Driving today to our next-to-last quilt meeting until September (we have informal gatherings on Mondays during the summer months), I had an enlightening thought. Running through my mind: things I need to do this week; summer plans and activities; thoughts about my 100DayProject...I'm still not quite settled on how I want to proceed. My design wall and cutting table are filled with odds-n-ends: fabrics; threads and yarns; sketches/notes; notions; tools...all have possibility but nothing has really grabbed me yet...and looming in my mind : July 12 is just, literally, 37 days away...and I need to get a move on.
And then I thought: "Sez who? Of course I don't have to finish by/on July 12!. I'm the master of this ship, the decider-in-chief of what I do and when I do it. Beyond paying taxes (due the 15th) and taking my car in for the emissions test before the 25th, I'm not obligated to complete the project, ever, let alone 12 July. And the next quilt show is in 2019! Lotsa time!"
Since my May 23 post on #the100dayproject I have been operating with a rather foggy crystal ball ...allowing my creative juices to be stirred by a due date rather than my creative energy and excitement. I arrived at the quilt meeting feeling pounds lighter, perhaps even a bit excited, my enthusiasm for the project rekindled...and my crystal ball looking clearer.
Today is the 5th day of June; the letter E in my About Me A:Z project. The story kit's E word is "eat." Hmmm... I looked at the kit's contents and nothing immediately jumped out at me...I guess I'll have to let that simmer a bit, too.
So that's the way it is. The mail was blah all week - just the usual.
Have you had a eureka moment recently?
Cheers~
P.S. The geraniums are leftovers from last summer; they wintered in the house. I put them outside about three weeks ago and I am ecstatic that they bloomed.)