Oops! Catch-up time!

Wow... um... I've been gone awhile... sorry!

This summer has just been flying by, I'm not sure where all my time is going!

I was doing so well with the 30 Days of Creativity challenge, then I kind of petered out. I have done some more little things, but I didn't keep my momentum from the first half of the month. My hubby really kept his momentum going and ended up making about 20 drawings. Maybe more!

Anyway, here's what I've been up to the last 2 weeks:

I've been completely lost in a series of books that I love: The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

I have read all 11 of these books before, but I was sucked back into the whole series when I mindlessly picked up the first book (Wizard's First Rule) one night on my way to bed. And now I have to finish the whole series.


I've also been working on some little crafty projects.
I made some calendars the other day:

These will be up in my Etsy store in the next couple days.


And I spent a couple hours one night sketching out an idea instead of sleeping. I had to get this idea out of my head so it didn't disappear: Adult Merit Badges!

I will be expanding on this idea later, but for now, I just sketched out 8 immediate ideas of what you could get a merit badge for as an adult. Here the list:
* Get Married (or civil union)
* Have a Baby (I'm also thinking ones for adoption, twins/triplets/etc, 2nd/3rd/etc child)
* Buy a house
* No IKEA furniture in your house (that's supposed to be the IKEA guy...)
* Joint Bank Account
* Build or Fix Something Major
* Host a Holiday
* Live by Yourself

That's all I have right now. Any more ideas?
I'm not sure if these will be digital badges, paper badges, iron-on transfers, or what, but this is a project I definitely want to pick up later. I would love to hear any ideas you have about them.

For now, that's all I will leave you with.
Tomorrow I will post my fireworks photos - I have several that I really love!
Thanks for reading!
Happy Creating!