While sad, it makes total sense that it would be time to retire the event. I feel grateful to have found the site just before year 5. It's been a privilege to play.
I've re-opened prior MOCs through 2015. Still working on 2014 and 2013 (having some issues with correct permissions).
Dear Julie - wishing you complete and speedy healing. Thank you for all you have done to make MOC happen in the past. Maybe this 2025 January without the delightful distraction of MOC I will work on other projects and take a look at the challenges of earlier MOC years.
Ouch! Hope you’re better sooner! Will miss MOC it’s how I started with Lilypad challenges but thanks for opening up past years.
Julie, sending you my best wishes for a speedy recovery! These past few months I've struggled to get any layouts done so right now doing the monthly challenges is enough for me. Frankly, once MOC prizes went to only some, it got harder for me to put my heart into it.
Sad about MOC, but glad I completed many years and had fun doing so! Julie, hope you feel better soon!
I'm wishing you a speedy recovery! It must be painful. I'm sad there will be no MOC but I totally understand. Thank you for taking the time to open the older MOC threads.
Take care @mrs2a50. I hope you will have a speedy recovery but shoulders are hard. Thanks for all the wonderful years with MOC, I really loved to make them.
Thanks for years of fun and excitement, get well Julie, and thanks @cfile for introducing me to MOC at its very start.
I think we were together on a team in a different scrapping site that closed, and I was looking for a new home, so I came in for a month and stayed forever.
Perfect! I had a colleague who said that 12 is the perfect answer to everything in the universe. LOL! I missed all of MOC 12 due to emergency surgery so I feel for you, Julie. I was looking forward to this one, but the idea of going back to scrap what I missed is brilliant. And this time I don't have to stress about deadlines. Win, win!
Thank you so much for doing this! And I'm sending good wishes for speedy healing. I did notice an issue with MOC 2015. The link takes us to the questions thread, not the actual list of challenges. You are directing us here: https://the-lilypad.com/forum/forum/month-of-challenges-2015.385/ I have a link to only the challenges: https://the-lilypad.com/forum/forum/moc-challenges.387/
This is a great idea. I have often thought if I had access to do old challenges when I need some ideas that it could be useful. Not sure if it would take too much effort to do make accessible though.
Praying for a speedy and peaceful recovery for you @mrs2a50 ! I'm saddened that MOC is retiring, but everything good must come to an end one day. I will happily cherish the memory of having completed only 1 MOC throughout the 12 years, which is MOC 2022.