Advice for a Disappointed Relationship Between My Brain and Reality

Every get one of those ideas where you're all like "this is gonna be awesome and everyone is gonna love it"?  Yeah.  I get them too.  I have a poor relationship with this sort of idea.  Normal ideas, where I'm all like "this may actually work and produce a pleasant outcome" are better suited for me.  We get along way better than those other ideas.

Case in point.  I had the awesome idea that I could draw this cool thing around my logo to put under all of my pictures so that I would be branding and awesome and drawing and awesome.  It would be like an enhanced picture background... and be awesome.  Did I mention awesome?

I facebooked about this cool idea, I tweeted about it, and I was genuinely VERY excited about it.  I spent hours working on this picture that would magically transform my pictures into awesome. (Good thing this isn't Pee Wee's Playhouse, where AWESOME is the word of the day)  Then I put this so called awesome picture into use.

logo embellishment for photos... that I hate

purple jellyfish on a crappy background

I hate it.  It's not even close to what I had envisioned in my head, and I could cry (but I won't because I'm wearing my big girl panties, and poop happens) about how much time I wasted on this crappy drawing.  So... after eating a bunch of cookies I have it.  My relationship advice for this sort of idea vs. my own reality would be: to not count your chickens before you actually see how your awesome idea comes out.  Then end result could make you feel a little barfy.

On a good note... I do like the picture by itself.  Maybe it can still be useful as a little blip somewhere. :)  See that? I just made lemonade.