Unplanned activity

Yesterday morning I was reading Donna's latest post at layers. I go there to see her wonderful collage work and she writes about how her work is planned, posing the question - what do others do? Now, I am not a great work planner but I felt inspired by her words to do something creative, hence the walk in my wellies up to my workshop... where I found the badger activity.... c'est la vie.

Anyway, I'd had this idea about screenprinting some cards or tags for Christmas a while ago so just made a paper stencil, got out some card, chose the paint and hey presto, I had a couple of sheets of prints. After finding some ribbon that matched (sort of) I cut them up, stamped over the top, attached the ribbon and had enough tags to stock a shop! After finishing these I came back to the house and received a phone call from my friend suggesting we meet for a coffee in Tenby this morning. At the end of the call she jokingly reminded me to bring the peg bag I was supposed to be making for her. This has been a running joke for a few weeks but, fired with energy, I picked up the fabric I'd put by for her and made the bag in less than an hour.

I was on a roll by now and had to do something else. The peg bag material was one of the £1 remnants I bought ages ago and I rooted around in my box (crate....) of fabric and found another sample I bought last year in a sale for £1 too. I'd bought a piece of silk from the charity shop for 50p and was going to use that for the lining. I'd already cut out all the pieces to make a bucket handbag but I'd moved on to another idea by the time it came to sew it. See what I'm like? Butterfly brain.

Anyway, I decided to finish it there and then. I already had all the bits like the handle and magnetic catch so all I had to devote was my time. It only took me a couple of hours and I'm really pleased with the result. It might make an aceptable gift for someone.

As I bought the fabric last December and cut it out in March, does sewing it up in November count as planned activity or is it simply procrastination? I've got a long way to go to organise myself better but I had a very productive day nonetheless. Thanks for the spur to action Donna.