Recycling a Calendar and Friendly Fill-Ins

This project dates back to 2015 and I know I've never shared it.  I did this series of notecards when I was having a lot of neck and arm pain the spring after my back surgery and I wasn't really in a good frame of mind at that time.  I had meant them to be a gift for a friend who had given us tickets to the flower show that year, even though we didn't get to go.  I don't know why I decided not to give them in the end, but I'm glad that I didn't destroy them. They were tucked away in a container with some other cards and since I'm gearing up to participate in the Write_On Challenge for National Handwriting Month in April to write 30 handwritten letters in 30 days, I am putting together a selection of notecards.  Some of them, as these, that are already in my stash and some that I am putting together with bits and pieces of past projects and making new notecards with them.  

These 12 cards were made with an old floral calendar.  I took several of the pages and cut them up to the size I wanted.  I looked through my stamps and pulled out a bunch that had solid floral images and stamped them onto the calendar pieces with VersaMark ink and then embossed with white embossing powder.  At this time I don't remember if it's an original idea or not, but as I look at them now, I do like how they came out.  

I'll be showing off some of the other scrappy cards in the next week or so.  If  you'd like to participate in this challenge - and you don't have to make cards to do it - click here for more information.

Last week I totally forgot about the Friendly Fill-Ins, but I though I'd give it a try again this week.

1.  In the Spring, I look forward to Spring flowers and trees blooming.  Particularly the violets and the redbuds.

2.  I would love to have a Spring tea party.  I did have one in the spring the year I turned 50 and I had so much fun putting it together, I just don't know if I would have the energy to do it again.

3.  Few know this about me, but I always wanted an older brother/sibling.  I was the oldest of 5 siblings and didn't have anyone to show me the ropes so to speak and thusly was not up with all the hip stuff growing up.  And as my daughter once put it about herself, I had no "asshole radar" and my first "boyfriends" certainly fit into the a-hole category.  Luckily, I found another "oldest sibling" who wasn't all that hip either, and we've been together ever since.

4.  No one can deny that we are ready for Spring and all it's beauty.

Friendly Friday Fill-Ins - Something New

Some paper succulents I've been practicing on for an upcoming project.

Something new I saw from McGuffy's Reader and 15andmeowing via Under the Oaks - Friendly Fill-Ins.  They post the fill-in prompts on Thursday and you have a few days to fill in the blanks and share.  So I thought I'd give it a try today.

1.  I hope This is Us gets renewed for another season.  Though I'm fairly certain it has already.  The format of the show is so very different - paralleling the past and the present - and interesting. Looking forward to learning more about this family.

2.  My first crush was Paul B. in second grade.  All the girls had a crush on him.  Funny thing as it turned out, in our high school play "The Impossible Years" I had the role of the friend of the main character and the opening scene for the second act was a party scene with me sitting on Paul's lap and "making out".  Way past the crush - it was truly acting.  

3. Riding in the car usually makes me tired.  There's something about the motion of the car that just puts me to sleep anymore.  Our journeys to the kids homes or the condo all take one to two hours so after the first 15-20 minutes HWNSNBP knows that I'll be shutting my eyes soon.  I have my neck pillow and usually something to cover up under, tilt the seat back sometimes, and even though the radio might be on, I'm out.   

4.  If I were a super-hero I would be skinny and full of energy.  No? Okay.  If I were a super-hero I would be able to answer a phone, answer a doorbell, write a late pass, and listen to the morning announcements all at the same time.  Oh wait, I do that every day.  Let's try again.  If I were a super-hero I would be able to see the future.  No, there are things I might not want to see.  One more try.  If I were a super-hero I would be able to stay awake riding in the car for more than 20 minutes. 

A note-so-very-helpful note from school this week.  I seldom see adults sign their notes "from".  Thankfully the teacher's name was there otherwise I wouldn't know who the father or the daughter was until 1:00.