procrastination as an art form ....

this is how i pretend to clean my studio these days .... i find something that has been sitting in my studio for days and weeks and years waiting for attention .... and give it attention to avoid sorting through drawers of things that need to be thrown away ... or at least dealt with....

it's a footstool with a wicked gash across the top ... the top of the simulated leather something or other .... i think the stool cost five or ten dollars ..... a long time ago .... and was dumpster bound .. goodwill wouldn't want it .... but i just couldn't do it ... not the dumpster death for the poor little footstool!

so ... some duct tape to mend the gash ... and i briefly considered having a duct tape footstool ...covering every bit of it all the way around in silver sticky tape..... quite edgy .... urban .... sleek ... contemporary .... but .... i'm not any of those things ... nor is my decor .... and though it would be fun to do ... and funny to have in my house ... i didn't really want to start a new house with a funny footstool.... groovy, cool, unique, interesting...yes ... funny ...no ...

....so ... given that we are doing a house reno ... spending money on things like bigger water heaters .... i'm trying not to shop at all ... ever ... really! ... so ... not going to be able to go buy fabric to cover this, i was just going to make do and use something from my formidable fabric stash .... but ... alas .... it wouldn't be ... none of my pieces that i like for it were big enough ... i mostly just do fat quarter sizes .... i could have sewn some pieces together for it ... but i didn't want the quilty look .. and, frankly, i didn't want to sew ....  SO .... i had a piece of white canvas  .....

but of course, i dont' want a white foot stool .... so i chose orange .... and painted the canvas orange .... and it was too peach ... i guess i watered down the paint too much ... i didn't want it all stiff ..... so then i dry brushed on some darker orange paint ..... and then .... i had a bunch of watered down orange? and nothing to do with it? so i started painting the floor ....
instead of finishing this procrastination project? i started procrastinating and started off on something else ....took some letter stencils and made an orange alphabet off on the edge .... and then? i should have mixed up some orange and umber and letter stenciled the fabric ... and let it dry ... and stapled it onto the footstool... but no ... not me .... instead? i moved all the furniture and started painting the floor full force ... har .... so the duct tape foot stool and the orange fabric? stashed off in a corner .. unfinished ... how many days weeks months years til i get back to that one? 

but my floor? looking groovy .... 

come back tomorrow and take a look ....