Rich uploaded the video of the memo boxes I made for my friends Mary and Beth.  The video was long but looked great.  And then somehow he deleted it from You Tube but thinks he still has it on a memory card. Yikes! The ups and downs of You Tube life.  I just made that up. There are no ups and downs, just ups.  We’ve had a good time learning how to do things and although we haven’t perfected the site, it’s getting better.  I’m starting to feel more comfortable with doing things off camera when I don’t feel I can easily do it on camera.  For instance, you cannot believe how difficult it is to tie a bow on camera.  More importantly it has nothing to do with my arthritis.  I’ve watched a ton of crafters who can’t do it either.  It makes me feel a lot better about myself when others can’t complete such a seemingly simple task.  I have a bunch of bow making apparatus’s  (is that the right word?) and should use those, but I’m just as uncomfortable trying those on camera as I am with using my hands.  I’ve got a new goal for 2016.  I’m going to master the art of the perfect bow.  No, I’m not going to make it right off of the roll of ribbon, I still think that’s beyond me.  I do think though that I can make a bow that others will envy.  I’m changing that goal.  In 2016, I’m going to make bows that others envy AND I’m going to make them on camera.  I know, I shouldn’t make a goal that I can’t achieve, but what if I can?  What if I make the world’s greatest bow?  Maybe that should be my goal.  I might be getting ahead of myself.  Ok, my goal will be to make a bow I’m proud of and on camera in 2016.  I can live with that.

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