How is everyone doing with MOC?

Sounds like a lot of us would much rather forget last year ... Our daughter was in a car accident at the beginning of February, which killed her boyfriend who was driving. She's ok physically, but the entire year has been a blur. So, I'm working on a YIR page highlighting pictures that my hubby took throughout the year - all nature/landscape. Rather than moments from the year. Choosing to see the beauty through the pain.

 

This is what I do too! I’m okay with doing the layouts out of order, but my layout thread must be in order. I’m stuck on the Photography challenge because I’m not in the mood to get a new photo. Winter does not inspire me.

 

Just finished my shaker box! Kind of like it, but not pleased with my ability to make the plastic look real.

So I'm still keeping up, having done all the challenges on the day they were posted. However, I've been contacted about a problem with one of them, so I may have to revise that one.

 

I got a late start and have lots of catching up to do!!!!!!

 

mine looks silly and I’m thinking of redoing mine with a glass effect…

 

I've gotten about half the challenges done, so I am gonna really need to start getting two a day done, so I can complete all the challenges on time.

 

I got through the Dangles. I don't know why that one stumped me so much, but I was able to get it done.
Now I'm just behind on Days 10 & 11. I really need to get some other things done tomorrow, but hopefully I'll get the day's challenge done and try to pick up a second page sometime this weekend.

I used to keep up with every day, but not anymore. I also used to get them done in order if I fell behind, but again, not anymore. Now I'm just happy I got a page done! haha!

 

That's the tough part. I wasn't able to get mine to look real because it's hard to do in Artisan. But it did mute everything a bit so hopefully you can see I used the plastic.

 

I’m two challenges behind. One of the challenges (Day 8, Florals, Foliage, and Frames) is well within my comfort zone: I love flowers, I love clusters, I love the challenge, I just need to finish the darn page, which is about 75 percent done. And the other challenge?

Yeah, this. Not a criticism of the challenge, I hasten to add (it’s a really clever idea, and a great challenge), but a criticism of my attitude toward the challenge. I need to get over myself, and just get it done.

 

How absolutely awful, @bjthomas. I admire your resolve to see the beauty through the pain, but that is very painful indeed.

I lost my beloved Aunt Nicki (my mother's closest sister) to COVID in February 2021. Very glad to say good-bye to 2021, hoping for better from 2022!...

 

I need to do 2 layouts still - today and the 11th, so almost caught up. Hubby has been in the hospital all week and I had a surgery myself yesterday so life is trying to derail my plan to finish, but hoping to get caught up this weekend

 

think will need to redo 12, aand have today to do

 

I have yesterday and today to do. My brain is full and I need to empty it some first though.

 

Barbara, I'm so sorry to hear about your friend. Thinking of you!!

 

Oh No.... -praying you are both back to full health soon!

I'm so sorry for your loss. My best friend's daughter's boyfriend committed suicide this year and that has been a REALLY hard thing to heal from. Praying for your daughter!

Thank you Sheri, I still need to visit his wife for a visit. Actually my mom and her mom are 1st cousins so my mom said she would like to go with me and have a visit between the 4 of us.

 

So true, yes we need to find the little things we are grateful for! They ARE there if you just look!

 

I was keeping up for the first week, but now I'm 2 days behind but that's totally doable! And hopefully next week won't be crazy at work and I'll have time to catch up! Having a blast though!!

 

It sounds like last year was such a hard year for so many people. Wishing you all a better 2022!

Every year I say that I think I'll be too busy to finish MOC, and every year something happens that makes it possible (a snowstorm that keeps us home for days, something else major being cancelled, etc). But I think this may be the year I just can't do it! I told myself I wasn't even going to try, but I changed my mind and started around January 7th. We even had a snowstorm that kept us home for a week this year, but my work moved virtual so I didn't gain much time. I'm at 7 layouts done so far, and maybe before I go back to work on Tuesday I'll get to 11 or 12. It's going to come down to a combination of how much life gets in the way and how much I can get over myself and call things "good enough" rather than spending hours on them.

 

COVID hit our house but surprisingly I found scrapping to be one of the only things I could do. So I'm right on track!