or at least helpful.  I’ve finally had a weekend where I didn’t just wish I could get myself motivated to do projects.  I created a motivation list and BAM!  I was working to get it the list done.

Over the weekend, the Craft-a-long had it’s debut.  The first ever!  Washington state had it’s first snow fall of the season and a freakin’ cold snap that has been going since then.   That definitely had an effect on who was going to show up for the event.

In the end, it was just mum and I.  We had fun no matter what.   She worked on some cute Halloween pictures of grandchildren into a layout.  I worked on some snowy pictures from Jeff and I going up to Alpental for snowboarding.  The layout took all my time, some veggies, two cups of coffee, and a cookie.   Oh that cookie was good.  It helped create some cute chipboard covered in some embossed white powder.  Turned out really awesome.   I also added some felt and transparency flakes.    This layout also popped the cherry on my new Making Memories Slice machine.   Quite awesome to use on crops.  So small and compact that is was easy to transport around.  I loved the fact that I didn’t have to feed the paper into the machine.  I also realized that I could position the cut where I needed it.  I could fuse the letters together by watching where the blade was placing itself according to the previous cut.

I was working on another layout after this one, but with my sister’s family stopping by, I started to talk more than work.

So tonight I finalized the layout and here is the fun layout I got to breathe life into tonight.