Pokey Peas Challenge for February 2023

Thank you for setting up the new month nylene. I'm excited for 28-4-28 also - but I need to get moving on my hosted challenges.

Dh ended up at the ER yesterday with really high blood pressure - he's on new meds now and is off work the rest of the week and sees his doctor tomorrow. Hopefully it comes back down to a better level soon.

Thanks grammadee - so far he's been hanging out in the recliner and watching endless TV

Good luck to you Linda taking care of a sick DH! I hope the pcp gets him stabilized quickly. Scary!

I too only have 1 example for my 28-4-28 challenges done, but a 2nd is in production right now. I've noticed that I'm a VERY heavy "shape" scrapper, so I am finding lots of old examples in my old layouts too...if I get stumped one week, I have backup

nylene - this thread *totally* caught me off guard. February??? We're over 1/12 of the way until next Christmas? Ugh.

My gloomy news is my pup: Scout, the feature of a recent layout complete with Tim Holtz stamp lookalike. The vet says she won't be lasting the week. We have a house-call vet on speed dial for when she goes downhill. She's full of suspected cancer and her chest and abdomen are so full of fluid her breathing is rapid and shallow. Other than spending thousands of dollars for "cancer chasing" as the vet called it, there are no options. We could drain her chest and abdomen for 2-$3000, but it would probably refill within days. She's 12 1/2, and we couldn't imagine making her suffer like that for her final days. So we're giving her lots of love and treats, and today she seems stable. It broke our hearts because it came on so suddenly and she's been such a super doggo.

oh kitbop I'm so very sorry. I hope you all get plenty of loving in before it's his time to go. Saying goodbye is the hardest part of loving animals.

Good morning, Pokeys. I am off to get my hair cut today, and while I am in town I will get groceries and do some other errands. So no crafting for me today. Yesterday I spent a few hours sorting through my WAY-T00-MANY stamp sets. And this was mostly my CTMH sets; not including all the stamp/die sets that have accumulated around here... I have them grouped and labeled and stored back in their cupboard, but I really need to make myself a challenge to STAMP ON EVERYTHING!!!!

If there is a crop this upcoming weekend, I will try to join in. I bit the bullet and set up a fb account just to participate in Crop & Create events this spring. To do that, I created a new gmail adress. My other Google account seems to be through my email provider and doesn't give me the authority to start crops. Maybe this one will. Maybe if you have time this weekend, justjac, we can try it out?

Thinking of Skout, kitbop and the rest of you. Again, (((((HUGS))))).

When is your dh's surgery, nylene? Coming up soon if he had a pre op yesterday. (((((HUGS))))) to you two, also.

How is your dh doing today, Linda?

dh is relaxing - blood pressure is still higher than desired but is coming down. He sees his doctor this afternoon.

nylene - hope it warms up a bit for you. I tried making a nice layered title with my Cricut today - I need more practise because it took multiple tries, way too much cardstock and still didn't come out the way I had hoped. You and gramma always cut such lovely professional looking titles.

grammadee - great job organising - I need a stamp all the things challenge also - I could use the practise there also.

Back to my scrap table. Trying to make a good dent in my last photo order before this week's arrives tomorrow (early - it was scheduled for late next week)

Sample is just a sample. The challenge is 1 photo, 2 papers, 3word title.  

If I remember correctly the older Cricuts did not have the ability to do shadow cuts.  One of the big reasons I moved from Cricut to Silhouette.

Hi pokeys!

Scout is unchanged. Very quiet, enjoying a lot of treats, breathing is shallow and hard. But she seems comfortable enough so we're taking it day by day. DH and I are having a hard time deciding on home euthenasia or at the vet clinic. He wants home so she'll be as comfortable as possible at the end. Understood. But Scout has always enjoyed a trip to the vet! And I think doing it at home will cause me distress - a permanent memory of it in a spot I have to see every day. I'm also not sure how I will let them leave with her little body...I could leave her BEHIND at the vet, but will have a hard time letting them TAKE her away. DH and I are very much on opposite sides here and I'm not sure how we can figure out a solution because there are only the 2 options.

A bit of a costco photo update.

#1 - discovered that the first order, where I complained that the 5x7s were too yellow... when I compared prints side by side, they were the same as their 4x6 counterparts so I realized it was just my eyes and my own photos. The prints were accurate

#2 - got my 2nd order today (wow, quick!). I ordered matte finish. All the 4x6s came matte. But 3/4 of the 5x7s (not all of them, weirdly!) are GLOSSY! So I just got off the phone with customer service. They are reprinting them for me. AND gave me a refund for the 5x7s! Costco really does give good CS!

So now just waiting on the last order of another 500 prints.

Hello Pokeys. I took a whole day to play with paper. Well I did some searching and finding and reorganizing and... But I managed to finish three two page LO's--one for kitbop 's 28-4-28 challenge, and the samples for two challenges I need to post in the next couple of weeks. Can't share those, yet, but I did share the one LO in both Day ONE and the Donna challenge.

Hoping you all had a good day, and that you have a wonderful weekend.

I managed to start a Meet, invite and accept {myself}, so I am hoping to set one up for PEAS next Wednesday morning, the 8th. I will set up a thread on the GS board when it is nearer that time, but thought maybe nylene and Linda and cycworker and kellyr21 can have a chance to think about joining me.

Okay, need to wash the ink off my hands and fix something for supper...

I am pretty sure that works!

Hello cycworker - nice to 'see' you again

nylene - he's released to return to work on Monday, the new meds seem to be working and his blood pressure is much improved. Thanks for asking. Sounds like fun day with Em - some days you don't need to accomplish, just spending time with our loved ones is more than enough.

Hi Pokey's! This month is flying by already lol.

kitbop hugs - man, you and your family need a break. I hope Scout goes peacefully.

Things are slowly picking up at work - yay? I know we need the industry to keep thriving, but I'm over that crush we were under during the height of the pandemic, so I'm not too excited that things are picking up lol. Between more work, and some busy weeknights, I have not touched anything. But I'm hopping over to check out the 28-4-28 challenges and plan some things for tomorrow's crop.

DS2 is one year clean yesterday. Today we went to an AA meeting and listened to his GF speak, then to lunch at a new to me BBQ place that was so good. It was nice hanging out with them all.

nylene I hope me and grammadee and gramma stay friends after this season too! LOL! I've had to apologize to everyone in my life for my football brain this week lol. It's ok to just have an easy, fun non-productive day

grammadee I hope the crop works out for you. If I didn't work I would be there during the day for sure. Only a few more years lol.

Linda that's scary, I'm glad your DH is doing well and released to go back to work. Did they find a cause? I had an expression until recently, some of the cartridges have the shadow feature, but the machine itself does not.

hi kellyr21! Are you settled into your apartment again? I would love to see your sketches. Thanks for the reminder about sb.com. I always forget they have lots of free classes.

Alright, I need to check out the challenges and see what I can work on tomorrow