October Joyful scrappers chatting joyfully :)

My goals are to complete my September Pocket Pages (the pictures will arrive soon), and to participate as fully as I can in CARDtober. I'm hoping to make a mix of fall cards and Christmas cards.

Hello Joyfuls!

How do I get my crafting done, joyfulnana? I gave up that pesky day job! So I play with paper for a bit almost every day. In the morning is my most creative time, and since I am home all day, I can usually put everything else off until later and play a bit just as my day starts. Thanks for heading up the team, and for hosting those Hangouts. It is always fun to play with other crafters.

My focus has switched to Christmas card making. Hope to play along with the CARDtober challenges, and have a crop near the end of the month, where I plan to make cards, too. I have TONS of older product, but also have a couple of new collections and a card kit to play with.

Have some pic's I need to print, and a Sketchy Saturday to host, so I will need to do some pages, too. I have so far met prompts for the first 4 LOAD days over at ScrapHappy. Doing 6x8" pages there, so once a photo is plopped down, there isn't alot of real estate to cover.

Here is hoping we have a wonderful month playing together!

Hola team! I am happy to be here

This is my first month participating on a team, and I'm excited! I hope to have a productive scrappy month. I am playing along with CARDtober, and staying on top of it so far. I plan to send out Halloween cards to all my friends/family, so I'm primarily making Halloween cards. I have plans to do some layouts, but I am kinda waiting on some stuff to come in. My mom has a cricut, so she sometimes makes me embellishments for my layouts. I send her a list, and she makes them! But she's been busy helping a friend with some other cricut stuff, so my stuff has been pushed to the back burner. Also, since it's a travel album, I'm a little more intimidated to start it.

Question regarding the points/spreadsheet.. I'm usually pretty good with spreadsheets, but this one has me a little lost. Do you track the points going horizontally?

I will also be making Cards for Soldiers And more Christmas cards. I agree about the repetition! 

I packed 385 cards to send to Cards for Soldiers. My friend did 246 so we only had room for 139 of mine. I have another 200 or so for our next box, but would like to fill it as quickly as possible to get it shipped out!

Two time savers for me.  1 - I buy card and envelope sets from Amazon.  100 sets for about $20.  I don't have to cut down, score and fold  8.5x11 paper.  2 - I use samples from Kristie Marcotte's blog.  Then cut the components for 50 or so cards at a time.  Then I go into assembly line mode.. glue - stick - glue - stick

Ugh, I try not to think about the big picture! We have made some significant dents in certain areas, but if you were to walk into the house you'd think we hadn't started yet. It's not all on us though - there are 3 other kids/spouses who should play a part in the long run, but 2 probably can't be here until the pandemic is over, and even then, there's only so many Hummel figurines you can sell while you're visiting on vacation. We knew when we started that this would probably be a 2-3 (or 5?) year project unless FIL gets sick of it and lets us call in someone to do an estate sale. 

I know what you mean about mental bandwidth... hope you can find some energy to finish your pages soon.

I just spent the last couple of days on yard work, turning our last little patch of lawn into new garden space. I'm very sore and tired today so glad that's almost done. Once the rain starts I will hunker down with crafty projects.  

Good luck with the fulfilling the cat lady goals. Cat ladies are the best. (Although dog ladies are pretty awesome too!)

I decided to cut my own hair after watching a video of someone using a razor tool, like those feathering razors the hairdressers use sometimes, to give herself a layered cut. The tool protects against getting a weird wonky cut line. She also said that whatever you do just pretend it was the look you were going for! It always grows back.

I got the tool and a pack of blades for about the same price I was paying for a cut ($30-40?). I’m still working on getting more brave with it. So far I’ve just gone a bit shorter, and then a bit shorter than that, without really messing with the shape. But it’s been great. I hated going to the hairdresser anyway, so this was a huge relief for me. I’m overdue to do it again. I need to be like my husband who does his every second weekend. The hair goes in the compost and we feel very self sufficient!

I was ready to have a nice crafty afternoon yesterday but FIL wanted to show us how and where he forages for chanterelles, so I spent the rest of my day wandering in the forest. Came home with maybe 3-5lbs of mushrooms that I now have to clean up and cook and freeze or give away! It’s very cool but also a lot of work. 
Also came back with a chamber pot, 2 wash boards, a peanut jar collection (with old nuts?!), a telescope, 2 iron irons, and some random jars with handles. Looked around the house and 100% you would never know we started decluttering. I took a bit of a break this week to do a bunch of gardening. This weekend it’s raining and I’m hunkering down with my crafts! I’m determined!

Good morning -

I am sitting here trying to convince myself that I do NOT need to go to an in person crop today. It's the same group that I've participated in for the last 3 - 4 years. It's a very limited group and we are very COVID aware. They are having a "flea market" today. 20 booths (all properly spaced). I know there is nothing I need - - - but there will be cool stuff. A Creative Memories rep and a Close To My Heart rep will be there. I know there is nothing I NEED. But I'm lonely - I miss my IRL friends - - - It would be good for my mental health to go, right?

Go gramma!  Go gramma!  GO!  You NEED this outing!  Take some money, just in case...

It definitely sounds like you want to go and have some fun with your friends.

I hope whatever you choose/chose that you had a good day. 

Hang in there!!!!

Ducking in here quickly. scrappyrabbit, I hope you will be back to your scrappy self soon. Please look after yourself and don't worry about "keeping up". When you get back to your creative space, try to just enjoy the experience, and don't worry about days your didn't feel the urge to create.

Not alot of scrappy time for me today. Dgs did want to "make cards", so between finding the supplies and tools he needed and rescuing some items I was not ready to share at this time, I did manage to put one card together myself. It still needs some finishing touches, though. And I did a quick page in MS Word for today's LOAD prompt, but it didn't really feel like scrapbooking to me.

And I have started counting up my points, but am nowhere near up to date. Will have to get to that this next week before it all gets away on me...