Greetings my favourite people.
Currently Reading: John Grisham's latest, The Exchange, which is a follow up of the two main characters in The Firm, 15 years later. Too soon to tell if I'm going to like, but I will say, it has pulled me in quickly. Waiting for a couple of Christmas themed books at the library, which include two new to me Christmas cookbooks.
Currently Interesting: I found this on one Canadian women's blog; "Make Blogging Great Again, Comment & Support". How many of us are still lurkers on some blogs, how many of us comment & how many of us enter into a dialogue? IMO, Blogger should follow WordPress's example & have a like button for blog posts, similar to FaceBook & Instagram, because sometimes you just don't know what to say. 👍 💖
Currently Shopping: we drove out to my favourite scrapping store on Saturday. They are not normally open for walk in traffic on a Saturday. Since lockdown pandemic days, they really stepped up their online ordering service, which included store door pick ups. I haven't bought a lot in the last 3 years, but on Saturday we ventured out so I could get my 3 ring binders for the coming year's garden & day to day layouts. The binders require extra shipping costs, so to save myself the cost, we combined a couple of other errands with this trip. Storage space is at critical overload for scrapbooks, so I think these two binders will have to start incorporating more than one year, which will require more planning. I'm also going to go back to see if I can bunch up two years into one binder. Maybe I'll follow This West London Life, Ruth's example of a page a month.
Currently Realizing: I'm not good at stamping for card making. I have been in a flurry of activity making Christmas cards as I like to get mine into the mail no later than December 1st. I like the paper piecing & cutting, it's the stamping parts that strain me - I'm not good at it.
Currently Assessing Lingering Projects: aka PHDs, projects half done. One is my Covid binder. I don't think I will ever complete all the layouts that I had intended & bought product for. The pages that I do have done, will probably end up in the album of the day to day layouts for 2020/2021. As I mentioned earlier, space is at critical levels. I've gone through the box of layouts & supplies & assessed which products can be used for something other than Covid related layouts. Some of the stickers I will make into a closing page collage. It was very interesting to read through some of the layout journaling & photos, to see life during a pandemic. To read the new words & phrases that came out of the Covid pandemic. One interesting factnoid from all the online experts, was that to say worldwide pandemic was incorrect as pandemic denotes worldwide. It made me laugh & laugh. And it now appears as though all these online pandemic experts have shifted their expertise to Middle East politics & diplomacy.
Currently Mr Man's Eyes: The last appointment was 15 days ago, the surgeon specialist wanted to give his eyes more healing time before deciding what's next, if anything.
And now it's on to the week. Be kind to yourself 👸