My last post was my entry into the world of card challenges. I received wonderful comments from new visitors here, and was even featured on 52-Card Pickup and was just totally tickled at that!
So, I was determined to enter into the card challenge world on a weekly basis. I started searching challenge blogs and making lists (even set up an Excel spreadsheet) to keep track of the blog, the challenge post date, the challenge itself, the due date--well, you get the picture.
Once more, I allowed my over-organizing self to impede my having fun. I had even made a card for Bah! Humbug's second weekly challenge, but got so caught up in the idea of posting one card for multiple challenges that I flat over-organized myself out of getting the card posted at all! (I know. I hear my friends laughing. You all know I try so hard to be perfect at things that most of my great intentions fall by the wayside because of my incessant over-planning.)
So, I posted nothing. I'm following a few more cool blogs, though, and I vow once more to participate more and plan less. To remember that it is progress, not perfection. To settle for "enough" (if I have a card done, by golly, I'll post it even if only for one challenge).
Most of all, I want to remember that for me, card making is 1) FUN and 2) THERAPY after a day dealing with the public. Although they are called "challenges", there is no losing. If I am featured--hey that's uber-cool. If not, I had fun trying. After all, my ambition is to become a published writer. That is where the greatest amount of my "free" time is being spent. Cardmaking is just another hobby to keep my creativity flowing when words won't come.
In the immortal words of Scarlett O'Hara, "Tomorrow is another day." Perhaps there will be a challenge entered then.
In addition to Scarlett's advice, I "have always relied on the kindness of strangers."
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your kids' word usage. I would love to hear a little kid say they wanted to be a paleontologist!