Too Many WIPs?

Once again, I have many projects in the works.  Is there such a thing as too many WIPs?  This is a lovely bookmark pattern that is shared here, and I really wanted to make.  I have a hard time with patterns that are just diagrammed with no written instructions, and tend to make them harder than they really are.  After some insight given to me at our Twin Cities Tatters gathering yesterday, I think i have the idea now so I can keep working on finishing this one.  This is done using some perle cotton, size 8.



And then I have this doily I have taken back out to work on.  I started this one last year after winning Yarnplayer's beautiful Summer Trail HDT.  I'm very used to whipping out a crocheted doily, so when a tatted piece takes me longer than I have patience for, I have to put it away for awhile and work on something small that I can complete.  I'm ready to get this one done - it's such a pretty pattern.  This is the Starlight Doily from the Tatter's Treasure Chest, using Yarnplayer's size 20 HDT.

I've also been playing with blinging a few more shuttles after receiving some of Diane's shared papers.  Tatters are so incredibly generous!  I also received a trade package last week from Sue Anna for a bag I offered that included waaaaay too many things for just one bag.  HDT, a Pop-a-bobbin shuttle and bags by Jane E., and some Lizbeth.  It felt like Christmas!  That has happened to me a couple of times now - I am embarrassed to receive such wonderful gifts, but hopefully I can do that in return for someone else someday. 

Back to the shuttle-blinging - no wonder I don't get anything completed - I get sidetracked easily :)  You can't see it so well on the pictures, but I've glittered these shuttles and am layering on the Mod Podge to get them finished properly.

I especially love this little matching tin and shuttle.  Now I have to buy some more Altoids so I can make more tins to match my shuttles! 

And finally, I am staining this little wooden box that I've had for years.  It's something old that my Dad gave me years ago, and I've always intended to finish it.  Maybe when I get this done I can store my shuttles in it?

In any case, I have projects all over the place.  Nothing is done.  I lost an hour today with the daylight savings turn-back of the clock, and the afternoon is really getting away from me now too.  I need to make supper and get ready for the work week again.  The projects will have to be squeezed in where they fit.  Did I mention I've been motivated to get working on that Artisan Phase II of the T.A.T. program also?  I can't possibly work on just one thing!