't get motivated to do much of anything. I can't even watch a full programme on tv because I can't concentrate on anything for very long.
I hate being stressed!! In fact I have just done a stress management course which was brilliant, very informative and helpful.
fribbles, ltd...I have trouble creating when I'm troubled. 
Being unhappy in one area of my life spreads to all other areas, and I think if I can just concentrate on the one area and make it better things will be okay---but it doesn't work when the state of being unhappy isn't getting fixed straightaway. Then I'm just knackered, I hunker down and wait out the blues.
Amelia
