WOYWW #850

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I apologize for not getting round last week. Seemed I couldn't be in one place long enough.

Here's my desk this week:

Slightly staged to show you what I'll be working on today. I'm in the process of trying to finish up the Ciao Bella Sound of Autumn tag ring by Saturday. I've found some Stampin' Up! sets that coordinate with fall and some of the patterns in the paper, like pine cones and leaves. I'm adding in making dangles of coffee cups, pumpkin spice sayings, etc.  As you can see center stage are the 31 tags in varying sizes matted and ready to embellish. I also have some things from the collection fussy cut out and Stampin' Up! cardstock colors to punch out hole reinforcers. I decided to use hole reinforcers instead of eyelets because the latter take up too much space for this many tags. I'm not sure my 3" ring could hold them all... not sure it will now. LOL

I leave Sunday for a combined retreat. I'll spend four days in KS with my crafty gathering group then five days in a hotel finishing pulling Book 2 in my series together. I'd love to release it in February 2026.

There may or may not be a desk from me next week but I hope to get 'round to everyone.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Sarah and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Sarah’sCraft Shed for all the details. Miss Sarah has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

TAG TUESDAY - Cioa Bella - Sound of Autumn - Part 3

 Good morning, crafty friends!

No actual picture of the desk this morning showing everything I played with yesterday for the video. Getting through the video was enough as I dealt with a migraine. But, I do have a video. 

In the video you'll see me mention that I couldn't find my Merry Cafe stamp set so I could make some dangles that said Pumpkin Spice and Everything Nice. I found it. I just looking in the right box of stamps. Because it said "Merry Cafe" I kept going back through Christmas until I remembered it also had fall and other seasons. So, when I looked in Mixed Seasons - there it was. LOL I might just move it to Coffee Cafe with the die set so I'll always find it. Coffee, is a FOOD GROUP after all. 

Here's today's video:

Since I'm in an autumnal season for everything, I've been featuring autumn-themed reads on my author channel. Today I'll be reading Golden Days In Autumnville to post a review tomorrow. You're welcome to stop by - The Writers Zone

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

MONDAY MAKES - Ciao Bella - Sound of Autumn - Part 2

Good morning, crafty friends!

I started this tag collection using the Sound of Autumn collection from Ciao Bella last Saturday for my SAC's Saturday video aka Spectrum Art Creations.

Here's a video from Ciao Bella of the collection:

I bought the 6x6 and the 12x12 from Spectrum Art Creations but hadn't used the collection until now. Since there were a lot of tags printed in the 12x12, I decided to make a tag collection ring.

I am backing them with heavy vanilla cardstock from Hobby Lobby so the tags on the ring will have some body. This also allows me to write autumn quotes or gratitudisms (yep, I just made that word up).

I'll be back tomorrow for #TagTueday to show you the progress. In the mean time, here is today's video:

I'll have pictures of tags to share tomorrow.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 849

 Good morning, crafty friends.

I'm sliding in late this morning. Needed to get laundry on the line then take pics of what I've been working on. No desk this week.

I purchased doll houses from $Tree about 3 or 4 years ago to make 'haunted houses' found in THIS video on Youtube.

This week, with cool/ dry temps I was able to pull out the container and start spray painting.

The three taller ones are two of those smaller houses built upon one another. That small one in the back with the bay window roof... you take the roof off that one, remove the roof from the smaller one in front then attach the bay roof to the top of that one. 

I really don't have room in this house to put out my entire Christmas Village so last year I decided to give them their own places throughout the house. I placed all my North Pole village pieces on the top shelf in the laundry room. This year, for October, I'll put the haunted houses. Alternating the 2 story houses with the 2 smaller houses.  I'll fill in the gaps with figures and these...

These are white bottle brush trees from the dollar store. I'm giving them two coats of Espresso Brown spray paint to give them that dead pine look.  I plan to put orange, purple and green lights inside the houses. thought about putting the small strobe lights from $ Tree but I'd have to climb up every night to turn them on as opposed to just plugging in string lights. 

