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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
No, Joanna. Just no.
Advice given to me forty years ago went like this, "Keep it all simple. Don't allow your life to be complicated." Every now and then I have to revisit that long ago wisdom.
Over time, activities, committments, choices, intentions...grow up so high that I can't see out. The panic attacks begin.
I am my only enemy. All these dramas I inflict on myself. No one makes me say that I will do this, that, and the other. I volunteer...with the best of intentions. Then the anxiety; how am I going to do any of it?
Right now I'm desperate about a project re. chihuahuas. I started on the things I have to do, but all of it seems so complicated. I want to make chihuahua slippers for four children...little slippers with a chihuahua head on the front of each and a tail on the back of the foot. Then I want to make a little back pack with a velcroed-on chihuahua puppet for each of those children.
Finally I want each child to have a t-shirt with a chihuahua printed on the front. Worry, worry, worry.
The thing is, I can't make the chihuahua the way I see it in my head. As a matter of fact I can't choose which chihuahua image to use. Yesterday when Benny was here, we drew chihuahuas for the second time. I think my effort came out a bit better than the previous attempt. Here it is.
The pattern I made for the slippers came out this way...
I suppose this is going to be another instance of me frantically just diving in and doing one of these projects because the stress of worrying about them is too much. I don't, however, really have any idea how to do what I want to do.
See? That's how it goes. I talk myself into a predicament and then I have panic attacks about how to do what I said I'd do. Nothing new, been doing it all my life. Every time I start another project, I say to myself, "I will never, ever, so long as I live get myself into another mess like this."
Tuesday, May 24, 2005 - 8:54 PM
Name:
Tessa
That's a very good drawing of a chihuahua! I can't even draw a good stick man - totally hopeless. As for sewing anything, the less said the better. I once tried to make a pair of jeans for my husband. He could never get a pair which actually fitted because the waist was too big and too low. Well, the poor man did wear the result and pretended they were fine, but I could see they weren't!
Here you can buy special printer paper by Hewlett Packard which allows you to transfer a photograph onto a t-shirt by ironing it on. Just a thought.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 - 2:13 PM
Name:
doubledog
Yes, at least that would take care of the t-shirts.
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