What to be now that I have grown up?

I seen this and thought, "this fits me perfectly right now."

My kids are grown and in college, they really don't need me anymore. I need to get a job but I have a pinched syatic nerve. Sometimes the pain is so bad the only thing that makes it feel better is to lay in a fetal postion on my bed. I take so much Ibuprofin my kidneys are probably half fried. I can't stand up for long periods of time so that rules out about 90% of the jobs out there.
I still have a closet full of the tole books and scrapbook paper I used to sell on Ebay but the bay sucks. Between listing, final value fees, paypal fees, shipping, etc. I won't make much on it. So in the closet it sits.

I contemplated painting again but I would need a new scroll and band saw. I don't have a garage and where I used to cut out wood is now taken over by VW parts. The area that was supposed to be my craft room was taken over by hubbies clock, watch and jewelry shop. So I am thinking....no. Plus the thought of mass producing easy to make items to sell just makes me feel icky. *sigh*

I liked designing websites for crafter's but blogs and html editors are so easy now, most people just make their own.. Plus it was discouraging spending time making awesome sites just to have them last a year because they didn't want to pay for my time to promote the sites and they couldn't understand why they weren't making any money. So none of these sites are up anymore to even show examples of my work. My own sites haven't even been updated in um....YeArs!

What to do? What do I reinvent myself into at this stage of life?

Desks and DuSt BuNnIeS

I can design webpages in notepad using just html code (no editor required) but this Blogger stuff is all new to me. It's a good thing I know how to do my research, after all, that is how I taught myself how to make webpages 13 years ago.

While I was looking through all my files for graphics I found this little gem that just about says it all. *giggle*
I have spent the past two weeks combining my office and my scrapbook/craft room into ONE room.  Oh the treasures and dust bunnies I found.  It was a lot of work and sneezing but FINALLY  my desk is in my craftroom and I can finally get back to functioning again and we can have a room for guests to sleep in.  Now to decide on a background I like.  Maybe I will just change them often.



Technologically excited and overwhelmed

Wow, it has been a long time since I posted anything. It is amazing the things you forget or don't do when you have a 10 year old computer that would freeze up any time I would try to do anything. Since I didn't have my pics backed up I just turned it off until I got a new one.
FINALLY I was able to save enough christmas and birthday money to get a laptop. This thing has a 500 gig hard drive. My first computer had 1.3 gigs. ROFL How things have changed over the past 14 years.


I am totally loving this little computerized device. It is a mobile media center. I can watch streaming videos 'n stuff from the internet and surf the web at the same time. Well....I could if I wanted to see things on half a screen, but I could if I wanted to. :) I can't believe the modern technological things I have been missing out on. Which is surprising since I was such a tech nerd for such a long time. I couldn't learn and absorb this stuff fast enough. In would get frustrated because it seemed like the more I learned the more I would see what was possible and I couldn't do everything I wanted to....yet. I have so much to catch on....it is getting overwhelming again just thinking about it. *sigh*


I love old stuff.  Rusty, vintage, things others would throw away.  I googled "junk crafts" yesterday just for kicks and giggles and I think I spent 10 hours surfing blogs.  I had 4 windows open clicking and scrolling through pages and pages of wonderfully eclectic, junkified treasures.  I realised, I an NOT the only one.  There are others, others that have husbands that roll their eyes when we rescue rusty bits of metal, old fabrics and sewing notions.  When we buy stacks of scrapbook paper because it is cute and ON SALE.  After all, when they discontinue it...good luck trying to find it later.