Inside Gigi's World

Let’s chat for a moment, humor me if you will….

This is how my brain works.

Wow! Look at that fabric, even though I can barely sew, I can make so many things with that….oh look! Glitter

I love glitter so much, I can literally put it on every single thing I own. If I use polyurethane it won’t even make a mess.

Shit. A mess. Let me get the vacuum.

On the way to the vacuum I forget what I went to get and I see my rack of thread that I have strategically placed my spools of thread on. Something seems off so I spend the next twenty minutes rearranging them all over again.

Then one of the colors on the spool catches my eye, parakeet green, which I got specifically for my sugar skull fabric with the purple flowers. Not the one with the red flowers.

“Wait. Why the hell did they name this color parakeet green. It is more like a light turquoise color. Where the hell did I put that fabric?”

30 minutes later

“What the hell did I even come in here for?”

Back into the kitchen I go where I spot the the glitter mess.

I love that color glitter.

I could put that on so many things.

Wait….the vacuum.

I walk back out of the kitchen to get the vacuum when I spot my cross stitch stash with my little project I have been working on for weeks now…maybe I should get back to that.

I pick it up and find my needle and get a few stitches in, when, from my chair, I look over into the kitchen where I spy an explosion of glitter painted all over the floor and kitchen table.

Shit, where’d I put that vacuum?….

Never mind the A.D.H.D, oh look there’s the vacuum….

Let’s talk about the

High.

Functioning.

Anxiety.

It increases the distractions while fixating on the distractions that were already distractions before.

I love making things, having an idea that is so fun I even suprise myself.

The A.D.H.D causes me to hop from one thing to the next and the impulsiveness to do it 5 things at a time.

While the anxiety makes me feels awful for not finishing and feeling like my mind is cluttered. It makes me fixate on things that are often out of my control and it makes me feel like I constantly have to go back to make my projects better, even when they are already done.

Current projects I am working on now:

Sassy cross stitch project for J.

Adding recipes to “our” new family cookbook.

A few blankets.

Face masks.

A new camera strap.

And a partridge in a pear tree….

What are some projects you are you working on? Anything you find that keeps you focused?

And where the hell did I put that damn vacuum?