The last of January stories etc.

Hello,

I'm happy to say I've started Ali Edwards' One Little Word workshop, which I attempted years ago but only got through the 1st month. Fingers crossed here. 

It lasts a year, with monthly prompts and encouragement to let a single word into your life. After a lot of consideration and soul searching, my word is RELEASE. I realized I have so many things I want to let go of. I'm using some supplies from my stash as well. Like the journal for instance, is an old Heidi Swapp Story Line Chapters booklet. I don't want them to sit on the shelf and go to waste. 

I decorated the front cover..

I finished January's prompts and feel really good about it. One of February's prompts is to make a vision board. I've always wanted to make one but get really stumped and hung up. So, wish me luck. 

I also finished my January Project Life/Stories. I'm starting to add more sewing and embellishments and I feel really good about those too. 

💞

I got both my puzzles hung up in my craft room. The little clear acrylic one I hung in the window and the turtle on the wall. They both bring me joy.

Here's a new thing and I've started my hat..

Here's a little video giving an excellent explanation..

Red Hats

And, they've raised over $250,000 from the sale of the pattern! 👏👏

Here's the beginning of mine and I'm using Lion Brand Heartland in worsted. I might make 2 braids, one for Renee Good and one for Alex Pretti and I plan on wearing it to the NO KINGS March in March. 

So, have you gotten on the caricature band wagon? On the one hand I know it's bad for the environment, on the other, it really helps me with my journaling. 😑

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Enjoy the rest of your day and as always...thanks for stopping by. 

I have THE BEST son-in-law and..

 Happy Friday!! 

Since discovering I have arthritis in my hands, both osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, I've been trying to find some comparable alternatives. Having quit smoking 20+ years ago, knitting was what I did with my hands. Now..when watching tv, I eat. Not a good idea since I've lost close to 20 pounds so far doing Weight Watchers and I DO NOT want to gain that back. 

So far I've been working on puzzles, I started a junk journal and a paint by number. I am going to work on some watercolors too. Possibly this weekend. 

On to my story of why I have THE BEST son in law. The other day, I brought out a paint by number set I had purchased YEARS ago.  

as most of you know, I have a thing for doors. 

I brought out the little paint pods (not sure what they're called) and I was thinking, how do hold these and paint at the same time? Maybe I could make something to hold them out of a cardboard box. But, then I thought, Dan and family got a 3D printer at Christmas time. I wonder if he could come up with something. 

And lo and behold! Check it out! It even has the little slots for the side pieces of the pods and he personalized it for me!!! 

Needless to say I love it! I did discover the paints are dried up. No surprise there. So I contacted the company who I bought them from and come to find out they are under a different name now. They used to be Simple-Painting and now they're Art Spark. I explained that some of my paints were dried up because of not using them and would they be willing to sell me some that go with my particular painting. Can you believe they are sending me a whole set? Free of charge!! Now that's what I call excellent customer service!! 

I've also been working on my storytelling. I got a couple more pages done for January..

Looking at this journaling card is a little reminder of why I usually don't write in my own handwriting and I type on the computer. Not only do I not like my writing, I make mistakes LOL. 

Working on puzzles. I found this little acrylic puzzle in the secretaries desk, it was in there during the move so it's been a long time. I bought it years and years ago at Barnes & Noble. It is little, only like 4"x 6" but super fun!

After finishing the little acrylic puzzle, Paul and I started a one I got for Christmas from Bev. It's fun and challenging at the same time. It's not real big, but the puzzle pieces are wood and ALL different, with a large amount of animal shapes. Paul's doing really well with it in spite of his color blindness. 

I recently started Junk Journaling. They call it that because you can put all kinds of ephemera inside. Ticket stubs, postcards, buttons, beads, pictures, stickers etc. I think for this year, this will be my journal. I don't think it will be called my junk journal but rather my diary.

So, I got a couple of pages done.

The other day as I was making a cup of tea, I noticed the labels on my tins. Doing a junk journal has me looking at things around the house in a whole different light. Anyway, I saw these labels and immediately thought, I can add those to my diary! Recently I bought a book (or magazine) at B&N called Daphne's Diary Paper Creative Book. Filled with so many fun cutouts, stickers and paper. It's a treasure!! 

And, that's where I got the little teapot cut outs! I decided to put a quote from each character on the inside of the tea pots. I think they turned out really cute!

I finished this book..

it was great, and now I'm on to this book. 

I'm hoping I can finish it before I start the series. I just love ANYTHING with Jennifer Garner. 

We, like almost everyone in the country right now, have quite a bit of snow..

If you've read this far, thank you. I will leave you with a couple of funnies. No politics as it only brings me DOWn, DOwn, Down, down.

Paul: "this is what happens when you leave me alone with Ensley" LOL. 

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