MIA: My Mojo

Something strange has happened to me in the last six weeks. I have lost my mojo. Mojo. You know, the inspiration and motivation and desire to be creative, explore and seize the day. Well, let's just say that the seize has taken a siesta.

Ever since coming home from my "mountain top" experience at the Beth Moore Living Proof Live event, I've kinda sunk into a funk. It's been a combination of factors:

*Mother-in-law came to visit for two weeks, and that's a lot of entertaining and housekeeping duty right there.

*I had wisdom tooth troubles, but luckily have avoided the need to get them pulled thus far.

*Church has left me uninspired and I'm not in any Bible studies right now.

*Work hours have been sporadic.

*Social life has been non-existent.

*Shuttling the kids to the pool and various activities just trying to keep them entertained.

*Missing family and friends and wishing I could see them more often.

It all adds up to an existential crisis. Even cardmaking, something that I enjoy doing, has left me flat. After all, I have piles of cards, so why make more? Who am I gonna send them to? Sell them? Who's going to buy them? Am I making cards just so that I can post them at galleries and wait for people to leave a comment on them? How shallow is that? If I'm not stamping, then what should I blog about? And really, should I be blogging at all? What does it produce?

In the end, I am bored and listless and want to shout to the Lord "Lord, what am I doing here?"

I could really use a friend or two or three.

My husband has taken a week of vacation, and I'm terrified that he's going to stay at home all day and we're going to look at each other and wonder what we should be doing.

Today, I decided to make a card or two. I didn't have a reason, and I have no recipients in mind. I guess I just made them for me. And who knows. Maybe I'll figure out what to do with these piles of cards that are accumulating in my craft room.



{recipe: Fruitful Harvest stamp set (Gina K), Basic Grey Urban Prairie papers, oval punch, designer label punch, brad, basic black cardstock, versafine onyx ink}



{recipe: Botanicals stamp set (Gina K), Pure Luxury white cardstock, basic black cardstock, Versafine onyx ink, Tim Holtz mask, Glimmer Mist pearl, Amuse ribbon, Amuse rhinestone twinkles}