The Artist's Dilemma

Class is in two days and I am just now getting to the final of my homework project. I kept on doing "research" which means I was looking for Celtic border designs on the internet for 2 days! In the end I have run out of time to use them, so decided to leave them off, because sometimes less is more.
The dilemma: Do I forget about the homework and read a book by the pool? It is so tempting to quit and just say I'm going to work on my tan. But then, that sounds so superficial, and it will only fade, so I'm going with the homework.
Although I don't have any photos of the work in progress, I do have photos from the class I taught on gilding at conference. This is relevant, because the gilding in Reggie's class and in my projest is done with Instacoll. Here are the samples: