I agree with the practice, practice, I do a practice piece every time just before I work on my project, to try to get in the rythym for that day! I'm still not very good at all and am taking a class next week so hopefully that will improve it. And Yes to the wine! One glass relaxes me a bit (or like my first time, 1 glass relaxed me a bit, 2 glasses relaxed me more & the 3rd glass made it so I didn't much care what it looked like! Oops)