MERRY CHRISTMAS! - First Christmas Card of 2025

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Are you ready? Do you realize that Christmas is four months from today? Yikes!

This is the first Christmas card of the many I have to get made before November 15th. 

I used a Memories & More card pack from Stampin' Up! called Santa Express. I bought a couple of packs because they also include a sticker sheet that this could easily be turned in to a December Daily. I also have more than one of the paper packs, too.

So, are you thinking about Christmas? Might want to. If nothing else, thoughts of snow and the holiday season might cool you off.

Creative Christmas Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 846

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I have to be out and about today so took this picture last night and set the post so I could link up this morning before I forgot.

The tag is part one of my Tag Tuesday. I ran it yesterday on my youtube channel. Will have the finishing in part two next Tuesday.

I used papers from Gilded Autumn (Stampin' Up! 2021)

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

CRAFTY HAUL - Ollie's & Dollar Tree

 Good morning, crafty friends!

No project today, but I did want to share a short haul video.

Have you been seeing the activity around Ollie's bargain outlet stores? Apparently, they've purchased pallets of paper crafting items from both JoAnns and American Crafts closing inventory. Crafters, I am talking pennies on the dollar!

Products do vary from store to store. Where people on the East coast have been pulling in really great product (like a Minc machine for $5!!!!), mine has had mostly paper. You can see my haul in today's video. If you have an Ollie's near you, and you feel the need for more stuff at bargain prices, I recommend checking them out.

Just call me your friendly enabler. ;-)

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly 

 

WOYWW 845

 Good morning, crafty friends!

QUICK NOTE:  The tag I'd hoped to have done today will definitely be tomorrow. The book I needed to review took longer than I'd anticipated, so no crafting yesterday.

I'm sliding in the door late. Got up to a dead battery on my phone. 

I have two desks to share this week.

First, my actual crafting desk:

Not overly exciting. The pile on the far left needs to go back to the office desk and those post its get entered into my planner. The awl... guess who used then didn't put back (Bob), the iron I used to press some ribbon and my detail scissors. The white holder in the back is full of little stuff I need to put away. Easy peasy clean up for crafting this afternoon.

Office desk:

I finally got the large work island cleared so I could set it up as my permanent office space (unless I need to cut large pieces of fabric). My computer, external keyboard, a clean mouse pad, the planner holder for my BIG Happy Planners and my mini kanban board for my current To Do projects.

I've been trying for months to get this worktable to this point. I have one small sorting box I need to clear out, find better places to put the keeper items then get rid of it. This will allow me to move the work stuff to the far right of the table. Or, set my mini kanban board to my right. But at least the desk is clean and functional. yay!!!

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

TAG TUESDAY - Moving to Tomorrow

 Hi crafty friends

I was working furiously in the office yesterday and ran into a snag that took the rest of the afternoon to un tangle. 

I'll be creating the tags for the post and will run them tomorrow with the WOYWW post.

Creative Blessings!

~Kelly

DECEMBER DAILY - Trying to finish this one!

 Good morning, friends.

I don't have pictures to show today because they just show better in the video:

I've been working with the Festive Frolic digital kit from Shabbydabbydoodah aka Tina.  She hasn't had the kit in her Etsy shop for awhile but if you message her on Etsy, she might be able to help you out. 

I started this journal last year. I managed to get the outside cover done and cut out the tags I wanted to use for the numbers. That's as far as I got on the project. 

Part of #ChristmasinJuly was to finish up Christmas project kits I'd started or had stacked on the sofa to do. 

As you'll hear in the video, December Daily has been an issue for me in the past because Bob was never home for the entire month of December or sometimes part of the month but not for Christmas. We'd celebrate in January after he got home. 

Now that he's retired, I hope to plan December activities we can do together. We like to go out and explore but not a fan of crowds. In Illinois we used to go to Felipe's light festival in East Peoria and spend a Saturday with friends at a White Elephant exchange. I still have a cherished piece Bob got the last one we were able to be there for. We don't have any of those things here but I hope to find us something to do.

I'm going to try to finish this up and have a flip through next Monday. I came close yesterday but ran out of ink for the printer to do the inside covers. 

I'll be back tomorrow when I'm starting back in on my 100 Days of Tags. I'll explain why I fell of that cliff in tomorrow's post.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

WOYWW 844

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I'm setting this blog post up before I head to bed so I can link up at a decent hour.

Here's the desk:

Pretty bare. The tag was on my blog yesterday and my YouTube channel. I used remnants of my Winter's Veil paper pack to make a tag w/ a pocket. 

In the background you can just make out a die and some red 'circles' - to the left of a snowflake punch out. Those will be hole reinforcers for the December Daily album from last year I'm trying to finish up using a digital from Tina at Scrappydabbydoodah. 

Not really exciting, eh? LOL

I did promise you a picture of how I cool off in the hot weather - 

This is a 6' by 2.5' depth stock tank - yes, for watering horses and cattle. LOL Works great for just the two of us. It's situated in the corner of the house where my office connects. Nice and private. Gets full afternoon sun so heats up pretty quick. I like evening soaks and look at the stars.

On our 25 acres (24 of it is timber bordering the Mark Twain National Forest) we have quite a bit of wildlife. While we know there are turkey's, in the 20 years we've lived here we've never seen more than one or two at a time.

a mama hen and SIX young ones.

This next picture features a couple of deer that come through frequently. If I'm not mistaken the mamma in this picture is one I was treated to seeing minutes after she was born courtesy of a mamma and grandma deer. Both of those have since been added to a hunter's freezer but this baby has grown up to be a mom of her own. The baby is the one lagging behind. From the time this baby was still wearing spots, she's always lagging behind. LOL 

Oh yeah, and the guard kitty - Fluffy napping through the whole experience. He is the Ginger MaineCoon/ Ragdoll cat that comes and goes as he pleases. He stays with us for several weeks then wanders off and is gone anywhere from two weeks to a month then he comes back eating like he'd not eaten the whole time he was gone LOL. 

We think he was mistreated by a man. He's still shy of Bob sometimes. Took me almost 8 months to get him comfy with me. Over 2 years later and he's still wary of Bob.

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 - Winter's Veil

 Good morning.

Coming in a little late. I slept in this morning. After eleven hours on the computer yesterday I really needed the rest.

I decided for our tag this week, I'd pull out the Winter's Veil collection from the wreath project. I'm trying to use up collections as I go and whittle down what I have in the studio.

The back side of the cover was printed with various tags. I lost some of them when I used the image for the cross piece on the wreath.

With that in mind, I decided to use a strip of the trees with 'winter wishes' as a pocket on the front of the tag and incorporate one of the existing tags with the buck. 

Normally, I don't hang things off the bottom of the tag but this just seemed to call for it. I want to search for some lace similar but with snowflakes. I had the sparkly ribbon and the metal snowflake charm in my stash.

I think the only thing I have left is to make the pocket letter on Saturday then that should take care of most of what's left, though I may have some pieces to make Christmas cards.

What are you working on?

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly