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It’s hockey season. I really should put the blog on hiatus over winter, but here’s a quick catch up of my crafty adventures for the last 3 months….

Progress on yearly projects

• 2023 Creative Journal – skipped a couple of months. Started back up in July in a different format. Creating TN insert for each month.
• Memory planner – Digital plans up ’til the end of July done. Journaling done in Day One.
• 2022 Memory planner – it’s hit a stand still. I need to have a weekend of just catching up on this and 2023 
• Book of Me – Struggling getting the pages done & in the album.  

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

• lots of free craft workshops and summits

What I’ve bought

More Temu orders.
Digital Junk Journal supplies from My Porch Prints

Monthly favourite products

Digital junk journal supplies, cause I can reprint as many as I need.

Upcoming events

• Awesome Ladies Virtual Scrapbook Festival (August 22-27) (Grab the VIP pass here)
• Art Soul Gathering (August 31) – sign up
• Wanderlust Live 2023 (September 1-3) – sign up

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

P.S. I’ve be back over the next few days with some new gallery shares

It’s time for my monthly round up – April 2023…

Latest posts

• Week in the Life 2023

Galleries updated

• none

Progress on yearly projects

• 2023 Creative Journal – March & April done. May intro pages done
• Memory planner – April page plans done. Journaling done in Day One.
• 2022 Memory planner – didn’t get any done.
• Book of Me. Pages plans for all prompts done. Journaling done for all basic pages. 
• Week in the Life. Journaling all done.

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

• Book of Me lives
• Sketchbook Revival workshop
• Sell Digital Crafts Summit
• Gnome Craft Countdown
• Unlock Your Artist Challenge
• Four Seasons with Esté MacLeod

What I’ve bought

Placed an order on Temu. Waiting on it to arrive. Unboxing & thoughts coming as soon as it arrives.
Rejoined Get Messy.

Monthly favourite products

Glue sticks. cause there always heaps of them around when I need to stick something down

Upcoming events

• Messy May
• International Scrapbook Day (May 6)
• Cricut Card Summit (May 16-18)

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my crafty month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing what I’ve posted here, progress on yearly projects, what crafty things I’ve been consuming, any new crafty supplies I’ve bought, and my favourite product of the month. I may even add a head’s up about any workshops or classes that will be happening.

So onto March 2023…

Latest posts

• Nothing new I’ve been busy (see below) but I am updating some galleries

Galleries updated

• Photo-a-Day

Progress on yearly projects

• 2023 Creative Journal – March almost done
• Memory planner – Feb & March page plans done. Journaling done in Day One.
• 2022 Memory planner – didn’t get any done.
• Book of Me. Prompt 2 done. Created an insert for my introspective answers

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

• Book of Me lives
• Sketchbook Revival workshop
• Cricut Adventures (even though I own a Silhouette lol)
• Happy Crafty Easter
• Creative Spark Summit
• Drawing Whimsical Faces
• Easter Craft Countdown
• Spring Crafts for Cricut makers

What I’ve bought

Nothing new this month

Monthly favourite products

Baby wipes. Great for cleaning up so many things.

Upcoming events

Sell Digital Crafts Summit

Week in the Life

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the 2023 monthly review tag

Welcome to something new I’m doing in 2023 – my crafty month in review. Each month I’ll be sharing what I’ve posted here, progress on yearly projects, what crafty things I’ve been consuming, any new crafty supplies I’ve bought, and my favourite product of the month.

I may even add a head’s up about any workshops or classes that will be happening.

So onto February 2023

Latest posts

• 100 Day Project
• My Creative Journal
• 30 Days of Showing Up

Progress on yearly projects

• Junk Journal January – didn’t get any more done.
• 2023 Creative Journal – February done. Will be in the gallery soon.
• Daily Pages – weekly Currently & Thursday 3 done, 30 Days of showing up finished (see the last post).
• Memory planner – January pages started. February – page plan done, journaling done in DayOne app. Need to order photos.
• 2022 Memory planner – only June to go in insert 1
• Book of Me. Working through Bootcamp. Book of Me: Finding Your Voice starts in March.

What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)

• 30 Days of Showing Up videos & lives.
• Book of Me Boot camp replays
• Fragments workshop. Flip through coming soon.
• Books: Creative Watercolor by Ana Victoria Calderón

What I’ve bought

• Nothing new this month apart from usual subscription kits

Monthly favourite products

• My glue stick – it’s getting a real workout.

Upcoming events

• Easter Craft Countdown (Mar 4-14) https://craftwithsarah.lpages.co/easter23/
• Art Journal Dreams (Mar 3-10) https://www.lalymille.com/blog/free-art-journal-retreat
• Awesome Ladies Project Book of Me Bootcamp (lives are over but the workshop is still available) https://theawesomeladiesproject.com/product/book-of-me-bootcamp/

Want to see previous reviews? Check out the monthly round up tag.