My how time flies.  We all know that and we all experience days, weeks, months, even years slipping through our lives without us barely noticing.  Well, we usually notice the years.  If you’re not noticing those, maybe you’re somehow related to Rip Van Winkle.  I’ve done my share of procrastinating, of putting things off till tomorrow, of being absolutely positively stuck in my tracks with no motivation to move forward.  I want this year to be a little different.  I want to be as productive as possible (don’t we all?).  I want to complete more projects (don’t we all?).  Yes, that means start to finish.  Not start to “just need to put the clasp or the zipper or the button or the glaze on and then it’ll be finished.”  No, no, no.  Got enough of those lying around.  To kick start my year I’ve joined two challenges.  One is Creative Every Day (#CED2010 on twitter) which goes all year.  The other is Thing A Day which lasts through the month of February.

I know both these challenges will help me out.  I’ve already started thinking in terms of integrating creativity into my daily round instead of viewing it as something separate, detached from my life.  I’m also becoming more forgiving of myself.  I’ve got a lot of interests.  I’ve found out that’s not a bad thing.  I can jump from one thing to another without feeling guilty and still get things accomplished.

The pics above are just a sampling of what I worked on in January (in other words, what got finished).  There’s other bits and pieces, trials and errors lying around, but some things really aren’t ready for prime time.  Maybe they’ll make the cut this month.