finish all the 'started' projects I have going

I am working on three of UNAs campus gardens and I want to finish them

White quilt with multicolored circles. Time estimate: 40 hours

T-shirt quilt. Time estimate: 40 hours

Crochet project – blankets for each member of my family. Try to finish one by Christmas. Time estimate: 6 months

Knit a sweater. Time estimate: 3 months

Four side crochet projects – more blankets. Time estimate: 3 months

Sew white shirt. Time estimate: 3 hours

Sew red dress. Time estimate: 8 hours

Cover pillows with pretty fabric. Time estimate: 4 hours

Finish painting a picture. Consider abandoning this project, it’s ugly.

Sculpt a shape from a plaster form (buy a chisel first). Time estimate: 8 hours

Repot container plants. Time estimate: 2 hours

Done!! Sort or recycle magazine clippings.

Get rid of the fabric I’ve secretly hated for 3 years now but never threw away. Time estimate: 1 detour to Goodwill on the way home from work, 30 min

Fix my favorite bag, which is a vacation souvenir and is falling apart. Time estimate: 30 min

This may take several years…

Well i was able to get 2 of my UFO’s done, but in the process i picked up tons more, Sense Becoming involved with Crafting for a Cause that has seemed to help me get alot done as i have others waiting on me to send them the finshed project like squares or baby blankets and such. but i still have plenty left that i have started and just need to get done, so I have promised myself i will atleast get 1 already in the works project finshed this month.. lets see if i can actually do it..

i start more projects than I finish.

I like starting more than I like finshing.

I’m ‘OK’ with that. I don’t like having ‘finishing’ looming over me as a brand-new ‘should’ – i want to do what is fully alive for me in any one moment. I want to live in full authenticity – worried that attempting to finish projects that should be ‘laid-down’ is self-defeating.

So… away I go… off to go start something new!

The thing is all my ‘started’ projects includes projects I started years ago. To accomplish all of that just seems too intimidating right now so I am allowing myself to wipe the slate clean. Maybe some day I’ll get to them but it’s really not a priority right now.

pre-waxed my wick (hmm that could be misinterpreted), and filled 34 candles yesterday. I love having light in the house, love the bees wax, and could never afford it the # of candles I use…

It takes part of a day, but YUM. – I love the gentle light.

One project down, many, many to go.

I keep starting new ones…

+ there’s the quilt (fast becoming the “guilt”) form my step-mom,
+ the knitted sweater I’m making for myself,
+ the crochet blanket i’m making to learn how to crochet,
+ the alterered book – right now working on a poem by Pablo Neruda called “A Callarse” (Keeping Quiet)
+ the distributed journal round-robin (it appears that MY journal may have jumped off a cliff in round 2… so I MAY need to start over if I want to keep playing & have any hope of ever getting it back…)
+ the prayer bead swap… so I just signed myself up to trade some beads—now I need to make some, or find some, or buy some.
+ ATCs… somewhere along the way, I started creating ATCs, but don’t know why or what I’ll end up doing with them.
+ applying for graduate school… feeling increasingly hopeless about finding a program that will really work for me.
+ we cleaned out the office so we could paint it… now we have to clean it, prime it, paint it, put stuff back in it… last time we decided to paint a room, it took us 51 weeks to get it back.
+ there’s cleaning the kitchen which is a ‘never done’ project
... the list of UNFINISHED projects seems to be insurmountable AND I don’t seem to be willing to keep myself from starting new ones (that part’s fun too!)

I keep starting new ones…

+ there’s the quilt (fast becoming the “guilt”) form my step-mom,
+ the knitted sweater I’m making for myself,
+ the crochet blanket i’m making to learn how to crochet,
+ the alterered book – right now working on a poem by Pablo Neruda called “A Callarse” (Keeping Quiet)
+ the distributed journal round-robin (it appears that MY journal may have jumped off a cliff in round 2… so I MAY need to start over if I want to keep playing & have any hope of ever getting it back…)
+ the prayer bead swap… so I just signed myself up to trade some beads—now I need to make some, or find some, or buy some.
+ ATCs… somewhere along the way, I started creating ATCs, but don’t know why or what I’ll end up doing with them.
+ applying for graduate school… feeling increasingly hopeless about finding a program that will really work for me.
+ we cleaned out the office so we could paint it… now we have to clean it, prime it, paint it, put stuff back in it… last time we decided to paint a room, it took us 51 weeks to get it back.
+ there’s cleaning the kitchen which is a ‘never done’ project
... the list of UNFINISHED projects seems to be insurmountable AND I don’t seem to be willing to keep myself from starting new ones (that part’s fun too!)

I just designed flyers on photoshop for the weekly poetry gathering I’ve been organized. After lunch I’m going to hang them all over the neighborhood!

I feel as though to actually actualize this goal it is going to take some hardcore organization. I have so many ‘started’ projects I can’t even remember them all! It’s almost overwhelming. Once upon a time a best friend of mine and I were having dinner together and speaking frankly and she told me that her greatest criticism of me was that I always started several things and didn’t follow through with all of them. I would like to put that habit behind me and sooner than later!