One step forward . . .

That's how I feel life has been recently, one step forward and then one, or sometimes two, steps back.  I am currently on holiday and feel I have wasted my time off moping about and feeling miserable, and worse, feeling guilty for feeling miserable!  It certainly hasn't been a terribly productive time.  I have had chronic sinusitis which I am now getting under control, but it is likely to be a long haul, I have a very painful shoulder, which is limiting what I can do and to keep the pain at a tolerable level I am doped up on strong painkillers and to top it all I have depression.

Given all that has happened over the past year, it is small wonder I haven't cracked up completely so I should be grateful.  I do have an appointment later today with the doctor and am going with a list so I don't miss anything out.

On a happier note I did manage to get some pages made last week.  I went back to an old BPC class called Finding Your Way that was taught by the very talented Karen Grunberg.  As a result I had a little reorganisation of my stash and sorted through my punches and stamps collecting a 'go to' section of each based on what I use the most for each page.  These pages came together pretty quickly and I am hoping to have another page making day before the end of the holidays.  Part of the reason these came together so quickly was I stuck to my 'go to' supplies and used paper collections for the first 2 pages that I knew Angela would be taking to the Sincerely Yours show later this month.

For this page I used Studio Calico Snippets papers, a Stash Panache flair button and some Artemio stamps.

Next up was a Crate Paper Collection pack which I fell in love with as soon as I saw it, even though it is not my usual style of papers.

Finally this page used a range of different things including Studio Calico and Basic Grey papers and some of my favourite Elle's Studio stamps.

Hopefully I will be feeling a lot less miserable and more upbeat by the next post.  Take care x x x