Finished or just starting?

For so many years at the beginning of each new year I think, this year is going to be different. I am not going to rush around at the middle of December finishing up all the artwork that I plan to give as gifts. I will be sure to do one a month and then as Christmas draws near there won't be this mad rush to complete the thought-out gifts I had planned for family and friends.
Now, in theory doesn't this seem like the perfect solution? If one starts in January and does just one per month you would have twelve lovely gifts to present when Christmas rolls around. Ah, but just theory it is. Never once have I achieved this goal. When my kids were little December found me up half the night finishing the knitting of Barbie doll clothes and putting the finishing touch on that mouse I crocheted for my son.
This year (as in every other year) I promised myself it would be different. I did complete four items that I wanted to give as gifts last month and as things happened in my life this year, am so thankful that I did, but-------------those were the only four gifts that I completed.
Now as the middle of December is here I find myself with that familiar frantic panic of activity trying to accomplish the impossible. Not wanting to be part of the mad rush in the stores leads to panic thinking I might have to go out and actually purchase a gift? Horror of horror's.
Ah, the light bulb just went on--why don't I hurry on over to Seranya Studio Art Boutique in Plymouth and select the perfect piece of art for everyone on my list?
The few that I absolutely have to give a piece of "my art" to will inspire me once again burn the midnight oil in the frantic race to the finish.
Perhaps this is all a part of Christmas that makes it Christmas to me.
How do you approach your gift giving?


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