Moon Cycle

Once upon a time, I read something somewhere about moon cycles. I don’t remember details of the article or the source or really anything other than this: our bodies sync up with the moon and the phase of the moon has different effects on different bodies. I have not taking notes to figure out all the ins & and outs of how my body is effected by the moon, but I know that I go through times where I can create anything and everything and I would if there were only enough hours in the day. Currently, I am not in the phase.

I am currently at the juncture of head is full of ideas, but for some reason I am not able to get them out in paper form. I do not have the longing for the feeling of glue residue on my fingers or ink on the end of my nose. The smell of new paper does not pull me to my craft cupboard. My new stamps are not calling my names. I am having a block of some kind. Something is damming me up and I just wish I could create something, anything right now. One stinkin’ card or even a little tag. I have tried; I have picked out some things and really just felt that “Nay not right now” feeling. I did force myself to make a tag for a gift bag, and it was so blah that it made me want to crumple it up (maybe that would have helped some).

I know that this feeling will be short lived. I know that it has not even been that long (maybe a day or two) But man, something has got to give; I have gifts to finish and ideas to present. Maybe this little babble will wear a tiny hole in the dam and then everything will come flooding out—good thing I have a long weekend.

Scrap-A-Palooza

I attended a Scrap 'Til Midnight & a Scrap the Day Away this past weekend, and I am so proud of all I accomplished. It was project time for me. I did not work on a single page layout or any double spreads what so ever--what I did do was make some Christmas Gifts, so I can't tell you about them until after December 25. I will say this--I got a special project completed for the parents of my daycare children (so special project times 4) I worked on a really cool new BoBunny thing--finished up 2 exploding-ly fun projects & started a little paper bag album for someone. I'm pleased. I always think I'm going to accomplish so much more when I am at events like this. I did bring less with me this time than the first time I went.

I met a lot of really nice people and I'm looking forward to seeing them again. Some of them were talking about Scrap Retreats and I was thinking that is something I need to put on my to-do-list. One lady went for 10 days once--I can only dream about something that lovely. My husband thinks I'm nuts--but he still loves me.

The coolest thing I worked on was a card that one of the ladies had brought in. One other gal broke it down & showed me how to do it and now I'm going to be tinkering with it and hopefully it will be mastered and I can post it here (once I figure out how to do that).

All in all Scrap-A-Palooza was a great time, now I only have a few projects to work on before Christmas.