Joyful Scrappers August Chat

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I’m hoping for a more productive month as well. I’m off to a good start-7 layouts over the weekend. I wasn’t really feeling it, but once I sat down I got into a groove.

I go back to work (preschool aide) in two weeks so we’ll see how my creativity does then.

This month should be pretty good for me. I decided to go back to my DB and DSIL’s house in Vegas next week. I have a credit from our canceled flight in March, and she didn’t get enough scrappy time with me! I’m a bit nervous, but hoping everything goes smoothly, and we all stay well. I should be able to get some scrapping done!

Good morning, Joyful Scrappers! I am in my craftroom and have a couple of pages kind of laid out, but after a couple of weeks of not scrapping, it takes a bit of time to get back into the flow. But I will. Honest. I will. joyfulnana, I can't believe you told me on another thread to "get to work"!

So sorry to hear you are moving back into all those restrictions, AussieMeg! What a let down after your country was doing so WELL. I hope you can spend your extra time scrapping, but I am thinking it will be hard with everyone working and schooling from home.

angel97701, my dd has the choice to send her hyperactive 7-yr-0ld kid to school or to keep him at home, and she has weighed the choices very thoroughly. He NEEDS the interaction with teacher and classmates, yet he can't really be trusted to keep his hands on only his own stuff, or to keep a mask on his face. And the district laid off all the TA's last spring when the kids were sent home in March, and are not planning to hire them back this fall. She had almost decided on home schooling until she found out their school district's plan was to have different teachers from different schools teach each of the core courses for one hour per day (so basically 5 hours a day on line with teachers he has never met in person). So she has decided to have him attend in person. She will drive him to avoid the bus. Right now there are ZERO cases in their area, but if someone in his class tests positive and everyone is sent home, she thinks at least then he will have spent time with the teacher and will be able to interact with her from home. There was hopeful news about vaccines on the news this weekend. PLEASE let it work out...

I will feel guilty posting my August pages. My ds dropped two of his girls off here on the 2nd and I took them back to him on the 10th, and dd and dgs joined us here on the farm on the 6th, so these kids had cousin time, and we got some grandkid time. They had to stay here at the farm, so no adventures except a trip to a local lake for kayaking one day, and they were the only kids on the beach. It was so wonderful to see them enjoying board games, picking berries, playing on the playpark in our back yard, all those things that might have seemed boring if there were alternatives, but they really had FUN here.

Okay, enough delaying... as joyfulnana says, I have to GET BACK TO WORK!

Hi all! I wanted to pop in to say hello. August has been a doozy. DH had surgery earlier in the week. The AC decided to go out last week and our appt. to replace it isn't until the 28th (it's 96 degrees here today, with 100 degrees in the days to come), so not feeling particularly creative right now. Shopping has been my stress relief, so lots of new toys to play with once things stabilize a bit here.

I did get a few pages done last week when it was "only" in the 80s inside the house. Oof! DH is home from work through at least next Friday, so I likely won't be around much until after then.

I hope everyone is doing well (or at least better).

joyfulnana, I forgot that September was Sketchtember. I look forward to seeing what you have made. I struggle with sketches because I scrap 8.5x11 and most are 12x12 and I seldom do double pages. Last year I found that I could alter a lot of the sketches and just make them smaller. Linda does that so well when she alters sketches. I just need to practice.

Internet is still on and Cousin Camp was really fun with the kids. We had 8 cousins on Zoom together. They made some really fun things with their Genius kits, and each showed a talent. It's not as good as having them where I can hug them, but better than nothing in the time of Covid.

natscraps, are you a teacher?

Hello Ladies. I finally added up my points, so I am up to date. Not sure if I will actually "accomplish" anything with Scrap Smarter, but it is fun to learn new things. I had trouble getting the sound to work on my ipad, got that fixed with some help, and still need to figure out the chat function on Zoom. People are so fast on the chats, and the messages kind of fly by the top of my screen. By the time I think of something to say, the topic has moved on LOL.

The first class tomorrow doesn't start until 10:00AM so I may be able to put something together on my scrapdesk before then. He is teaching a mini album, which I won't be doing, but his supply list includes some pet papers, so I think i might start a doggie page, and then maybe pick up some ideas for embellishments during the class.

Good luck with your academic plan, natscraps. So hard, especially this year, to figure out what everyone will need.

Where has this month gone? I have accomplished very little in scrapping. I'm still debating about joining the Team in September. I'm a bit out of mojo and I struggle with sketches since my pages are smaller. I have made more cards than pages lately. I have loved the Sheetload challenges on the Cards board. I look forward to the Sept Sheetload.

I hope you all have a great weekend.

nylene, I hope you decide to sign up for September, even if you do just a few of the sketches. In fact I hope ALL of you who haven't yet signed up, just DO it! Doesn't matter if you create 30 projects for the bonus or ONE page you really like. Whether you are making cards and never even LOOK at the sketches, that works, too.

I agree, time is moving WAY too fast! Life is short: we have to have some FUN, right?

And joyfulnana, I read your Frozen Peas challenge over several times, and it says to count 10 points for every day you DON'T spend. The other challenge says you can count one point for every dollar you DO spend. So the best of both worlds! You can count your spending the days you DO and grab ten points for every day you DON'T.

Sounds like an incredibly busy month, angel97701 . Hoping all goes well with your ds's schooling. So sad for him that his buddy needs to move away. Will they be able to communicate with each other on line? It gives my (much younger) dgs with separation anxiety great comfort to chat on the phone or face time with guys he hasn't seen for over a year yet still are his friends.

joyfulnana , thanks for hosting us this month. My total for August is 916. A lot of those came from the no shopping challenge this month. LOL