I'll post pictures when I'm finished.. probably the first week in October.

hat's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Sarah and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Sarah’sCraft Shed for all the details. Miss Sarah has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

#TAGTUEDAY - Harvest Meadow and Oh Nuts!

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I've been awake since 3:30 so I'm apologizing in advance for any mistakes. LOL

I did get a card made this morning. I really wanted to play with the Oh Nuts! stamp set from MayMayMadeIt. I picked up the set on a day trip haul last week.

PURCHASE LINK

Here's the tag I came up with on the fly very early this morning.:

I used the brown bare tree paper for the background then randomly stamped the small acorns from the set. I stamped them in Chocolate Chip then colored the tops with the Chocolate Chip Stampin' Write Marker.

I stamped the squirrel with Early Espresso on Soft Suede cardstock.

the star hole reinforcer is from when I was testing which reinforcer to use on the December Daily album.

Silly me, braiding a golden rod colored bakers twine but I wanted a little pop of color. 

That's my tag for this week. I hope you'll pop back tomorrow for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday!

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

MONDAY MAKES - A Little Different

 Good morning, crafty friends!

No card today as I spent all day yesterday reorganizing my paint unit.

I've been using this cabinet as my paint storage since putting the studio together about 11 years ago.

The cabinet was originally one of the wooden stamp displays at Michaels when I worked there. We were down here working on the house when they did a store revamp. One of the other teachers secured the three units for each of us (the 3 musketeers). 

I removed all the shelves from the bottom half (below that wider cross -support) and set a 2-drawer filing cabinet in there. That helped stabilize the unit as it does have a solid open wood base.

So, yesterday I stripped everything off the unit, decided how I wanted to display everything for easy access and repositioned the glass shelves. At some point, I'll take stuff off the shelves one at a time and give the glass a good cleaning. Yesterday was just about getting stuff organized.

Shelf to Shelf/ top to bottom:

Sparkle Mediums from Imagination Crafts

Gilding Polish from Creative Expressions

Mixed Media Pastes/ Butters

Crackle Paste/ Mediums/ Misc. alcohol inks

Alcohol Inks/ SU paintable inks/ puffy paints and glass quill

Homemade Paint Sprays

Remaining four shelves of Acrylic paints 

Below the support bar, sitting on top of the filing cabinet I have my Lindy's Magicals and supplies to make Lindy's inks and watercolor pallets.

Curious as to the filing cabinet drawers:

They old painting supplies, spray paints, etc. 

I'll be back tomorrow with another fall tag using the Oh Nuts! stamp set by MayMayMadeIt that I picked up on a haul last Thursday. If you want to see that haul video, click HERE.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly 

WOYWW 848

 Good morning, crafty friends!

First off, Happy Retirement to our leader, Sarah. Be prepared to be busier than you were when you were working. ;-)

Now for my quiet desk:

Stamp sets from the tag I made for #Tagtuesday, the ribbons I chose from and the newly cleaned scissors. 

Seems we've been on the go a lot lately. I'm looking forward to being home for at least a couple of days.

One day a week I take a ME day. I go into town and sit at my favorite coffee shop - usually with my planners. But I made the decision this week to only take one thing - a book.

I read one book a week to spotlight the author and review their book on my author channel. I decided I'm taking an older book with me instead of my planners. Not one I need to review but one I want to read. I have a 5-shelf book case in my bedroom of books to be read. When I've finished the book, I put half the cover price (NOT the price I paid - which was usually .10 - .25 each) into my book journal envelope. I figure by the time I've read all 360 books, I should have quite a nest egg. 

What about you? Are you a reader? What do you like to read.

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Sarah and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Sarah’sCraft Shed for all the details. Miss Sarah has a long list of other studios you can peek into. No standing on an up-turned milk pail to look in the window. We open the doors wide and welcome you.  Please leave your number and you'll be among the first on my list.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly