MID MOC Check-in and Challenge HELP!!

I would have to agree that's its time...I have gotten behind twice and caught up...really don't like being behind, but #6 was a challenge for me...not so into mood boards really struggled to find what appealed to me (and what I had in my stash)...in the end I like my finished LO and I learned a few new techniques (which I always LOVE) but this LO took me 2 days to finish. I do skip around, but hate being behind LOL

 

This is my first MOC and I'm really enjoying it. Fortunately, I'm retired so time is plentiful! I've tried to keep January fairly commitment free each year as I like to have time to read and reflect in the winter. MOC fits right in with that and I usually get each page done each day. I'm not aiming for the perfect page!

There have been some challenges i didn't care for but hey...it's not like it's a BiG problem. I just do them and move on. And some pages i don't care for but I may or may not print them. I'm thinking of making a 8" album for all 31 pages so I probably will.

 

my new puppy is my biggest challenge!! She is honestly taking up a lot of time. That, and the fact that I only just got my scrap space back today. I scrap at the dining room table. We got new floors the week before Christmas and it's taken until this past week to get all the trim work done by the floor place. UGH. they were terrible. I was able to finally put all my china and glassware back into my hutch, which meant I could set myself up the way I need to be!

whew. so, I got caught up today (5 pages I believe if you count day 14 as 2!). And now i'm ready for the rest of the week!

 

honestly right now my problem is life....my mum has had dental work done twice in the past week that had to be redone yesterday so i've become nurse, cook, cleaner, general dogsbody etc since last wednesday and she's not due back at work til saturday. I usually scrap/surf most days she's working so having her home 24/7 has been a challenge. Second thing is i'm also applying for jobs at the moment so any time i do spend on the computer is doing that.

 

Hi Karen! I'm in Birmingham

 

I really aint having problems with any of the challenges. My problem is I was down with bronchitus for a few days and oh me gosh I am BEHIND! I strive to get my bum caught up though! Having alot of fun!

 

Time is a big problem for me too this year. The fact that I had to work twelve days in a row did not hep me at all. I am 8 layouts behind and did my first MOC page Saturday.

 

I caught up now, having a little hard time. Only messed up on two days, that needed to be redone (hehe one should read instrutions...)

 

I am all caught up and trolling the threads for the next challenge.
I kinda cheated/worked backwards for the inspiration challenge, I had a creative team layout all done and then looked at the inspiration piece and pulled 5 things from it that worked. and Voila! All done and dusted.

 

Were doing a major remodel and demolition started last week. This was really bad timing. My old photos are not accessible because we had to put tons of stuff in a pod for the durations of the construction. I know I will probably have the perfect photos for some of the upcoming challenges but won't be able to get to them. But, like a lot of you, life happens and we scrap onward.

 

@tinkerbell1112 You got your puppy!! <3 Your floors, I'm sure they look nice! We're probably doing that this year too, the entire main floor and stairs to the second floor. But hubby didn't want to go the tile route, with where we live and cold floors, so we're back to looking at hardwood! I can't wait to hear more about your puppy though! Maybe you'll scrap a layout about the new addition this month!

It seems like everyone isn't having too much of a challenge with the challenges, but time, space, sickness, etc! I hope you all are able to find the time to scrap a few pages as well as all those who are facing all these sickness to get better once and for all--but please, keep it away from our home! <3

 

The main one I currently have a block on is the 8 o'clock photo one. My camera is really poor in low light which it is at either end of the day so I know whatever photo I take will be awful. Plus, ugh, just? I am at work at 8am and I am not sitting in an open office and taking a photo of my desk. Weekends are the time NOT to see 8am at all. That leaves 8pm and I'm usually in bed browsing the laptop, not at all inspiring.

The inspiration board was a biggie too. I waited ages and kept going through the thread to read what other people had pulled from it (to be honest, I didn't find the mood board visually inspiring at all), then I pulled a list of what others had been inspired by, checked back to the mood board then just made a page making sure to get in 5 inspiration points taken from other peoples lists. I the end I used a lot more than 5, but not all of those elements actually jumped out of me from the board provided.

