A job is a job, is a job. complaints abound, lol.

The lid to my paint brush water jar…serving as a vase.

and a check is a check.
Anything is better than the lack of job I had previously, but I am learning not to dwell on what was, but what I want to BE. I was gifted a smart phone from the wonderful Mitzi and have been able to do ALL sorts of cool stuffs on line! It is small enough that I don’t have to worry about being mugged for it, but best of all, NO MONTHLY PAYMENT! Thanks again, Mitzi! My nieces go through phones like water and my sister also gave me one on her account, but I save that one for emergencies and or calls to home, most of which, I use a phone card for. Either way, I am SO grateful.

I was able to find one pad of paper on clearance at Michaels when they had the big sale 2 weeks ago. Our Mikes stuff never hangs around long enough to be discounted or sale priced (did I mention that my phone has a barcode scanner so I can read prices! ).LOL! I bought the pad of cardstock (something supposedly to do with Vampires, lol), got a Smash book for $9.00 and book bands with Hello Kitty on them for Michaela. THAT IS ALL THEY HAD! I will have to ask someone to shop for me at their better sale locations. It would be cheaper for me to pay for postage on a stuffed box than to waste gas going 40 minutes out for less than $20 bucks worth of stuff. I asked my husband to weigh my big bite, cropadile and some bags of WOC roses to ship to me, it came to $94.35. I could buy a cheap hole punch, another Big Bite and new roses for that amount. I won’t be going home until at least September, but now that I can watch streams, I am motivated to start folding paper, again.

Hope everyone is well and that the spring sunshine has made it’s way to your neck of the woods. I have not taken any photos, so I am recycling something

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Packing up, again.

I want what I can’t have.

Well this job is about over. I was looking forward to staying until the 29th of April then going home for a month. Well as fate would have it, a NEW employer has contacted me and they want me to begin on Monday ( insert deep sigh ,here). That will cost me another $300 bucks if Scamdinavian Airlines lets me rebook my ticket. Then I have to figure out how to ask my new employer how I can get time off (ugh).  I guess I should have been more careful about what

This blog is not abandoned..

I still lurv alla yaw’ll and hope to have access to a computer (in my off hours) so I can upload some things that I have been working on. Been meeting some cool people in the crafty world we live in and hoping I will be getting off that plane May 1st as planned.  Off to see the wizard!

Gina

PS,

He is just the cutest thing!

This is my favorite nephew. My niece says after owning a dog, she is too selfish to have a child, so this is the best she can do for me, bwahahah!   His name is Blaze, but I call him Larry and he responds to it.. Go figure.

January update!

I was able to obtain a job in Emergency Management, for a short period.  I am so PSYCHED to go to work everyday, have funny and talented coworkers. I get to learn so many new things, remember what I had once knew and most importantly, EARN A PAYCHECK! 

I skype the family every week and we text daily. Since the building I work in is a monitored police station, it is difficult to get on line during office hours, which hinders my ability to watch streamage, lol!  There is a possibility that this position could be extended, so everyone cross your fingers for me, or Hold your Thumb, as we do in Sweden!  Love and miss everyone. Please keep me and my family in your thoughts, prayers and general good wishes categories!

 

Hugs,

Gina

Update

Not able to log on or be online as much as I would like. Difficult to not have your own space and place, even if you have permission to do so. Missing my family so badly and am grateful for Skype, opportunity and friends. 

Away for a while

Due to a family emergency, I will be away for a while.

By a while, I mean months, potentially. I am not expected to be back for  New Years.

I have 2 days to pack.

2 days to prepare family and plan.

What will I take with me?  Trying to choose…

I have a journal;  some pencils I was gifted.  Trying

to choose is like selecting a favorite child…you can’t.

No one will take care of my things while I am away.

But, they. are .just. things.  I will miss this life as I have come to know it; but I trust

that my journey will not be in vain.

If it be the will of God, Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh etc… I will enter this next journey

better than I leave this current one

… because I,

am going home.

This week: I need a do-over

Not feeling very crafty or chipper.

Room still a wreck and finding it difficult to reorganize, yet again.  Maybe I will just let it be for a bit; see if inspiration strikes me..or lightening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any-who I was visiting my favorite Swedish Blogger IHanna, and cannot help but be inspired! She is always in the creative zone and has a

wonderful shabby-chic affinity for all things creative, from art to collage. I remembered a piece of pink floral material that I had and decided to

recreate some of the £1.00 journals ‘I had purchased last year (aka as the “RACH” journal) These were A4 which was too big to fill, especially doodling;

so I trimmed them in half. ,made signatures out of them and coptic stitched them together:

I used waxed light green binding thread, and the inside is lined with denimI have a pocket rescued from a pair of jeans that will be mounted on the inside.

Lastly, I have a thing for pearls.  When I find strands at the flea market or something, I save them hoping for that proverbial “one day” to use them. Last night, I was inspired to un thread them.

I put them into some little jars I had been saving, but when they looked really..un-glamorous,  I decided to spiff up the lids.  No flowers, ribbons or the likes, just a better looking top than the ones that

were visible.  The paper is from Crafty Individuals  pad of 6×6 called Background Papers, Book 1. I used my secret mixture of medium (ok, it is really all of the bottoms of the containers I did not want to toss out!) My trusty compass to encircle the paper (place point of compass in the center of the lid, extend and mark circle 1/2 inch outside the rim, cut fringe every 1/4 inch apply glue and fold over lids, VOILA!