too much of a good thing

I have the unfortunate tendency to lose myself in the present. Each of my actions is not simply the task at hand, but instead a conglomeration of the multitude of activities that are flooding my mind in that moment. In simpler terms, I find inspiration in everything and am constantly dreaming up new projects to add to my to-do list. While I love and cherish my fifth eye (third eye's already taken, and I don't like even numbers, so...), my list of future tasks has grown to giraffe height. To make things worse, my actual occupation, graduate school, takes up approximately 12-15 hours of my day. Why a crazy, creative girl like me decided to try and get a PhD in chemistry I'm still trying to figure out. Anyway, I have no time, and the ideas keep coming, so I need to make some headway in knocking that giraffe down to at least an ostrich.

That's where this little venture into blogging comes in. I figure that if I take the time and effort to share some of my ideas, and the progress that I've made on them, then I may actually be inspired to attempt and/or finish them. As I've neglected to mention, I loooove starting new projects, but as my inspired cogs continue to crank out new tasks for my poor excuse for spare time, I never seem to end what I start. However, it's a new year, and I resolve to finish the ends on all the tails I've left hanging (literally in the case of my knitting projects). As to how I'm going to keep the new ideas at bay, I haven't figured that one out yet, and to be honest, I really don't want to stop them, just slow them down a bit.

I'll try and post pictures of started, but unfinished projects soon. My latest idea, is to make tissue paper orbs to hang from the ceiling of my sparsely decorated living room. The room was in desperate need of sprucing, and during one of my 5,000,000 daily visits to Etsy I found this shop: pomlove. I loved the poms, but decided that I could save some money (my constant mantra) and make my own. So I did some google-ing, and came across this how-to from Martha Stewart (see picture below). It's fast and super simple, so now I'm off rushing to the craft store to purchase the desired paper. Pictures of finished orbs to follow!