WOYWW 910 With A Partial Repost From Last Week.

 Good morning, crafty friends!

This post is from last Wednesday with the exception of a different desk shot.

The studio is still a disaster as I'm still trying to sort through/ pitch/ donate/ pack Halloween/ Fall. I think I'll finish up the last two tubs today. yay! My goal with this batch then Christmas is to determine what I want in each room then get rid of everything else. So far I've eliminated three tubs from Halloween/ Fall. 

I have been working on the office in little chunks. This week, I was all about getting a batch of G45 calendar paper strips taken care of. I made two 12x12 masterboards I can turn into tags at some point.

Now to the sad part. I found out last week our WOYWW hostess, Sarah, had passed away in early October. She had just retired for the second time and was looking forward to doing so many things. She will be missed. Miss Julia has taken the reigns once again (she had passed them to Sarah a couple of years ago). so nice to see her back at the helm.

The pictures from last week are below. If you'd like to see the blog post in it's entirety, CLICK HERE.

My friend Linda and me at the Ozark Creative Writers Conference. This was the 60th year for the conference, Linda's 50th and my 30th.

I entered Yvonne Preston's challenge to make three Christmas tags. I thought this was the perfect time to start on the embellishments/ ephemera for my future Elf On the Shelf journal. I missed the clusters challenge but I'll check in today to see what the one is for this week. 

Finally, I posted a Flip-Through of my 31 Days of Halloween/ October Daily using my daily planner. Did I mention I recorded 14 videos up to leaving for the conference? Wifi at hotel was horrible and I couldn't upload them while I was gone so some days after I got home had 2 videos a day until I was caught up. 

That's it for my desk (and story) this week. Who's Miss Julia and why am I here?  When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to MissJulia at Stamping Ground for all the details. Miss Julia 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 - Elf On The Shelf - Repost from yesterday

APOLOGIES. I failed to schedule today's post yesterday, instead I just hit post. Oops! What happens when you're trying to rush. 

Good morning, crafty friends!

I meant to post this last week and was deep in making the tag, I think I forgot. LOL

I took part in a challenge with Yvonne Preston at Junk Journal Junkies to make three Christmas tags. I thought this was the perfect time to start on ephemera for a future journal - Elf on the Shelf.

I don't have a lot of time this morning as I'm off to birthday shop for my eldest granddaughter.

Warning, you will see these tags in tomorrow's WOYWW post as I'm changing the 'desk' photo in last week's post and reposting in honor of our dear Sarah. I'll explain more tomorrow.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

GRATITUDE

 Good morning, friends!

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 909

 Good morning, crafty friends!

First thing, I noticed Sarah hasn't posted to her Blog since October 8th so there hasn't been a WOYWW link up post since then. I do hope she's okay. 

I know it's been a minute but recording a video every day in October was about all I could handle. Add in the six day trip to Eureka Springs AR for the writer's conference and a bit of research while I was there, was enough. LOL My book series is set in Eureak Springs so I really needed a couple extra days on either side of the conference.

Let's start with my desk:

Still crafting/ filming on the ironing platform. That should change next week. The leak is officially fixed and I can start putting stuff away. I am so ready to be back in my corner.

This was the 60th anniversary of the Ozarks Creative Writers conference. I've been attending for 30 years and rooming with the lady below for every one of them. But that's not the coolest part.  My friend/ roomy celebrated FIFTY YEARS! of attendance. Here's a picture of the two of us. Linda is the happy lady in the front. She was sooo blown away by everything the board did to celebrate her achievement. I should mention she published her first book at 72! Never too late to write a book or do anything you've ever dreamed of.

This past week, I joined in a challenge with Yvonne Preston @ Junk Journal Junkies to make these:

The challenge was to make three Christmas tags. I thought this was the perfect opportunity to start on the ephemera/ embellishments for the Elf on the Shelf journal I've been collecting items for. I won't actually make the journal until next year (Christmas in July maybe?) I posted a craft with me video on my YouTube channel yesterday (Tuesday 11/3/26)

Lastly, I completed my #OctoberDaily/ #31daysof halloween in my planner. I'll leave you with the flip-through video.

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

GRATITUDE

 Good morning, friends!

In honor of Thanksgiving this month, I will be posting a gratitude quote every Monday this month.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WAY BEHIND!

 Hi everyone!

I really meant to move videos over here every day for the 31 Days of Halloween project but, as you can see, that never happened.

I spent the first eight days getting videos recorded through the 13 so I could upload them while I was at conference. That was my only focus - to not miss a day. Well, that also didn't happen.

While at conference the wifi was horrid and I couldn't get 5-8 min. videos to upload. I wound up batch uploading after I got home on the 13th.

For here, what I've decided to do instead is on Nov. 1 I will post the walk-through video of all 31 days.

I can say I've enjoyed the mash-up of combining my HB90 daily planner and October Daily. I'm pretty sure I'll do this style of memorykeeping again.

In the mean time, please be patient. Bob got the leak fixed and I'll be spending all next week trying to put things back to rights here in the office. I'll take off October 31st to celebrate my witchiness and hope to have a few more projects coming.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

OCTOBER DAILY - Day 1

 Hello, crafty friends!

It's October!!! My favorite month of the year.

I've done October Daily in the past (or attempted to) but this year I thought I'd take a different approach. I'm going to use my planner. 

Normally, I plan by the quarter, keeping three months in my planner at a time. This year, I thought I'd move October to it's own cover and try documenting things the entire month, next to the daily business page. 

Check out today's video for the plan. I'll be back tomorrow to show you what I did today (Day 1) and what's on tap for Day 2.

Have you done October or December Daily? Do you have a process you follow? If you have a blog or YouTube channel, please let me know!

Creative Spooky Blessings!

 ~Kelly