What keeps you from Crafting?

The summer is gone and fall is almost over and I have not done any sewing or painting nor have I glued anything.  I have many projects planned and supplies gathered.  I have started and abandoned.  What is wrong with me? I think about it and I plan for it but then.. nothin'.    I'm going to blame my mother.  My mother will not sit down and relax until everything is in order.  If there is a dish to be washed and surfaced to be dusted then it is a priority next to obtaining world peace.  For as far back as I can remember, I have not suffered from the gross and debilitating disease.  However recently I've felt like that hour I would have spent sewing would be more wisely spent doing laundry and getting ready for work the next day.  My house has never been messier so my reasoning my be flawed.  Today, I pledge to at least straighten up my sewing room (which is also where my husband keeps his clothes, all the unmatched socks live with all the other things I collect that don't have a home).  I have 3 dolls to make for Christmas, a Christmas quilt top to finish and then quilt, some Christmas pillows that i have promised to make and then a lap quilt for a housewarming present.    I must be crazy.  PS.  I do this every year to myself.  Sadistic.

This is Sweet Potato.  She is another reason I can't get anything done.  She thinks she is a cat and wants to lay on top of what ever I am doing.  I have another one that lays with her head on my foot while I've got the pedal to the metal.  Try a little free motion quilting with that sort of love going on! Wonder why I've got such an awful bedspread on this bed?  Because I didn't finish the one I've been planning for a year now..  I guess I found my new years resolution.