Category: General

Another year and another list of goals I’d like to achieve

Daily Pages – I don’t know if I’ll do these every month but I’d like to create 2 field notes books for the year – Currently and Thursday 3. Watch this space.

100 Happy Days – it’s an easy project that I love doing.

Photo-A-Day – I really want to make a full 365 and add them to the gallery at the end of each month.

Book of Me. Looking forward to the changes Kristin is making to this project this year.

Memory Planner. I managed to get myself enough inserts for this year & next. This project really seems to work for me.

Other projects – Day in the Life, Week in the Life, December Documenting.

Mixed media projects – Junk Journal January and July, Creative journal using prompts from Helen Colebrook on Patreon.

What’s on your list for this year?

Here we are in 2023 so it’s time to do a review.

I didn’t pick a word of the year in 2022 but if I had Chaotic would probably have been a good choice.  A few life issues and events got in the way of my crafting and I now know that I need to schedule craft time.

Daily pages ended up being very on and off. I got to June with the 4×6 index cards and I do love them. I worked through the 30 days of showing up at the Awesome Ladies and did my Daily Pages in Canva. This was a great way of getting my pages done. Further into the year I found somewhere in Australia that sells Field Notes so I tried that and really love that size.

100 Happy Days. Done & dusted for another year.

Try a photo a day challenge. I managed to pretty much keep up with this, only missing a few days here and there. Now I need to save them and add them to the gallery.

I could go on and on about how much I love the Heidi Swapp memory planner system using the Storyline Chapters books but I’m not going to. I fell a bit behind over winter but I have the whole year planned digitally and all my photos up to December printed.

Due to some health issues (not mine), work has been a bit quieter so money is a lot tighter and sadly I had to give up a few things. Fussy Cutting Cuties was one. The exchange rate between here and the US is killer. I will miss this one.

Day in the Life and Week in the Life were both done and in my memory planner.

December scrapbooking didn’t exactly happen as we were busy with all the end of year festivities as well as end of primary school events for our eldest. I did, however, journal daily so I can sit down and get my pages done when I feel like it.

How did your crafting plans go in 2022?

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)

• Kit & Clowder advent (digital stamps)
• Christmas Craft Countdown
• Merry Maker Mingle
• Mom Envy 24 days of Freebies
• Kimi Kinsey 25 Days of Deals
• Allie Scraps

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.

I’ve been picked as the most recent Awesome Ladies Member Spotlight. I’d love you to go check it out
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.

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?

So here we are at the end of 2021. This year seems to have flown by, but I think we say that every year.
On the last day of the year I thought I do a round up of a post I did earlier in the year looking at my plans for 2021.

My word for 2021 was Create.
I want to create a more decluttered and organised house. Hmm well not entirely.
I want to create more crafty projects. I think I managed to create more.
Create more in the garden. We planted a few more things, cleaned up a bit and managed to get a plan.

My crafty plans

• Book of Me with the Awesome Ladies Project. Complete!
• Daily Pages (Monday to Friday). I managed to get a few months done but not every month. I enjoy doing these but I need to rethink of how I can do it and make it a part of my everyday.
• 100 Happy Days Compete! I love this project.
• Attempt to do a daily photo challenge. See how far I get. Didn’t happen. I took photos most days though but not for a challenge.
• Sharing more on here & my Instagram. I’m finally working out an editorial calendar for myself so hopefully things will be a bit more regular. I’ve done more sharing but I want to make it more regular.
• Continuing to do my Currently & Thursday 3 each week. Most weeks. I added my Currently to my yearly album.
• work through the 52 weeks to an organised craft space challenge from thekeeperofthememories. I really want to do this one as I’m slowly bring all Mum’s craft stuff here and hopefully will have a dedicated craft space next year, especially as the kiddos want to craft with me now and the dining table isn’t cutting it (plus I want the dining table back for eating meals at lol). Um, nope.
• Week in the Life. I need to coral all my previous WitLs actually into an album. I did this year and I made (& completed a mini album) and added it to my yearly album.
• December Daily/Journal Your Christmas. Still going but nearly done.

I also added a new yearly album. I stopped doing Project Life and started using the Heidi Swapp Storyline Chapters memory keeping system. I love it. I have almost completed the full 12 months. I’m hoping to do it again in 2022 if I can get my hands on the same books.

Come join us over at the Awesome Ladies Project for…..

Yes you read that right – The Awesome Ladies now have an app.

I’ve been helping Beta test it and can tell you it is amazing. It makes surfing the ALP while you are out & about so much easier. Posting photos from your phone is a breeze.

Join us at on the 3rd October at 8am AEST (6pm EST) for the launch which will feature a demo of the app with Kristin, a scavenger hunt, fun challenges, AND a free trial of the ALP All Access Club.

Right now you can sign up for a free two-week free trial of the Awesome Ladies Project All Access Club.

If you haven’t already downloaded the brand new Awesome Ladies Project app, you can do so now — both in the iOS App Store (Apple) and in the Google Play store (Android).

Source

Well what a year we had this year!! Here’s hoping next year will be a better one.

My word for 2021 is Create. I’ve used this word before but it just feels right.
I want to create a more decluttered and organised house.
I want to create more crafty projects.
Create more in the garden.

My crafty plans

• Book of Me with the Awesome Ladies Project
• Daily Pages (Monday to Friday)
• 100 Happy Days
• Attempt to do a daily photo challenge. See how far I get.
• Sharing more on here & my Instagram. I’m finally working out an editorial calendar for myself so hopefully things will be a bit more regular.
• Continuing to do my Currently & Thursday 3 each week
• work through the 52 weeks to an organised craft space challenge from thekeeperofthememories. I really want to do this one as I’m slowly bring all Mum’s craft stuff here and hopefully will have a dedicated craft space next year, especially as the kiddos want to craft with me now and the dining table isn’t cutting it (plus I want the dining table back for eating meals at lol)
• Week in the Life. I need to coral all my previous WitLs actually into an album.
• December Daily/Journal Your Christmas

What are your plans for 2021? Whatever they are here’s hoping it’s a good one and we all stay safe & healthy <3