Day 44: Blah.

I spent about an hour and a half in the basement 'tidying'.  I'm not convinced I am doing more than shufflling it all around at this stage.  The current goal is to return the guest bedroom to a usable state; what with me having guests coming.  I think I will only be able to make progress when I can let a large amount of craft supplies go to Value Village.  This is a tough one for me.  All I can think is: don't waste anything!  Except that stuff sitting in my basement gathering dust is definitely a waste.  As well as an annoyance.

I will contribute to the art thing with a picture from my vacation.

I dyed some of the corn husks with tea...I'd like to refine this project.

Lest you think I'm not doing art every day, I am actually moving some stuff along.  Today I ripped back a sock that has been in time out for months.  A heck of a lot of work lost but since the sock wouldn't fit my foot, it wasn't likely to be worn anyway...  Now to figure out what sock to knit instead.

Day 3: Wow. That didn't take long.

I spent most of my day playing mental games with myself about working on something for this blog.  I thought it would take longer before I started having trouble but I should have known better.  I'm a Mistress of Head Fu.

Of course, to cut myself some slack, I am in the middle of renovations.  Friday is supposed to be my day off to recharge but not so much this week.  I could really use some recharging.

Mark taught me a business term called barriers to entry.  It's the stuff that stops someone from entering into business.  If there aren't enough doctors, say, the government needs to lower the barriers to entry to create more.

I think procrastinators need a similar term: barriers to completion.  I seem to often get a project 98% finished and just need a button or ends sewn in to call it done.  But then it sits there.  And sits there.

So, today's project is completing a pair of socks that have been sitting for a while. I decided what I needed to do was lower the barriers to completion.  I didn't worry about a perfect sewing in of ends.  I didn't get out the big camera -- I took the photo with the webcam.  So, they may not be perfect but they're done.