Must stop experimenting…
I didn’t realise how much of a short attention span I must have, there’s me, complaining about my boys and their severely short attention spans and it turns out they must take after me. This keeping a blog thing has made me realise that I’m great at getting ideas, often turning them into reality (either by mistake or design) but what I am incapable of doing is following them through with further progression – its always onto the next idea.
So no more! I have ‘experimented’ with my last new idea, I am only going to explore ideas I have already set in motion, like this one I started yesterday…
Its made from scraps of Amy Butler fabric I’ve had for a while, a bit of an old dress, an old shirt and a favourite but broken necklace, and of course a bit of crochet, a double shell trim that I extended to fit the flap.
I boxed the corners and lined it with interlining to give it some stiffness so it retains its shape. I’m now envisaging a whole range of them, all the same shape but with different fabrics and crochet bits SO I’M NOT GOING TO LOOK IN OR WRITE IN MY IDEAS BOOK. I’m going to work on this for a while, and my curtain ring jewellery, I think that can go a lot further too.
So it is written down I am only going to work on those two ideas, although its half term next week so If I manage to do anything it will be a miracle!
On a last note, the latest issue of that fab magazine Beads and Beyond has a tutorial for my Miyuki earrings. Those flowers are what I made that evening necklace and my beautiful green bracelet from as well – ooh – another idea I need to pursue…
Ah, grass hopper their is nothing wrong with experimenting with new ideas. A Kung Foo master once said to me ,” sunbeam repeat one piece six times, when you have finished the sixth piece examine the changes you have made from the first”. Well I sat and contemplated these words of wisdom. I began to see the meaning of his well chosen words. I concluded I should probabley expand one single idea. And then I thought…Sod it I would rather experiment, it’s more exciting. If you have an idea that really gets the brain cells poppin’ go with it, you can always go back to previous idea.
Is that cool or what. wisdom from yer dad. Keep up the great work luv.xxxx
You have so many great ideas in that head of yours which can only mean one thing – you are just too talented for your own good!!!!
Beautiful bag by the way. Well done and keep those great ideas coming. XX