Cropping away...or will be soon.

Posting from a scrapbook retreat at Wisp Resort in McHenry, Maryland hosted by the awesome Christa Wildesen. The theme for this retreat is the Wizard of Oz, and I decorated my book table with a scene using vinyl and wine bottles. Decorating wine bottles seems to be a new hobby for me. I don't know what it is about using bottles as my canvas, but I like challenge it creates and trying to envision what new role the bottle can serve besides holding wine.

For the first time, I actually did pare down the amount of scrapbooking supplies I brought to the crop. I usually say I'll bring less as I only use about half of what I brought, but always end up with the exact same amount of stuff. This time I actually did and I have plenty of table space without feeling crowded. This weekend I plan to test the theory that with less stuff, I'll scrapbook more pages. (Once I get off the computer to scrapbook rather than catching up on messages and writing blog posts.)
Wish me luck!

Weekly Craft Project: Round Up Part III (End of Year)

I almost completed my goal of crafting (and documenting projects) for each week in 2018. While there was only one week where I didn't craft (our Disney week), I wasn't as good as remembering to document with a picture on Facebook. Once again, I shall make crafting at least once a week a goal in 2019 and will add to that taking a photo. I realized today that I didn't take one photo of a completed crocheted Elsa hat and I made four of them.

Here are some highlights of my crafting from September to December of 2018.

Originally, I had decided not to decorate my table for a Bewitched/witch themed crop,
but once I arrived I decided to get into the spirit of things and made some
canvas signs for my table. I'm not a Halloween decorator, so my daughters claimed
the signs for their home/office. (One took the black cat and the other daughter
claimed the other three)

I love Hallmark Christmas movies and wanted to make myself
a few shirts to celebrate my love. I also made one as a gift and
as a drawing prize for a crop.

A sign I made at a Christmas themed crop. Because of some logistic issues, there ended up not
being a table in front of me, so I made this sign to "explain" the issue. My oldest loved
the sign and took it to use for the gift drawing at work. (Her co-workers love
my signs and had wanted her Halloween/witch ones.)

Crocheting an Elsa hat while on vacation in Florida. This is the only picture
I have of an Elsa hat.

Paint and Sip class husband and I took while on vacation.

Weekly Craft Project: Round Up Part Two

At the beginning of the year, I shared that one of my goals was to do something crafty once a week whether it's a whole project or part of a project. I thought it would be fun (and easy blog post to write, to be totally honest with everyone) to share some of the projects I have completed during this, roughly, four and half months of the year. During vacation this year and at the Stamp and Scrapbook Expo, I was able to try a few new to me crafts, which was something else I wanted to do this year. My next "craft bucket list" item is to make a card using a Create-a-Card die I got from HSN a couple of months ago.

In no particular order because the pictures weren't dated when I saved them:

2018 Craft Projects from April 20-August 16:

Added vinyl to a Project Life Binder Album. This was the first time
I decorated an album myself. I usually have them
embossed.

A t-shirt I made to wear at a Disney themed crop.

I hadn't made any die cuts in awhile, and had forgotten
 how much I enjoyed making them.

Cards from a Queen and Co kit. I still have all the cards.
Having a hard time mailing them. I might keep them.

My projects from classes and make and takes from the
Stamp and Scrapbook Expo in Chantilly, VA. One of my
favorite weekends of the year. First time I used vinyl
to create a sign.

During our vacation, I took some craft classes at the
Massanutten Resort in Virginia. The soap and jewelry
classes were new crafts for me.