I wish my eyebrow would stop twitching

I am often hard on myself for always waiting until the last minute to do things that have deadlines. I beat myself up over the self-inflicted stress and I believed, until very recently, that if I were to become one of those plan ahead people that my life would somehow fall neatly into place and peace would abound. Not true. So not true.

You may recall a while ago that I received some gorgeous beads in the mail from Anne of Gardanne Beads. Prior to that I had received some fabulous beads from Cindy Gimbrone. I knew that I wanted to somehow use these beads in something that might be considered for publication, so I sat down and I planned. I drew up ideas and came up with designs that made me giddy. I sat in the studio and made custom porcelain pieces that would coordinate perfectly with the glass beads. I bisqued them, I glazed them, I fired them... and they sucked. They just weren't going to do it for me. I no longer liked the ideas I had come up with, I no longer liked the colors I had chosen. It all stunk. Several weeks of planning was all for nothing and I was out of time.

The resulting two necklaces that you see here were made in the past 24 hours. I had to overnight them to California so that I would make the submission deadline. I am pleased as punch with how them came out. My nerves are shot and my eyebrow hasn't stopped twitching but they are done and gone and maybe, if I'm lucky, they will be published. So, no more planning ahead for this freak of nature. It just wastes time. :)