Dabbling to No End must End!
Jun 15th, 2008 |
Recently at book club, we were talking about the latest trend of creating photo books online. Before scrapbooking was popular and all the cool tools came out, I would cut out photos, draw creative lettering with colored pencils, and use plain old tape to attach photos. Needless to say, the scrapbooks eventually fell apart. That was before words like “archival quality” and “acid-free” entered my vocabulary. Then I moved on to Creative Memories scrapbooks, thanks to my husband’s sister. She knew that I was wanting to get into scrapbooking, so that year for Christmas the whole family loaded me up with supplies.
Lately, I’ve become more interested in digital scrapbooking, to the point that I have downloaded various digital supplies and began various digital projects. But anyone who even remotely knows me knows that I am a creative dabbler to no end. One minute I’m scrapbooking, then I’m playing guitar, then I’m attempting to sew. And here is my revelation. I believe this desire to dabble is directly related to my perfectionism. I want it to be perfect, “it” being whatever creative process I am involved in at the moment, but I know deep down that it can’t be perfect. Therefore I dabble, and the result is that I simply never acquire the skills of a particular hobby to progress. All because it’s never going to be perfect anyway. This must stop!
