Author: Caroline

Hello December

How is it December already? I swear I say that every year.

Just a quickie post today with my plans for December and some December freebies.

I’m doing December Daily/Journal Your Christmas. Still not entirely sure of my plan for creating as yet. The only thing I do know is take a bunch of photos and journal in Day One.

Daily pages for December I’m thinking of playing with a vintage themed junk journal and revisiting some of the 30 Lists prompts from Decembers past. I do miss having that to do.

So, expect to see some of that and some catching up from the other creative things I’ve been up to through out the month.

Christmas freebies (I’ll be updating this list as I find more)

Well, what do we have here?

It’s a new home and a new name for Nightwolf Scraps.

I decided that the time had come to clean out a lot of the old (ie posts from the early 2010s) and give the blog a new name that is more a reflection of what I do.

Thus Nightwolf Creates was born.

I don’t just scrapbook anymore, I’ve branched into mixed media, card making, drawing, painting, digital art as well as memory keeping in various forms.

What will you find on Nightwolf Creates? More galleries of my creations. Monthly round ups. Tutorials. Reviews of products I’ve bought or been gifted.
I may have a few new things in the works but they won’t be until later.

100 Happy Days – 2022 edition

Well we’re back again for another year of 100 Happy Days. I’ve been doing this project since 2014? & I love taking a little snapshot daily of something that has made me happy. I start my 100 days on March 26 and go through until July 3rd. I use the Collect app to collect my images and at the end of the month use the collage feature.I originally had it posted on my main blog but moved it here in 2019 and I try and share my photos monthly.

What is the 100 Happy Days project? It’s a photo project that challenges you to post something that makes you happy, daily, for 100 days.

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What’s happening around here

I’ve been picked as the most recent Awesome Ladies Member Spotlight. I’d love you to go check it out Smile
https://theawesomeladiesproject.com/inspiration/awesome-lady-spotlight-caroline/

Apart from that it’s been the usual – daily pages, book of me, memory planner, fussy cutting cuties and general crafting.

Now the light is a bit more neutral during the day (when it’s not raining) I’m getting around to photographing my projects for the first quarter of the year so keep an eye out for them soon.

Day in the Life 2022

Playing along with Ali Edwards and doing Day in the Life.
I take my pictures and do all my journaling in the Day One app (I seriously love this app for memory keeping). I’ll most like make a fold out to add to my 2022 memory planner, similar to last year.

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Our day.

Wake up early, thanks to the kitties who want their breakfast. It’s also Chippie’s first birthday today.
Morning routine: Shower, kids ready for school, breakfast, take kids to school, grab some petrol (currently sitting at $2.10 a litre for diesel), pick up Dad & drop him to TAFE, home to check emails and the planner for the day. Morning Meds
Time to grab a shower for myself & wash the hair.
Happy mail – new Planners Anonymouse sub kit: Book Lover 2
Lunch time – ham salad roll and hot chips.
Picked up Dad then dropped him home. Got stuck in traffic on the way back, means the MIL has to pick up the kids.
Littliest kiddo got a Reach for the Stars
Washing up and getting ready for tea.
Sunset (& a filthy window)
Tea – Baked zitti and garlic bread.
Bed time shenanigans
Some TV viewing for the adults (today it’s Curse of Oak Island) & a cuppa before heading to bed.
Night meds. Quick read of a few chapters of Circe and flick through the News app on my iPad.
Good night!

Crafty plans for 2022

For 2022 I would like to:

  • Do more daily pages. I’m going to try using 4×6 index cards in rings instead of mini books. Want to include Currently & Thursday 3 each week.
  • 100 Happy Days.
  • Try a photo challenge. I miss doing them
  • Continue memory keeping in the Heidi Swapp Chapters books. It’s worked really well last year and I managed to keep fairly up to date.
  • Fussy Cutting Cuties. Between this & the Daily Pages – these will be my play projects. Ways of trying ideas or techniques.
  • Week in the Life & Day in the Life
  • December Daily/Journal Your Christmas. I really want to get back to creating an album again instead of just a 2 page spread.

Over the next few weeks I’m hoping to photograph & share with you some projects from 2021 – my Cutie book, 2021 Book of Me, both Monthly & weekly memory keeping books and, fingers crossed, my 2021 December album. We’ll see how we go.

What’s your scrapping plans for 2022?