Overwhelmed

I'm feeling overwhelmed. It's been a busy couple of weeks. I went to San Francisco for a few days and then there is all the catching up to do. Then work was really busy this week.

Combine that with the fact that I've received two boxes of product and have been picking items out of them, but haven't yet unpacked and dealt with them and it's overwhelming. I had my Quick Cards class yesterday and so my focus has been on making cards for that. On the plus side, I had some new stamps and new product with which to play, but my craft room is a disaster.

Costco had a huge sale on photos and so last weekend, I went through the last batch of photos and did my order. So, I have those to deal with now too since I picked them up yesterday.

My cousin is coming over today to scrapbook and I'm so excited. I REALLY want to scrapbook. I am so close to finishing Nathalie's first year. So close I can almost taste it. Like if I focus, I can finish in the next week. But I can't get to those layouts until I deal with my room which I really DON'T want to do.

I don't know why I let my room get so bad (well, I do and I keep thinking after each major clean that I'll never do it again), but then when I focus, I find I can clean and deal with it generally in less than half an hour. It's just finding the motivation to start the process. It's so much easier to ignore it.

But my cousin will be here any minute, so now is a great time to start. And hopefully when I get past the overwhelmed stage, I can get to the creative and blogging stage.

Here is a photo of my room as you look in from the door
There is a ton of new Candi all over the floor as I was sorting it last night. I have stuff all over all of my counters and my paper cutter.

Here is my work space. Yup, not working there. I just dumped most of my stuff from my class yesterday on top of the mess that was there from creating the cards for yesterday's class.


And a view of my guest space. There is a box full of product. My Big Shot needs to be put away along with a bunch of magazines. I'll probably move it to my spot so at least my cousin has somewhere to start.
I'm really hoping that tomorrow, this room will look a lot different. A couple scrapbook pages would be an added bonus!!

I know that this happens to most people. It's how we rebound back from it and get back into the groove that really counts though.