WOYWW 898

 Good morning, crafty friends!

We are just two weeks away from 900. I'm sooo excited! I've already pulled my first WOYWW post and scheduled it so I don't forget.

I've posted a video about using other glue's besides mod podge for that napkin technique. Thanks to our Angela for leaving the question on the video last week.  You'll find that video HERE.

Two desks again this week:

ironing platform

After testing fabric with mod podge yesterday I decided I need 3 more 'pockets' for the journal. I'm doing everything in fours for the Patriotic journal. I have the cardstock drying. I'll get the fabric ironed into place this afternoon.

The photo piece in the upper left is part of a fairy challenge I'm working on for Spectrum Art Creations FB group. Still needs a little fussing.

While I don't need the ironing platform as a filming station, I am keeping the filming table cleared until I can get a new piece of wall board for that space. For now, the filming table looks like this:

filming table

Only thing there right now is the silicone brush I used to spread glue. This afternoon I plan to take the desk down, move the 4 art carts and give this space a good vacuum while I wait to go after the wall board.

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

WOYWW - 895

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Week 895! As I set up my planner for the month of August, was surreal to write 899 on one of my post its. We are so blessed to have Miss Julia, Lunch Lady Jan (who kindly took over while Miss Julia dealt with a health issue) and now Miss Sarah! Thank you, ladies, for making this grand event possible.

The Pink Christmas journal is nearly finished. I'll be offer the journal up for sale in a week or two on my YouTube channel.

The pile to the immediate left is a stack of items I got from a recent live sale with Rebekah Wills. She does lovely handmades a well as thrifty finds. The far left pile is stuff I gathered up during a cleaning session Saturday and haven't quite figured out where it needs to go. Tag material, mostly.

Progress is being made on the studio. I hope to show at least an in-progress picture next week.

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’s Craft 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 894

 Good morning, crafty friends!

It's been a long couple of weeks. Thank you for being here when I had time to come back and visit with you.

I got some great information from the RSJ conference. Normally held every year, they've decided to go to every other year while adding smaller events throughout the off year. I think that's nice and it saved me a chunk of money I really couldn't afford to put on my card right now.

I didn't get as much done during the writing retreat but I still have eight days left of the month-long writing challenge. 

Add in that I've not been able to access my email through mail.com on the computer for about six weeks. You do not want to know how much email backlog I have across three emails. Ugh! I've had to start using my gmail for everything, which is also not going to be fun.

Finally, last Sunday I got with a tech on JustAsk that was fabulous. He troubleshot everything I'd already done and finally came to the same conclusion I'd been thinking for the past two weeks. Mail.com doesn't want to keep the browser email. They want everyone to move to the app. I don't do a lot on my phone but I do have my art email on there. As we talked, he asked, "you are using an iPhone. Do you have an iPad, a slightly larger screen?"

The lightbulb went on. While using the iPad isn't my favorite solution, it is a solution. Later in the week I'm going to order a bluetooth mouse to make navigating the email a bit easier.

Good news is, I'm getting crafting in. I've needed the release from all the technical stuff. LOL

Not the best lighting this  morning. I have the page edge pieces and three tags for the Pink Christmas journal. But I have a question for you. Look on the far left and you'll see something with an orange/ red and gray handle. Any clue what that is? I'll give you a hint.. it's by EK Success.

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

WOYWW #892

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I did manage to get 'round to those of you who commented last week. Between the 4th of July weekend here in the states then realizing the writing conference I thought was next week is THIS week... ugh!

I've been recording videos like crazy for the 25 Days of Christmas series, including the ones I need scheduled for Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 

Here's where I left my desk last night after recording the same card video SIX times because I either messed up my intro or forgot to push record. LOL It's been a Monday on a Tuesday for sure!

I have things laid out pretty well for the multi-project crafting. I've moved some of the collections from the shelf over to my ScrapRack base. I have the Pink Christmas kit on 2 spines, pink, white embellishment components in the other 2 spines. 

I've started leaving the collapsible cup on my silicone mat up. Works out quite nicely for holding things. The card to the top left of the mat is the card for Thursday. In the process I discovered I'm out of Real Red cardstock so tomorrow morning before it gets hot, Bob and I'll have to go out to the warehouse to see if I have any left in the back up. I hope so. I've been using a lot of Real Red and Garden Green for the card bases.

My first meeting is at 11 a.m. CST tomorrow morning, then it's late nights, early mornings through Saturday. I'll try to get 'round.

By the way, there is a video on my YouTube channel every day for each of teh 25 Days of Christmas.

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 

WOYWW #887

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Sorry I skipped last week and didn't get 'round to folks. I'll do better this week.

First off... progress has been made:

A relatively clear desk. I filmed two videos yesterday so the organization had to happen. the 2 brag book photo albums on the right are my catalogs of 12x12 paper pads. I'm on the hunt for something with a Patriotic spirit for this month's junk journal as USA is celebrating 250 years! Sometimes I wonder how we got this far. I wonder if our forefathers saw this for us and if they're shaking their heads at what we've done to this country.

I also got the big red bag moved to my car. Little things here and there.

Okay... next. I've been doing a lot of gardening. With the exception of two flower beds on either side of the front step and the accompanying flower boxes, I'm done planting. Now to just keep everything alive. 

This is a tower of Juliet Roma grape tomatoes. They're supposed to be meatier (like full size Roma paste tomatoes). We shall see. I plan to dehydrate the produce then grind into tomato powder this fall.

I have one of these towers with strawberry plants in them. We can't put the strawberry bed in until the local fireworks tents set up and I can confiscate cardboard for mulching the new bed. For now the strawberry plants are in a holding pattern. 

I'll show you the front flower displays next week (if I remember. hehe )

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

WOYWW #885

 Hi Crafty friends!

Before I go any further, I want to offer condolences on Neet's passing. She will be missed but watching over us. I never received ATCs from Neet but I'd love to swap this year. 

I've been gone seemingly forever (okay, only since February). I've been swamped.

So my desk this week is a short video of the current state of my studio. Was a disaster before I had to start planning for the annual junk journal retreat, then things got left out that I'd pulled from and when I got home, all the stuff I acquired at retreat got added. 

Everything had to go on hold as I canned #40 of potatoes, #10 of hamburger and #20 of breakfast sausage. 

My garden is almost all planted and I can start in here.

Full disclosure... if clutter is a trigger for you, don't watch. LOL Just know I have A LOT to do before I can get back to crafting.

Next week, I'll try to remember to share what I brought back from retreat, though will probably also be a video with a photo of the cleared desk.

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

WOYWW #868

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Thank you, everyone, who left condolences for HoneyB. We're gradually accepting not having to get up at 5 a.m. to put him out or having him want out every time he thinks there's a squirrel out there to chase off. 

On the upside, we no longer have to block him from the litter box or worry if we're leaving him kenneled too long if we want/ need to go somewhere. Most anywhere we go is a 2-hour round trip plus the things we need to do in between. Makes for a long day for a dog when it's too cold to leave him out in the run. Just life adjustments after eleven years.

Bob has already pulled the fence & posts that enclosed the run. When weather warms up, we'll set it up as a patio.

I have three pictures to show you today.

First, my desk with leftovers from yesterday's tag creation. You can see just the tag on yesterday's post HERE. To the left you can see a spool of ribbon.. a very pretty net ribbon from Stampin' Up! holiday catalog as well as a couple packages of their new heart doilies from the same catalog I need to put in the scrap rack

... which is easy to get to because after the deep clean over the weekend, I am now able to pull scrap rack spinders off the shelf and onto a single base to my left to work:

The base will hold up to 7 3-ring spinders. I still have room to move the red, pink, and white color spinders onto the base. No more getting up and down to go around the back side of the shelf to get what I need while I'm crafting. When I'm done with all the Valentine, I'll put them back on the shelf and bring in St. Patrick's/ Green as well as Easter/ Spring.

And finally, the worst spot of all from a couple of weeks ago:

There are two carts of punches. The black one in the front holds all non-seasonal punches except for my two big heart punches. The narrower white cart behind that holds all of my seasonal punches but for now, I have the box of Valentine stamps and papers sitting there.

I'm gradually getting back into the swing of things and organizing more in the office. I can get to my Kanban board with my work schedule posted and all of the stamps/ dies going back to Halloween are filed back in their boxes. One day at a time.

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

WOYWW #867

 Good morning desk hoppers!

I didn't get around to anyone last week. 
There is also no change to my area.  I know you all will understand.

Meet HoneyB, my little mob boss. ;-)

After eleven years as part of our family, my vet and I sent him across the rainbow Thursday night.

He showed up on our deck looking more like a Beagle/ Spaniel mix. Litter box trained and would bring me his food bowl when he was ready to eat. HoneyB was my lap dog. I never wanted a Beagle but he didn't howl... for about the first three months. LOL Once he found his howl, he morphed into a Beagle/ Bassett mix. 

