I have a tendency to put a lot of irons in the fire when it comes to my personal projects – not a terribly uncommon problem. As a result, lots of them are in various states of completion (or incompletion – depends if you’re an optimist or a pessimist) with no real end in site or timetable for getting finished. To remedy the situation I decided to try and force myself into finishing these projects by, amusingly, starting a new project I’m calling my Weekend Project Project.
The nature of these endeavors varies wildly, from art projects to tiny side businesses I’ve thought about but never taken the time to get off the ground properly. Regardless, the idea is every Friday I choose one of my neglected projects and focus on it exclusively for the rest of the weekend. It may not have to sparkle and sing, but by Sunday night or Monday morning, I have to try and get it to a state where I can say it’s done; that it no longer exists solely as an idea; that it lives as something slightly beyond proof-of-concept and delves into the realm of an acted-upon concept.
So, without further ado, I’ll present the result from last week’s installment of the Weekend Project Project in my next post…
[...] the mightiest of plectrum love affairs can never topple my thrifty tendencies coupled with my love for projects, so I decided to find a way to make my own. Using acrylic, laser cutters, a lot of sand paper and [...]