Well it has been a long long time huh? Sorry…but at this age and with this body I just do not move like I used to do. I have actually been crafting and doing some craft room organization in these last few months and will shortly be ready to reveal what I have done. But for now I just wanted to catch up. It now takes me a day to do what I used to do in a couple of hours. So while I have very little to show here I will try just to break the ice of a path gone silent. I still live in the mountains of Tennessee and living in the same house with the same views. I have the same craft room but it is ever changing. Have changed some of my most used crafting machines. I used electric die cutting machines…the Gemini, Gemini Pro and the Cricut Maker. I love using these to aid in making some of my crafting much prettier. Just fun using them. It amazes me the technology that has been used to make these the best ever machines. They have helped me at the present in making my organization more efficient and certainly more pretty. At present I am working on organizing my ephemera…and I have tons of it for making Junk Journals. I search the internet for most of it while I do have some actual old pieces from years gone by…but I am stingy with it. I don’t mind printing and using because I can print them as many times as I need. I have been a member of the Hpinstantink.com…which I love….I can print up to 300 pages a month for $9.99 and I have lots of rollover pages so at present I could actually print up to almost 700 pages this month. I did not print any for a few months…well not many. But when I run out of ink they automatically send me new ink…my printer is hooked to the internet so it auto reads how much ink I have. so I figure using $9.99 a month just to replace my ink is well worth it. This was the cost of just one smaller cartridge before…so it is well worth the cost of membership for this. Also I have started using a new printer paper because I want quality photo printed pages. I now use https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00006IDRW?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details and while it is only 65 lb weight it prints like photo quality and if I need the printed page to be stronger I can glue it onto heavier card stock. I use a lot of printed pages for my junk journals so these are much better quality pages. I design some of my pages but I also purchase from etsy.com digital papers and kits…and there are some really good designers from which to choose. By ordering the digi kits I can print each page as many time as I want and can print them in the size I need for a project. For a period of time I loved the earth tone pages and grungier the better….I am not going through a phase of pastel colors and leaning more to the flowery and nature type designs. But that could change next week you never know. As for my journal making I use old book covers and sometimes card board for the covers of my journals. My daughter works in an office and they are redoing their files and so she has accumulated lots of file folders for me to use also. They also make nice tag bases. I know I am probably rambling here but kind of laying a new foundation for this blog. I want to make it a weekly thing and have things to “give” and share with all of you.

Thanks for joining me!  This is a new site for me where I can share my new adventures. I am 73 years of age and have many old adventures of which to share but in this blog I wish to share my new adventures.  Now for someone of my age our adventures may seem too tame for you but for me to even have enough knowledge to have a blog is one up on many.  I do mostly paper crafting now.  My years gone by were filled with raising 6 children and then a few grandchildren from time to time.  That is one quick sentence which entails way more than what it seems.  Day to day year by year…my years of raising children had a run of 41 years from start to finish….if you can call it finish when the last child moves out of the house.  Because some of them still have a need from Mama from time to time.  And there were those years when those who moved out had to move back in for some reasons and this time they had children who came with them :).  I do not regret any of my life…but I do regret some of my own actions within it.  so after saying all of this I hope in the morning to begin to share some of my crafts….mostly paper crafts…with anyone who wishes to listen…or I should say …read.. so check it out tomorrow for some card making I am doing in the Christmas season.  I have lots of family to send cards to this 2018 Christmas.

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton