TEAM CHATS, Divas AND Marvels

That's what I was thinking too! I'm always looking for the like button in the messages >.<

I love a good solo weekend, but then again I'm an introvert, so that's how my battery recharges. We have SIL + 10yo nephew and FIL + his new girlfriend in town this week so there has been a bit too much people time for me. I had to excuse myself yesterday while they played mini golf and spend the day quietly doing housework and looking for missing books at the library. We have had some fun adventures though, which means much more interesting photo opportunities, which makes me happy.

I can't believe it's August either. I'm determined to make the most of every day while the sun shines. We'll be back to gloomy PNW weather so soon, I don't want to miss out on enjoying this month!

yay! I love the messages being here, maybe I can follow better! (idk what it is about the messages thing.. I just can't do it)

Anywhoo... quiet day here today...getting my meal prep done, and a few other things as I have a 5 12 hour shifts coming at me this week.

I am hoping to get some photos organized and page kits made to take along with me.

I love having a chat thread over the PM's.

kitbop omg I would love to have a full weekend alone! I have a high energy 4 yo here one night every weekend. Ok, that's something I volunteered for, and I do love it but I love weekends alone too lol I'm an introvert though so I love being on my own lol. I hope you enjoy it!

Not sure what today holds exactly but I'm hoping tomorrow afternoon will be nothing but scrapping. teacherlisa I envy you being able to scrap at work!

I can’t believe it’s already August.

My ds starts second grade on Tuesday. He had such a fun summer traveling and spending time with grandparents and other family.
I have to admit though, I am ready to get back into a routine.

I worked most of the summer from home while ds was traveling and we were having our backyard redone. As a result, I’ve gotten used to sleeping in until right before I had to call into a meeting, taking it easy after work (since I’m already home but dh is still at work), and having some me time.

Starting on Tuesday, I go back into the office early so I can pick ds up from school at a reasonable time.

This weekend was busy with back to school stuff, but I still managed to get a couple pocket pages done in my every-day-in-June album. I finished the 24th and almost finished the 25th. It’ll be a fun book when it’s done. I did a 6x8 album for June with everything going on in my yard, with summer crazy schedules, and a vacation at the end of the month. Not a “typical” month, but enough going on for it to be interesting.

Good Monday morning! I have yet to scrap a thing this month. Need to unpack from last weekend’s crop and with the little guys here and the veggie garden needing work that is still not done. Printing little boy pic’s tomorrow and hope to be scrapping them by the end of the week. Have some great ones of them helping in the garden and of their cousin cutting grass to use for myboysnme’s Donna challenge.

I don’t regularly do a DD. Most of our holiday activity takes place on just a few days during the month, so i usually scrap it all at once after New Years. I make Christmas cards, usually starting in October. Have a few new dies though that i’d Like to play with: the new TH one with the cute elf and some EC Christmas critters.

Can’t believe kids are going back to school already. Ours don’t usually go back until at least the end of this month. Up here we need to let the kids soak up as much sun as they can before the long dark winter.

My FIL and SIL are both headed home first thing tomorrow. Thank goodness!! It was nice to see them but I'm exhausted. I'm looking forward to eating on my normal schedule and having quiet time without 3 people trying to talk at once and not discussing politics at dinner. I'm going to make a list of the things that drove me crazy about the visitors (complaining about everything, ordering food you know will be disappointing, being a martyr, not listening) to remind myself of the things I do that probably annoy other people. (Does anyone else have a "things I won't do when I get old" list?)

I tried to get back to crafting today with some cards to say thank you to realtors/for realtors to celebrate a house purchase with their clients (something that people come to my shop looking for) but it was too hot and I just couldn't push myself to figure out a good design. It's at least 83 F inside the house tonight.ugh. I'm so glad our bedroom is not this hot. This laptop is cooking me so I need to get off the internet!

you're too funny.
But your aunt sounds lovely. She must have always been a nice person to be around.
The idea of keeping a list came from an article in the New Yorker I think - I clipped it because it resonated, I'm a bit of a complainer but I dislike listening to old people who complain about everything! - and they also turned their list from a litany of complaints into solid advice to themselves for how to age gracefully. Instead of "mom needs to stop driving, she's irresponsible and dangerous" they framed it as something like "I will listen to others when they advise me that I'm not up to driving any more and let go with grace and accept their help" - that kind of thing.

It sounds like you're busy today. Maybe once you have all those things out of the way (and you have some new supplies) you'll be motivated to get scrappy

It's misty and cool (like fall!) here this morning so I can't use the heat as an excuse for my laziness today. I'm going to try to get some household to-dos done so I can focus. I'm also allowing that my procrastination may be mental processing that's necessary for Brain to send me a creative solution to my crafty problems. If I can't make progress on the realtor/house cards today I'll either switch to a different card project or I'll work on photography and new listings.

I used my ScanNCut a bunch yesterday, cutting out a lot of images I'd stamped and colored in the past few months to get them ready to use in projects. I only do it a few times a year because it's noisy and sometimes frustrating and I find it easy to do lots and then out the machine away for months. So, is that organizing? I'm thinking it counts as organizing.

I have a lot more coloring to do, and I'm currently working on the floor because I suddenly decided I should recreate some Halloween cards from last year but I don't think I'm done with the cutting machine yet. I'm pretty sure I can get a "messy" photo - I think that's one of our photo prompts, unless that's an August Break one.

Oh, casserole dinner is beeping! gotta go...

I'd been having a heck of a time getting good stamping on my Tiny Tim platform lately... lots of pressing really hard and still not getting good impressions, adding extra layers of card underneath to try to fix it. Well after a lot of strenuous effort and thinking I'd be better off just using an acrylic block I finally noticed what should've been obvious - I was using it on the rubber side instead of the clear stamp side. >>>DOH!<<<

And apparently I've been doing that for weeks... such an idiotic thing... I should've noticed!

I've been blaming the platform, the stamps, myself... but it was the most basic user error, simple carelessness.

I'm stamping skelly-critters for Halloween cards this morning. I have a great idea for a silly Halloween skeleton cat card based on a stupid song I can't get out of my head. Putting together some black cats in dark woods cards. Tidying up a bit. And I'm listening to a podcast about creativity and the perils of our productivity/busy-focused society called Hurry Slowly.

Oh, nice! That was a fun card so I'm not surprised
Have fun with your miniLOAD!

I'm trying to get some cards done, but I'm making a big mess without getting much finished. Trying to do everything at once instead of focusing on one project at a time.