Color is the most amazing visual experience and should be embraced to its fullest. Why, because at age 38 genuine senile cataracts formed in both eyes washing out the world ready to cut it off. A unique and genuine appreciation for color ensued. Even the tiniest alteration in hue or shading makes a project pop into animated life or render it blah. Color is magic.
Stuff Multiplies Like Rabbits
How does one manage to collect so much ‘stuff’? It’s everywhere. This corner, that corner, heck it hides in the closets waiting to scare the daylights out of you. It all multiplies like rabbits. 
Asking myself, “Why do I keep all this stuff?” Not one good reason came to my head. On the other hand, a million good reasons came to my head as to why I should get rid of a whole lot of it. Number one reason being it is such a pain in the neck cleaning around it.
Now that I am starting up my crafting business, money is tight. Aha! I could make some well needed cash off this stuff. That really got me going. Not to mention more room was needed to keep supplies and articles which were required to run the business. Move out the no longer useful and move in the the bright new future. Do not care what you call it, declutter, downsize, spring cleaning, whatever. Fact remains it is too much stuff and it is cramping my style. Thus I embark upon a mission of evicting all the unnecessary stuff began. Continue reading “Stuff Multiplies Like Rabbits”
YouTube Junkie
YouTube never made much sense to me. Why would anyone want to watch a bunch of people they did not know do random stuff. Then one day I tried it out. Had to see what the fuss was all about. People I knew were raving about the thing. One boring night, I logged onto the Internet and pulled up YouTube.
Once on the site, I created an account and immediately became lost. What they suggested was too thrilling. Ah, there was that wonderful search box. What did I want to see. Boston Terriers of course! 
RoseBud was my precious little girl. The rest was history. One video let to another and another and another…… You get the picture. The more I watched the more I wanted to see. It was a taunting bag of Lays potato chips. Bet you can’t watch one! I had to locate the videos on Dachshunds. Lo and behold, Little Dog has come across his craziness honestly! Stubborn as the day is long, silly as 
the Mad Hatter and faithful to the end of time.
Soon I discovered Sylvester the Talking Kitty. My stomach hurt so much from laughing at the silly kitty. He was hilarious and has quite the potty mouth. To the right of each video was a whole list of videos. Some were on the same topic but others of a different genre. This is how I began to find extremely interesting, funny, and informative people. Some were traveling all over the United States visiting strange and of the beaten path places. Locations I had never heard and probably would have never heard of had they not told me. The places were amazing though. Did you know there was a Land of Oz (yes the yellow brick road land) in the mountains of NC? They were visiting filming locations and matched up each site from the actual film footage to present day shots. Then the Disneyland frequenters. Awesome. Having only been to Disney World once, seeing the west coast Disneyland was so exciting. I thank Adam the Woo, Justin Scarred and The Carpetbagger for this.
Adventures in Craft Shopping
Oh how I love to shop for my craft supplies. It is so relaxing whether shopping online or in the physical store itself. Saturday morning, the Green Buggie (Cyber Green 2000 New Beetle) was revved and roaring to roll on down to the Michaels store. Really wish it was closer than 35 minutes away but hey that’s what one gets when living rural. I would rather have the drive than all the hassle of city life. So, slipping Green Buggie into a parking spot, let the adventure begin!
Immediately after walking through the doors, I am like a kid in a candy shop. Time no longer exists only the beautiful colorful paints, sparkling glitters, paint brushes, colored pencils and all the items exploding with potential engulf my mind. Lets try this new brand or lets try this new process. The types of paints are innumerable and I love it. Every shade imaginable is present. A huge rainbow beckoning to be utilized. Oh my, new porcelain items to paint. Hooray, these are hard to find if not online. Plaster Easter eggs and lambs not to mention the wooden items to try out. A wooden pirate ship. Now how cool is that.
Day 4 – Doing What I Love
This Crafting Baby Boomer is originally from Massachusetts where I spent most of my life working as a medical transcriptionist. My husband passed away and many things changed in my life. A series of twists and turns lead me to coastal Camden County Georgia right smack dab on the Georgia/Florida state line. An excellent place to be in winter. If you know anything about winter in Western Massachusetts, I’m sure you will agree. The last year I was there it was snowing 18-20” every three to four days. Temperatures were beyond cold with horrific wind chills. Put it this way…I know what frost bite is much to my chagrin. Always said my birth was a geographical error. So ending up down south was no hardship.
Quite a few years lapsed before I returned to work. When the children were grown, it was time to go out and get involved again. This turned out to be quite difficult. The area is very small and locating a job in itself was difficult, not to mention as a medical transcriptionist. There was one local hospital which had only one…one transcriptionist in the whole building. The more I looked it became clear technology ran me out of a job. Doctors were now all learning to type their own reports with some fantastic software that had been developed, as well as systems translating speech into documentation. Ouch!