A good friend of mine blogged recently about the frustration of starting a project but never getting around to finishing things off and the excuses we make and how we make ourselves for bad for not being able to commit to things to see them through to completion. Completion, ah there is a whole other rant just waiting to spill, what would we do if we ever felt that our lives were complete...I digress...
Anyway, it got me to thinking that I'm in the same boat and sinking fast! My good old pregnancy hormones are raging well at the moment and I seem to be having a fantastic run of cleaning, tidying, cooking, organising, re-organising, moving things, de-cluttering, throwing things out, moving things back to where they were to begin with - you get the idea! However, when it comes to my little crafty projects, big projects in the garden, or little things that actually take a bit more time and effort or don't really HAVE to be done right now I tend to procrastinate and delay and half-start but never finish these things!
Now I'm not out to blame society for my lack of time, motivation and skill in this area but I do believe the way we, or at least I, am living definitely has something to do with it (do bear with me, its 0530 in the morning and I know I'm rambling ). We are constantly barraged from our chosen source/sources of media with things that we could/should/just have to do, make or buy to make our lives the happy and fulfilled affair that we all want them to be. It is SO easy to be distracted by all these 'shiny' things and put aside an older project to start a new one that looks more exciting or easier or prettier than the one we are currently working on! So we set ourselves up for a cupboard (or garage) full of unfinished projects just waiting for a little bit of time and love. Thus we also set ourselves up to look in that cupboard and feel like a hopeless failure because we just NEVER finish anything!
My other excuse is the two year old in my life. I am amazed at mothers who manage to get projects done with one or more children in the house with them all day, every day! Little ones are so distracting. For me, it's easier to take that 10 minutes that I get every now and then and sit down with my cuppa in front of the computer/internet and trawl around a little while than to sit down and try to concentrate on sewing or scrapping project! Especially in the sewing department I find that it takes me that 10 minutes just to set up the machine in the stitch that I need, because I am such an unskilled total novice in that department!! So I find myself thinking is it really worth all the effort, I'll just leave it till later when I have more time - which at the moment is, well, not to say never, but indeed very rare!
So in an effort to motivate myself a little more, here is a bit of a list of my current unfinished projects for you and me to look back on in 12 months time and see if I can tick any off as COMPLETE! Oh, and I really have to STOP trawling the internet and spying more little projects that I just have to start making and leave lying around the house unfinished!
I do have one 'yay' - I completed my scrapbook for Alex, age 0-6 months, unfortunately i'm still 18 months behind and will have another one to start in couple of months for Baby number 2. Ah well...baby steps hey!
