Wednesday Envie

 One of my very first swaps was to create envelopes from a used calandar.  I had scored a really cool free calandar from the Birds of Prey Museum.  And look who flew into my mailbox from Emilie.  

Funny childhood story:  I remember one summer day being out in the back yard while my mother hung wash on the clothesline.  My brother and I were playing when out of nowhere a blue jay comes soaring in and dive bombed my brother.  Luckily he used his ninja skills and dove under the picnic table until that pesky bird disappeared.  (Not a funny story for my brother!)

Winter Princess

The Postal Book (Page 1)

Help! (part 2)

 Major clean up.  Great minds think alike!  Totally moved things vertically.  Wish I had a shelving unit I could put up behind the desk to expand my storage & increase work space on the desk.  Thanks to a quick raid to a trash can (in an undisclosed location) I found a plastic file thingy (seen to the right of the computer) that helped clear space off of the ironing board that can't be seen in the picture and help me keep track of current projects.  Don't you just love my stool/chair!  Yeah, it's as comfortable as it looks.  My daughter likes to stand on the step behind me and watch over my shoulder.

Help!

Thursday, Dec. 1st

Well, our fun afternoon consisted of visiting with an orthopedist and then lining up an MRI for tomorrow and the follow up with the orthopedist after that.  Those visits will let us know if hubby is facing surgery or not.

On to other news, I finally (with encouragement from above mentioned hubby & his mom) have decided to professionally print my first postcard design.  I have been going back and forth and back and forth.... Finally (thanks to B11F) took the plunge.  I have also been working on a cute package to send out my postcard sets.

That is all.

Happy Bookmas!

For those unfamiliar with Swap-bot, there are several types of swaps.  General, Group, Private.  General Swaps are open to anyone on Swapt-bot (registered users).  There are loads of categories to chose from (for example postcards, letters, books, food, random, etc.)

Group swaps are conducted between members of a group.  One can be invited or ask to join a group that matches their particular interests.  

Private swaps are just that.  Individuals may create a swap just between themselves for whatever particular item that interests them.

I have begun participating in a swap-bot group called District 13.  (Check out The Hunger Games.)  There is a swap called Happy Bookmas.  The idea is to create a card with books as the theme (hense the name), include a book mark, as well as a book suggestion or two.

This would be the front of my card.  I used some pages from some books in a couple of different languages and added some old Creative Memories cut outs that I've had forever.  Considered using some glitter, but can't find mine and I was thinking that someone from District 13 probably wouldn't have glitter handy, either.  (My lame excuse reasoning behind not looking harder for glitter.)

 My lame attempt at poetry.

 The official greeting.  Thanks awesome stickers from a swap partner!!!

On a personal note, life here is a bit crazy!  Besides my own neck/pain issues (no, not the children being a pain in-although that happens, too), and my M-I-L (who recently had back surgery & is on disability) moving in with us, my husband busted his "good" knee playing indoor soccer last night.  This would be the second time he has called me while enroute the ER.  Nothing is broken (bone-wise), but tomorrow he goes to see an orthopedic who will most likely tell him to get an MRI which will then tell us how badly he's injured his ligaments or ACL or something nor other.  We took this trip about 11 years ago.  Weeks at home, physical thereapy, pain, frustration.  The thing most heart wrenching is that we don't get to travel or have cool cars or a motorcycle, but my sweetheart loved to play sports and we always managed to afford this little luxery of his.  Now that is probably gone.  I can only watch him struggle with anger and frustration and disapointment.  I can fetch ice & food.  Fix the pillows.  But I can't fix this.