Old, Backed up and New!

Hi Stampin' Friends!
I've had an interesting week. We returned from a "bucket list" trip to the Canadian Rockies that was spectacular!  Towards the beginning of the trip, I had a bad fall and ended up with a badly sprained ankle, but all things considered, I got off pretty easy. Along with the T-shirts and other souvenirs I bought, I have a boot on my foot from the Canmore, Alberta Emergency Room!

After getting home, I was spending some time uploading my pictures from the trip and thought, gee, I haven't backed up my pictures or other important stuff in a long time.... I should do that. Luckily, I spent a couple of days backing up stuff that I had neglected, like since 2011.  Would you believe that my computer crashed a couple of days later, like total "hard disk drive failure", unrecoverable, complete toast?!!  I was grateful I had backed up what I did and wish I had done more. I can't live without a computer anymore. Those days are long gone. I decided, for various great reasons, to really go outside my comfort zone and I switched to an Apple desktop from a PC. I've been playing with it for 24 hours now and while I'm not a pro, I'm navigating it really well and feel like I can get back to blogging, working on Stampin'Up! diligently and doing other tasks that I love to do!  Like anyone else, it's sorta a love/hate relationship with technology, but I'm grateful to be back.

For some reason, none of my pictures from 2017 were backed up, even though I got years 2011-2016. Luckily, all 2017 pics are still on my phone so I was able to recover them. I take pics of my cards as I complete them and they are then used for blogging material. I will have to tweak my system a little, so bear with me if I post pics you've already seen. I lost my records for keeping track of that sort of thing and will have to set up a new way of doing it.

Ready to look at some cards?!!  I have a few to show that are just from my random time in my craft room, playing with different things. I hope you enjoy them!  I think you can figure out what I did and if you have any questions, please ask!

I'll try to share more soon. I am having some trouble accessing my pictures through blogger so obviously, more work to do!  Thanks for hanging in there with me!
Sarah