the cat's dress

It doesn't take much for me to become completely distracted from the task at hand.

While cleaning in my studio, I pulled down this book of typography which lead me to thinking about an old scrapbook cover that I had somewhere.
So off I went to look for it.
Found it.
The cover had me thinking about how little red I had in my house. 
At this point, I completely forgot what I was originally doing as I searched through the house looking for proof that I do have red somewhere.
This is all I could find:
 
a stained glass window in my kitchen
I figure that hardly counts because it came with this old house.

same goes for the stained glass window in the bathroom
 
My favorite part of this window is the pink and white swirly button center that looks like candy.

A red rose framed print in the kitchen
 
red rose oil painting, again in the kitchen

the border of a candy box 
seems I have plenty of rosey red, burgundy red but little in the way of fire engine cherry red

seed collected from an African coral tree

a red kokeshi doll from the time when I was working in Japan

and Cat's red dress

That's it, that's all I can find. So not only have I distracted myself with red, went a search through the house but now I have even spent more time away from what I was doing by blogging about red.

Now what was I originially doing?

that's right cleaning   
  
   

Comments

[nelda ream]

You have a lot more red in your house than we do. Right now all I can find that's red is some book spines on the shelf. Sometimes I get angry at myself for being so easily distracted, but it doesn't seem to help much.

[Erica from ATL]

Ha, ha! Sounds just like me! It's amazing, but I am most easily distracted when it is time to clean...hmmm...

[Julie Loeschke]

My own,that is.

[Julie Loeschke]

I blame menopause for this kind of behavior. ;)

[Ellen]

I can see why you got sidetracked! Funny, what gets me cleaning is redoing my living room decor.
Just moving a few things, re decorating the coffee table, plump up the pillows and the creative juices get following. I know I'm backwards, but whatever works, right!

Love all the treasures you shared with us...worked in Japan. I hope you will share the work in Japan story with us, someday!

[Marit]

I avoid cleaning, but once I start I get the best ideas... but it takes courage to go on cleaning and not start working on the ideas right away. I always finish cleaning first. Maybe I am too neat. I should be more like you - stop the cleaning and do wonderful discoveries and blog about it! Have a wonderful weekend! (btw, I'm wearing a red spencer right now!)

[Gwen]

Sometimes the best discoveries are made while trying to avoid cleaning...

[Carmen]

and i am sure your heart is RED ;-)

[Carmen]

you are lovely person.

please know that the exact same thing happens to me all the time, i get distracted with my own home treasures so very easy.

also, let me tell you, i did love mucho mucho mucho the tour of your journals, in fact, i am going to see it again and again, and i wish i could touch them in person.

again, you are a very big heart person.

[donna!ee]

maybe you didn't intend it to be BUT these were prompt for my day, and i discovered...i am so with you on the easily distracted mode AND the i barely have any red @ my place either...enjoy!