It's ONLY PAPER Q2 Challenge Team Chat

I suppose I inadvertently purchased sets of die cuts a couple years ago when I was starting in again to crafting and buying whatever was on sale and looked pretty/interesting. I am slowly finding ways to use them to make cards.

Last fall, I figured out that to use die cut sets for cardmaking, it's best to get the PP from the same collection, so I started buying them that way.

I think in at least one case, I went back and bought a 6x6 paper pad/pack for one of the die cut packs I already had.

I am feeling much better rested since I got home, thanks grammadee . I am, miraculously, unpacked, more or less. My luggage is back in the basement already and that almost never happens; it often kicks around the bedroom still partially packed, for weeks. Crafty stuff is kind of or maybe mostly unpacked. It's sort of hard to determine. Some of you might be aware that February into March I embarked on an insane marathon of five virtual crafty events in seven weeks. The craft room is still not quite recovered from, especially since I started the doomed new job around week six of that.

I'm struggling a bit today. Interview Tuesday went well, I think, but I won't hear feedback 'til Monday or Tuesday. Interview yesterday was tough. Interviewer started with "You've had like 10 jobs in like 20 years, what's that about?" or something like that. I thought I recovered well and established some rapport by the end, but heard that I hadn't made the cut within hours. Now, the position is open because the person who was in the role quite on short notice. He also mentioned that she'd been looking to transfer internally before she'd even worked for him a year. From that anecdote and his hostility attitude, my mom's guess is that he's difficult to work for and I dodged a bullet. But I came away from it with new, very stark realization that, yes, I've been laid off four times in fifteen years.

DH will be out this evening, but the friend I often have lunch with says dinner's better for her today, so I'll be cooking for us here. And she's also had some similar experiences in her career, so that will be a very welcome visit!

EtA: I also signed up today for the Get Organized thingy, joblackford . My understanding is that crochet and knitting are about the best crafts for while you're watching something else (but I wouldn't know, not doing either).

Good morning, Team!

I just heard from the company I am most excited about! They are very excited about me, too! They are arranging an hour video interview with the hiring manager for next week!! Seems like emotional whiplash after how low I felt yesterday....

Off to a networking meeting this morning and then nothing to do this afternoon but putter and vibe -- a a combo my kid calls "haunting". It will probably be too late to actively craft, though I have a kit with only two cards left, so maybe. But I should definitely be able to work on further recovering the craft room and coming up with a PP project to do at a Monday evening Paper Pumpkin group at my local SU demo's house.

OK! Two (x2) more pages completed...I now have only the ONE PAGE (x2) that tripped me last weekend left to go! Because both copies of ALL the other pages are done, I can use any and all materials left to get them done -- NO CHANCE of accidentally cutting a piece of paper I had earmarked for something else and accidentally mixed back into the stash again! And I am sitting here posting about it instead of working on it because I am suddenly question the wisdom of saving it for the end of my crafting day....

OMG -- it was SO CLOSE to done! So glad I pulled that last page out because

OH FRABJOUS DAY! CALLOO! CALLAY!

I finished a scrapbook project!!

The adulting portion of the day will commence as soon as the photos are shared....

I know that Karen Titus has a template where she starts with a 12x6 cut into 3 pieces at 4.5, 4 & 3.5 wide. There might be a way to use just a portion of her template to make a bunch of cards from your 3.5” scraps.

I’ve decided there will be plenty of time tomorrow to plan a project for the evening. I’ll need to find something else from my crafty-do list for this morning.

EtA: I have decided to attempt the last two classes from last May's Altenew Secret Garden retreat this morning. I have some other art deco-y Altenew products in the want to try this next bin, so it would be nice to get the streamlined set out of WIP jail.

But first, breakfast....