Creating
It's been a while since I wrote, and some of you might be wondering why. The answer is simple - I've been holed up in my studio creating, which is by far my most loved thing in the world. When the desire to create hits, the desire to do much else disappears. I love making things, and while I have dozens of crafty options, paper is my first love. Over the weekend I listened to a few episodes of Crafty Chat on YouTube. There were a couple of episodes with the CEO of Hero Arts that I really enjoyed, probably because it took me down memory lane. Back to the days of mail order rubber stamp catalogs, before the big scrapbooking trend and way before mixed media was a thing. It dawned on me, I've been doing this for a really long time, nearly three decades, a quarter of a century. I wandered down this path when I was in high school when a rubber stamping store opened in my hometown. Rocky Mountain Impressions was a tiny little shop, lined with wood mounted stamps. It