Some new creative work and some older ones newly found...

Today I am feeling down. I am sure that you could tell that by the last post. It's funny to me how these things come on. I guess it has been there for a while again, and I am just now noticing. I have been feeling run down, overwhelmed, just plain done in.

I noticed it last week when the kids were home, but I just thought it was because I was always on. I am tired of being in charge. I am tired of cleaning up after puppies. I am tired of always picking up. I am tired of turning around and seeing something else in my house that needs my attention and feeling like I am the only one that can or does take care of it. But I am also tired of feeling like this. I need to break this funk!!!

So today, I decided to try being creative. I pulled out the last lo that I was working on at the store on Saturday. I loved the way it looked and was ready to start journaling. I wanted to keep the monotone look and not break up the open space, so I decided to write with versamark. Now I don't like it. I have been using my own handwriting more often on my los and liking it, but this time it just didn't work. I needed straighter, cleaner lines. I may try printing out the journaling on the same color cardstock and laying it over it. We'll see.



Then I reached into my scrap bag and found a folder full of work that I had forgotten that I had done. I worked on most of these while out in Fort Morgan at Sweetwater House. Loved the paint work on the Rockies one! Reminded me to order those Heidi Swapp masks. But the pile also made me realize that I have a bad habit of starting a lo and not finishing it all the way. Especially if I am not at home when I am working on it. I had to add journaling and titles to several of these los. But the advantage to finding this pile was seeing that I really liked what I had done on most of them!

So here are some of the los that I found from earlier and some from Easter weekend when I was out in Fort Morgan again...









FYI... I finished working on the house album this weekend at the store. I think I like that too! I will take pictures of it soon. It is at the store right now.

And just so you know, it's not me that is expecting. The love birds are back and building their nest on my front door again.