Nothing to see here

 I'm in the dessert where creativity is concerned. 

Not making time

Not happy with the few things I have created. 

Almost time to sail away!

 Independence of the Sea! Starting Sunday, I'll be on the way to the Caribbean! I can't wait!!!!

I was looking at the deck plans...we are on deck 3  -- there is a theatre, ICE RINK!, the dining room all on our floor. 

We got updated to a stateroom with a window! WhooHoo!

I thought I had an excursion booked for St Thomas, but I don't see it on my reservation. Going to have to cheek on that. We also get priority boarding, embarking, seats for shows, etc. Yay!

But I'm most excited to do the art classes. So excited!

1/12 - BTW Monday!

    I had such a good time this weekend.  Although  we did get terrible news on Thursday evening. Terri's hubby TY, has stage 4 cancer. God has this heavy on my heart. I'm not sure how we wants me to support  her but I feel He wants me to help. 

    I worked on 2 journals and made 18 Christmas cards. We spent so much time hanging at the table. chatting & laughing. I love spending time with these women. Kari, Crystal, Karen, Carol, Ann Marie (first time at Groovy), and Angela. 

 

Retreat Day!

 Got my final stuff packed and loaded. Karen asked me to bring patterned paper scraps. I packed way more than I can get done, but hey..you see things and get inspired! 

So on the agenda is...

Christmas Cards

Valentine Cards

Black Doodle Journal (maybe, I don't think I packed the right markers for it.)

Autumn Journal

 2 Card boxes (Proof of concept)

Index card mini journals

We shall see how it goes!

I'm excited and ready!

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!

Flipping

My first flipbooks, and my first tries at using Flipagram too

Happy Tuesday!

Its a very happy Tuesday for me...just because!

Last week I shared the cards I made at the Columbus Scrappers Retreat..today,I am going to share some of the pages I made while there also.

Started scrapping my June trip to NYC. 

Two Times Square pages. They were supposed to be a double layout, but in the end I don't think they look like they belong together.

I really loved central park.

So I scrapped TWO layouts of it!

And scrapped a page of my beloved granddog Brutus. Miss him so much!

There are four more pages that I scrapped, but they are going to be gift projects, so I can't share them just yet!

Happy Scrappin!