Those of you who know me, know that I am terrible at finishing projects.  I am great at coming up with new ideas and starting something new, but bringing something fully into completion, well, that’s not my strongpoint. I blame the self-diagnosed ADD and easily distracted nature of myself.

I am now going to show you some of my unfinished projects, in hopes that it encourages me to finish more of them…

Project #1: Journals ( for blogging inspiration, one was supposed to be for Emily, I think I started these last June)

Project #2:  Wedding Initials [The plan is to decopauge the wedding colors onto the letters, with the wedding dates.  One of these is an N for our house... um yeah that's a wee bit late]

While we are at it, I found more Ns that are supposed to be decorated and put around our house.

Project #3:  This is a beanie that I was crocheting for myself from this pattern.  It was too small.  What I really need to do is unravel it all and start over.  I’m not looking forward that that.  Oh yeah, and I started this back in August, or something like that.

Project #4:  I do not even want to know when I started this project.  It is a beanie for charity with some leftover yarn from my mother-in-law.  This would maybe take me an hour to finish…

Project #5:  This fabric signifies a gift for a teacher friend, and a gift for another friend.  I bought the school fabric over 6 months ago.  The goal is to make some potholders & other kitcheny things.  I”m not sure what i want to do with the HSM fabric.  But I made the potholders yesterday — it’s a start!  I’m not even going to post pictures of other fabric that I have purchased to make things for people.  heh

Project #6:  I got these towels from the Dollar Store around Christmas time to make tea towel aprons.  It probably takes me 30 minutes (usually less) to make one.  I really should just knock these out…

Project #7:  This is probably the worst.  I bought this ornament kit back in 2007.  I finished the first ornament at some point last year.  This felt work is very time consuming.  Rather easy, but time consuming.  Oh wait, it’s not even finished yet, Santa is supposed to be holding a string of lights.  Maybe I will finish this by the time I retire (there are 5 other ornaments).

Project #8:  This is actually a success story!  Matt requested some sleep masks. I made him one before Christmas, but it did not fit right.  Yesterday, I got to work and made him some that actually fit.  You can see the progression in the picture.  Obviously, he did not want to sleep in my red satin “diva sleeping” mask, the soccer one was too small (and apparently not masculine enough), the first plaid one was too small as well, but the last two are just right!  I left the elastic in the “bad plaid” one, so that it could be a backup for the backup.  These little things may look easy, but it took some effort!

And while I was on such a roll, I finally cranked out the iPod case he had been asking for (cotton plaid fabric with a green fleece lining and a brown ribbon to hold it closed).

These last pictures are the scariest — it’s my craft room.  I know, I am incredibly lucky to have my own room for crafting.  I just need to keep it nice and clean.  That’s the hard part.  I think my lack of completion comes from distraction.  That also keeps one from cleaning, because you get distracted by the next thing that you want to do.  But do you all see my incredibly cute pink cupcake pincushion? It was like the best Christmas gift ever!  And it’s in the top picture.

Now, if you will excuse me, I have some cleaning to do.  And if you have any words of inspiration for getting things done, please leave them in the comments!