When a blog friend comes to visit it just makes sense if the two of us sit down to do some crafty project. Wednesday afternoon we sat down and made a few projects while we chit-chatted. Tons of fun and very glad she came to visit!!
I went to my last crop in the good old ‘Burg last weekend. A lot of the girls there I knew from UCM. I had a great time and worked on five scrapbook pages with Jovie right next to me. If she wasn’t there I think I could confidently say that each page took me an hour or less to do. I got everything hours before quitting time. I only brought five sets of photos.
I’ll miss my friends here. We both didn’t think we’d stay long or even make friends but we did.
Something that makes me happy. Something that keeps me entertained. Something that gives me peace and quiet. Something that’s rewarding. something that makes me feel somewhat artistic. Something that’s helping me make friends. I think the last is the best thing about having a hobby since I am not the most outgoing person. Unfortunately I can’t say that it’s cheaper than therapy. Actually I might have to go to therapy or Craft Shopper Anonymous because I spend most of my extra money on this hobby of mine.
The photograph is my March 2010 Scarlet Lime kit.
Here’s my temporary space. I moved all these from my office. This way the moving folks won’t be confused and accidently pack any of these up when they stop by next week.
To the left is my work computer and to the right is my photo studio. The Dell (2209WA — IPS screen <– best type of monitor screen for graphic/photography work) is hooked up to the Macbook Pro (13″ — it’s a great size for traveling). The MPB is in clamshell mode. Basically you can have the lid closed while hooked up to an external monitor. The older model used to warp due to the heat. The new models are not suppose to do that. I hope so!!
My tablet is an Intuos3 6×8. I LOVE it! I have a 12×19 at work but obviously I don’t (and will never) have enough desk real estate for such a thing. I love the 6×8 because I can stick it in a laptop bag if I need to.
Today I have a lot more crap around my desk. I have my camera, a work EHD, a work Flip, and some CDs.
My only complaint are all the cables. They are driving me NUTS!!!
For our move we’re allowed a total of 11k pounds of stuff to be moved. There are three parts to it… the big motherlode (55-60 days to get there), unaccompanied baggage (40-45 days, up to 350# for anybody age 12+ and 175 for under 12, and no furniture), and luggage that you take on the airplane (two carry-on and two suitcase at 70#/ea.). If needed you can also have storage and transport. So if we want to keep our washer and dryer we can store it for free as long as we’re within our 11k pounds. The same with transport. If I want my mother-in-law to take care of our vintage stereo we can arrange it so that a moving company does that for us. Oh, there’s one more thing… you can mail things yourself too. I want to mail our important documents that are not too hard to find replacements over to the UK. I can do that and as long as we haven’t gone over the 11k pound limit the Air Force will reimburse us. Now, see the black bag and the tote? I think I’m going to mail them a few days before we get on an airplane he he he…
The above is my part of unaccompanied baggage. My 350# will consist of clothes, craft stuff, pots and pans, and a computer. My craft room and kitchen’s ready to go. I have clothes to tackle still… I need to get rid of a few more things.