things
- Daylight Savings can bite me
- I'm so sad that True Detective is over. Fastest 8 weeks ever.
- I have swung so wildly from OMG SO HAPPY, to HOW CAN THINGS GET ANY WORSE the past few weeks that I'm sea sick
- I've been working two days a week (or less depending on the whims of Mather Nature this winter) at my dad's print shop and it's been so good, because, paper. I remember how I fell in love with it all those years ago when I would spend time there playing with custom notepads made just for me and those letraset rub-ons. Sigh. I started in October and it's worked so perfectly for me.
- In December, I started working for My Favorite Things as well. And also, wonderful. The products are top notch (I'm kind of loving my die cutting machine and learning to stamp!) and the people are AMAZING. I'm a lucky girl.
- The box of Lucky Charms that I bought for myself and hid (to eat when the kids were at school or, um, during late-night work sessions) was totally worth it.
- My new Mac is so pretty. I didn't realize how much harder I was working on my old computer.
- I've been scrapbooking a bit here and there and even though it takes me ages to pull a layout together (it used to take me 15 minutes! what the hell happened?) I'm enjoying it. Maybe it's taking me a long time because I'm tackling really time consuming techniques. Like hand-stitching in ombre with 6 different floss colors.
- Some of them are fast though. (There's a paper Jake wrote for school about having Zack for a brother tucked inside that flip up. It's pretty much the sweetest thing ever but not for me to share.)
- I did that layout based on this:
- I loved the colors of that design too though so I took some filler card inspiration that I had saved ages ago (and I don't have the source, which is SO unlike me so if you recognize the patterns, please let me know!) and made these. You can download them here.
- I have a little printable freebie (in 5x7" and 3"4") that I'll share in my newsletter tomorrow. If you're a fan of Downton Abbey, you might like it :) (sidebar: Carson + Hughes trumps any other couple on the show. Please, please, please make that happen next season.) You can sign up for the newsletter over in the sidebar if you're interested!
- And how are all of you?
there you are!
ReplyDeletei so love hearing from you.
xoxoxo.
so happy that you're happy. :)
ReplyDeleteyes, daylight savings can bite me too. ugh.
ReplyDeletelove this list and peek into your life. love that you are scrapping and creating again. that stitching is something else, girl. amazing.
and how fun that you are working for your dad again, well, i hope it's fun. it sounds fun.
and yay for a new mac. ours is so painfully slow that i just avoid doing stuff on it altogether. a new one sounds so great. love your little computer corner.
so good to hear from you!