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Monthly Round Up –January 2023

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 January 2023

Latest posts
Progress on yearly projects
  • Junk Journal January – about half done but I’m happy to keep working on it.
  • 2023 Creative Journal – January done. Skipped a few days but I’m ok with that. Photos will be added here.
  • Daily Pages – weekly Currently & Thursday 3 done. Working on 30 Days of Showing up digitally as this seems to work best for me.
  • Memory planner for January – page plan done, journaling done in DayOne app, photos ordered.
  • 2022 Memory planner – insert 1 almost complete (Jan – June)
What I’ve been consuming (craft videos, podcasts, books, workshops)
Videos
Podcasts
    • None this month
Books
    • Get Messy Art by Caylee Grey
Workshops/Classes/Events
    • Jumpstart your Creative Life
    • SVG Crafters Summit
    • Awesome Ladies Project Feminist Scrapbook School Orientation
    • Simple Scrapper Refresh Retreat
    • Scrap School Summit
What I’ve bought

Junk journal stickers from Wish
Planners Anon sub kits
Stop the Blur sub kits

Monthly favourite products
Upcoming events

Want to see previous round ups? Check out the 2023 monthly round up tag.

Crafty Goals for 2023

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?

2022 in review

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?

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.

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.