The semester is finally over… the heavens have opened up and angels are singing! Ha, at least in my imagination!
That semester most definitely was one of the hardest ones for me, but I made it through. The hard part was the time it took. There was a ton of “projects” that weren’t hard, just time consuming. There was also a lot of requirements for hours volunteering and observing.
At least next semester I’ll be on track for a master’s degree in Recreation Administration while finishing up my BA in Deaf Education. Yeah, it’s most definitely a change of directions… but a change for the better, for what truly makes me happy and not dread school.
Hopefully in the next few days I’ll finish coding the layout I made a few months ago… but I probably wont have access to the internet until Thursday to upload it. You see, I’m going to be heading down south to the coastal wine country… land home to the Firestones, Neverland Ranch, and my aunt. See the movie Sideways? Yeah, that’s the place.
My aunt doesn’t have high speed internet, so unless there’s a cafe with free wifi nearby (highly unlikely) you wont hear frm me for about three days. However, I will most definitely be geocaching again! All semester long I haven’t really had the chance to grab a single geocache. Fortunately, there’s several great hides near my aunt’s and along my route.
In the meantime, I’ll be baking spritz cookies & feeding my new addiction — Digital Scrapbooking. Since I’ve used photoshop for almost ten years, it’s going pretty quickly. The only learning curve is figuring out how to arrange the page, but I’m getting the hang of it.
Here’s a sample of one of the pages from our trip to Monterey after Jeff graduated from the academy…
You can see I don’t really follow the scrapbooking conventions… I just kind of do my own style. Not really paying any heed to the origins in papercrafting. I’m making them as 12×12s, but I’m getting them printed at Costco as 8×8s… because it’s half the price for the prints, the albums, and pages… lol. I can always redo them as 12×12 albums when we have a larger budget.
Maybe someday I’ll put together kits to sell in the Etsy store, but for now I’m mostly using other people’s free downloads to make my pages. I can’t really justify buying any kits right now, because I feel like I have the time to make them myself… just not the motivation.
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