It's ONLY PAPER Q2 Challenge Team Chat

Enjoy your weekend getaway, Shakti. I admire your morning routine of yoga and tidying. I am caffienating myself before heading out to visit some local greenhouses. The weather is still depressingly dreary and another hit of rain in the night killed my hope that by end of day we would be able to put some seeds into the garden.

Before I do, though, I think I will spend a little time getting this room back into shape. After dgs's crafting marathon yesterday and the internet guy moving stuff out of his way to wire in the new modem, I had to brace myself to even come in here. And I am a crafter who works well in a mess. But it has to be MY mess, I think LOL. If the next time I come back in here I have a PLAN for my next scrappy project, that should get my creative juices flowing...

Happy Saturday!

You will have such fun with those dies and that paper!


I just wish we could have waited until the LAST round to have two Canadian teams to play each other. Even with a win last night, Oilers' fans are not beyond the nail biting stage. So afraid we blew the goals last night we will need for game 7. Until last night, only one goal separated the two teams' total goals in the series. So a little puck luck might be the thing that propels one of them into the next round after Game 7. Meanwhile the Stars are sitting back, getting massages, resting their muscles and joints, getting proper rest and food...

The universe is telling me I need to quit worrying about garden planting today. It is raining--again. And close to freezing. I promised myself when I retired years ago that never again would I be gardening in my winter coat, so I have to trust that one day the skies will clear and the earth will dry and warm and be ready for my seeds and plants.

The creative side of my brain is torn in two directions this morning. On my counter is a pic of my son on a motorbike he restored, plus a stencil for making wheel tracks, and my Jaded Blossom gnome motorbike dies. But last night my dgd shared an official grad photo of her in her purple cap & gown and holding a huge bouquet of yellow roses...

Have a wonderful Sunday, team, no matter what your plans.

Good Monday morning. Rainy and dreary again this morning.

Between yesterday and today, I managed to construct a couple of motorbike gnomes. This one is on a tag, ready to go onto a page I can't share for awhile (a sample for a later challenge).  The other will go on a Fathers' Day card for my motorbike riding ds.

Yeah that one did not speak to me. Wondering if it will speak to anyone...

argh, sorry to hear that...

I hope you found some peace in paper crafting, Shakti. It is so hard not to have control over the situation. But hopefully good news will come soon.

The skies are clearing a bit here, but dh says it is still too wet to plant garden. I am feeling a time crunch, as May 24th approaches (the latest I have usually planted). But maybe by afternoon it will look better...

This morning I finished the sympathy cards I started yesterday with the OCC video. Will head over there to watch Day Two soon.

Then I think I will head into town to pick up a few groceries and the mail. With luck, the binder and page protectors I ordered for my dgd's grad album will be in, so then I will be able to work on getting the pages into the album.

How is YOUR Tuesday shaping up?

Good morning, Team!

(((((HUGS))))), Shakti. Hopefully a position that fits will fall into your grasp soon.

I agree, joblackford, that it is nearly impossible to figure out what the interviewers are looking for. My advice has always been to pretend you already work there, rather than trying to impress the panel. Maybe that uses micro intuitions, too: the interviewers start seeing you as part of the team, someone they can work with...

How are you enjoying your scrap storage, Ryann? I use one of those stadiums (stadia?) to organize my scrappy supplies when I am at a crop or working at my kitchen table; sometimes in here if I am working on a whole album (or a bunch of pages) on one theme. Also used it for my SCT Crop & Create materials. But I find that if left standing in the stadium too long, the 12x12 pieces start to curl. Helps to put a piece of light cb collection backing at the back. For card scraps, though it would be perfect. I have my scraps sorted by colour into a magazine rack above 3 drawers on the end of my scrap counter. I keep tools and pens in the drawers and it's great to be able to reach for just the colour I want when looking for something to diecut or mat with. And I have my dgs trained to go there FIRST when looking for papers, rather than riffling through my full sheets.

Not alot of crafting aspirations today. Dd is planning to come to see if the garden is dry enough to seed. And my albums and page protectors arrived yesterday, so no more excuses about getting my dgd's pages sorted and stowed. Her grad is June 7th, so the crunch is on...

grammadee I'm liking the new system a lot. I certainly have no shortage of chipboard! My goal is to use up the scraps quicker than they can start bowing. We'll see how that goes...

joblackford I was surprised the rwb cardmaking was already over, then I looked at my calendar - it's nearly June! Time is flying! We have random weeds growing up out of the rocks all over the yard. I keep saying we should go do 10-15 minutes of weeding and it would be done so quickly, but here I sit. We're supposed to have a few dry days in a row, so maybe then...

Shakti retiring early ain't half bad. I hope you find what you want.

Good morning, team. Hoping your week--and the upcoming weekend--is exactly what you want it to be.

Nothing crafty going on here for the next few days. Heading out today to a town about 3 hours away for a family funeral tomorrow, then home on Saturday. Dgs has a baseball tournament Saturday and Sunday.

Most of the garden seeds were put into the ground yesterday. I still have a couple of hand seeding sessions and bedding plants to put into the garden next week.

The only points I will be earning for the team will be hours for stuffing page protectors for dgd's grad album. Will have time to spend a couple hours doing that this morning. And will be printing the cover page and a couple of others for this album at a print shop that is on my way this morning. Almost June, you say? Time DOES fly Ryann and joblackford. I am planning to leave for the grad, gift in hand, next Friday...