Wednesday, June 29, 2016

WOYWW #369


My desk this week is a disaster. I've spent more time putting stuff away than playing. While most would look at my room and not see progress, I can. If you check THIS post, you'll see how I spent my weekend. Forecast is showing rain for the next four days so I'll spend today working on blog posts then take advantage of the rain to be off-line and back to organizing.

To the left you can see the newest Paper Pumpkin from StampinUp. I need to get a couple of those done and up on the blog sometime today. Getting everything back to a routine is taking longer than I'd hoped now that Bob is back to work... albeit temporarily.



These are the beautiful ATCs I received in this year's swap.  From top row, left to right:

Lisa Davolt  (wish I could send you some of our rain)
Elizabeth aka silverscrapper
Robyn Josephs (+ goodies came in a lovely envelope made from a calendar picture)
Lisa Meyer (included a lovely postcard. 
     I loved the stamping on the envelope, including a sentiment that read
                   'Only dull people send dull envelopes'  and a lovely zentangle stamp of an owl

Bottom row 
Jill
Lynne Mizera

One of the envelopes (I'm sorry, I can't remember whose - I'm thinking Lynn) included champagne glass confetti that went everywhere. My husband is still finding a glass here and there - and he smiles. 

I am planning to post my ATC/ how to on here Friday. We'll see how much weather permits.

Sending love and hugs to Julia as she continues to improve. If you're hopping around to say hi, we  miss you and wish you the best!

Also continued hugs to Lunch Lady Jan as she continues to heal from her father's passing. Losing a loved one is so very tough. 

Wondering what I'm chattering on about? Each week we are blessed with opportunity to visit other creative spaces around the world, courtesy of Miss Julia. While our sweet travel director, Julia,  is on a medical hiatus, her friend Jan (LunchLadyJan) is helping us along.  So, When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Lunch Lady Jan where she 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. J  I can't wait to peek.

Monday, June 27, 2016

THE ORGANIZING CONTINUES!


I am making progress.  These 6 spinders represent every colored embellishment I own... that I've found so far. Bob and I have dubbed the room the 'Clown Car' so there is potential for more items to become unearthed that need to go in these page categories.

I'm now working on the sorted THEMES items.


While these pages are empty in this picture, trust me, they were covered with all kinds of paper-style embellishments, stickers, etc. in categories from Animals - Travel and everything in between. Themes does NOT include holidays. Those fall under the Calendar Year. 

I am beginning to rethink how important my 'cutting station' position is. I may need to move the ScrapRack to allow room for at least one more extension base. I'm going to hold off putting things on the base until EVERYTHING is sorted, in pages and on spinders (the 3-ring strip). 

With Bob gone, I am determined to make serious progress on this room before he gets home. When will that be? We have no clue. One of the pilots has ridden the boat for 7 weeks. I don't think I can have Bob gone that long :-D

As soon as I get a couple of blog posts up, I'm back to getting all these items into pages and onto spinders. 

I'm anxious to get back to actually MAKING art instead of sorting the supplies :-)

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

WOYWW #367

Good morning, friends!

Thank you so much for all of your well wishes about my arm. With limited use, the arm is improving. I can tell the days I use it more than I should ;-)

I will have pics of the ATCs I've received... and show you mine. The ATCs I got last week are still in my briefcase. I opened them at the hotel and sent 'they've arrived' notes from there.



This is  my desk this week. Towards the back half you can still see the remnants of the Paper Pumpkin adventure. I finished cards up for my post HERE on Thursday then spent all day Friday packing for a 4-day weekend all to myself. I got home late last night in time to add the stuff in the front.

The box in the front is my SU order to be unpacked... along with the stamp sets on top that I couldn't wait to look at. Below that are books I bought at a trade store in Springfield MO. The book you can see clearly is From Elvis to Elvira - a autobiography written by Richard Sturban of The Oak Ridge Boys. That's on my review list. I've reviewed two books by Joe Bonsall (of the Oak Ridge Boys) these guys have done a lot for my career the past couple of years... I am blessed. Oh, don't know what I'm talking about? My day job is artist and music promotion/ freelance entertainment writer. That's the blog with the boots/ cowboy hat button on my sidebar if you want to check it out. I'm The Country Angel ;-)

Wondering what I'm chattering on about? Each week we are blessed with opportunity to visit other creative spaces around the world, courtesy of Miss Julia. While our sweet travel director, Julia,  is on a medical hiatus, her friend Jan (LunchLadyJan) is helping us along. You can hop over to her blog to see where to go from here. So, When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Lunch Lady Jan where she 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. J  I can't wait to peek.

That's on my desk. What's on yours? Please leave a number and I'll do my best to get 'round. Bob still isn't back to work (but we're getting closer, I think) nor is my arm completely healed ( but feeling much better every day!) so my visits will be limited again ::: sigh :::

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Sizzix Giveaway!

Not by me... but by Sizzix. What would you do with $2500 in Sizzix Product?

Sizzix $2500 (5 Winner) Ultimate Giveaway

For me, I'd have to figure out where to put all these amazing new toys. Okay.. I'm kind of there. I have die storage. And the Big Shot would probably wind up as a give-away because I love my Vagabond.

So here's all you have to do... Go HERE and sign up. They are using a Rafflecopter style of entry so there are several things you can do to increase your chances.

What are you waiting for? There are only 3 days left!

Creative Blessings & Good Luck!
Kelly

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

WOYWW #366

Wow!  Seems like I just got around to some of your blogs and here it is time to visit again. Wondering what I'm chattering on about? Each week we are blessed with opportunity to visit other creative spaces around the world, courtesy of Miss Julia. While our sweet travel director is on a medical hiatus, her friend Jan (LunchLadyJan) is helping us along. You can hop over to her blog to see where to go from here. So, When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Lunch Lady Jan where she 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. J  I can't wait to peek.

This week my desk is in prep for a new project. I recently became a Stampin' Up hobby demonstrator. While I'm not out to break sales records (like my up-line, Brandy Cox, who just made the Million Dollar Club), I do want to keep up an on-line presence and get orders on-line to help off-set my costs.

Beginning tomorrow, we have a special on Paper Pumpkin that will only last for 31 hours! That's a flash sale, for sure. So I want to get a Paper Pumpkin post up on my SU blog today... right after I get some plants moved in the garden.

So here's my desk:


Aside from the Paper Pumpkin kit, I also have the card mat file I completed last night. I started out just wanting swatch cards to use when photographing my projects. While in the process, I decided if I'm cutting into a full sheet of CS, I may as well get that mat box started that I've always wanted. Now when I cut into a full sheet of CS for something, I can size the rest of it for future projects and file by color. 

That's on my desk. What's on yours? Please leave a number and I'll do my best to get 'round. Bob still isn't back to work (but we're getting closer, I think) nor is my arm completely healed so my visits will be limited again ::: sigh :::

Creative Blessings! Kelly

Friday, June 3, 2016

FRIDAY FREEBIE - Journaling By 5s - Step 5

Thanks for stopping by!

Things have moved slower around here than planned. This post will move to Friday June 10th. I hope you'll come back to check out the progress.

Creative Blessings!

Step #5 is to add Details with pen/ ink/ markers


This is the step I thought might give me the most problems. I am not a doodler. I have tons of pens/ markers/ colored pencils, etc. But I've always shied away from them for fear of messing up my page. Well, this whole Journaling By 5s process has forced me to be adventurous. I've played with my white Signo, my black pitt markers.

Here is what I came up with. This final slide show gives you a look at the 'completed' Journaling By 5s journal. I'll add touches here and there in 'Free Play'... where there is no time limit. 

What do you think? Would you have done anything differently? Have you been playing along? If so, I hope you'll share a link in the comments. I'd love to see how this process has inspired you.

Creative Blessings!
Kelly


Wednesday, June 1, 2016

WOYWW #365

I'm sorry I was so late getting to everyone from last week. We've had storms if not in our immediate vicinity, then close enough that I just left the internet off. As you'll see from my 'desk' this week, I kept busy. I also haven't finished my ATCs this week. I plan to mail them out on Friday when we go to town.


My desk this week has been all about getting every last embellishment I own categorized and into the ScrapRack system. I have sorting sheets like these for all of the themed and calendar year categories spread out on the floor in the office. I used this white table in the dining room to sort the 'rainbow' of embellishments.

These are shots of what I brought up out of the old office that needed to be sorted:






At the end of Day 2, those containers were empty and the sorting sheets covered. Here's a shot of the rainbow of embellishments after:


And a close up:

I had run out of zippy bags from the jewelry dept. to put some things in and redoing how I'm storing flowers so had to make a Hobby Lobby run today. 

I also got all of the stamp sets cataloged by category. I have that photo on my phone so will try to remember to pull it for next week.

That's my desk? What's on yours? When you are done visiting me in the Ozarks, please hop on over to Lunch Lady Jan where she 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. We won’t touch.. just look. J  I can't wait to peek. Please leave your number and you'll be first on my list.