Well, the Olympics are finally over and I can get back to the other things in my life. I was ready for them to be done. The closing ceremony was ok, nowhere near as good as the opening ceremony. Kind of in with a bang and out with a whimper. Still, what a great 2 weeks. Now, just 2 years until the Winter games!
I came into work this morning to an email from Cuteable. I was featured yesterday! That's made my day! And there are already some very nice comments about my featured card. Yay for me!
Here are the last of the new cards
These pumpkin invitations are a lot of fun to make. A lot of work as well, as the patterned papers are all hand cut. There are many more pictures in my Flickr, if you are interested.
I know I've been really lacking in posts lately and for that, I apologize. From my previous posts, you know that I've been watching the Olympics every night. I've also been making some frames and then, there's the whole taking care of the family thing....
Friday night, I got a huge burst of creativity. My muse must have been dancing somewhere and having herself a good old time. So, I turned off the TV and into the craft room I went.
A bunch of new cards are the result. I'm still in the process of listing them.
I feel like such a lump this week. I’ve been watching the Olympics every night and staying up far too late every night. They don’t get to the really good stuff (gymnastics and swimming) until almost 10pm and some nights, I just can’t tear myself away until 11. I’ve been DVRing the rest since it’s been going until 1:30am!
It’s been amazing so far. Michael Phelps is a fish!
I have actually working while watching. I’ve been decoupaging some picture frames. 3 large ones that are a custom order through work. 2 small ones that will end up in the shop as soon as they are done. I also made 2 more Halloween cards last night. I wasn’t going to make anymore but they’ve been selling pretty well and I just got some more cute Halloween paper…..
I’m starting to feel like I’m totally behind because I don’t have any Christmas cards made yet. There’s been a lot of chatter lately in the Etsy forums about card sets so I think I’m going to attempt to make a few myself. I’ve never done sets, just single cards. But having sets make sense for Christmas cards. My plan is to come up with a couple of simple designs and just do a production line of them. Fingers crossed that it works!
It happens every 2 years, Winter and Summer. I become a total Olympics junkie. I have to watch...everything. I sit in front of the TV for all 17 days of the games, regardless of the event. It's like crack. Or, at least, what I imagine crack might be like, having never tried it myself. Olympics crack.
Now, the thing is, I'm not particularly found of sports. I don't much like football. I enjoy a baseball game now and then, but really, it's not that often. I've never watched hockey, soccer, basketball, bowling, or for that matter, curling. I'm just not that into sports. I'm not an athlete (I hear you shocked gasps) and it don't get much pleasure out of watching athletes do their thing. Unless it's Olympic athletes. Then, I'm all over it. Give me any event and I'll watch it.
I might be doing other things while watching. Like last night, I was making envelopes and tonight I was also reading (I'm lucky, I can read with distractions in the background). My hubby asked if I wanted to watch a movie tonight. I just looked at him like he had suddenly sprouted another head. I said "No, I want to watch the games. You know how I get" and tried not to snarl it.
The Opening Ceremonies, one of the best things I've ever seen in my life. These pictures are all from Friday night.
It's weird, I have never understood this compulsion of mine. But I don't want to understand it. I just want my fix every 2 years.
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