Just Make Art

Ever see an art or craft tech­nique demon­strated and think, “Wow, I should try that out!”? It looks super cool and just watch­ing, your mind is alight with all the things you could do with it. Maybe you already have every­thing you need, which makes it excit­ing – some­thing new to do with your stash!

Or maybe you don’t have every­thing you need, which might be even more excit­ing – new things to shop for! You go as far as to buy all the sup­plies (even if it requires some shop­ping around) and you gather them together in an attrac­tive pile, ready for your next art adventure.

Only, time passes and your sup­plies begin to gather dust. With each pass­ing day, the like­li­hood of you actu­ally try­ing out that cool “I-gotta-try-that” tech­nique dimin­ishes. Down the road, when you see some­thing made using the same tech­nique, you think, “Oh, right, I meant to try that.” But your fire to exper­i­ment with it has died down and it joins the long list of, “things I meant to do some­time.” Secretly, you start to build up resis­tance, resis­tance that might find its base in the anx­i­ety of, “but what if I suck at it?” Continue read­ing “Procrastination Buster: The Scrap O’ Crap Technique”