I spent most of my weekend mopey and sad over the death of a friend. Of course, if that friend had seen the way I was behaving, she would not have been happy. Hers was a life to be celebrated. At some point in my funk I reached for my crochet hook. It’s been awhile since I’ve crocheted, as my …
Penny Black Stickers
Last time I was in Memories Live On, they gave me a sheet of Penny Black stickers and asked me to make some sample cards with them. I don’t use a lot of stickers, so the sheet sat on the corner of my desk for days, taunting me. I finally decided, since many of the stickers were fairly large, to …
Exciting Happenings #1
I am extremely proud and excited to announce that I’m the new Co-Coordinator for the Card Cupids Design Team! Card Cupids is growing fast; they just announced a partnership The Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emmanuel in Portland OR to provide cards and toys for their patients on an ongoing basis. Obviously, any and all cards are welcomed, so if you’d …
Two Things
I went shopping today as a means of procrastination, and finally got the yarn I need to make my Christmas stockings. As a bonus, my sister finally sent pictures of our existing stockings. Unfortunately, the Blogger servers keep rejecting my image uploads, so you can’t see them just yet. UPDATE: Blogger doesn’t hate me anymore! Joy asked for a snowlady …
More Card Cupids
I’m interrupting your regularly-scheduled New Toy Tuesday to bring you two new cards I made for Card Cupids. If you missed my last posts about this charity, they collect cards to distribute to hospitalized children. They currently have three children on their list (two girls and one boy), so before I sent my first card I wanted to make sure …
Happy NaNoWriMo
Yes, it’s November 1, which means that for the next 30 days, every word I write on the blog is a word taken away from the book I should be writing. Current word count is 503. Only 49,497 to go (Take that, GMAT! I CAN do math!) I did take a break to draw this baseball in Photoshop for a …