Cards & Crafts for Christmas

Edith and Eugene are on hiatus for the moment.  I have no idea as to where they've gotten to but they are sure to show up some time soon.  They needed a break from the boredom of doing nothing while waiting to get RVing, I guess!

But as I sit here in the office reading "Cards and Crafts for Christmas", a special edition magazine of "Simply Cards and Papercraft" put out in 2007 I dream of making cards while sitting in the comfort of my studio in my trusty little RV Ms Lucille Esmeralda.

The last couple of weeks as I have been poking around my new "studio" at home the time has given me the where-with-all and desire to do the same from the comforts of my RV.  The space in the RV is a little more cramped for sure but I am absolutely positive that I can fit a little card making studio in the back corner of the RV, the area slated to be my bedroom and lounge.

HHHhhmmmm. . .

I'd really like to be sitting in the RV right about now. . .how many times have I said this and waited for it to happen?  I'm the only one who can make it happen and soon I will make it happen but soon is Spring 2011 and not before unless I win the lottery or something like that.  I love my little business a lot right now, now that I'm making cards in a space dedicated to cards, its just ever so perfect.  Now I make cards and develop a plan, a strategy, a means to sell them at home or while on the road.

I feel good. . .RVing here I come. . .

Keeping Busy

I'm keeping myself busy these days by making cards and other crafty items to sell as well as writing up plans and goals to achieve to not only get myself on the road but to keep myself there too!

The weather has finally realized that it is summer and we are in for a bit of a hot streak.  Not sure how long it will last but I am not really looking forward to it because the condo tends to be 5-10 degrees hotter than the temperature outside.  If it is anything like last year we will not be spending too much time indoors during the evening as it is unbearable.  Last year we stayed out most evenings until 10pm to avoid suffering from heat exhaustion by being indoors which is kind of ridiculous but you do what you have to do.  This year we will see if we can survive as we bought an air conditioner on pretty much the last day of heat wave so hopefully we can stay indoors once in awhile.  Although going to the beach is quite nice so we will definitely have to check it out this year now that the weather is tending toward being too hot.

So as I mentioned I am doing what I can to prepare myself for life in the RV.  I am making time and the effort to make cards and other crafty items to sell while out on the road so that I am in a position to at least support myself in some way during my travels since winning the lottery is proving to be a slow process at the moment.  I am also trying to line up things I need to pack and store everything I intend to bring with me within reason of course.  I want to be ready to just go when the mood strikes and I must say that that mood is fast approaching if it is not here all ready!

During the night I often dream about my RV travels as well as making cards while in the RV and how I am surviving on the road.  My daydreams also often involve RV travel and taking in the beautiful surroundings I find myself in from day to day.  I've seen myself deep in the forest as well as temporarily settled in a parking lot somewhere and selling cards out the door of the RV.


Selling cards in a parking lot sounds kind of weird but it happens because of the unique advertising I have on all sides of the RV.  The advertising is both unique and tasteful and draws a lot of attention wherever I go.  Do I have any idea of what the ads look like at the moment?  Not a clue!  Although, I do believe that Edith and Eugene's photos appear somewhere on the RV as well as their blog address and then Odds n Ends Scraps & Crafts also appears somewhere on the RV.  So nice to dream up these ideas and now I need to execute them.


So this is where I am for the moment, getting ready and making plans to live and survive in an RV while driving down the road.


I thank you for reading and please feel free to comment or offer suggestions.

Any one know an artistic automotive paint guy or girl that can help execute a unique advertising paint scheme for a 21 foot Class C RV for someone on a tight budget?

Thanks and see you next time. . .

More Heavy Rain - enough water already!

The rain has not let up for the past 24 hours although the weather forecast is for it to end abruptly today around noon or so they say.  The weather is great none-the-less.  I love the mild weather even if it is a bit wet.  The local mountains are losing all the snow that fell in December.  One local mountain lost over a metre of snow and they were saying that the snow was melting at a rate of 1 centimetre every couple of hours.  On top of that many trees are starting to pollinate and last week I saw a group of robins searching for food outside the office door.  Spring may have already arrived.

I have many ideas running through my mind as to how my/our RV adventure will unfold.  I see myself traveling all over North America with Edith and Eugene in tow.  Edith and Eugene are still holed up in the cardboard box they arrived in last March/April.  They will make an appearance soon, I promise.

For those of you out there that may not know who Edith and Eugene are I will tell you that they are my puppets that I ordered from Axtell Expressions last year.  I have been working on and practising my ventriloquial skills off and on for over a year now and thankfully I have not lost the skill I have but at the same time it has not improved much either.  Edith and Eugene are the true force behind this blog and as soon as our adventure begins you will be reading their comments right here in this blog.

The rain is letting up some and the day is getting a might brighter too!

Until next time. . .