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

WOYWW 903 - With An Important Message - Link Added

 Good morning, crafty friends!

A short post today.

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. 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

#TAGTUESDAY - Sort of - Featuring Fabrika Decoru

 Good morning, crafty friends!

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.

In the mean time, please check out the video:

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

BUSY WEEKEND OF CRAFTING!

 Happy Monday!

I hadn't meant to be so late today but Blogger has been off-balance all morning. I think we're back on track.

I've continued work on the Fabrika Decoru album but nothing to show until tomorrow.

In the mean time, I finished the G45 Halloween album as well as a first project with the Simple Stories, Simply Vintage Halloween. Let's take a look!

I love how the cover came together. I'll have a full flip-through video next week and will post a link in a blog post on that day.

Next, I got the Simple Stories kit in and decided before I did anything else, I wanted to make a Pocket Letter.

A Full video walk-through is HERE.

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.

Let me know in the comments, please.

Creative Blessings!

 ~ Kelly

#TAGTUESDAY

Good afternoon, crafy friends!

I woke up this morning feeling really tired. I went back to bed instead of posting.

I did four ore tags for the Fabrika Decoru journal using the 'quilting' method. They resemble a patchwork crazy quilt. I was only going to make two but four or more works better with this technique. I learned this from DearJulieJulie several years ago. She usually has four or more tags in a challenge so this is perfect.

Welcome to still not having the best lighting for filming/ photos. I tried to chance the lighting a bit.

I used four different papers and/ or sides for the tags, cut into four pieces. Click on the video below to see the process. I'll be back tomorrow with WOYWW and pockets/ tucks for this journal in progress.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly