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2/15/2013

What I Want

Yet another page from the Discoverer Journal. There's only a couple more to show you and then I can say I have actually completed a project without getting sidetracked, which is more my nature. But I decided to really buckle down and try and stay focused. I'm so full of it. I just wanted to say I finished something before starting something new. If I told myself I was not allowed to make anything else before I finished this it seemed to somewhat motivate me into doing it. It worked for a day until I started and finished this. lol. I know I am not the only one who has many projects going on at the same time but do you also get sidetracked with other things in the middle of working on a project and start something totally new? Is that considered a mental disorder? My work table can get so cluttered because I have not cleaned up after working on something; I want to create art but I am so distracted by (or drawn to at the same time) all the clutter, I find myself getting sucked in to something totally different. That probably sounds like I have no idea what I am talking about or what I just said. Somehow I am quite sure you do know what I mean. Please tell me you also have this malady........... ha ha ha. Seriously, thank you for spending a moment or two with me.................. I am looking forward to a long weekend, hopefully much of it in my pjs in my studio. I hope you will, too...............................p.s. Thank you, Betsy for showing up here. And, guys, let me tell you, there's a story to share about this person who showed up here. Stay tuned.............................................................................jo

4 comments:

  1. Distraction…….? What? Oh I’m sorry, were you saying something? I’m not sure if everyone suffers from this malady but it’s a bit like the scene from UP when the dog is talking/doing something and he suddenly stops and says ‘SQUIRREL!’ I might be up to my elbows in one project and I turn around and……SQUIRREL! I’m off on another. LOL Adult ADD? Or just creative muse strikes?

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  2. Love these pages! I love the layering of brilliant colors. I tend to work on one thing at a time. I want to finish it! But sometimes you have to know it's not working and try something else. I wanted to try a larger size journal because I really love doing small ones! So the large one sits there and yells at me to "get going, fill the page"!

    I do sometimes work in my journal experimenting and then use that experiment somewhere else at the same time. That's fun!

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  3. Oh I hear you all right. I just cleaned up my table and found many unfinished pieces which became buried under other unfinished projects. It is hard to stay focused sometimes.

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  4. I am most definitely afflicted by this malady! though truly I like to have multiple projects going at once because I hate waiting for things to dry. when something needs to "rest" for a while, my work doesn't have to come to a screeching halt, I can hop to the next project (and the next and the next). I clean up my studio at least once a day and it still always looks like a bomb went off :)

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