Plan the Work and Work the Plan and other bad habits I am trying to break.....

Truth be told:

 

Even as a child I made lists....my mom used to tease me endlessly about my lists, later my husband and kids would tease me about my lists.....I engrained into myself to plan the work and work the plan.  It worked well with my control issues and OCD.

 

I spent my whole professional career (commodity buyer, tv production assistant, development manager, project manager, Director of IT) using much more advanced lists like this:

 

 So now in my post-professional/consulting world I am finding trying to find the balance....

On the flight home from South America I made a list of things I needed to do....it numbered 143.  Normally I would prioritize the list and then start with the top priorities and then work my way down.....being the convert rebel I am trying struggling to become, I decided to just flutter around and do whatever looked like needed attention....baby steps.....

Good news:  got lots of fun things done; Bad News: way behind in things that needed to be done.  I am not sure if I can keep this up....I worry I might become ADD!

Remember this Thrift Find from awhile back....someone put Krazy Glue on this vintage beveled round mirror and then added a plastic rope.....I just had to save her.  Who would put plastic rope on a lady like this???

 Under estimating the effort I tried many different approaches I found the combination of Goo Be Gone and WD 40 was the best concoction....plus hours of scraping. 

 Hard to see with the light coming through the window but I hung her in the guest room....she looks so happy and clean and sparkles and shines now.  She is much happier now and I am relieved to mark this one off the list.

 I really should not have,  but this week during some consulting work I happened to be near my fave thrift store.....I have wanted to repurpose a dresser like this:

 

So when I found this little treasure for $14.95 that had stickers all over her I thought I had found the perfect piece. 

 

Remember I have 142 things on my list (I got to mark 1 off when I finished the mirror).   hmmmmm....I reverted to my old thinking and told myself I would tuck her away and work on her as #143....old habits die hard.

 

 Oh, and I also found these other pretties....clock for clock project; Beleek shamrock, Chihuahua taco holder for The Addie and Ms. Shannie, George and Martha figurine - just because!  Total for all of this:  $28.80

 

Then I reminded myself to throwing 'Caution to the Wind' and embrace my new found un prioritized list....I decided to work on her first.  After I scrubbed and scrubbed I found such a beauty that I could not bear to paint her!

 Then I dressed her up with my vintage perfume tray, a bronze angel I got in Belgium, and lots of vintage jewelry given to me....

 These pieces are so precious and beautiful to me!  They had been hiding in my closet for years....they are happy to be out and sparkling!

So a few other things got done this week.....but so many other things did not....including taxes...still.not.done

 

I may be enjoying working on my new found freedom of flitting around doing fun things but I don't thing the government will embrace my new found flitting!

 

 

This is one thing on my list I must complete!

 Because I do not want to be on this list!

Oh....and before I go....Happy Easter....my vintage inspiration!