So on my way home from work, I got this great idea as to what to make out of a piece of blue Italian-looking brocade in my fabric stash! With a great whosh it hit me - I'll make a tabard-like Florentine overdress, late 1400's!

Then I got home, looked at the fabric, and realized that the piece I cut out of the brocade in an aborted attempt at another dress a few years ago will make my idea quite difficult to bring to fruition.

Difficult, but not impossible - I'll figure out a way to make that dress if I have to goof off, shirk, and daydream for days!

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives."