artCrush 45 by NBK Design
https://the-lilypad.com/store/artCrush-45-Kit.html
As a creative team member of several designers who offer the most amazing templates in the world- you know I LOVE those - I rarely get to create a layout from scratch - because I can't resist those templates I love. This page was different. I started with just a vague idea of cutting a pie into wedges... and let my inner voice guide me. At times it felt like the the hand holding the mouse was making the decisions for me... This was prue scrapping bliss. Thank you for looking.
I lost my sense of smell during COVID and three months later can still smell nothing. It is definitely a bizzare experience worth documenting...
journaling reads:
I lost my sense of smell during COVID and have lived a fragrance-free life for three months now. Although I can smell absolutely nothing - not my morning coffee, not the rain in my garden... not even the molten asphalt outside my house - I noticed it by accident when someone had inhaled deeply and said 'oh, the rich scent of basil'.
The very fact that I needed pointing out that I'd lost it is an indication of how important smell had been for me. I never liked using perfumes and always thought 'the fragrance of flowers in the air' was just a poetic turn of phrase. Sure, I could smell roses and lavender and daffodils, but I needed to have my nose almost in the flower for that. I loved fragrant shower gels, however. And the smell of food.
Cooking is the biggest problem. I can enjoy eating food, but need my nose as a guide when adding herbs and spices. Bummer... Everything I cook is bland.
It's not all bad though. When my dog rolled in poop and I had to wash him, it didn't bother me one bit. Touching him was gross, and I had to wash my hands several times afterwards because I couldn't be sure the stench had gone. The struggle was real.
There's not much data and the prognosis so far is 'it should come back within a year'. At times I think I am beginning to sense difference in no smell...hmmm
