A Work in Progress

Greetings! Boy, setting up a new blog takes a bit of time! I'm still trying to figure out all the new bells and whistles. Things are different from a couple years ago when I was working on The Frugal Cardmaker. I WILL get it all figured out, but it is going to take some time.

While I am working on this, my Sweetheart and I are watching the 2nd night of The Voice on NBC. We love that show! I'm working on our desktop computer which is in our living room. I have to turn around to see the TV screen. I'm unable to watch TV and do nothing else. I have to be working on the computer, knitting, crocheting, or doing something else at the same time. I cannot stand to have idle hands!

For years my cardmaking stuff was in our study right next to the living room so I could work on cards and watch TV with Hubby at the same time. Then I outgrew that space and moved everything up two flights of stairs to our 3rd floor attic. Now I have to choose where I am going to spend the evening and how. I can watch TV in the attic on my iPad but it's not the same as spending time in the living room with my Sweetheart.

I do use our desktop computer for my digital collection of papers and images so sometimes I work at printing off stuff for my cardmaking while I am watching TV with Hubby. Our main printer is also in the living room. I have an older Lexmark 3-in-1 printer in my craft room, but it needs ink, which I refuse to buy because of the cost, and something is caught inside the paper feed so it won't print right and jams frequently so I only use it to scan my cards for my files. Our main printer now is a Canon MG5320. I love this printer almost as much as I loved my little old HP Deskjet. I bought that little HP for $25 at Christmas one year and it served us faithfully for over 7 years, printing out many hundreds of copies. Of course, that model is no longer available. One of the things I loved about it so much was that I could refill the ink cartridges and save a bundle of money. I can't refill the ink cartridges on the Canon but I can buy cheap replacements on Amazon. I don't print out photos for scrapbooking so I'm not all that concerned about print quality. The quality I get is totally acceptable to me. I print out a lot of digital papers and digital images to use on my cards.

Enough of the talk...here are a few more of my recent cards. Notice that I scan them instead of photographing them. That's because I am not very good at taking photographs and just have a point-and-shoot digital camera. I only use it when the card I've made won't work on the scanner. But again, enough...