When I worked full-time, had two active and involved teenagers at home, and volunteered at church in a variety of capacities, I used my time very effectively. I’m not so sure that happens now that I’m retired. I am getting a lot of things done that were on my To Do When Retired list, but there are an equal number of things I’m not getting to at all. So I was interested when I got an email about a BPS class called Reclaiming My Time. I thought about it for a long time, then by chance I found the instructor’s blog: karinka. Once I started reading her blog, I knew I’d like the class. And I do. The exercises are very enlightening, and I’ve spent quite a bit of time on it the last few days. I’ve already made some interesting discoveries, and done a lot of thinking about how I want to use my time in 2010. That, of course, is the point of the class. I made a quick cover for the binder where I’m keeping all the handouts and my worksheets.
The image on the binder comes from one of the handouts. It’s a photograph of Karen’s mini-book. I don’t think I’ll work on that until I finish my Christmas Journal. Speaking of which, I have the photographs and ideas for five more pages, but have been busy with other activities for the last couple of days.
I did make two cards a couple of nights ago with the Making Memories Mistletoe collection. I didn’t use much of this for my Christmas cards this year, but I know I’ll still like it next year. I decided to make a couple of Thank You cards as I know I’ll need a few of these after the holidays.
All the materials are Making Memories. I didn’t like this one as much until I added some red stickles to the berries on the patterned paper. The letter stickers on both cards are glitter stickers–a little hard to tell in the photographs.
That sounds like a very interesting class! Love your cards!
I love the red birds, and you class sounds vey interesting!
Rinda
Hi Karen,
I love the red birds too 🙂
I’ve recently come across Karenika’s blog as well and I think she would take a very thought provoking class – I hope you enjoy it.
I am using templates for my journal – most are from Cathy Zielske, one from Jessica Sprague’s Holidays in Hand class and the 12 photo grid I made myself, from a tutorial CZ had on her blog a couple of months ago. I actually find the templates quite empowering – I like being able to record my stories in the moment at the best of times – these are helping significantly with the class. Thanks for your kind comments – I find all of your cards and pages very inspiring, your use of colour and different techniques are always a pleasure to see 🙂
Hi Karen – it’s me again 😉
If you took DYL, all of Cathy’s sketches were made into templates by one extremely kind class member – which is why I am in such a pickle as to whether I should retake the class! All materials are permantly available – we don’t need to get a pass now, have a look next time you are over at BPS … I’ve been using some of those as well.
Hope you had a lovely day trip.
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