WOYWW #625

 Good morning, friends!

My, I've not seen many of you in so very long. I do apologize. Way too much going on. Let's have a peek at the current desk situation... 

Not bad, but give me a few hours and the space will look like a tornado blew through lol

To the left front you'll see a stack of 3 signatures for the $tree junk journal challenge.

Above the signatures is a stack of patterned paper and the sizzix die cut to make a couple of cards. to the right of that is the stack of cards I made yesterday. Here's a pic of them:

In front of the stack of cards is a basket holding all of the tickets I died in various colors while I had the Easter egg dyes going for the papers for the $Tree journal. Here's the papers (as well as the tickets) that went into the journal:

Making the most of the dye, I chose a 10" square of linen fabric, a cotton strip and a couple of laces (one for the $ Tree journal):

Lots of miscellaneous items until you drop back to the far right front and see the index cards I dyed and turned into tags for the journal.

I'm super busy this week. I'm part of a #7dayssummerdigi2021 Collab with my design team leader, Dearjuliejulie and with CaraBrandonCreations.  We will be posting every day from May 27-June 2nd. If you'd like to see what we're playing with, you can search that hashtag on social media for lots of inspiration with the girls' digitals designed for this collab. 

Bob is gone for another 9 or 10 days so I'll have time to work and to visit y'all. 

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 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 

I'M BACK! - May Make A Kit Make A Journal Junk Journal Challenge

 Good afternoon, everyone!

Wow - an entire month plus since I was in here last. To say I've been busy is an understatement.

Shortly after my last blog post, Bob came home. His first week in I took the opportunity to travel to Iowa to see Kassie, Matt and the adorable 'grandbabies' I had yet to meet. Mia and Lena are absolutely adorable. While they are twins, I can tell them apart - for now hehe. Mia's face is a bit rounder. Lena also has a couple of beauty marks but one is covered with her clothes and the other you have to look really close to see. I took our retired recliners up to them. Matt has always wanted a recliner and in my honest opinon, EVERY man should have a recliner, especially when they work as hard as Matt does bouncing around in a field all day doing AG work. The chairs will be seven years old this fall but still in great shape. If the kids get another five years out of them to the point they can shop for their own, then that's a win in my book.

I also took them the end tables that Kassie grew up hiding her toys in. While they were almost twenty-five years old, there wasn't a thing wrong with them! I purchased them when I sold House of Lloyd eons ago. We take care of our things and they last seemingly forever. Kassie recognized them as soon as she saw them in the truck. Now Mia and Lena will have their own hiding places in a couple of years when they're toddling around. 

I only stayed one night with the kids before heading home. I stopped in Muscatine IA for 4 days and did nothing but work on Book 2 in my series. Was great to not have anything to focus on except the story. I've been back since May 2nd and only managed to write one night - while Bob was at a lodge meeting.

He left Thursday morning, but on Wednesday I popped a muscle (as in I heard it POP) while pulling weeds in the garden. I've not done much of anything until today except take meds and sleep. 

I have recorded a couple of videos having to do with collabs I'm in and the May journal challenge with Dear Julie Julie.

I'm really excited about this one:

A few things have changed since recording the video.

1 - in the mini challenge 5.2, Julie had us use a napkin then we could put the rest of it into our kit. With that new piece of information, I'm swapping out the napkin for something else (had it in my head as I was typing and it was gone by the time I got to that point in the sentence - LOL)

2 - The flowers are out and I have a package of multi-sizes of paper doilies from $Tree

3 - she's allowing us to bring in 1 more tool of choice. I'll know more about what that tool is over the weekend as I finally get to put my journal together. 

Next week (hopefully Monday) I'll catch you up on the journal progress. 

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly