Displacement crafting
Back before Christmas I set myself some deadlines. There were a number of things I needed to get done in the house including making some curtains and even more importantly a lot of shop sewing, smocks and bloomers galore. My deadline was not unrealistic, I had plenty of time to accomplish all these things and more.
Now enter displacement activity, also know as The Time Thief.
Over the last few weeks I have not done any of the things on my list, not one target met.
But I have done some other things so I have decided to concentrate on enjoying these unexpected achievements rather than beating myself up over the things I haven't done.
After all, January is not over yet, so there is still some time to work on that list of goals.
Still, I cannot help but wonder why the lessons I was taught almost thirty years ago regarding the importance of not leaving things to the last minute and the necessity of carefully staggering ones work in order to avoid being overwhelmed; why is it that those lessons still have not been learned? Because you see, essentially, I am still that girl who has to stay up to midnight finishing her essay, still that girl who is frantically conjugating verbs on the bus or scribbling equasions in her lunch breaks, it seems I am still that same girl who is attempting to assemble three months worth of university lectures into some semblance of something just three hours before it needs to be handed in, still that girl who is in the office until midnight preparing for the report that is needed for 9am the next morning. It seems some lessons are very hard to learn.
But I am not too downhearted because really, January still has more than a week to go and look! I made an art roll. Who doesn't need to make one of these? And curtains are so yesterday, don't you think?
There are heaps of really good tutorials on how to make these but I particularly liked the one at Mr Monkeysuit
Back before Christmas I set myself some deadlines. There were a number of things I needed to get done in the house including making some curtains and even more importantly a lot of shop sewing, smocks and bloomers galore. My deadline was not unrealistic, I had plenty of time to accomplish all these things and more.
Now enter displacement activity, also know as The Time Thief.
Over the last few weeks I have not done any of the things on my list, not one target met.
But I have done some other things so I have decided to concentrate on enjoying these unexpected achievements rather than beating myself up over the things I haven't done.
After all, January is not over yet, so there is still some time to work on that list of goals.
Still, I cannot help but wonder why the lessons I was taught almost thirty years ago regarding the importance of not leaving things to the last minute and the necessity of carefully staggering ones work in order to avoid being overwhelmed; why is it that those lessons still have not been learned? Because you see, essentially, I am still that girl who has to stay up to midnight finishing her essay, still that girl who is frantically conjugating verbs on the bus or scribbling equasions in her lunch breaks, it seems I am still that same girl who is attempting to assemble three months worth of university lectures into some semblance of something just three hours before it needs to be handed in, still that girl who is in the office until midnight preparing for the report that is needed for 9am the next morning. It seems some lessons are very hard to learn.
But I am not too downhearted because really, January still has more than a week to go and look! I made an art roll. Who doesn't need to make one of these? And curtains are so yesterday, don't you think?
There are heaps of really good tutorials on how to make these but I particularly liked the one at Mr Monkeysuit
Comments
I've been thinking of something similar to organize my circular knitting needles. I've gathered them from all of the corners of the house and put them through toilet paper rolls by length. As I brush by to close the curtains that I've managed to finish- they tinkle like wind chimes.
great project there! more fun than curtains!
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