WOYWW 849

 Good morning, crafty friends.

I'm sliding in late this morning. Needed to get laundry on the line then take pics of what I've been working on. No desk this week.

I purchased doll houses from $Tree about 3 or 4 years ago to make 'haunted houses' found in THIS video on Youtube.

This week, with cool/ dry temps I was able to pull out the container and start spray painting.

The three taller ones are two of those smaller houses built upon one another. That small one in the back with the bay window roof... you take the roof off that one, remove the roof from the smaller one in front then attach the bay roof to the top of that one. 

I really don't have room in this house to put out my entire Christmas Village so last year I decided to give them their own places throughout the house. I placed all my North Pole village pieces on the top shelf in the laundry room. This year, for October, I'll put the haunted houses. Alternating the 2 story houses with the 2 smaller houses.  I'll fill in the gaps with figures and these...

These are white bottle brush trees from the dollar store. I'm giving them two coats of Espresso Brown spray paint to give them that dead pine look.  I plan to put orange, purple and green lights inside the houses. thought about putting the small strobe lights from $ Tree but I'd have to climb up every night to turn them on as opposed to just plugging in string lights. 

I'll post pictures when I'm finished.. probably the first week in October.

hat'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

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