~ The Good, The Bad, The Ugly ~
October 24th, 2009 by Holly McMillen
Good afternoon, friends…
I made the mistake of pushing myself today. I have been itching to stamp for days and couldn’t stand the idleness any longer, so I went for it. I am paying for it now. My mom always said, when you’re feeling better, give yourself an extra 24 hours after that to regain your strength, before doing your normal routine. Well, I didn’t listen. I woke up in the middle of the night and I couldn’t sleep, so I got on Splitcoaststampers and found the Inspiration challenge for today. My mind just started churning. I wanted to get up then and stamp, but I knew that was a bad idea.
So, when I got up this morning, I put my plan in motion. Only problem is, my body wasn’t cooperating with my mind. It took me about three hours to get this project to come out even remotely like I had envisioned it!
I chose THIS piece as my inspiration…. or rather it chose me!
Now, I know someone is going to ask for directions on this, but I really winged it (no pun intended), so if you want a pattern, I will have to draw one up.
Here are my deets:
Stamps: Artful Inkables‘ Bird’s Song
Colors: Close to Cocoa, Bashful Blue, GP White
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx, Close to Cocoa, Tim Holtz’ distressing ink, copics, black fine tip sharpie
Accessories: ribbon, 1/2 pearls, eyelet border punch, numerous hole and circle punches, straw, sticky tape, scoring blade, dauber, twine, oval punch, scalloped oval punch
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Now for the good…. I had an appt with my doctor yesterday and the lab work came back NEGATIVE for anything serious. The bad news is, the infection persists. He put me on a more aggressive antibiotic and more pain medications. Now we take it day by day.
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a blessed day!
~~ Holly ~~
Holly, your birdhouse is so cute! I love the swirls, pearls and sweet bird! Hope you’re feeling better soon with the new medicine! Moms give great advice, if only we would listen. LOL!!
Awww Holly…I know how it feels to have that creative energy still buzzing around, even when you feel so awful…but take care of yourself because the creative world will still be here for you…though missing you, of course.
This is just the sweetest project and truth be told, it doesn’t express coming from one who is not up to par health-wise! So really beautiful job!
This is wonderful, Holly!! Love the flourishes with the pearls on them and the little bird on the perch is darling! Great work, even if you weren’t supposed to be doing it just yet. Good news on the test results. Hope the infection subsides quickly.
holly hugs to you
I do love it!
you take care don’t push yourself
Um, yeah, I want instructions!! That’s amazing, Holly!!
I’m sorry that you’re paying for it now, but I’m so glad that you were able to share what you created. Hang in there and try to have patience while you’re healing 🙂
Oh this is beautiful, Holly! It certainly doesn’t look like you were under the weather when you created this! Love it! That bird looks so cute on its perch!
WOW…and I thought I put alot of work into my cards! This is fabulous! I thought you were supposed to be taking it easy??