Unfinished Projects: To Do or Not to Do

Sometimes you just need to dive into a project.  Other times you need to plan for it.  My daughter used  an ugly hand-me-down end table growing up through the end of college.  Her first summer out of college, I finally got to the project of stripping and refinishing it.  It was work, but nothing I couldn't have started years earlier.

Do you have any projects to finish or even begin?  Make a plan.  Give yourself a time frame.  Enlist a friend.  She will hold you accountable and it will be more enjoyable.

OR…is the unfinished project anything you actually want?  There was a time I had unfinished cross stitch projects.  They were oh-so-cute when I  started them.  As I looked over them years later, I realized I just wasn't into cross stitch anymore, so why spend the time and effort finishing them?  I donated or threw them away and felt very free!

Here is the project that I DID decide to take time to complete.

It was painted an ugly yellow.

Underneath was a lovely dual wood

Here is the finished piece!