Focusing My Attention

Going away from home gives me a chance to clear my head and examine my habits from a different perspective.  Since we drove not quite three thousand miles in the last six weeks I've had plenty of re-thinking time.  It's useful for me to stop and re-evaluate, especially when I am at a distance.  I am definitely a person easily distracted and my sewing projects this fall and winter have reflected that scattered approach.  I didn't have any show and tell for yesterday's ASG meeting but I did make a public commitment that I was really going to make "focus" the theme for the next month and see what I think about my efforts.  I am doing the program for May and am going to present the various forms of fabric flowers that I have used to embellish my clothes over the last few years.  Seemed like an appropriate early May topic and it will also make me finish a project that has been simmering in my head for at least two years now.  
I bought this simple pale pink sweater at Chicos and when I got it home saw that it almost perfectly matched some silk chiffon in my resource center.  I've pulled out all the pale pink fabrics I can find along with a collection of buttons and this week I'm going to get this project out of head and done.

I wanted to make some floral embellishments but just never sat myself down to test alternative ideas....after all, there's always another Pinterest picture to look at which sends me to that new website which has such interesting links and look it's almost time for lunch...oh that reminds me, what are we having for dinner?  Isn't there a recipe should I try from all those other bookmarks and wow, it's probably time to walk Lucky again and why haven't I adjusted the harness that I tried to make him but wait I also wanted to make a small cross body bag for my phone when I walk and where's that Pinterest picture of the bag that I liked so much?  Oh, look, doesn't what she's wearing resemble the tunic that Sarah Veblen helped me fit....wonder where I put those pattern pieces? And so it goes....
Is it any wonder that I have a million ideas, a scrambled brain and not so many results?  Where was I?  Oh, yeah, focus...
I am heading to my sewing space just testing fabric flowers for the next two hours.  More to come....