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Not sure if I want to continue....

i quit for 3 years after losing my hp puter and its drive and his surgery. I too now want to stop again, i have no interest in pictures of anything, getting my drive back in shape after i lost them 2 months ago.. and stop this stupid spending i have done on digi stuff. Bad thing is, i don't feel like playing farmville either.
Maybe there something in air, making everyone 'blah'
 
I haven't scrapped since January. But my funk actually started in December when I had both of my dogs put down at the same time. Going from 2 dogs to 0 in one day was a lot for me to handle especially after I had gotten the oldest one 15.5 years earlier. They were my favorite subject to photograph and I just didn't take photos anymore at all. I had hoped to get some motivation back come spring but my vacation to North Carolina just wasn't as pleasant as I had hoped all because of car issues on the way there. I did enjoy my time with my Dad though. When I got home I had the stress of buying a new car, selling the old one and figuring out how to pay for it. Then 4 days after I got the car my father died in North Carolina very unexpectedly. I am an only child and he was widowed (although he had a companion) so I am having to deal with everything on my own. At the time of his death, I also started having a ringing in my ear that has since been diagnosed as tinnitus and there is no magic fix for it. I just have to learn to live with it.

As to when I will get my motivation back, who knows... I just have to keep on living my life and dealing with things the best I can. This summer my relaxation and stress reliever has been reading on my Kindle.
 
@Cath_ @HavaDrPepper You are both in my thoughts. ((hugs)) I am so sorry about your dogs, Rene'.
@littlekiwi and @lynning I agree with what everyone has said. Just because you don't want to scrap now, doesn't mean you will feel that way forever.
My interest in digiscrapping has come and gone more than once. I had an 8 month deep depression(I have bipolar disorder), where I didn't scrap a thing. And there were other times, as well. I went from 20-25 Lo's a month when I started in 2010 -I was a bit obsessed - to nothing. Finally, I found Digi-Art journalling, and did some Art Journaling challenges. I made exclusively Art Journal layouts. Then, I did TLP Month of Challenges, I only did 23 LO's, but it was a triumph. I knew I could scrap traditional LO's if I wanted to. But I do a much smaller # of Layouts now. 1-6, sometimes more, but that works for me.
 
littlekiwi said:
Many years ago I was super into it but life got in the way so it never happened.
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This part of your post really resonated with me- I've been there. Life gets in the way of things that you want to do, and it just sucks your creativity away. I've just come out of a couple of years of 14-16 hour (or more) days working two jobs, and during that time I went through many, many periods where I just did not feel creative because I was always busy and exhausted. And then I would get a day or two off where I didn't need to work, and I would still not have any desire to scrapbook, even though I had the time. The thing is, it takes some amount of time after things calm down before you start to feel normal again, and then some time after that before the creativity comes back. I guess that's my long way of saying what so many others have already said- just relax and give it time. :)

I also completely understand about having your files in a mess sapping your desire to scrapbook. I can't create in a messy room or with a messy file system- my brain just won't process things properly until I've cleaned it up! I also often find that just the act of cleaning up my scrapbooking supplies, whether paper or digital, will often spark my desire to make a layout. Maybe you could try working on organizing your digital files for just 15 minutes a day? Or maybe just focus on taking photos and writing in a journal for a while, with no pressure to scrapbook at all? Then when you do feel like making layouts again, you'll have plenty of source material ready to go.

I am so glad that you'll still be here at the 'Pad hanging with us in any case!!
 
I too fell into a funk and seemed to lose my mojo - it returned when I wanted to do a project as a gift. Now I have tons of ideas and not enough time to use them all! It will likely pass - in the meantime just chat :)
 
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