It's Important to Make Time

My husband is away for work right now. He left yesterday and is back tomorrow night which means I'm flying solo with the three kids. I really miss him. Work is busy and I have a bunch of deadlines right now and I really miss the support and help.

I've been really busy lately and so haven't been stamping. I couldn't justify the time when there were so many other things that needed doing. But, I have a couple stamping deadlines coming up, so I ventured in there last night and came out so much less stressed. I played with some new product and made a bunch of sample cards and it made me so happy.

It's so easy to get into a rut where we are too busy to do our creating, and yet, I'm much happier and more balanced when I make a conscious effort to stamp and scrapbook, so I need to do that more. I was doing so well before and then it died, so I'm going to work to get back in the groove and make it part of my routine!

In the meantime, here is a quick card I made for my class today.

I'm Alive

But barely it seems. It's been forever since I posted, but it's been forever since I stamped too.

Work has been really busy and then you add in three kids and a husband and everything else and somehow my craft room seems to be lonely. There is a ton of new product in it, but I never seem to have time to play. Then I get overwhelmed and feel uncreative and so I don't go in there. It's such a vicious cycle.

But I'm hoping to get in there later today. I have lots of things I need to create, so necessity will get me in there and hopefully it will go well and I'll want to keep going back.

In the meantime, here is a quick card to get me back in the swing of things.