I have been inspired. Inspired to do more with the time I have been given in this life. Oddly, this inspiration began with a clock. This clock to be exact.
If you are wondering what this clock inspired me to do....I must go back to a bay window.
I know, I know. It sounds like a bad joke. A clock, a window and a picture walk into a bar....
This beautiful yet utterly dysfunctional bay window that takes up an entire wall in my living room was a source of frustration and subsequent frantic Googling for ideas. You see, I had this window decorated for Christmas and while I had taken all of the holiday decor down, I hadn't yet washed the window. As I was washing them this afternoon I was contemplating what to do with this awkward space next. My four year old son makes pretty.....un-pretty and well placed decor items, well, they walk away.
Or maybe they run, I don't know.
Sooooo anyway, I ended up moving a large inexpensive picture (whose glass had already been broken) into this window just for filler until I decided what to do next.
Believe me...it looks awful from the outside if it is just left empty. Just trust me when I say it's better this way. Or maybe not, I stink at decorating.
And now, I have a completely blank wall in my dining room. I'm not sure, but I think I just moved the problem from the window to the dining room.
Sigh.......
I had this idea a few months ago that I would get one of those over sized wall clocks and make it the center of attention in the room, but I didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for a good one. Then, it occurred to me I could get a vinyl wall clock with a clock kit and put it there. It would be cool....right?
I loved the idea until I found the price of one of those was about as expensive as buying a real one. And let's face it, although they are cool, they aren't as nice as a real solid clock.
Next came the idea of stenciling the numbers and just getting the clock kit. You know, like any one of these that only cost around $10. At this point, I was kind of annoyed. I began thinking that cleaning my window had evolved to redecorating my entire house. I am notorious for doing this. I rearranged my living room five stinking times to put up my Christmas tree, which is only three feet wide by six feet tall.
So you can imagine what this window has done to my brain.
Then I ran across that clock. That handmade, based on a expensive designer, only cost $15 to make, clock.
I fell in love. Oh, no, I didn't fall in love with that clock, per say. I fell in love with the idea of making one myself. I had one idea...then another and another. I know if I don't write them down I will not remember them later. I wish I had the stuff to make one right now, but unfortunately my brilliant ideas are just going to have to wait until tomorrow.
I have this bad habit of not getting around to projects because I have so many other things going on in my life. In fact, I have a whole Pinterest folder entitled "Crafts I might get to...Some day" So this may not go very far. We shall see.
I'll leave you with a piece of advice: Don't muse too long on the concept of time, it slips away into the deepest regions of your brain and before you know it, you've lost track of it.
