Well hello friends! I know it’s been a long time since I’ve posted and holy smokes have things changed with trying to post on social media. I ended up taking a break from sharing online, and when I was ready to come back I had a new laptop. Which meant my photo editing program needed to be updated and all my actions and brushes (I use Photoshop) were gone. It was such a chore to try to edit the photos so I just didn’t bother uploading.
I had somehow injured my hip mid April and was in a lot of pain with very limited mobility so sitting and trying to figure out photo editing AND uploading to Instagram etc was beyond me. When you are in pain - and on strong pain meds - it’s hard to think clearly. I can now say that I am finally turning the corner and have much better mobility and a lot less pain. I still can’t go up a full size step but I can now do a 3” one!! Thank goodness for physio therapy.
In May I suggested to hubby that I wanted to 're-do’ part of my craft room. I pictured going through the drawers etc one at a time, and showed him a few cabinet options. Again, I was thinking sometime in the future. I could only stand for about 10 minutes at a time because of the hip injury so knew it would be a long haul project. My hubby does not do long drawn out projects, and immediately started emptying about 2/3 of my room, dragged out the old cabinet - which was initially our daughters and she was happy to take it back. He showed me a couple of cabinets that he thought would work - paper and dies are HEAVY - and placed the order. Let me tell you, I had craft stuff EVERYWHERE in our main living area.
It took me WEEKS to go through what remained in the room, get it all re-organized into the new cabinets, and then purge what came out of there initially. The night I got the last bin emptied and we had our living area back was cause for celebration! I love having everything organized and easily accessible but mostly out of sight. I have room to work again - my work space just kept getting smaller and smaller because of STUFF.
With this injury, I really came to terms to how much paper crafting stuff I owned that I was not using … just keeping it for someday. Of course, I had also stopped purchasing craft stuff - haven’t really done much in the past couple of years. I have continued to make 25 birthday cards each month for my Mom’s old nursing home as well as most of our families cards. That being said, I didn’t get Canada Day cards made or even our July Ice Cream cards done. But I’m back on track now and just finished Back To School cards for the grandkids so I’ll have them ready at the end of the month.
Meanwhile, I’m here to share these birthday cards made for the nursing home. I used my very favourite Sheetoad layout, the August 2023 one. Now I’m off to see if I can get the pictures uploaded to Facebook and Instagram too!
Supplies used:
August 2023 Sheetload of Cards, Call Me Crafty Al
Patterned paper - Confetti, DCWV
Happy Birthday - Magic Messages, Lawn Fawn
1-3/4” Circle Punch, Stampin’ Up
