I can’t really explain why I am so restless lately. Not in the large sense, the “what am I doing with my life?’ sense. On a smaller scale, “what am I doing at this exact second?” Most women “putter” and that’s fine, but I interrupt my puttering to putter with something else, and so on so at the end of the day I have started 82 projects and finished nothing.

It’s getting to be that way for my art, too. I am so excited about so many new techniques I want to try and many new pieces of equipment I have bought, (against the advice of my credit card) that I can’t sit down long enough to actually do anything. Case in point – yesterday. I was making a clock by dismantling it and flipping the plate to make it run backwards.

In the middle of this, with half the clock gears scattered around my workbench I noticed a bead on the floor – a pretty expensive lampwork glass bead and perfect choking size for the cat. I picked it up, got out my bead bins and put it back in its compartment. I was about to close the lid when I noticed some really nice clasps I had from a necklace I took apart a few weeks ago and I got an idea for a new design of collar for Chuki (the aforementioned cat, who does not like collars, but will proudly wear his tags if I put them on a nice beaded necklace for him.) so I pulled out the supplies and started beading. Partway through THAT I remembered that I was going to make a homemade bead spinner and this would be the perfect project to try it on. Out came the glue guns, dowels and a margarine tub (Okay, yes, I did throw away ¼ tub of margarine for this, but I really wanted to try it and had no empty tubs) and off I went. At the end of the day my workbench was littered with clock parts, beads, a beading tray, my wire storage box, 15 handmade wire beads I had just finished and three books on woodworking that I had found while looking for the fire mountain catalog. I had started a total of 9 projects and finished a total of none.

At this rate, it will be 2008 before I have anything to sell on ETSY.