I finished a really big project today and I’m pretty proud of it.  It will be up on video in the next couple of days.  I made an album for my friend Cora for Christmas.  She and I always celebrate a few days late.  It’s the first album I’ve ever made and it was really fun, but I think it was over my comfort threshold.  I used the crop-a-dile to punch eyelets so many times that my arms were shaking.  Ok, it was only six times, but seemed like a lot more.  A couple of the eyelets didn’t take because of the thickness of the materials so I may have to glue them in.  I really wanted the album to be You Tube worthy because I’ve seen so many really lovely albums and I didn’t want to look like a hack.  Of course those crafters have been doing this forever and I’ve been doing it for around a year.  If it hadn’t been for You Tube, I would have never learned how to do anything.  I really wish there had been a physically challenged crafter to show me how to do things but it’s been great using crafting skills I haven’t used since college and finding a new way to feel useful.  That was the one thing I really missed when I left work.  I loved feeling needed and problem solving and for the first year or so I didn’t have anything to fill the gap.  Luckily I had dinner with one of my favorite college professors and we discussed my lack of purpose.  He asked if I’d like to do something at the school and I told him that I had interviewed students there and they were not very prepared.  I wanted to start a program where we practiced interviewing with the students so they were ready for their “real” interviews.  Since then, I interview all of the business and accounting seniors and most juniors to prepare them for internship interviews as well.  I’m really proud of the work the students have put into it and the results are showing that our students are getting more second interviews and more job offers than the other schools that we compete against for jobs.  Since I only do the interviews for three weeks in the fall and the same in the spring, I still have a lot of down time.  The You Tube channel has given me a new purpose and a great creative outlet.  Thanks for taking the time to watch my videos and reading my blogs, I’m really blessed.

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