Getting so caught up in sock and shoe stuff that I am in danger of forgetting this blog (and my other work)…. where was i?
From commenting on Sally Lemsford’s blog ‘To the Margins’ I realised that I had been seriously neglecting my own serendipitous moments and getting bogged down in the whole ‘should be doing’ line of thought that is not particularly a place to be. As ever I am caught between the ‘need to finish something’, which I am SO bad at, and the ‘need to do idea pertinent to NOW’ ideas.
This was brought very much to the fore by my mother (who has her own pile of ‘unfinisheds’ including a dress she starting making for me when I was 3…. don’t think it will fit me now ma!). She has a constant and daily battle with piles of newspapers, which have become an almost full time job to check, clip bits out, pile up, recycle etc, so that they are never free of tauntingly whispering piles of old news and ‘not done jobs’. She also has lots of unfinished cross-stitch projects which she feels she needs to finish even though she no longer likes what she started making fifteen years ago, and this is stopping her from making something she does like NOW……
THIS IS INSANE!
at what point do we have to finish or THROW AWAY?
(feel free to recycle of course….)
Anyway, apropos of this, I decided to do the thing I wanted to do when I should have been doing twenty-five other things.
And this is it.
