HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

 Good morning, friends!

I'm working on dinner then curling up to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The parade has been a tradition since I was a little girl.  

While many of you may not celebrate this day, I just wanted to share this with you:

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WOYWW #860 - Bit of a Read and Pictures

Good morning, crafty friends! 

I think winter may have found us in the Ozarks. 65* F yesterday and woke up to 36 this morning.

I do apologize for not getting round last week. I'll share why in a moment.

My plan for today is to bake a pumpkin custard and pecan custard. I thought about an actual pie but we try to limit ourselves to the good carbs or the treats. We'll have enough treats tomorrow by way of regular Thanksgiving fare.

Her is my desk for this week:

My desk is a mess in spite of no creating this week. lol  I needed the black dimensionals for an organization project and that ribbon is going back in the ribbon storage. I kept enough out for the project I was working on. 

No card this week because I was working on this mess:

This has to get taken care of so I can put up the Christmas tree. This is where all of the Halloween/ Christmas crafting got moved to 'temporarily' from the shelves where I put the stamp/ die boxes I did last year. Draw as line between the carts and up between those 2 baskets. the left is Halloween and the right is Christmas. 

I spent 3 days working on the Halloween. Everything is either in the cart on the right or in two 12x12 Scrapbook binders to use similar to a scraprack. When I want to work on Halloween, I'll pull my project trays cart out of the way and put the drawer cart in place with the binder on top to work from. 

This is one of two drawers of ribbon/ fibers that I probably won't use anywhere but for Halloween/ Fall. The long ones in the back are black and orange velveteen ribbons from $Tree, mini net, and Fall/ Halloween wired ribbons.

I'm going to wait until Friday to start the Christmas side. Hopefully, we can bring the big tree up from the basement. That's my goal. I'm determined to have the big tree up in honor of Bob's first year of retirement. I bought his ornament last week:

I try to add a new ornament each year to our family tree. I've missed a few years with the big tree not going up. The family tree hasn't been up in over eight years, when we hosted the Polish Symphonia.

The tug boat is in honor of Bob's one year retirement anniversary as a tug boat captain. Scuffy looks similar to the very first tug he ever operated almost 43 years ago. I collect Little Golden Books. I have this one in three sizes so I'll create a hanger for this booklet to hang on the tree. 

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’s Craft 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

WOYWW #859

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I didn't accomplish what I wanted while Bob was gone so that photo I promised will  move to next week. I spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday fighting with a pinched nerve in my hip that made walking back and forth across the house difficult. Go figure!

Oh, did anyone take part in the class action suit against FB for the privacy breech about 3 years ago? I had a payment in my paypal this morning. Not as much as I'd have like but definitely more than I thought I'd ever see.  LOL

I'm afraid my desk isn't very exciting this week...

This is what's left after I finished the Christmas card for Week 3.  The dies on the left are what I used to die cut stars from for the Christmas tree. Stamp sets are buried underneath for the sentiment both on the outside and the inside. 

Here's this week's card:

VIDEO HERE

That's it for me this week. I should be able to make my usual rounds again this week. Bob got home Monday afternoon and we're trying to get some things done.

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 

WOYWW 858

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I apologize for not getting 'round last week. Seemed every time I sat down to visit, Bob would come upstairs needing something. This week will be better. LOL

Bob leaves in a couple of hours for our niece's wedding in OK. I'll be taking advantage of the place to myself for the next six days to really dig into this mess. I've listed five specific areas to target, one per day with a  little wiggle room.

I'll give you a list but first, here's the desk for this week:

I cleaned part of the desk off yesterday after making the Week 2 Christmas card. I worked from the same Paper Pumpkin kit as last week. There are two designs left in the kit. I want to get them made up this week, filmed and scheduled so they're out of the way. Here's a close up of one of six cards:

The original design had the sentiment Love And Joy stamped in Shaded Spruce on a white banner. I thought Peace went better with the snowflakes. I also heat embossed the sentiment. 

Okay.. the list. I find it more encouraging if I make a list of what needs to be done and push to accomplish each in one day. When that task is done, I'm done until the next day and the next item on the list.  Next week I'll embarrassingly show a before picture of items #2 & #3. for now:

Wednesday - Put away all the stamps/ dies from the #31days of Halloween AND catalog the dies. 

Thursday - Sort/ file all the Halloween crafting into their binder

Friday - Sort/ file all of the Christmas crafting into their binder

Saturday - Clear out the sewing corner (mind you, very little of sewing is in the bedroom lol) and put actually sewing stuff where it belongs

Sunday - Finish any of the above that needs finished (wiggle room day)

Monday - Read the book I need to review on Wednesday

I hope to pitch a lot of stuff. We shall see.