About a week prior to Thursday he was a happy dog. Did his circles if he thought he was getting a treat, would come sit by me to get his ears pulled (he loved me gently tugging his velvet ears). 

Then out of the blue he began throwing up his food to not eating anything at all, he became lethargic and wanted to be out in the cold more than in the house. We knew something wasn't right so I took him to see Dr. Mike on Tuesday. All the vitals were good but we decided at his age ( he would have turned 12 in March), anything blood work would show wasn't going to help any. With his age and weight, anesthesia wasn't a good option. So we brought him home. By Thursday morning, he wouldn't even come out of his house. 

As with Spirit, I asked Earth Mother to give me a sign when she was ready for him. The next morning, when I woke up and put him out to potty, I noticed blood in the kennel. I was heartbroken but I knew it was time.

Dr. Mike came out at the end of the day, hugged me than helped pull HoneyB out of his house so he could put his head in my lap to get his final ear pulls. We sat and chatted while I talked to HoneyB as he crossed the rainbow.  Dr. Mikael Orchard from Barn Hollow Veterinary Clinic is the best! We've worked with him since he opened his practice. 

My heart is broken but his spirit still runs on the back deck. We're going to turn his kennel run into a place to sit and have coffee with him in warmer weather and watch the sun rise.

I am back to work this week. I've been busy canning Beef Pot Pie filling and Salisbury Steak patties. I've also started my Tag Tuesday series, all about Valentine's Day. You can check yesterday's post for a picture of the tag.

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

WOYWW #863

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I totally spaced last week. Bob and I got an early start into the city (2 hrs away) for a day of Christmas shopping. I remembered it was Wednesday on the drive home almost 12 hours later. LOL

I went back into the city on my own yesterday after Bob mentioned a couple of things.  Why couldn't he have dropped the hints last week? ::: smh :::

First off, Lynn. You asked about my writing. If you'll check the side-bar you'll see my Christmas romance that came out eight years ago (Yeah, I had no clue it was that long). If you like Hallmark style stories, I think you'll enjoy An Ozarks Christmas. I'm pushing now to have Book 2 released in May.

Okay.. my desk as I left it yesterday morning:

Nothing super exciting except the glue mat from Stampin' Up! where I was using a dauber to glue the snowflake and the cards those snowflakes went on.

Here's a close up of the card:

This is the last of the elements from the November 2019 Paper Pumpkin kit. I have a few items left over that I'll put in the Christmas crafting section of the ScrapRack. 

I hope to get back to Reindeer Club in 2026. I have projects I want finished and still more Paper Pumpkin Christmas kits to work through. I'll talk more about that next week.

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

WOYWW #861

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Before I show you my very 'non-exciting desk':

Mrs. Claus was kind enough to drop a bag of powdered sugar all over my yard. I wish she'd had a much larger bag.

Nothing super exciting on my desk as I had to move all the crafting stuff off the table so I could film an author video this morning on how I plot my books. 

Here's a close up of the Week 4 card:

Another one from the November 2019 Paper Pumpkin.  

The deer was supposed to be backed by a wooden sled with red handles and a red circle between that and the deer. Can you say 'blood spatter'? LOL 

I used Tranquil Tide cardstock and Joyous Noel patterned paper. The brown is soft suede and the sentiment stamped in Tranquil Tide.

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

WOYWW #860 - Bit of a Read and Pictures

Good morning, crafty friends! 

I think winter may have found us in the Ozarks. 65* F yesterday and woke up to 36 this morning.

I do apologize for not getting round last week. I'll share why in a moment.

My plan for today is to bake a pumpkin custard and pecan custard. I thought about an actual pie but we try to limit ourselves to the good carbs or the treats. We'll have enough treats tomorrow by way of regular Thanksgiving fare.

Her is my desk for this week:

My desk is a mess in spite of no creating this week. lol  I needed the black dimensionals for an organization project and that ribbon is going back in the ribbon storage. I kept enough out for the project I was working on. 

No card this week because I was working on this mess:

This has to get taken care of so I can put up the Christmas tree. This is where all of the Halloween/ Christmas crafting got moved to 'temporarily' from the shelves where I put the stamp/ die boxes I did last year. Draw as line between the carts and up between those 2 baskets. the left is Halloween and the right is Christmas. 

I spent 3 days working on the Halloween. Everything is either in the cart on the right or in two 12x12 Scrapbook binders to use similar to a scraprack. When I want to work on Halloween, I'll pull my project trays cart out of the way and put the drawer cart in place with the binder on top to work from. 

This is one of two drawers of ribbon/ fibers that I probably won't use anywhere but for Halloween/ Fall. The long ones in the back are black and orange velveteen ribbons from $Tree, mini net, and Fall/ Halloween wired ribbons.

I'm going to wait until Friday to start the Christmas side. Hopefully, we can bring the big tree up from the basement. That's my goal. I'm determined to have the big tree up in honor of Bob's first year of retirement. I bought his ornament last week:

I try to add a new ornament each year to our family tree. I've missed a few years with the big tree not going up. The family tree hasn't been up in over eight years, when we hosted the Polish Symphonia.

The tug boat is in honor of Bob's one year retirement anniversary as a tug boat captain. Scuffy looks similar to the very first tug he ever operated almost 43 years ago. I collect Little Golden Books. I have this one in three sizes so I'll create a hanger for this booklet to hang on the tree. 

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’s Craft 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 #859

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I didn't accomplish what I wanted while Bob was gone so that photo I promised will  move to next week. I spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday fighting with a pinched nerve in my hip that made walking back and forth across the house difficult. Go figure!

Oh, did anyone take part in the class action suit against FB for the privacy breech about 3 years ago? I had a payment in my paypal this morning. Not as much as I'd have like but definitely more than I thought I'd ever see.  LOL

I'm afraid my desk isn't very exciting this week...

This is what's left after I finished the Christmas card for Week 3.  The dies on the left are what I used to die cut stars from for the Christmas tree. Stamp sets are buried underneath for the sentiment both on the outside and the inside. 

Here's this week's card:

VIDEO HERE

That's it for me this week. I should be able to make my usual rounds again this week. Bob got home Monday afternoon and we're trying to get some things done.

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 

WOYWW 858

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I apologize for not getting 'round last week. Seemed every time I sat down to visit, Bob would come upstairs needing something. This week will be better. LOL

Bob leaves in a couple of hours for our niece's wedding in OK. I'll be taking advantage of the place to myself for the next six days to really dig into this mess. I've listed five specific areas to target, one per day with a  little wiggle room.

I'll give you a list but first, here's the desk for this week:

I cleaned part of the desk off yesterday after making the Week 2 Christmas card. I worked from the same Paper Pumpkin kit as last week. There are two designs left in the kit. I want to get them made up this week, filmed and scheduled so they're out of the way. Here's a close up of one of six cards:

The original design had the sentiment Love And Joy stamped in Shaded Spruce on a white banner. I thought Peace went better with the snowflakes. I also heat embossed the sentiment. 

Okay.. the list. I find it more encouraging if I make a list of what needs to be done and push to accomplish each in one day. When that task is done, I'm done until the next day and the next item on the list.  Next week I'll embarrassingly show a before picture of items #2 & #3. for now:

Wednesday - Put away all the stamps/ dies from the #31days of Halloween AND catalog the dies. 

Thursday - Sort/ file all the Halloween crafting into their binder

Friday - Sort/ file all of the Christmas crafting into their binder

Saturday - Clear out the sewing corner (mind you, very little of sewing is in the bedroom lol) and put actually sewing stuff where it belongs

Sunday - Finish any of the above that needs finished (wiggle room day)

Monday - Read the book I need to review on Wednesday

I hope to pitch a lot of stuff. We shall see.

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

 

WOYWW 856

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Did you see that Neet posted last week? Was so good to see her. Sending her all the love & healing blessings.

Getting some things out of the way so I can set my planner up for November.

Here is my desk:

This might looked staged - and it is... Just not for you. ;-)

I had set the desk up for filming today's Day 29 of the #31daysofhalloween tag series. I used the Toil n Trouble paper pack from Stampin' Up! (retired) as well as the coordinating dies and punch. That pocket letter looking thing shows samples of the paper pad. I catalog all of my Stampin' Up! paper pads this way - all 151!

Here is the tag I made:

I'm just getting the video set to upload now. You should be able to see the process later this afternoon. The 19 min video will take approx. 3 hours to upload. Sadly, even prepping everything last night the video still took longer than I wanted. LOL  By the way, videos for every tag are available on my YouTube Channel - KellysCreativeDreams, and visually on my Instagram (same name) and quick shots on my last two weeks here on the blog. I will be doing a full flip-through on Saturday November 1.

If you or relatives are in the path of Hurricane Melissa, please be safe.

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

WOYWW - 855

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I did get 'round to a few of you from last week. I am home now. Hopefully, no more traveling until April 2026 when I hide to do the final edits on this book. I'm ready so ready to send it out into the world and start on Book 3 in the series.

I won't be around today as my dear husband, Bob, turns 65! Today is all about him.

The desk is quite boring this week. You can see the remnants of my #31daysofhalloween tags for Tim Holtz Tuesday. I posted today's and I have next Tuesday's done/ filmed and ready to post next week.  If you want to see them, they are all posted on my IG channel - KellysCreativeDreams. All that's left is the kindle and note pad from a book review post on my author blog and the note pad for my cauldron blog schedule.  Tomorrow, I'll clear all the Tim Holtz paper & ephemera away then start the rest of the tags. Only 10 tags left to create! November will be a bit slower. 

I did take the Halloween Curio Class with Tim & Heidi at Simon Says Stamps. I even got a comment from Tim on my IG post. I was thrilled. Here's what I made:

I enjoyed the 4-hour class and learned some things. I can't wait to get out some of the other cloches & things I purchased over the years and make more dimensional items. 

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’s Craft 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 #852

 Good morning, crafty friends!

Coming in late this morning. I got home Monday afternoon, spent yesterday with Bob with the exception of making a short video. Bob left this morning for 5-6 days to visit friends in IL and IA so I'm on a mad cleaning spree.

I had a great time on the crafting retreat. There were four of us including the hostess. One of our group drove up for just one day to play with friends. She needed the day.

Then I spent five days at the hotel working on my book. Only a few new words but I have an order going forward. I'm hoping for a Mid-May 2026 release. Positive vibes appreciated. ;-)

Question: Do you clean better when you are the only one in the house? 

Here's my desk:

The item in the top left, in front of the tool caddy, is an iPad holder with a magnet sheet for catching all of my dies when I'm working on a project. No more losing them on the desk!

Here's the tag you can't see very well:

I'm doing 31 Days of Halloween here, on my YouTube channel and on my IG account. Crazy, right?!

The background is washi tape and the item in the center is part of a thrifted treat box.

I have a theme schedule for every day of the week. Tomorrow is 'Thrifty Thursday'. Whether I'm using items I've thrifted or 'thrifting' from my stash. I have a full list of the Daily themes in the description box of each of the videos. Here is the video for Day 1:

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

WOYWW #850

 Good morning, crafty friends!

I apologize for not getting round last week. Seemed I couldn't be in one place long enough.

Here's my desk this week:

Slightly staged to show you what I'll be working on today. I'm in the process of trying to finish up the Ciao Bella Sound of Autumn tag ring by Saturday. I've found some Stampin' Up! sets that coordinate with fall and some of the patterns in the paper, like pine cones and leaves. I'm adding in making dangles of coffee cups, pumpkin spice sayings, etc.  As you can see center stage are the 31 tags in varying sizes matted and ready to embellish. I also have some things from the collection fussy cut out and Stampin' Up! cardstock colors to punch out hole reinforcers. I decided to use hole reinforcers instead of eyelets because the latter take up too much space for this many tags. I'm not sure my 3" ring could hold them all... not sure it will now. LOL

I leave Sunday for a combined retreat. I'll spend four days in KS with my crafty gathering group then five days in a hotel finishing pulling Book 2 in my series together. I'd love to release it in February 2026.

There may or may not be a desk from me next week but I hope to get 'round to everyone.

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

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 848

 Good morning, crafty friends!

First off, Happy Retirement to our leader, Sarah. Be prepared to be busier than you were when you were working. ;-)

Now for my quiet desk:

Stamp sets from the tag I made for #Tagtuesday, the ribbons I chose from and the newly cleaned scissors. 

Seems we've been on the go a lot lately. I'm looking forward to being home for at least a couple of days.

One day a week I take a ME day. I go into town and sit at my favorite coffee shop - usually with my planners. But I made the decision this week to only take one thing - a book.

I read one book a week to spotlight the author and review their book on my author channel. I decided I'm taking an older book with me instead of my planners. Not one I need to review but one I want to read. I have a 5-shelf book case in my bedroom of books to be read. When I've finished the book, I put half the cover price (NOT the price I paid - which was usually .10 - .25 each) into my book journal envelope. I figure by the time I've read all 360 books, I should have quite a nest egg. 

What about you? Are you a reader? What do you like to read.

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

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