Wow what a year 2021 was! One minute it seemed to be dragging, the next I felt like I lost a month here and there. My card crafting time was all over the place too. But of all the things I do (or want to do), creating a card or a page for an art journal is what I truly need. It centres me somehow, quietens (is that a word LOL?) my mind and calms my senses. So when I am not taking time to craft, I feel it in my mind, and my responses to what goes on around me. In heavy emotional chaotic times last year I would take myself into my craft room, even late into the evening, and start creating, and I settled down, and could again cope with what was happening.

My craft room has had its own share of upheaval. I moved everything around and put my table under the window. It was lovely with the sun coming in but it didn’t work for me. I have shelves on my desk where everything is at hand, I couldn’t have my shelves on the table under the window and I was up and down all the time. So I put it back the way it was, except there were some things that did work the other way around, so I kept them, and now I am so very happy with my space.

I submitted this photo to a January Craft Room Challenge over at Paper Craft Secrets.

I have started making pairs of cards, because I want to keep one and send one. Last night I made these two, a remake of a card I made last year for Father’s Day :

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have received some encouragement and perhaps some inspiration to create something, your own kind of beautiful, today.

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