Sep 10 2018

Card making

Posted on September 10, 2018 by Caroline

It’s been ages since I’ve sat down and made a bunch of cards. Recently Mum started going to card classes at one of our local scrap stores and grabbed me a class kit each month.

Here’s the cards I’ve made from each of these kits…

Jul 1 2018

Half yearly check in

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Caroline

How is it already July? The last few months have flown by…

What have I been up to?

Listening to the Crafty Ass Females podcast. I seriously love these ladies and the topics they cover each week (especially the ones on mental illness <3 )
Taking photos for my 100 Happy Days project. I haven’t been sharing these much this year but I’m collating them all. I may share them as a flip thru when I’m done.
I started the 100 Day Project (again). I made 22 days. BUT I am nearly finished my 100 Days of All About Me project I started last year. Flip thru coming soon!
Slowly working on my Awesome Ladies Project Book of Me. Go check out the new site – it is AMAZING!!
Checking out the new Simple Scrapper website. Also amazing.
Slowly catching up on the girls’ Project Life albums
Creating my own Discord for creatives who live in Australia and New Zealand. It’s a bit quiet but we’d love you to join us. I’m hoping to start a weekly chat/motivation session.

What have you been up to?

Apr 15 2018

The 100 Day Project part 1

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Caroline

This year I’m giving myself a bit more creative freedom and not stressing if I do 100 consecutive days. The aim is to do 100 days total – so far I’m up to 9 and we started on April 4 so I’ve had 3 days when I haven’t actually done anything physically crafty.

Anywho, here I am sharing the first 10 days (which I’m also sharing on my Insta)

1. Working on my iPad lettering (thanks to Becca & Karin for the awesome course) 2. Doing a little digital sketching on the iPad 3. Colouring mandala 4. Working on some PL for my eldest 5. More iPad lettering 6. planning my page for my Book of Me 7 – 10. creating pages for Miss K’s PL album

Mar 30 2018

What I’ve been up to March 2018 edition

Posted on March 30, 2018 by Caroline

Well I was going to blog my 30 days pages each day but that didn’t happen so look for a big post on that in the next couple of days.

I’m still working on my Awesome Ladies Book of Me project. I am really loving this project this year and loving that I am starting to tell my stories not just our family’s stories

I supported the Crafty Ass Female podcast Patreon. I so love this podcast. Kristin & Amanda are awesome. It’s like hanging out with 2 crafty ass friends and just having a great time.

Apart from that – work and the kids are taking up the rest of my time.

What’s next?

I’m doing the 100 Happy Days photo project again. I love this and this will be the fourth year I’ve done this. Just snapping a quick pic of what’s making me happy that day. I’ll be blogging it over at Nightwolf’s Den. You can also see past years there too.

The 100 Day Project starts on April 3. This year I’m giving myself a bit more freedom – 100 days of doing something crafty. So I can do as little or as much as I have time for each day. I’ll be blogging about it, most likely once a week. Maybe. We’ll see how I go.

Feb 28 2018

30 Lists

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Caroline

It’s almost time for 30 Lists again (it starts on 1st March) and I just realised I haven’t shared my December pages.

I’m continuing to use my TN insert for March

Feb 28 2018

Book of Me 2018

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Caroline

The theme for the Awesome Ladies Project for 2018 is Book of Me. I’m loving this so far. I’ve gone with a 6×8 album this year to give me a bit more room that last years 4×4.

So far this year I’ve been using Kristin’s Currently cards a lot. I love these and it makes it super easy to document what’s going on in my life.

My cover and January pages

February was all about Currently. My 4 weeks of Currently Friday. I’ve done a bit of journaling on the back of each cards to note important events that took place each week.

I turned 40 at the end of January so documented that

Gardening has been a big part of my life lately so it got documented too.

I’ve got a couple of more Currently stories to document so I’ll share them next time.

Jan 4 2018

2017 Round up & 2018 Plans

Posted on January 4, 2018 by Caroline

Happy New Year! Time for a quick look back at my goals for last year and forward to my plans for 2018

2017 started out ok and I got a fair bit of creating done, then it just petered off and I hardly created anything in the second half of the year. Makes me sad cause I love creating.

In 2017 my plans were….

create a photo book of our holiday using the Project Life app and most likely printing it through Snapfish. Nope didn’t happen. On my list of things to do, eventually but not digitally anymore as my eldest wants to help me create that scrapbook
so yay a joint project.
finish our 2016 Journal Your Christmas pages. Keeping it very simple this year so I get it done. This is kind of done. I did a few pages before we went away on holiday and I plan to add a spread showcasing the best bits of our holiday and Christmas day.
create a year of me album – not sure what it will include as yet but it’s my Awesome Ladies Project for the year Managed to get a couple of months of the Awesome Ladies Project done and the majority of 100 Days of Me. This is a project I can go back to whenever though as I made a ton of notes each month
keep up to date with the girls albums. Simplify this year. Use up the supplies I have. Print photos and journal each month. Get it done, not perfect. Well….. I’ll be honest. There is nothing in the girls’ albums for 2017. Some of it is planned digitally but none made it to albums. Adding it to my catch up pile.
Day in the Life & Week in the Life. Thinking of doing these digitally and printing them. I did this for Day in the Life in 2016 and it worked well so I might try it for Week in the Life too. I actually did this one and completed it. And it’s in my Year of Me album.
possibly other projects that I have on the backburner or that spark my interest. Made a few cards and got into a few other non paper crafting things like loom banding and crochet over winter though.

Onto 2018….

Book of Me at Awesome Ladies
Journal Your Christmas 2017. Taking Shimelle’s advice from 2017 and only creating for the days that speak to me. Also keeping it simple. Maybe ask Miss K to create a couple of pages for me.
Do a few more pages in our wedding album. It will get complete one year. No major rush on this one
The girls’ PL albums. Make a date each month to create their pages digitally.
Holiday album
anything else that takes my fancy.

How did you go in 2017? Have any crafting plans for 2018?