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Quarantine Card-Making

In Nova Scotia, we are working on week 8 under a provincial state of emergency (since March 22).  The state of emergency is in place until May 17, unless it is extended.  I've been working from home the entire time. I don't mind working from home (and the dog definitely enjoys it) but I'm missing the social connections that working from the office brings.

I'm also missing my family so much. I usually go and spend Easter weekend with my sister and her family.  My niece's birthday is tomorrow as well - I'm missing that. It just makes me sad.

I've been trying to keep busy with paper crafting. I put together a 6x8 album kit from Close to My Heart, an old CTMH card kit (that I actually forgot I had!), and some other assorted cards.



This is a retirement card I made using the Through Thick and Thin stamp set from Close to My Heart. This set was one of the card-making bundles for National Scrapbooking Day.  One of my friends from work retired at the end of April, and with the emergency orders in place her last few weeks at work did not look like any of us expected.  On the inside of the card it says "Retirement."


This is a very special card that I created to be a part of a memorial to the victims of Nova Scotia shooting tragedy in April.  Our province was rocked by evil and it makes me so sad to think that someone, one person, could have so much anger and hate in his heart to take the lives of so many innocent people.  So incredibly sad. This took a very long time for me to design and put together, but I wanted the families of the victims to know how many people are grieving with them.



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