Mother's Day Flowers Finished

This was a hard one to finish with all the detail. It felt like putting together a large puzzle where between each piece I had to stop and reconfigure my thought process before putting down the next bit. It wouldn't be too big of a deal except I realized I was holding my breath through a lot of the process.


On the cruise, Ann Kullberg was describing me during my first cruise workshop with her, mentioning how easily I get bored while doing my pencil work. A good impression of her impression of me would be something like, "I'll do a little here, ok I'm bored with that now (5 seconds later), so I'll put a little over here (another 5 seconds goes by), okay I'm bored again, so I'll go back to this area... and so on." It was a very accurate impression of the way I work, so it had me in stitches. You can imagine how a complex pattern like these flowers though would be against my natural psyche.

Its not only the way I draw though. It took me 2 hours to empty the dishwasher last night. I started the top rack, got about half way through, then decided I needed to take out the garbage. I got back from that and put a few more cups away. Then my kids were trying to get snacks and it was time for dinner so I started cooking dinner, with the dishwasher still open. I put on some boiling water and the rice cooker and then put a few more cups away and maybe a bowl or two away. Then it was time to cook the meat and after back to a few more dishes. Hmmm a bit bored I better check my email. OK the meat is done and the rice now I'll do the veggies, and then put away the silverware from the dishwasher and I'm finally finished with the dishes and ready for the cleanup. Sigh.