The clean and simple ones, no journaling ones are always hard for me, but I just go with playing and not worrying about if it's something important I really want to scrap, I just see them as a hill to get over to reach the end.

The other thing is I am so emotionally drained at the moment, both my parents and my MIL have health issues that are sapping my energy physically and emotionally. I'm just in a bit of a down at the moment. Honestly, if it wasn't MOC I probably wouldn't be doing ANY scrapping apart from minimum CT requirements. So I do feel for the rest of you who are enduring similar.

 

um....my biggest struggle is trying not to buy everything I see

 

sorry to hear about your parents & mil health issues. Been there and it isn't fun!

If the 8 o'clock is the one your having troubles with just take a photo of your computer at night and put a title like 8pm blues.... and just journal about that....

 

This has been a good year for me. I'm on time each day with that days challenge. But I don't work outside of the house. I only have 1 child left at home and he is pretty self reliant. My hubby knows about this challenge and I just say "I need to go and work on todays challenge" The challenges that are more 'not my style' just take a little more time. But I ended up loving them! I am lucky enough where I can pull from my children's facebook photos and use those to tell my story. Last year was the first year I completed the whole MOC the years before that I always fell behind and just felt overwhelmed to complete them.
I was worried as I had a new tower and software delivered last week, but I've been able to use it better than I though I might. That was my main concern for this years.

 

My biggest hurdle is also time. Even when I think I have a night at home my family actually wants to eat! Like every night! Weird! Then there's always cleaning up and dishes and then checking email and getting disctracted in the forums, etc. Lol! But, this weekend I have a friend coming over to scrap all weekend, so I should be able to get caught up and then I'll just have to STAY caught up until the end.

We can do this! Sometimes the pressure of a deadline is a great motivator to me... usually once I know I only have a short amount of time, I'm much better and just picking a kit rather than looking at ALL the kits to make sure I have the exact right one. If I get started, that's half the battle!

 

I think time and motivation have been my biggest issues. I haven't scrapped almost at all in the last 6 months and it's hard getting back into it. I want to, though, because I really want to get photos off my computer. I've also been trying to move more so that interferes with sitting at a computer . My littlest also decided that last night would be a great night to throw up all night so....not fun. I'm still hoping to complete, though, even though I'm 10ish pages behind.

I'm also doing a lot of doubles even for challenges that don't require them because I'm trying to get books done. It's more time consuming - not in the scrapping but in the editing and placing of photos. (Thank goodness for @gonewiththewind Gotta Lotta templates!

 

My biggest problem has also been time. And I always have so much of it on my hands! How can that be? But we just got new computers at our house - sooooo exciting!!!! - and it has taken me a full week to get my new one up and going and the little quirks worked out, kits transferred to a new EHD and all. Blessings for which I am grateful. But it made it hard to scrap for a while there. And then there is the slump thing going on. And just feeling tired. BUT! I am trying to pick myself up and get going on it all. Love my new computer and how fast it goes. It makes working on it a joy.

The Inspiration Challenge was kind of a hard one for me. And here is one time not having enough time to scrap has been a blessing....I had time to THINK about several challenges during that week and time to decide what to do on them when things got back to normal again. So! No complaints. Anyway...the brick in those inspiration photos and the industrial look appealed to me. And as I thought about it the memories from a wonderful trip we took a few years ago came back and that's all it finally took for that page to take off and fly.

The Blind Scrap Challenge was probably the hardest for me so far. I struggled with finding all the elements I needed for that one. It shouldn't have been that hard. But it was. Since finishing it up though my friends have taught me a few things I didn't know about searching for the items I needed. So! We are good with that now.

It has been interesting. I'm finding that some of these challenges, for me, need to be two pagers! There is so much journaling I would love to do about the subjects I chose. So having to condense and leave things out of what I wanted to say has been hard. Maybe I will have to redo those pages.