Hi everyone! Writing to you from Boston on a very cold and dark and rainy day. It is super miserable and the twinkle lights are on all over the house.
I’m a part of the Simple Scrapper community, and a few weeks ago, I posted an idea for whoever wanted to, to post a super casual video of your craft room… not spic and span and fancy but a “real” video. I volunteered to go first, and so I did. I thought I’d share here on my blog as well. Completely amateur video skills happening here, but hope you enjoy a slice of the craziness over here.
Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are staying well and safe during the Pandemic. xo Sue
I have mentioned before that I am not so great at tracking things (I’m looking at you MyFitnessPal app) Last year I did however keep track of layouts that I made by month. As with the fiber portion of my life, I didn’t think that I really got that much accomplished. My plan to document in photos and words monthly pretty much did not happen (even though I had everything I needed all ready in an album … AND that is not to say that I won’t get around to that project this year). When I looked at my list at the end of the year boy was I shocked…
Yep… 328 pages… I had pretty much forgotten that I had made collage layouts for the girls school albums which were 100 layouts alone! Yeah, not sure I can keep up with that this year but maybe just doing my thing and not worrying about page counts is the key to success!
In addition to layouts, I made these super cute houses/village buildings on my silhouette die cutting machine out of plain yardstick. The girls did help me fold some of them and they were really easy to do! Now that the Christmas decorations are put away, I need to put the little houses back up!
And that is a wrap! I’m going to try and insert a “gallery” here with a selection of layouts from 2019!
Thank you for stopping by ! Let me know what your crafty plans are!! I have decided to plan by the quarter so as not to get too overwhelmed planning things out for the whole year!
I am thrilled that I am done with my December Daily project!! My goal was to have all of the digital pages finished by 12/31 and I’m one day and 4 hours early. I’m very happy and can’t wait to see everything printed up! I’ll be printing 6×8 photos from Persnickety Prints, love their quality and their service. Other years I have printed my photos at home on my photo printers but since these pages have such broad swathes of color, I thought I’d send them out.
A few things made this project very workable for me. 1- I stuck to one story a day 2- I stuck to (generally) one photo a day. 3-I took all the photos on my iPhone and edited them in Pic-Tap-Go and uploaded them to dropbox named for each day so they fell into order in the file. Then I could just access them from my desktop when it was time to pull the layout together in Photoshop. I edited 12 photos in one sitting while I was waiting for a dr appointment one day, v. good use of time. 4-I chose three kits and put them in one folder, I sorted everything and put all the papers in a folder, all the elements, templates etc…so when I needed a paper or a template, I didn’t have to hunt through each folder from the designer. about 2/3 of the way through I did purchase another kit that worked in with the colors just because I was starting to feel restrictive and a little repetitive because the kits I was using were quite small. I also had a good chunk of time this past week to work on the project, so that helps immensely!
Plowing along with my words and photos today…did a few out of order but still planning on getting this all done by 12/31 ! Days 6&7, pretty simple and clean…
triggsey 