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

 

WOYWW 857

 Good morning, crafters.

Popping in to show what's on my desk.

After a crazy month of a video every day, I'll only be posting on Tuesday's this month. Time to  get Christmas cards done.

These are modified from the November 2019 paper pumpkin which was to be all tags. I made the first set of tags and put them on the card front. I still need to put the liners in.

Haven't decided if I'm doing another set from this kit or pull up another kit. Guess you'll find out next week. ;-)

As to my uploading of videos. I live in the middle of no where. Here in the states, it's referred to as "directions to my house include turn off the paved road". Between my internet provider, youtube and where I live, uploading takes a long time. a 30 minute video can take up to 3 hours. That's one of the reasons my videos are usually short. I also can not do lives because I pixelate too bad.  It is what it is. 

Not everyone has this issue. If I want to travel 2 hours north and stay at a hotel, my videos would upload in minutes instead of hours. 

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’s Craft 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. It is what it is. LOL

 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 856

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Did you see that Neet posted last week? Was so good to see her. Sending her all the love & healing blessings.

Getting some things out of the way so I can set my planner up for November.

Here is my desk:

This might looked staged - and it is... Just not for you. ;-)

I had set the desk up for filming today's Day 29 of the #31daysofhalloween tag series. I used the Toil n Trouble paper pack from Stampin' Up! (retired) as well as the coordinating dies and punch. That pocket letter looking thing shows samples of the paper pad. I catalog all of my Stampin' Up! paper pads this way - all 151!

Here is the tag I made:

I'm just getting the video set to upload now. You should be able to see the process later this afternoon. The 19 min video will take approx. 3 hours to upload. Sadly, even prepping everything last night the video still took longer than I wanted. LOL  By the way, videos for every tag are available on my YouTube Channel - KellysCreativeDreams, and visually on my Instagram (same name) and quick shots on my last two weeks here on the blog. I will be doing a full flip-through on Saturday November 1.

If you or relatives are in the path of Hurricane Melissa, please be safe.

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

#31DAYSOFHALLOWEEN - Days 22-27

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I have the next six tags in the series. I can't believe we're almost finished!

For Day 22 - Whatever I Want Wednesday, I played with lots of different elements from Simple Stories Vintage Halloween. I love this kit. I really need to make an album with the rest of the kit.

Day 22

Day 23 was Thrifty Thursday. I took strips from Halloween Night (Stampin' Up! 2016) to do a strip collage inspired by a picture in Stampington Halloween. I added Mr. Bones. When embossing his hat, my large heat gun went out. Thankfully, I had a small Commotion stamps gun as a back up. Both are over 20 years old so maybe time to replace LOL. I added the Googly eye for a little more effect. Almost looks like Mr. Bones has a monical.

Day 23

Day 24 - Fabric Friday. I pulled out a 4" swatch pack from Moda called Midnight Magic #2. I initially bought the pack to go with the G45 Midnight Tales. I also used a piece of the fabric to make a small yo-yo. The ephemera pieces fre from Tim Holtz Halloween 2023 and 2024

Day 24

Day 25 - SACs Saturday. I've been wanting to play with this black cat napkin ever since I saw it. The background is pieced with black tissue paper to fill out the space. I added a crescent moon embellishment from my stash. I'd like to have found a crow the same size to perch on his hat.

Day 25

DAY 26 - Spooky Sunday.  The background paper is from Stampin' Up! Toil n Trouble. I stamped the house and colored in the windows.  you can't see it very well in the picture but I die cut 3 ghosts from that same stamp/ die set from packing material. Very ethereal look against the background. They almost look like wisps of smoke. LOL

DAY 26

Finally, for today - Day 27, I played with Skeletons for Mixed Media Monday. I call them Dancing Skeletons.

The background is a treat bag from the Sept. 2019 Paper Pumpkin. I opened the bag and glued it to the base by using Tombo Mono white glue to adhere the bag. The other elements are also from that same kit.

DAY 27

That's it for me today. I'm going to be working on Meals In A Jar today with Ramen Noodles. I like to replace their seasoning packet with real bouillon then add extra freeze-dried veggies to mine. I put mine in pint jars with only 1/2 pack of noodles. I also only put 1/2 pack in the quart jars (sans veggies) for Bob and I for a quick lunch. I found out yesterday he prefers ramen noodles over Campbell's soups. After 42 years, I'm still learning things about him!

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly