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Lately, I've no time to make any cards this week. With work, lack of sleep and the need to get to bed early, and a bunch of other reasons, I cannot make a card this week. IT IS KILLING ME!!!!!!! It's like I want a cigarette, but can't have one (I don't smoke, but I'm just thinking it is like this). I feel I'm missing out on all the gallery fun!
Do any of you ever feel like this? You've got other priorities and you just have to leave the hobby alone for a while, even though you have tons of new stamps/paper,ideas and are raring to create!
YES!!!!!!!!! I feel like this all the time. I am in school full time, and work full time. So I have to put card making on the back burner so i can focus on school.... I am addicted and it is hard to say no to making cards.....hopefully i will be soon back to making them.
God bless track break, because now I can finally stamp. Except that I'm hanging at my mom's house because my step-dad is gone. How can you tell your mom that you want to leave her so you can go stamp?!?! LOL
~Kendra
Even worse....like having a cigarette but nothing to light it with! (I used to smoke). Last week I think I did every challenge but this week....zip. I just haven't had the time. Something always comes up. Hopefully next week will be better for you.
I have 3 kids ages 3.5, 2, and 6 months. They 'love' to help me...um, yeah. In the past I've tried stamping when they're in bed. However, I'm currently painting my LR, Dining Room, etc. etc. etc. right now, so even when they are in bed I can't stamp 'cause I have to paint. I'm good if I can make 1 card a week, but I'll keep trying. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY PAINTING DONE!!!
Totally understand what you're going through. Vet school has a tendency to slow the creative process quite a bit. I've had 21 credits this term and I have to make time to create otherwise I go crazy. I just got a bunch of neat things from the Portland convention this last weekend and all I want to do is play. But finals are coming rapidly and all I need to do is study. I cope by doing small parts of cards as study breaks. Just 10-15 min blocks can help to create things over time. Color on one break cut paper on another. I wish you the best of luck on making time to create.
I do understand! I've been painting my powder room all day and I've been painting other things all week. I'm hosting our neighborhood Bunco game this Friday and am finally getting to the things around the house that I normally neglect while stamping and scrapping! The only reason that I'm on the site tonight is that I have insomnia (it's almost 3am here)!
I am with you girls! I am having my house painted & I think the moving of the furniture, taking the pictures off the wall, all that 'prep' stuff is even worse than the painting itself (and I am not even doing that part!). Of course after the painters are finished I have to clean everything due to the drywall dust, etc.
If that weren't enough to do, I signed myself up for an 8 week sewing class that meets once a week for 2 hours. Yeah, I thought I'd torture myself with yet another craft to NOT HAVE TIME FOR! ha ha
I did make a b-day card the other night & I have another one to make tonight. Have a St. Patty's day card in the works too.
My goal this year is to keep up w/organizing, etc. Seems like that is taking over my 'creative' time. Maybe I just need to take a day & say 'nothing else gets done until I make X cards'.
Yes, yes, I feel this way. I am new to this addiction, er.... hobby, and just want to do it all the time.
I get resentful that I have to do things like go to the grocery store, cook dinner for my loving husband, feed my cats and dogs.;)
I have a telephone friend who I like, and feel sort of sorry for, but she goes on and on sometimes. You know the type, just wants someone to listen to all the same stuff that she told you about last time.
Last night, I was trying to stamp some cards, and I told her my doorbell was ringing and I had to go. Sigh, aren't I bad?
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What on earth is spare time?? I vaguely remember having that when I was younger, with no job or DD. But this week, when she has had the throw-ups for 3 straight weeks, and work has been ridiculously busy -- no stamping. And boy it is bumming me out!!! I can't even bring myself to cruise the gallery - I might get sad!!
I take solace in the fact that I am caring for my family, and excelling at my job (yup, I'm tootin' my horn!). And tonight I have plans: glass of wine, rubbah, and ink. And Lost at 10!!
Boy do I know what you are saying! Mom broke her hip in October, in and out of hospitals, doctor appts for her and no time. I touched the stamps I bought for SAB but just touched them! Well, hopefully mom will get better and I will be able to get back to it.
Can soooo relate to this thread......my mother asked me how did I think I was going to work full time, teach classes, and everything else that goes with family like.....and I said" Haven't you noticed? I gave up housework!""
teehee.....that's about the only way I can find the time anymore..literally...something has to fall by the wayside....
oh well, at least when I finally get to cleaning, I'll REALLY be able to see where I've been LOL
I had an anxiety attach this morning!! Last time I had one was 3 years ago, & I ended up in the ER because I thought I was having a heart attack!! Had a stress test & I was perfectly fine, except I was stressed, lol!!!
So much to do ........running kids back & forth.....cleaning......errands......I sell on the Bay PT to make a little cash & I'm SO behind on that......told my friend I'd make Easter, Mothers Day AND bday cards for her........
And yet, here I am, chatting away!! Somehow there's always time for that!!!!
Yes! Life has been so busy lately I haven't had much time to really do what I love most- scrapbook and cardmake. Its driving me bananas, I'm hoping to get more time this weekend.
I took some time off from work today and squeezed in some stamping. Made a ginormous mess but I like the card!! So relaxing to just get away in my little stamping world. I hope you ladies can find some time...
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Is everyone painting their houses. Me too, just finished painting my craft room, and now hauling everything back in. Oh, my gosh do I have stuff. So I haven't made a card for a couple weeks now. Luckily I have some card classes to go to - to keep my spirits up.
Yea, I could use a cigarette right now, hehehe
Kathy
I am SO there with you. I have 3 kids, and a zillion things on my to-do list. I have rooms to paint, projects to help the kids with, gardening that needs to be done (weed city out there!).. And my little stamp room sits up there calling my name all day. Every time I walk past it, I just wish I had an ounce of time to spare so I could do what's always on the back of my mind... stamp!
I bet if I pulled myself away from here for a little bit I'd find loads of extra time. But I love it here so much!
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I'm stuck there for a few weeks now...I keep trying to get down there and stamp, but no such luck. Seems the only time I do get to stamp is when I have to...hoepfully soon. Good luck, hope you find some time soon!!!
I understand exactly how you all feel. We got a new puppy 5 weeks ago and between working part-time, taking care of the kids and now this dog - I haven't stamped in weeks. Everytime I walk past my stamp room, I yearn to go in and create but lately, there is just no time. I never knew puppies were so much work!!
With 2 boys under the age of two (crazy, I know!), I only seem to make cards last minute. I don't have time for leisurely cardmaking. Just when I'm in a crunch for someone's birthday, or other occasion!
I feel like that all the time! I am kind of crazy in the fact that I won't let myself stamp or relax in any manner until all my chores are done. And as a single mom that works full time (and then some lately) they are NEVER done. Sometimes I have to make myself sit down- and then it is hard to get in the groove. But once I get going I am like, "Chores- what chores???" Right now my stamping area is littered with stamps and ribbon and scraps. Normally that would drive me nuts- but tonight I am ignoring it and relaxing...(but not stamping.......)
I understand exactly how you all feel. We got a new puppy 5 weeks ago and between working part-time, taking care of the kids and now this dog - I haven't stamped in weeks. Everytime I walk past my stamp room, I yearn to go in and create but lately, there is just no time. I never knew puppies were so much work!!
Puppies are a lot of work! Mine didn't calm down until around a year old or so- and even now she is still a lot of work. (but not as bad a human child) Good luck with your puppy and I hope you get to stamp soon! But I would leave your stamping supplies and finished cards out of your puppy's reach....one thing I do not miss about my darling dog being a puppy is the need to chew everything in sight!!
I'm always having this battle....NEVER enough time. "My" time starts at 8pm when all little people go to bed, but that's when I like to unwind and watch tv. I can't stamp at night 'cuz I end up til' midnight playing away!!
If my 3, 7, and 33 year olds could just learn to handle it all by themselves.....:twisted:
Can't say that I don't have time. I'm lucky enough that my husband makes a great salary and I've never had to work and my youngest is 22 and not home much anymore. I do have 3 dogs... but, my problem is my creative juices have dried up!!! I sit here and my butt keeps getting wider....but thats the only progress!!! I sit here for hours and look at my thousands of dollars worth of stuff and...Nothing!!! So...I end up reading the forums!!!! Think I'd better put on my walking shoes and walk some of this butt off!!! How do you get motivated????
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I'm in your same boat (timewise)...although this past weekend I had 4 birthday cards to make and more than enough time to make them and I have to tell ya...it was painful. Everything I did looked horrid and I ended up making a pretty lame card that "just had to do" and grabbing a couple of cards out of my stash to send as I was so disgusted with my creative processes. I think not having free time to really play and create has been my biggest problem of late.
I'm there baby!!! I got 2 jobs and a grad class that's got a rediculous amount of work!
It makes me crazy when I can't get to the challenges or anything! I just got some awesome-riffic new stamps too that I haven't even had time to cut! Grrr...
It's truely like withdrawal when I can't stamp! I start feeling sort of sorry for myself... sort of blue, "bordering blue" to be exact. Then, my hands start to shake... it's and up and down shaking motion or course, just that tapping reflex de-toxing (hehe, just kidding)!
But seriously! Even if I can't stamp, I have to at least get my SCS fix even if it's already too late and I should go to bed. I have to at least check the challenges and the stamping forum and see what I'm missing. (like I'm doing right now)
When I don't have the energy to stamp, I come to the galleries just to look and "get my fix." It will help when we move and I get my own craft area organized so that I don't have to mess around with getting all of the materials and tools out and put them away immediately.
Can't say that I don't have time. I'm lucky enough that my husband makes a great salary and I've never had to work and my youngest is 22 and not home much anymore. I do have 3 dogs... but, my problem is my creative juices have dried up!!! I sit here and my butt keeps getting wider....but thats the only progress!!! I sit here for hours and look at my thousands of dollars worth of stuff and...Nothing!!! So...I end up reading the forums!!!! Think I'd better put on my walking shoes and walk some of this butt off!!! How do you get motivated????
I know how that feels. When my stampin' get up and go has got up and went, I head for the gallery and CASE something. Maybe you could participate in the daily challenges, especially the Sketch challenge on Wednesdays. I look forward to that one because you can also incorporate Monday's Technique and Tuesday's color challenges. My main problem is that my *stamping table* is also my dining room table, so I clean it off for dinner and then I don't feel like dragging everything back out just for a card or two. My kingdom for a craft room!!
I feel frustrated with this every week! We have been cleaning out and redecorating our house--so I've spent time in the attic I really resented.
I haven't finished mounting my latest stamps, either!
But I did get to do the triangle fold card on the tutorial for Wednesday. It was easy but impressed my family. (Well, my husband anyway.)
I also have found if I don't "schedule" time for stamping, it never happens. I schedule it like a reward: "If I get certain chores done, I will let myself have 30 minutes to stamp." I might only get a couple of hours in a week, but it is better than nothing.
Also, I have to clean up every night, even if I plan on stamping again tomorrow--I just learned this about myself recently--If I let my stamping area get messy, I get depressed just at the sight. It takes more time but I feel so much positive if I don't get back to stamping for a day or two (or seven, or eight) and I don't have to look at the mess.
I have no time...do you feel like this?
