Operation Craft Room Week

This week (my 5th week of retirement.....I'll stop doing that at some point) it's "Operation Craft Room Week with side jobs of homework and a stack of magazine reading" week.

I've been a bit remiss in my blogging but that's because I was entertaining a longtime friend who came back to Iowa to help me celebrate my birthday/retirement.   We had such a good time and I was sorry to see her leave so soon, wish she could have stayed longer.  My father also made a surprise visit to celebrate with me, so I was also distracted with his visit too!

On top of the celebrating and house guests, I had my first college class test in 21 years, so I had to fit in studying five chapters during that time also.   I think I did pretty well, but I won't find out for a few days.

This week, I'm going to FINALLY get into my craft room!  I've been putting it off because there have been other things that were more of a priority, but I have a crop to attend this Friday at my friend Judy's office (her boss lets us use the conference room....really comfy chairs...lol), so I need to put some things together to work on.  It's quite a mess in there and since I need to get my stuff ready for Friday, I'm going to clean up too.

The table in the foreground is usually clear of stuff and as you can see, I have piles on it.

My work table has also been a mess for a couple of months.  I've been working on Christmas pages throughout the summer and the one on the table has been there forever.  I AM GOING TO FINISH IT THIS WEEK.....I'm just yelling to reaffirm my intention.  :)

I started an 8 x 8 album for my oldest long time friend Dianne in honor of our 50 years of friendship and I'm still not done with it so I'm going to take that with me on Friday to see if I can get it finished up.  It has some pretty important pictures in it.....from when we were growing up to milestones in both of our lives.  She knows I'm doing it and has provided some of the pictures, but she hasn't seen what I'm doing yet.  I can't wait to give it to her!

In between cleaning up my craft room, I going to tackle the stack of magazines that has collected on one of my reading tables......I don't subscribe to a lot of magazines, but I have multiple issues of the ones I do I haven't read yet.  I let them stack up this summer......PLUS more homework and I have a feeling that my class is going to be ramping up with the homework as we will be starting to put together our 25-35 page business plans....yikes!

Here's a couple of scrapbook pages I've done recently and I thought I'd start sharing some of the things I'm working on here.

My husband and son caught me napping Christmas Day with my sock monkey that the son gave me that day.

This page was done to tell the story of a very important piece of cross stitch that my mother did for me not long after I left home.

Have a great week!  It's a great time of year!