Update

I feel like I have been very busy but I know it hasn't been all that bad.  Mostly I just operate in a slower mode than in my younger days and things take longer to do. I could use a recharge of some sort.
I have done one scrapbook page this last week. It is my granddaughter's preschool graduation photo. I didn't even go to kindergarten and certainly not preschool. Some of my kids did a type of preschool but their "graduation" consisted of paper grad hats and a few snapshots if mom remembered the camera. Now preschool graduation includes a portrait in a cap and gown! Here is my layout:

The journalling is inside the blue frame and is printed on vellum. The butterfly was cut on my cricut out of white cardstock and then just inked with a stamp pad. Maybe I should have used a more contrasting colour but it does show up better in person and the wings are folded out for a 3D effect. Of course, they will get squashed in when I put it in an album but for now it is sitting on the ledge on my piano. Since neither hubby or I play piano and the piano sits silent now, we use the music book ledge for displaying pictures of our children and grandchildren. They are easily removed should someone come home for a visit and want to play the piano.
The days are getting cooler and shorter and I have been trying to plan some activities to pull me through winter. I have battled depression for a good part of my life and winter with its short days and overcast, dreary days can be a struggle. My mobility issues tend to increase this challenge. I am looking forward to doing more scrapbooking and to completing challenges with Fiskateers.  There are some local crops scheduled but I am not sure how many I will attend. The packing and unpacking of gear is rather tedious and inevitably I want something I don't have with me. I will have to improve on my ability to plan for a crop so I don't need a semi to get me and my stuff there.
Around home we have completed a few projects. We had new flooring put in both upstairs bathrooms. The carpet that the builder put in our ensuite is no more. YAY! Jack put a much needed shelf in our bathroom vanity and we rearranged and added some shelves to our cleaning closet. It is much more functional now and looks so much tidier. Thanks Jack!
We are also gathering items for a garage sale. I am letting a number of things go that I have been hanging on to thinking I needed them. I am downsizing my recipe collection, especially ones I have never used. I gave Caroline two of my Company`s Coming kids cookbooks and eliminated three magazine holders of booklets and magazines and one binder full of printed recipes. I may still have more to go, I just have to be more courageous. When I sorted through the wedding supplies I was able to empty one big box so far and two are to go to the garage sale. I am selling or donating the two dozen rose bowls I have from Caroline's wedding. There was also about 900 envelopes from the wedding that didn't happen. I tossed the preprinted ones, no idea what I was thinking in keeping them. Perhaps I was planning to send myself a lot of mail in small envelopes. It would have cost a fortune. Oh well, saner moments have prevailed now and they are out the door. The blank envelopes will be used for my handmade cards and shared with other cardmakers. They will be handy for that.
I hope you are all having a good week and enjoying sunny autumn days.
Laney