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Mail It Monday | 100DayProject Day 51

Mail it Monday

Roland was up early and went with me for part of the walk with Luna before he went to Pickleball. I skipped that today since my back had been bothering me since mid-last week, perhaps due to Pickleball last Tuesday. It’s mostly feeling better now but I didn’t want to reaggravate it since we have our last Monday curling tonight, and one more curling on Thursday so I may skip it this Wednesday as well. I did get out for a swim which was great. We also went into the (now fixed) sauna afterwards for a while. I had my Card Crew at the Dementia Society from 1:00-3:30 then an appointment with a dentist to have my night guards checked. Fortunately I haven’t been having any jaw issues (knock on wood) since I had a ‘rinsing’ surgery several years ago. It was such a nice day that Luna got some extra walks before and after my card making class.

These are some of the 5 cards that I mailed out today. The first one is the one that I used for inspiration for the cards that we made at Card Crew at the Dementia Society today.

This was the inspiration for the cards we made today. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the die for the wispy circle shape so I had to use a more solid circle which worked reasonably well.
I send out 4 of these cards. It’s nice to mix up the embossing folders. I couldn’t find this stamp set so we didn’t make any of these cards at Card Crew today but I hope to find it before next class because I think it is a very cute spring card too.
Slightly different stamping on the envelope for this and the other 2 of these cards that I sent out today.

Card Crew

There was a great group out at card making. 2 of my regular ladies were not there, but 1 (very independent) lady as well as another lady with her caregiver were there. Plus there was a new wife with her husband who has dementia plus two new ladies with their daughters. I was glad to have the help of two volunteers but I was pretty busy getting the papers cut out and the die cuts made. Hopefully the new participants all enjoyed it and will come back again. My aim is to not have too much prepared in advance and to have the participants and volunteers using the tools for most of the steps themselves. That being said, I should make sure to have more sample cards available and/or photos/instructions for the sample, and possibly at least a few kits available for those who aren’t as interested or able to make their projects entirely from scratch.

My class at the Dementia Society made a lot of cards today. Here is a sampling. One participant made 4 cards, the other 4 participants and their caregivers (4) made 2 cards each.

I love the look (and ease) of using patterned paper on cards. It’s been a while since I’ve made cards using patterned paper but I think I will definitely have designs using it more frequently in Card Crew classes.

Picture This Year

Picture This Year prompt 104 (stick). Prompt for today and photo taken today. Luna was actually not very interested in stick play today so it was a bit of a challenge to include her in a stick photo today.
Picture This Year prompt 104 (stick). We have no shortage of sticks at the front door. Now that both Roland’s hockey season and Heidi’s ringette season are over I think it’s time to move the sticks into the garage to make room for the spring umbrellas!

100DayProject Day 51

Unfortunately all the personal crafting I had time for today was to watch the rest of the video for the Day 1 class of Altenew Let it Shine course entitled ‘glitter’. There are a few more good ideas for adding glitter to cards which hopefully I can try out tomorrow. I know I definitely won’t be making my own glitter paper anytime soon!

Get to Work Wednesday | 100DayProject Day 11

100DayProject Day 11

I didn’t start any new Altenew AECP class projects today, but did make a card with the leftovers from the card I made yesterday. And I made some adjustments to the card I made yesterday. I had a lot of cleaning up of my craft space to do before I could get started on using my Cricut to make my Easter project.

Easter Bunny Home Decor Craft for Dementia Society

Get to Work Wednesday

Roland walked with me and Luna this morning so I didn’t have a lot of time to ponder my theme for today. But I know it is long overdue for me to be getting to work on making my kits for the Dementia Society Creative Cards and Crafts program that I run online three times a month on Tuesday mornings. The participants used up the last kit that has already been delivered to them on Tuesday. So, before next Tuesday’s class I need to get some new kits delivered to them. Luckily my friend, Vicki, makes a lot of kits for me. And I have been running a Crafty Crew session two afternoons a month at The Dementia Society where volunteers come to learn about papercrafting and help put together kits. So, several of the projects are assembled, they are simply awaiting the instruction sheets being printed.

I’ll get to work on the instruction sheets today so that I can print them tomorrow morning at the Dementia Society. That will save me some time, effort, paper, ink and the typical frustration that comes when I try to print the instructions out at home.

I’ll also get to work on cleaning up my craft room.

And then I can get to work on the Easter home decor project kits using my Cricut.

It’s now 10:30 p.m. and quite a bit past my bedtime so I will write just a bit more and get this transformed into my daily blog post. I knew I should have skipped my 2 hour Pickleball. I have definitely been at work for several hours now and I am not nearly as far along as I had hoped. I have been busy cutting an Easter home decor sign with my Cricut. It takes a long time to make 16 kits. I only have about 1/2 of the pieces cut out. I got partway through making the instruction sheets that I need. I didn’t finish the card kit that still needs a bit more done on it.

Clearly I should have got to work each of the last several Wednesdays as well. I was hoping to give a few friends that I’m meeting for lunch tomorrow some finished kits for delivery, but I think they will only be partially finished kits and I’ll need to do an extra delivery to the participants in their neighbourhoods. I’ll wait to finish the kits before delivering to the participants in my neighbourhood.