After feeling incredible pressure to be creative on a time schedule and sharing my thoughts (not often enough) with my cyber support team, I feel like I've had a breakthrough. I stopped looking at my library of "how to" books and just started working on images to use in my project. I don't know why, but I had an epiphany about the next step this afternoon and am ready to crank! I'm going to use a new technique (OK, I got the idea from one of my books on paper cloth, but I haven't looked at it for months). I'm actually looking forward to the next few days.
What a relief.