Summer / Fall / Card Making Confusion

WHERE
HAS
MY
WEEK
GONE???

I know we still have a month left until "Autumn" officially arrives, but my life and work schedule are already gearing up and well into it.

On a positive summer note - it's been lovely and warm here and I've taken to sleeping outside on the back deck again (house is a little too warm). I'm lovin' it! I've got my sleeping bag, pillows, and I've even put a light out there so I can read. Ear plugs firmly squished into the ears to keep out the street noise, and half a sleeping pill to make sure I cross-over to lala-land. Wonderful!!

Last evening the wind picked up a little bit, so I didn't feel like sitting outside. I did kinda-sorta feel like working on some of my paper crafts. I received a new stamp set this week and was quite excited to try it out.

Sometimes I like to work a card out completely in my head before I begin to put it to paper (no pun intended - I hate puns). Most of the time this process works out, but sometimes - like last night - its a complete FAIL! Or near fail, more aptly. And I hate that when that happens. I get so excited at the pictures that are developing in my head, and its a fantastic feeling when everything comes together and works - on paper. When it doesn't - then I get mildly depressed, and have to step away from it for a day or two. Rethink, re-evaluate, re-make.

Do you think I put a little too much pressure on myself?? Yes, I probably do. I suppose that comes out of loving my hobby, but also wanting to make it the very best that I can.

I was once asked, at work, if I could just pop home and grab a card that could be given to an employee who was leaving staff. I was a little quizzicalled by the request, and asked the person asking me, if they thought I had a store house of cards just waiting for the right occasion. He thought I did.

My card making - for the most part - is usually pretty personalized. I think about the person I make the cards for and try to stylize something around them. This especially applies to men, because men are the hardest to 'create' for. Feminine cards are easy, masculine cards can be brutal.

But I'm digressing. I've covered a lot of topics today. Which is strange because I didn't think I had anything to say and I've been dragging my heels all week. Alas.

If you've actually made it through the entire entry and read almost every word - I thank you. For those that I lost along the way - I'm sorry, but you'll never know it because you didn't read to the end.