Oof - a wolf .....

 I am not an artist -- not a free hand artist anyhow -- or by any stretch of the imagination.

This one was a stretch for me.  

This is really a lot harder than I thought it would be to create and do.  I thought I would just be brimming with ideas and thought, "How hard can it be?"  Honestly, hard.  Don't get me wrong.  I love the idea of inchies.  And I don't mind following along with the Every Inchie Monday blog.  I just thought it would be easy peasy and I'm not really thinking that anymore.  I've started working on February & Pink.  Not sure I'm doing much better.  Room to grow for the year..........

So, here is my grey wolf.  Howling at the moon.  Or howling at my miserable attempt.  

You Rock!

 Indeed I do rock!  Coming out of my post-holiday slump.  Spent the weekend cleaning and rearranging my craft room.  My son said he thinks I like to rearrange the room as much as I like to craft and he really isn't wrong.  I think I have happened upon a set up that I will be able to keep for a while.  And it is set up to accommodate the putting up and taking down of the window air conditioner so that's a bonus.

But on to this week's inchie.  Grey rock - which I interpreted a bit differently .....

As always - a fun try on my part.  I really do not color well with markers. Especially so tiny!  A work in progress and as the year goes on I hope to get better.  Evolve or stay the same.

Grey hair - don't care

 I'm a bit late in posting this week.  And while I mostly have grey hair and don't care, I have been having a bit of fun during this stay at home and work from home time to play with my hair color.  I've done purple and a burgundy/red/pink - which I currently have with at least 1.5 inches of grey growth - and if I get my lazy bum in gear next will be a dark blue.

With grey hair you can really get colors to take.  It's a blank canvas.

Since I'm not overly artistic I will rely on my stamps so assist me with making my inchies.  Or stickers.  However, I don't have a lot of people stickers and I came across this one and thought it would be fun.

Grey Dove

 Posting every Monday is going to be harder than I thought - given this is Tuesday.

But I have my inchie ready to go and am going to participate.  But one thing that is harder is that I do not know my Mac laptop very well and can't figure out yet how to find my pop-up/dialogue boxes when I go to get codes for verifications.  Newbie that I am with this Apple product.

Here's my 1/10/2022 Dove entry for Every Inchie Monday.

Not the best picture - but I'm working on that too.  A work in progress - just like me.

2022 - Something New

 Well - it has been more than a hot minute.  I've decided to try something new for this year and I'm hoping I can make it work so I'm going to try with this post.

I'm going to try creating inchies and posting over at Every Inchie Monday.

I haven't done this in so long that I'm not sure my first try will be right - but I can only try!

Here is the first inchie for January 3, 2022 - shades.  And my apologies for copying Jolande - I'm new at this and was inspired by her post.  I do have my inchie ready for January 10 - so if I get this post right - I'll know how to do the next one.

A Pinterest Win

Pinterest ---- what a wonderful invention. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!  You set up your boards, you pin things and and then if you are like a lot of people, you hope you get the chance to actually try the item you pinned.  If you ever wonder how some of those items turn out -- go check out the blog:  Pinstrosity -- it's a hoot!

But I had a PIN WIN!  When I saw this, I just KNEW I had to do it and do it up I did.  

On my Feelin' Crafty board, I pinned this:

Here's my pin if you want to visit it:  My Quick Tip Tuesday Pin

For my stamping, 95% of the inks I use are Close To My Heart (CTMH).  I've tried other sponges, but I love the ones from CTMH and already was in the habit of cutting the round/circle sponge into eights.  But I struggled with keeping track of which sponge I had used for which ink.  How couldn't I?  There was no way to mark the sponge nor store it with the ink. 

UNTIL I SAW THIS PIN!!! I just had to try and and it worked like a charm!  Binder clips, mailing labels (which I cut to fit on the binder clips) and then CTMH sponges.

Here's one example .......

Now a sponge for every stamp pad!!

And stored so nice and neat in a drawer in my craft room.

Because I'm fussy and couldn't stand a jumble of these in the drawer, I put about 6 on a skewer then had to figure a way to keep the skewer stable.  I made a triangle out of paper stock fit and punched a half circle on the card stock in which the skewer lays (or is it lies).  Anyhow, it totally works for my organized brain.

It's easy for me to search for the color/sponge I need, slide it out and ink up my cards, scrapbook pages and other crafty endeavors.

A PIN WIN!  yeah me! - Denise

I'm BACK!!!

I have to say, that I really was planning on shutting down my blog.
In my mind, it was too much work.  But then I thought maybe I'm just MAKING it too much work.
After all, nothing is requiring me to create tutorials - something I thought I would HAVE to do when I showed my work.  And there is NOTHING requiring me to list ALL of my materials as long as I attribute the correct pattern or inspiration.

Whew!  What a burden off my shoulders.  Now I just need to get the durn pictures off my camera and sit down and blog!  Yup -- made that decision AT LEAST a month ago.  I'm just "johnny on the spot".

So here I am to share an item now that I have a direction.  I'm still trying to figure out the whole blogging thing so quite a bit of work to do there.  I'd like to add buttons, change themes, etc.  But one thing at a time .......

And since it's almost Halloween - here is the "boo" bunting I made last year ....

I used a bunting pattern that I pinned to my Christmas Ideas board on Pinterest.

crochet Christmas bunting.

Of course, the wonderful Lucy at Attic 24 is the creator of this pattern.

Here is a direct link to her post:  Jolly Festive Bunting

I was lazy and did not block my finished work.  But it's looking pretty good for it's second Halloween.  I'm still so happy with it!  I used leftover yarn I had on hand and orange felt that I also just happened to have.  So sorry that I have no supply list.  

Hope everyone has a boo-tiful Halloween!!!!  ---- Denise