I have been passed on a great bit of advice by my lovely mentor Morag from Creative Northants – which I am atempting to hold in the forefront of my mind at all times from now on. It is from a book by an olympic rowing person –
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Will-Make-Boat-Faster-Olym…
the key bit is – however good an idea is – will it make the boat go faster?
Aside from the fact that my dear husband pointed out that I don’t have a boat, this seems to be very good advice. Being one who is prone to trot off in a thousand different directions just because of a good idea, I am hoping that this philosophy will help to rein in my wayward enthusiasm and try to ‘keep on task’ as they say in schools.
So today, I had a great day, with my car in the garage I had no choice but to spend the day at the studio making stuff. Which is what I want to do anyway, but somehow always seem to manage to persuade myself otherwise.
So in an effort to turn my boat into concord (if you pardon the mixed metaphors) I have (almost) finished one SUPERHERO GADGET (Cage #1) and have started on SUPERHERO GADGET (Cage #3) which unfortunately necessitated hunting through my discarded clothing collection.
Here is where I became a little unstuck. Now I have many piles of colour co-ordinated clothing all with appropriate bits removed (thought I had already done this but no!) and no room whatsoever to work in.
Still it feels good to see what I’ve got in the pile. Shame I decided to separate a lot of the buttons from the clothes to put in jars (damn that button box collecting habit I inherited from granny) so I now don’t quite have what I need.
Anyway, if I can just get these FINISHED the race is as good as won.
