Floral Thank You Card

Hello Friends!  Happy Wednesday.  Since retiring I've been trying to work out some sort of life schedule.  I've asked a few retired people for advise and some say for the first few months to just relax and go with the flow; to just enjoy my free time and not focus on any sort of schedule.  Before I retired, I had the mindset that when I retire I would immediately tackle all the projects I have put on the backburner such as organizing my garage; redesigning my office and craft room;  start on home improvement projects like painting my exercise room; and start exercising.  I actually started a list of goals and all the things I want to get done.  

The first week of retirement I reorganized my office.  Because I worked remotely from home, I wanted to turn my work office into a journaling/planner room. I did manage to reorganize my desk, drawers and cabinets.  I also started an exercise schedule. I started going for a walk daily.  I also worked on my yard by pruning my plants and other yard work.  I traveled to Vegas for a family reunion my first weekend.  After returning from Vegas, I felt so burnt out.  On my second week of retirement, my body started aching a little. I think I over did it the first week of retirement.  I continued on the same schedule but I felt so tired from all the activities the previous week.  I decided on this 3rd week of retirement that I'm just going to relax and slow it down a little.  I have to remind myself that I don't need to do everything all at once. On the other hand, I feel like I'm wasting my free time and I start to have a strange feeling of FOMO (fear of missing out). I feel like I should be going on adventures and start on all the projects I had wanted to do.  I don't know, I'll figure it out.  Right now, today anyway, I decided to focus on just relaxing, take a nap if I need to and do some crafting.  

This morning I woke up early and did my morning walk then later sat in my backyard to drink a cup of tea before it got too hot to sit outside.  It was nice to be able to sit in my yard in the morning; something I couldn't do when I was working.  It's the simple things that I really am grateful for.  I do feel blessed that I was able to do an early retirement.  Honestly, it was something I had wanted but didn't think it was actually possible.  Everything aligned in a way that allowed it to happen.  

I created this card this morning.  I used a few floral images that I had stamped and colored about a year ago.  I have a stockpile of already colored stamped images.  I had stamped the images with the intention of using them to design a bunch of mini scrapbook albums that I created but never had the chance to finish.  

I colored the images by using a dauber. I rubbed ink on to white card stock and stamped the images over it.  It's the fastest way to color floral images.  It allowed me to color a lot of images.  I then cut the images out with scissors.   

I'll work on a few more cards today.  I can't wait to share them with all of you.  Have a great day!

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