fixation + very little focus = severe frustration

I have an issue completing things...ask anyone - I have no patience...and very little 'sticktoitiveness.'  I don't like taking on things that are going to take me more than an hour or so to complete - just like I don't like facing things that I'm not entirely sure I can master...which is why I'm in WASH, to face a fear and expand.

We'll begin with a confession - I adored a cardboard creation in the WASH room before we'd been given our assignment...I'd seen it (I'll have to take a picture) and thought - whoa, that is just awesome.  So I knew what I wanted to make before we'd even been given the options and I'm just glad I was given that as an option. 

                                                                                                                                                                                  The mission (choose to accept it or get the heck outta WASH) - to replicate an item from nature with cardboard - bum, bum, bum - and the object I chose?

SweetGum

and the frustration begins...

BUT WHERE DO I BEGIN?  Well, I'm really not an 'outside of the box' thinker (get it?  We were using cardboard...) ::ahem:: so I wanted to make it as realistic as possible - I investigated my little friend here and started experimenting with the cardboard.  And this is what I got...

...the frustration continues...

And then after much repetition and annoyance I had that.  

And quite possibly a few "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?"s and "whatever, just whatever"s later I had this...

And for now, that is all I have.