Planning

I go through a lot of notepads and desk planners, probably three or four times what other people use. This is because 1) my job requires me to be on the computer for hours and 2) despite my arthritis I'm still more comfortable writing down notes versus creating an electronic version.

As it happened my arthritis was also giving me a lot of grief one day last month, rendering one of my only two working fingers unusable, so instead of quilting that day I decided to make a planner from the preprinted sheets in my Flow book.

I just added some writing papers between each month sheet, punched holes in all of them them, trimmed some pretty card stock for covers, and bound everything with velvet ribbon. It's not terribly sophisticated but it's pretty, and I like it, which is what really matters.

Like this I am learning to embrace my ever-increasing limitations and create in the moment. Sometimes what I'm able to do doesn't seem like much, but it means the world to me.