ripples

3 Positives:
Sourdough Garlic Knots were very good
New idea forming in the studio
welcomed moisture – nice T-storm, thankfully, no high winds associated with it.

My Journey Notes:
Not able to stay focused even with a list at hand. Need to finish up a couple of things I started yesterday, but didn’t . Let’s hope today is a better day and migraine free. Incoming storms again today.

ahhh, gratitude.

3 Positives:
5 cups of berries harvested yesterday – one more small picking I think.
one more owl assembled. It’s growing on me the more I look at it.
quiet time

My Journey Notes:
I think I broke the little to no sleep cycle last night. Fingers crossed for another good sleep tonight. I’m not finding a correlation between foods, moon, meds or such as I look back through my notes and such. Stress levels are still a bit on the high side, but being able to “let go” a bit more is working.

First days of the month now and time to bring out that “list” to get things checked off by the weekend since I didn’t get it started yesterday.

Happy Owl-oween!

This was a fun project — with just a few tweaks to the original files, this box was a lot of fun to put together.

I used two files from Simply Crafty SVGs. The Easter Egg Gift Box for the body of the owl and the Hovering Witch Hat for the hat. Both files were reduced and can be cut using 8.5 x 11 cardstock.
I found a pattern image on Pixabay (the swirls) that I used as a pattern fill on the panel pieces for the body. The dotted pattern on the hat was created in Procreate and used as a pattern fill for the hat panels as well. These pieces were printed, then cut using the Skycut and SCAL software. All pieces were inked for a little more depth and to blend the edges to the base papers that were used.
The eyes, nose and wings were created using basic shapes found in the library.
I did choose to glue the hat in place and since this is just going to be a decor piece, I also glued the top to the bottom and added a few glass half marbles for a little weight, though it wasn’t essential for balance.
This ideas was inspired by some clipart I found on Pinterest. I have a few more ideas kicking around for some additional “birds.” We’ll see how that goes.

Hoping you’ve built in some time in your creative space for the month of October! Have fun and explore a few new ideas and make them come to life…

How about this version? Different colorway. Solar paste and stencils and using an embossing folder. He kind of grew on me…

showing up…

3 Positives:
a little play time in the studio is a good thing
read a little
checked off a few things on the longer to-do list

My Journey Notes:
Last week’s eye surprise for T means additional changes in how things move forward. We rolled out the first of the changes last week and those will continue at least until after the first of the year. He did get a nice walk in yesterday and nearly completed his goal of steps for the day. I have a feeling some of our long term plans are also about to change — so trying to figure out how to adapt to those as well as keep things moving in as positive a way as we can. The lists just got a little longer!