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.
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.
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!
The remnants of filming this morning's video. I'm adding lace/ trims to most of the pages. If you're curious, the video will be available this afternoon on my YouTube channel. LINK
Good news is, we think the leak in the studio is fixed. Just in time for me to be able to move back to the filming table for my 31 Days of Halloween series and my Tim Holtz class in October. My kit hasn't arrived yet but should be any time now.
One last thing. Most of you know I am a member of the Spectrum Art Creations FB group. About four months ago, Madi's account was shut down. We still have the group but she can't do a thing with it. She is not the only one. She did a video this week about the experience and things all of us need to keep in mind, but especially anyone using FB. If you have family photos/ memories, NOW is the time to move them to an external hard drive. You could lose access to them at any time.
I'll leave you with Madi's 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.
I'm still working on the Spectrum Art Creations challenges, thinking ahead to the October line up and working amongst the chaos. Good news is, the chaos may get reigned in over the next few weeks. We had rain in the wee hours of the morning. Good news is, the spot affecting my office may be fixed, but we still have the leak in the dining room. We're getting closer.
I worked frantically to complete a couple of projects yesterday. I'm trying to work through the challenges systematically so when I've completed/ filmed all of the projects for one challenge, I can put the contents away and move to the next. I'm still working on the Fabrika Decoru journal. Today, you'll see the 'tag' is actually a Super Tag (journaling spot) made from junk mail. Then I'll be back tomorrow to show you all the frills.
I'll have another batch of tags for the Fabrika Decoru journal tomorrow then I think I'm winding that up in a Flip-through Frida. At least that's my plan.
Are you starting to play with your Halloween crafting goodies? If not, what about Thankful/ Gratitude.
