And we start another month

Before I moved, I sorted my many projects and dreams of projects into bins, each bin holding just one month worth of work, from quilting idea to hand work to Christmas gift projects.  This has been the best idea I ever had, and with just a couple more bins, I'll have a full year of pretty red bins with projects all kitted and ready to be worked on. 
The finished items go to their homes and the bin gets filled with fabric that would be good to make up next year for items to sell and gift ideas.  Anything not finished from the May bin will get moved forward to the June bin and soon I'll actually have empty bins for other storage and no more cardboard boxes any where.
It's exciting to open the new bin, I just brought the June bin up from the basement.  In it I find the table runner and wall quilt for fall that I didn't finish last year, ideas for dying silk for butterfly wings, the fabric for the skirts that I want to make myself and the patterns to make choices from, and a wonderful bright yellow yarn with a gold thread running through it, to be made into a shawl for myself.  I have some patterns set aside for Christmas sewing and some bag patterns as well, that I can make to sell or give away for birthdays and Christmas.
This focus on just one month at a time has really helped.  The projects in the works are still out, but I'm not allowing myself to be overwhelmed by the number of UFO's that I have, and I'm picking projects for future use on Etsy and in craft fairs, leaving myself plenty of time to get them done and start back to work on customer items.
My sister had a garage sale over the week end and in helping her and talking to people I was able to hand out about 20 business cards and pick up two possible orders and a possible student.  I'm really excited, the added income will make my money last longer and put off that feeling of panic when I realize that I have to have this business totally running and making money that will support me fully inside 18 months.  I think that is a good time frame.  I just need to work the plan now and get some advertising out to push this along.
An exciting future for me.  Now, back to rearranging the basement so that I really can finally put the art room together.  One step at a time, make all those steps in the right direction.  I can't wait to see what the future has in store for me next.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath