Rebirth!

 Rebirth is the right term for my crafty life. Not that is has been dead...far from it. It's been overwhelmingly busy...buying, creating, buying, more buying than creating....in so many mediums. 

I have made some solid decisions, some not so solid decisions about types of crafts that I am laying aside...

Scrapbooking - I have a plan for what to do with all my current scrapbooks, and I have  some pages that I want to create for Cora & Erin. (Cora says they are not well represented in my scrapping!). I laid aside crocheting and daily journaling last year.  I miss the daily journaling though, so these blogs are taking it's place and expanding it a bit too, since I added 2 new blogs. 

Card Making, Art journaling, Shop Crafting Demos (will explain this in  a future post), are now my focus. I'm happy about that. 

So to start off this crafty re-blogging, I am excited to say that I am going to a retreat at Groovy this weekend, with several of my crafty besties. So excited.  I plan to work on:

1. The dozen or so Christmas cards that are 'in progress". Want to finish them now, because I won't have a clue what to do later with all the pieces and parts I have prepped. 
2. Valentines Day cards
3. Make at  least one of the card boxes I didn't get done for Christmas.
4. Doodles in  my black journal.

Yeah, it is way more than I can complete in 3.5 days, but better than running out of things to do.

THEN! Oh boy THEN! On Jan 25th, karen, Carol and I set said on a 7 night Caribbean Art Cruise.  i AM SO EXCITED!  We'll be working in a four signature, handmade paper journal. I've received my journal, and have all my background pages painted, sprayed and stencilled. All ready to start creating pages during out 4 sea days of art classes!! Plus, we three girls have fun excursions and party plans onboard too! 

So stick around....lots more coming as I dive into art in 2026!