It's ONLY PAPER Q2 Challenge Team Chat

I didn’t know about the Lacey one!
We have a tiny used craft shop in our old downtown spreadsupplies.com/
The owner is a very active member of our local Buy Nothing group. There’s a fair bit of older scrappy stuff there.

Thanks for the link! I have a friend in Chehalis who might be interested in that too. 

Hello Team!

I just finished stuffing the last of the copied pages into my dgd's albums. I now need to put together a cover page. I did one with her grad photo on it, but that will go on the OUTside of the cover. This page needs to be the first one in the book. I don't have the photo I want to use, but plan to text her mom to ask for it.

Later, I plan to head to town to a dgs's baseball tourney.

Very slow start to the day. It's a bit overcast and drizzly. Oh! While typing this a deer walked by the house with a new doe. I hadn't seen a baby in person yet. Awwww. SOOO, so cute! Okay sorry for the tangent. We had planned to go to some garage sales (the whole town is having a coordinated garage sale this weekend, complete with maps & lists of houses participating) but DW woke up not feeling great so I think instead I will have some time in the craft room.

I have a drawer unit to go into a Kallax cube that I got to organize childhood photos/memorabilia. So that is something I could do today. I also had delivered a large pile of landscape oriented sleeves that I'm going to use for die storage. It was the last thing I needed to start that organizing process. So a little project and a big project to be tackled. I think I will start with the small one so I can at least get something completed today.

I think I'm going to put some music on and start at it. Anyone else like working with music, or prefer tv/movie or silence? I like all of them - just depends on my mood.

Oh boy, a crafty doom box! I've heard that's what people are calling the boxes that result from a good old fashioned stash and dash. Good luck with that. I hope it's helping settle you, or at least serves as a distraction.



Sounds like a good way to spend a day. It's nice to get something all the way done. Hope your DW is feeling better soon.

I have been in a lot of silence this weekend, but I prefer chit chat, some kind of company to distract my brain and get me to settle. It's usually YouTube videos because actual movies are too engrossing (no crafting gets done) and TV has too many annoying ads. And music isn't my first choice most of the time even though I enjoy it - I don't have a good ad-free music option right now and so I'm out of the habit of listening. I should listen to an audiobook, but I don't usually. I tend to audiobook while out of the house walking or on the bus, but it's by far the smartest choice for me while crafting.

Why don't we do the things we know are good for us? That's my big question of the day.

I got all of this week's Hummels sold, all went for pretty cheap except one. The one that got bid up to a decent price was the same one I had to cancel last time because the winner ghosted me and didn't pay. And once again, it's the only one that hasn't been paid for. The money for one called "Be Patient" just came through... but "Pretzel Girl" is still waiting. I'm hoping it's just the busy long weekend and they'll follow through soon.

Did you manage without a crafty go bag this weekend? Hopefully it didn't drive you totally around the twist. 
Hope the weather cooperates with your garden plans. 

We have family coming into town at the end of the week. I guess I had better make a list of things I will wish I could be doing when they're here and do them while I have the house to myself 12 hours a day.

My husband is pushing hard to get FIL's deck built before everyone arrives. That's FIL's goal, but he doesn't make it easy... yesterday FIL said he had clamped a post that needed to stay straight and level while hubby laid out a railing, but he didn't actually clamp it to anything, he just put a clamp on it. doh. Hubby is so done. 

Just say no to doom boxes Shakti! My decluttering teacher (Dana K White) talks a lot about 'take it there now' - not making piles, not setting it down to deal with later, but just taking what you can hold in your hands, going to the place where you would look for it first, and putting it all the way away. Then it's done and when life (or brain) interrupts, you've actually made progress. Her voice lives in my head now, and sometimes it actually works!

joblackford Shakti DW is feeling better today - thank you. She even made us veggie ramen for lunch today!

grammadee I've very sorry for your loss. I hope you get time to catch your breath after your busy weekend and before the busy-ness of the next trip starts.

My small project from yesterday was stalled before I could get started. The two stacked drawer units don't fit into the space allotted. They just barely don't fit. I'm going to try shaving down the plastic feet of one of the units with a metal file. That *should* do the trick?! That reminds me, I need to find and buy a metal file...

I did some FaceTime crafting with a friend today. Got a good start on the summer cards I'll need for the upcoming 2peas swap. The sign up is still open if anyone is interested...

ETA: and yay! for vanquished Doom Boxes!

Good Tuesday morning. My new stove arrives today!!! I am excited to... boil eggs LOL. I have an air fryer, an electric skillet, a portable oven, a toaster oven. Dh has a barbecue and a couple of electric grills. But I miss being able to just grab a small pot or pan and just start cooking.

I have been working through my list of cards that need making. Have been trying out some of the techniques from the Online Card Classes Embossing videos. And some of my gnome add-on dies. So each card is taking longer than it might otherwise. Will share them all here as a group when I finish.

Got some seeds into the garden yesterday. Depending on when the guys arrive with the stove, I may get out there again later to pop in some more. And Dh set up the water barrel. It is filled with cold well water, but warming in the sun, waiting for me to get out there to set in my bedding plants. That will probably be tomorrow.

PS. I reported & deleted the content from the post just above mine. Hope you weren't impatiently waiting for a chance to earn money from YouTube...

They go in the trash with a shrug and a sad face. I think most of mine have ended up cracking - at that point I can't keep using them. I have had some that I kept thinking they would be backups but most got so warped and cut into that they were really awful to use. I don't have any ideas for clever reuse or recycling

Your room looks great!!