366 Calendar Challenge - adios February, hola March

Wow, another month has flown past.  Sometimes the days seem endless, but when you look back the weeks seem to have just zipped by.   I'm really enjoying this calendar challenge.  I started my March page in early February and have enjoyed just playing with it during the month to get it to the point where it's ready to go.

Anyway, here's February completed and March ready to start ...



Stamp - Hug Monster, Stampotique



I've left a gap towards the end of the month as I'm going away to Lanzarote for a few days and want the squares to have a background picture of somewhere that I visited on that day.  The first and last days are done, but I'll print the others when I get back.

I am so looking forward to my little break - work has been particularly stressful and upsetting over the last few months so I'm ready to just run away.  The thought of my holiday is what has been holding me together recently (along with a wonderful husband who treats me like a princess).

I've been doing some art journaling too which has been enjoyable.  There are some nights when I come up to my craft room and just spend time moving stuff about and not really achieving anything, but then there are others when I feel inspired and get loads done.  Those are the nights when I'm still mid-flow at gone midnight and should really be in bed, but they're also the ones that rescue me from emotional carnage.

The Ctrl-Z page came about because I'd forgotten to take interim pictures of one of my pages and one process had changed it a lot from how it started.  I just thought how useful if would be to be able to do Ctrl Z and take it back a couple of stages so I could take a photo, then redo the stages.

This is a posting of two parts.  I'd started the message last night and wanted to put some more images into the post - but had a major panic because loads of the thumbnail pictures on my files didn't match the names of the files!  So loads of virus checking, searching the internet for help, downloading new antivirus programmes, etc.  Finally, it turned out to be incredibly simple!  If you've ever seen files on your PC called thumbs.db - these control the thumbnails for your images and if they get out of date, things look weird.  So, all I had to do was right click, select update thumbnail and everything was fine.  Total relief.

Anyway, thanks for visiting - hope you liked the pages.