Rambling Out Loud

I haven't been on much lately.  I've been too busy off in crafting world!   Pinterest  has totally inspired me.  My family thinks I've gone completely insane...well, more so than usual anyway. I will spare you the multitude of projects I have been dabbling in...we would be here all day.... However, after spending part of the night and most of the day on this latest one, I'm sharing! I've been saving cans, boxes, jars, bottles and any other containers I can think of.  In my search for recycling projects, I ran across the idea to turn a cereal box into an artist's canvas.  I have tons of cereal boxes...most of which are currently 1/3 full of stale, old cereal.  I was intrigued. But wait!  There's more!  The artist not only used a cereal box for the canvas, he used hot glue to trace flowers and create the beginnings of a painting!!!  Cool!!!   Tim Coffey Art  has SO many neat ideas.  (I tried to link the direct video,...

Today I ventured out of my seclusion.  Not far, actually...just around the corner to the Goodwill. The doctor says I can't lift anything heavier than a milk jug, but stresses how much I need to walk.  So I walked  around my apartment.  Sometimes I wrapped up the cord, strapped on the black bag containing my wound vac (sounds fun, huh?), and ventured outside a few steps.  Needless to say, my apartment walls are closing in on me.  In truth, they already have closed in on me and are crushing me into the dust. The longer I'm here, the more our clutter, etc is driving me crazy.  So what do I do?  Go to Goodwill to buy more clutter! Oh wait, I meant go to Goodwill so I could walk around and look at stuff. ;) Almost immediately, I broke something.  Yep, I'm a smooth one.  In my defense, I picked up the jar, and the lid flew off.  The tape wasn't on there securely, as it had been on all other jars.  Have you ever experienced ...