Friday, November 12, 2010

Observation

I have noticed that nobody seems to make the stuff that exists in my head.
When I have a project in mind, my first inclination is to make every last bit of it from the most raw ingredients and supplies I can find.
Unfortunately, I have a life.
I have a busy life.
I have to cut corners and eventually concede that I will have to buy some of the parts that I need from a store.
This is always the sticky part for me. Stores don't have what my mind wants them to have. For instance, today I discovered that nobody makes red, glittered chipboard numbers. They just don't. Oh, there are aqua ones and black ones, but you have to buy a whole expensive package with letters in it too. I'd probably have to buy five packages to get all the numbers I'd need.
Also, nobody makes tiny envelopes with button and string closures. Do you know how much Googling it took to even find out that that's what they're called? It seemed to me that I should be able to just walk into Staples and buy those.
But by this point in the process, I am already so far gone into the project that I'm unwilling to compromise my vision and must, alas, return to square one and make everything myself.
I'm sure that I'm not alone in this clarity-of-vision-induced, caught-in-the-abyss-of-retail-land, not-enough-time-to-do-it-all crafting.
Right?

5 comments:

Mary said...

Right! Absolutely Right!

I'm really surprised that we haven't run into each other in that abyss...but then...it is an abyss after all.

Christy said...

So true, Mary. Though, it's sort of nice to know others are trapped there from time to time :)

mindy said...

I feel the same way about shopping for clothes! I can imagine the exact piece or outfit I'm looking for (you know how particular I am) and I can rarely find what I want. Maybe that's why I'm so drawn to sewing. But you're right, it's takes a heck of a lot more time to make it yourself. Frustrating.

Becky Nelson said...

and it's the explanation for why I have so many unfinished pieces on my worktable.

Amy Button said...

It sounds like a business plan to me :)

I'm on an indefinite crafting hiatus, if I can't buy it then I'm dunzo.