Only buy it to use it . . .

Here is my take on this week's colour Q challenge.  I made it for my beautiful neighbour's 94th birthday. I struggled again to find the closest colours to the challenge (in this case 3 paleish pinks) but I love the result!  My daughter used to be into pink in a big way, until suddenly last year she switched to purple.  So it is nice to use a bit of pink every now and again!







My latest words of wisdom to myself:
"Don't buy it unless you are about to use it".
For me this means things like:

• don't buy it just because it's pretty (or cool or funky or whatever)
• don't buy it just because it fills a gap in the stash
• don't buy it just because you liked how someone used in a magazine
• don't buy it for something you hope to get around to, maybe, sometime, when you find the time, in the future . . . 
• don't buy it just because it's on special.

None of these reasons are innately bad (especially the last one!) but they are only justifiable if there is a specific reason to buy that paper/stamp/ribbon/whatever, and the project is ready to go right away.