I can't believe more than a month has passed since
my last post. September flew by.
It has been a difficult month, and because I
didn't want this blog to be a place where I depressed people or where all I did was whine, I really
haven't had much to say (I haven't even visited anyone else's blog for awhile, something I wish to rectify on my day off tomorrow.) Although I'm getting more hours at work, it is not going well, as the retail
store I work for has a well-deserved reputation for treating their
employees like sh-t. Still looking for a full time job, but so far, no response. So discouraging.
The roommate situation is not working out either. Let's
just refer to the almost 5 year old as Spawn of Satan (SoS for short). The child has several
out of control, shrieking, screaming, body flailing tantrums every day. I fully expect to see his head spin and pea soup to spew from his mouth. (And no, he does not have ADHD; by his mother's own admission, she didn't start to expect him to obey or to discipline him until he started kindergarten in August. He is simply an undisciplined brat - the intellect of a 5 year old, the emotional maturity and self control of a 2 year old. I wish I had known this before I let them move in.) Well, anyway, my home is no longer a pleasant place to live in, and because I'm extremely broke, I have nowhere else to go. Quite frankly, I feel as if my home is no longer MY home
anymore, if you know what I mean. When I started thinking "maybe I could
just rent myself a room somewhere and move out of here", I knew that something was radically
wrong.
So, that's my life right now. I've asked them to move, and hopefully they will be gone November 1st. I know I haven't always been extremely regular in posting, but until the work and roommate situations have been resolved, my posts may be even more infrequent. I hope you'll bear with me for awhile, and won't completely abandon me.
Now, on to the REAL post:
I've been working on several craft projets, one of them being a couple of collages. I've been collecting collage materials for years: old postcards, vintage greeting cards, old calendars, stationary, gift wrap, pressed flowers, old photographs, vintage wallpapers, magazine clippings, glitter, feathers, etc. I go to thrift stores and garage sales to try to find cheap picture frames for my projects. I feel kind of shy about sharing these (what if everyone thinks they suck?), but I thought I would do so anyway. So, here are a few of them (Sorry for the poor quality of the photos; can't get the lighting or the color right and having a hard time losing the glare on the picture frame glass).
This is my latest. I titled this one "The Garment of God":
Now, on to the REAL post:
I've been working on several craft projets, one of them being a couple of collages. I've been collecting collage materials for years: old postcards, vintage greeting cards, old calendars, stationary, gift wrap, pressed flowers, old photographs, vintage wallpapers, magazine clippings, glitter, feathers, etc. I go to thrift stores and garage sales to try to find cheap picture frames for my projects. I feel kind of shy about sharing these (what if everyone thinks they suck?), but I thought I would do so anyway. So, here are a few of them (Sorry for the poor quality of the photos; can't get the lighting or the color right and having a hard time losing the glare on the picture frame glass).
This is my latest. I titled this one "The Garment of God":
I think this one was one of the first ones I did. It started out with a Paris theme, then I sort of deviated from that.
