I’ve been off for a few days because both of our laptops have been just dying. We got his fixed and mine is currently being fixed. Someone downloads a lot of stuff and picks up Malware Yikes. I love free software but I guess it really isn’t free. We’ve also been really busy around here as Mike’s knee replacement which went so well at first seems to have went south in terms of the flexibility of his leg. This has resulted in a minor procedure last Wednesday at Holston Valley Medical Center, and now we’re involved in intensive physical therapy. I say “we” because there are parts of this that occur at home, and I help.

Today, however, I just had to get away to myself. I started messing with the Cricut.

We had a young man get married who lives just up the road from us, and I bought he and his wife a gift card from Lowe’s. I then lost the gift card. They’ve been married a month, so I decided the only way to find the gift card is to buy another gift card. You know how that works. I finally bought the new gift card last week. I still haven’t found the original one, but I’m feeling more confident.

Then, since I’d also lost the card that I got to go with the gift card, I decided to go in a different direction than buying another card to put the gift card in. (Whew..did you get that? I’m not sure I did.) I found a painted wooden block and then added the letter “K” (for Kiser). (I guess I ought to clarify here that I’m talking about a gift card I lost followed by a wedding card congratulating the couple that I also lost. My hope is that they are somewhere together, probably a couple by now, and I’ll find them and be so excited because I’ll then have a Lowe’s gift card that is All.Mine.) Meanwhile, here’s that “K” I was talking about.

This is no masterpiece, but I know they are using yellow in their house, so I took some yellow scrapbook paper and placed it on the wooden block Mike made ages ago — made a letter K on the Cricut and added some Mod Podge to hold this all together. I attached the gift card to the back and tied a white ribbon around the whole affair.

Here ya go! Isn’t this better than wrapping paper or a gift bag? I’m loving this. Should I put a tracker on it in case I lose this, too?

So, while I had the the Cricut out…I made the letters for “Swinging Bridge” for a board I found in Mike’s shop. I laid the letters out and thought, “where the heck is the “E”…I have an extra “G” but no “E” (which I knew I’d made). Look closely. at the last “G” in Swinging. Duh. It’s my “E” I could not find.

Admit it…they do look a bit alike…

I’m not sure exactly how I’m going to use this “Swinging Bridge”…I may put numbers with it and do it as a wall piece in our home office. I’m still working on that project.

Write more later…now that I’ve got one healthy computer!!