My creative goals

I've always had an interest in crafting. As a kid, I always loved drawing fashion, I created my own paper dolls and made my own "clothes" for them. I tried my hand at cross stitching, embroidery, painting, watercolours, and yet, I never seem to be happy with my results, get frustrated and give up. Yep, I'm a quitter. I remember making doll clothes for my step daughter's Barbies and sometimes they turned out pretty cool. But I was no master sewer. I even have my crafty books. I have scrapbooks (constant work in progress), my little scraps of words and images that I want to put in books, clothes ideas for my "look book", images of home stuff for my "home wish book". People see me with magazines, hear me tearing out pages and don't even blink anymore. My glue stick, scissors and books come everywhere with me, hoping for a chance to put them together. And yet, I constantly feel like I'm not completing things.
I have super cool ideas and horrible follow through. I don't know HOW to fix it, but I have been toying around with the idea of doing a blog about my experiences and trying to be crafty...maybe even getting better at it along the way and documenting my successes (and failures). Here's how THAT started: First, I joined Twitter (still can't remember why), then I was looking for famous people to follow and found Lauren Conrad (of the Hills, which I loved watching). I followed her and even though I didn't do much "tweeting", I liked reading her tweets. I followed one tweet link to her site and started reading her blogs. Finding these interesting, I read one about her addiction to Pinterest. I had never heard of this, so of course, being the journalist I am (three years of being a reporter and now anytime I don't know something, I Google it!), I Googled it. Then I realized you had to join to be a part of it. So I joined (it was free, otherwise I wouldn't have) and became HOOKED. There are all these images of stuff (clothes, hairstyles, home decor, colour options, funky stuff) and you "repin" it to your page and can go through the stuff anytime you want. It's like someone went inside my brain, realized how hopeless I was and took all my little scraps of paper and put them online (my husband would be SOOO proud!). I repinned half the board and then realized I needed to organize my pins...I was in heaven. I could add, move, delete my pins and man, it was addictive! So I would click on others' pins and then end up following the link to their blogs and most of what I was clicking on were people's experiences with crafting. I was so inspired. I have so many ideas. Now, I have to find the motivation to do them.
First one...I found an image of this Heart shaped image with words written in it. I thought it looked so cool. I figured out how to do it...harder than it first looked...and went out, bought a frame and printed the image out...and it looked like a fourth grade project. I had planned to give it to my mom for her birthday but honestly, I couldn't...it sucked too much. I'll attach a pic of the project and then my version. I haven't given up on it...but it needs serious tweaking to make it way better.
So I plan to use this blog to blog about what I am inspired by and then to post what I have accomplished (or haven't).
Right now, my focus is on Abby's year 1 scrapbook (and yes, she's currently 2 years old and almost 2 months...I told you I suck!) and the frame for my mom.
Abby's scrapbook—I have 6 pages done (I'm using a friend's template, with each page representing a month, plus the day of her birth and me preggo). I will post pics as I get them done...
Here's page 1

Wish me luck!