Future Designs
October 20, 2007 by Melinda
I don’t know why, but I am always amazed at my personal reaction to completing a project. I have an initial “whew” it’s finished and then it flows into a need to get going on another one. Almost a sense of loss that the project is over, all the challenges that I set for myself have been met, and a small feeling of my time being somewhat empty (not filled with the ever-present hoard of laundry or dishes that the family generates - that doesn’t count!) I’m never bored though, I just like to stay busy. My hands and mind need to be occupied with a creative challenge. I guess that’s what part of my personal sense of happiness and calm in a busy day/week/month/year is. I am also a fan of quotes and positive phrases and I have one above my desktop that reads “Create your Life Intentionally” that I gleaned from a book somewhere. So I am always thinking towards the future and dreaming of the next cross stitch design. I am also very aware of the fact that my “alone” time is very precious and fleeting for quiet reflection and thought. At the end of the day, the family comes home and the little cloud of “productive creative thought” goes “poof” and evaporates with noise, laughter, conversation, dinnertime, homework, etc. I am at a crossroads at the moment to decide what my future design will be. It is a comfortable cycle.
