Hi friends! No, I have not fallen off the face of the earth! I am still here. I have just not been in the groove. I can't even really tell you why, but I have not been in the mood to blog or felt like I had time to hop around and visit either. We had some friends living with us for a while and I think that might be part of it... just the extra chaos of having extra people in the house. They have moved into their own home now, which we are all grateful for :) Since they moved out last month, I have been trying to get my house back in order. I have also been picking fruit and making jam. A friend brought me peaches and plums so we now have a nice store of peach, plum and blackberry jam.

I have been toying with the idea of looking for a new job and have now started earnestly looking. I am still working at my present job as a medical transcriptionist, but with the medical field moving to voice recognition, I find myself bored and I need a new challenge.

I have crafted a bit here and there and have tried to take pictures, but have not really felt like downloading and sharing. I did not even finish the Summer of Color tags and I was so excited to participate in that fun event again this year. I guess I am in a bit of a slump. I have been working on my craft room a little, it needs to be worked on desperately. I have so many things to play with and I have not made time to play with them. I really need to get things organized. I will be going to the Scrapbook USA expo in a couple of weeks and I know that will kick start my creative juices - at least I hope so :)

I did go to Helper last month for the Arts Festival. I try to go every year and paint, but this year I went and did not paint. I just totally relaxed for 4-1/2 days, visiting with my artist friends and doing absolutely nothing I did not want to do. It was very rejuvenating, but I already need another vacation like that!

Thanks to those of you who have been checking in on me. I appreciate it. I hope to get back to visiting you all soon. I have just been so preoccupied lately that I don't feel that my heart is in blogging right now. I have not joined any challenges or hopped on a blog hop for what seems like forever. There are so many techniques I want to try and I can't seem to find time to do anything. I wish I could just not work. I just want to have time to clean my house (yes I said that dreaded word clean) and then organize my stuff so I could just play when I want. It seems I can never get on top of the housework and lately it is bothering me. When I first started blogging and paper crafting about a year or so ago, I just let everything else go besides work and that wasn't good either. Now I seem to be obsessing about having my house clean and so I don't feel like I should be crafting. Not good since crafting is my sanity :)

Okay, well, I better get going. Don't give up on me. I hope to be coming around more in the future.

God Bless!