October 2021 Goals/plans/progress

Yay for this thread! 😁

I have lots of goals, most of which won't be accomplished, but that's okay.

Order September photos. Maybe later today.

Continue work on my zoo album. I admit it's massive already, but it's such a happy project, and I doubt we'll visit during the fall/winter at the same frequency we did the summer. I already give myself permission to buy a new zoo line when it becomes available this month.

Continue work on summer layouts. We did so many little day trips to new things, and I have so many pretty pictures. I've started lots of layouts, but they need embellishments and journaling and all the extra touches.

A new thought has been rumbling around my brain to make some kind of "When I was growing up..." album. Maybe lots of memories. My childhood was so different than what my kids' looks like. Right now I have a gallon size zippy bag with Rainbow Brite pages from an old book, Care Bear stickers, and different screenshots printed that say stuff like "I am this old" with an image of the old scantron bubble in sheets for standard tests in school.

I have lots of birthdays to scrap. I don't know why they are so hard this year.

My October goals:

• Get through this weekend! It's the Crop & Create Cardmaking online crop and I'm really rusty with making cards. Hoping to get some motivation and ideas!
• Keep up with my 100-day journal. I started another one similar to the 100-day challenge we did earlier this year. It should take me from end of September to the third day of January 2022. Goal is to document and photograph at least once a day.
• Finish up the rest of the Sketchtember sketches!

I have been going to CM crops mostly and paying for the privilege.  They have 'Croptoberfest' and there is a little bit pricey crop I am going to.  I decided to put aside projects I have been working on and instead I am going to do last year's summer and fall photos.  I hate having the seasons roll by and I haven't gotten around to doing the previous year's layouts.

I also have a one day crop later in the month.  It is my favorite crop of the month but I was asked to do a special living history event on the Sat of the crop. 

If I make a large dent in these two projects I will be happy.  Earlier this month I was very productive and got 26 pages done in a day.  I'm pretty sure that kind of productivity would make quick work of these.

I also have 4 more ultrasound pics of DGD2 to be to scrap, and the friend I am teaching to scrapbook wants to get together for a few hours and work on our books.

I want to finish at 2020 December Daily.
I want to plan my Thanksgiving and DD2021 projects.
I want to order photos from Sam’s (June- Sept)

Honeymoon Photobook
- Proofread
- Have printed by Oct 15. I want it in my hands on Nov 1 (our anniversary)

Birthday Album
- print (fingers crossed my printer doesn't hate me)
- photo on Instagram?

Pick next project. I don't know what to work on next: December memories 2016-2019, Halloween, 2021 yearbook, WITL, random story ideas...

I would like to reorg my space. I had it just about perfect then I had to move it. So now back to the drawing board.

Make a wedding card for my sister, so really really special.

Get completed LO in books, so I don't have LO everywhere and can see where I am.

Try and get over the PP debacle. Since PayPal refunded my $ and then PP didn't respond to the email where I asked about sending the prints back, I feel weird about using the prints I have from them that were actually ok. (not that many of them) Wondering if I should just chuck them and then reprint at Walgreens since I have to reprint some anyway.  But that feels wasteful. I don't know...

Try and finish the Shmimelle class I started before life got crazy.

I'm considering jumping back into the 50 layouts before the next purchase group. I don't know how long that would take. I've done 4 in the last week so that's a good start.
Another option would be to try to stay frozen through fall and winter. It's a good time because I'm never interested in spring themed collections.
Not sure which one I'll go with yet.

I just bought some new shelves last night. More of an upgrade of what I have.
Tonite I will assemble them.

I made a bunch of crafty cards from the doodlebug line cute and crafty got them mailed out. I have 6 more to create and then on to Christmas.

I may send some Halloween cards. I bought a 6*6 paper pad of paper

Just updating myself mid-month. My space is still a hot mess. Not sure what to do, it feels super overwhelming to tackle. Seems like it all gets stacked on my crafting table, and there it sits. I don't really have room for a 2nd desk/workspace in here, so will need to give that one a think. 
I made a really nice wedding card for my sister and her new husband and gave it to them, with their wedding gift that finally came in. 
I did put 90% of my LO in books. Are they perfect? No. Some are just shoved in where I could find a spot. Oh well. They are in books, and in order for the most part. 
Not much to say about the PP deal. My feeling are wayyyyyy hurt and I am just so disappointed. Oh well. Life is bigger than that. 
Haven't even thought about the Shimelle class or scrapbooking more. New goal, scrapbook at least 2 more LO in October, and put them in a book! 

So I got the *must do's* done for this month. Yay. Not sure if I should try and do Sept PL or start Christmas cards. Maybe it really doesn't matter? I dunno. My desk is a hot mess so I can clean it while I debate this in my head, lol. 

I have managed to stay frozen and I've gotten a few more layouts done. I'm not scrapping a ton but I'm happy that I'm not adding to my stuffed space at the moment. I'm going to give some thought to what I want to accomplish in November.

The last bit of the month just snuck away from me.

I want to finish up the sketchtember sketches I didn't get to last month. I've got 7 to go, so that should be achievable. I'm down to 2 sketches to complete, so I should be able to finish them all this month I should have been able to get them both finished, but I didn't. I still have one to complete, which I'm determined to do in Nov, just so I can say I've finished them all.
I'd also like to catch up on my PL album as I completely ignored it last month to work on the sketches. I've made really good progress on this, and now only have 4 weeks to do, with one of those well in progress, and two others with photos printed. I made reasonable progress here. I've just got last week to do in pocket pages, and I've caught up on a couple of the 12x12 pages as well.