Keep it to thirty

That's what I keep telling myself.

I wish it worked with my age. I tried. I walked around for four days at age 29 and 361 days muttering, "Keep it to 30, keep it to 30."

Then I looked in the mirror and found seven grey hairs.

I'm trying hard to keep it to thirty new fall colorways. It's tough, because once creativity strikes, it's hard to ward her off. She wants to play, she doesn't want to be caged.

I need to keep it to thirty for logistical reasons, really. Otherwise, I'd make 300.

How do I choose between my babies? HOW? Eeny-meeny-miny-mo? Is that even how you spell eeny-meeny-miny-mo?

This is going to turn into Sophie's Choice pretty soon if I can't curtail my impulse to make just one more pretty thing.

Help!

Comments

[Lori]

Isn't 40 the new 30? I'd keep it to 40. Or 400.

Does that help? :o)

[Jen]

Sharon, I love you, but...you realize you're asking the wrong crowd for help, right? We're more likely to tell you, "Why limit yourself to 300? Creativity is meant to be expressed! Go for 3000!"

[Sandy]

I can help! Just send me all your rejects. I promise I'll look after your babies, give them deluxe accommodations and lots of love and squishes.

;-)

[Rhonnie]

Hmmm, 30 is so ambiguous...what does it REALLY mean?? I like 40 and 50 much better :D

[Amy]

I don't believe in limiting yourself. How can you reach your true potential if you place limits?

[Amber]

Take a good hard look at the colorways and see if there are any that are similar enough to look almost the same to the untrained eye and set those aside. Try to get a broad range of colors so that the yellow lovers are happy as well as the blue and green and purple and red and pink crowd (I know there are more colors) Does that help at all? I guess in the end you could always offer the other 9000 colorways as CY stockings or extras for the club members or something and then we all get to see the pretties but you don't have to try to dye them all the time :)

[Jennifer]

I think 500 is a good number.