Lately I haven’t been doing too many crafty things, but this week that changed.  First, I started my free on-line class called Stories in Hand.  The class is meant to help you remember stories from life and learn to write them down with all the great details.  Even though it isn’t a scrapbooking class we spent the first few days making our Stories in Hand binders and a smaller notebook to keep with you for story ideas…

It’s pretty neat because the woman who is teaching it normally does digital scrapbooking stuff so she prepares all these pages that then you can just print out.  That is how I made the covers and filled my book.  Now we’re in the process of collecting stories and writing down a few of them as well.  It helps me to take time each day to spend some time writing and collecting my thoughts…

I actually meant to mention the class on here earlier so that some of you crafty friends of mine could do this as well.  But I kind of forgot and then I realized they had closed the class!  However, the class is through Jessica Sprague so keep your eyes peeled for other classes if you want.

In other news…Christmas Cards!  That’s right I’m already thinking about Christmas Cards.  :)  Actually a blog that I read got me thinking about Christmas cards because she designed a Christmas Card set that I quickly fell in love with.  I debated weither using the set would be considered “hand-made” enough for me, but with a few of my own touches I think I’ll be able to make these cards into one-of-a-kind-Shannon-cards.  Yesterday I received my fantastic Chrismas Card Kit…

As you can see it comes with lots of fun extra stuff like small thank you cards, CD/DVD mailers, gift tags, Christmas letter paper and envelopes…

And in case you want this for yourself, you can find it here.  I’ve already started working to assemble my cards and to add a few special touches.  Sometimes I need some new inspiration to kick start my craftiness and this week I’ve had just what I needed.

-Shannon