Organizing

Updatings:

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I have been spending most of my time over the last couple of months finishing up projects…again! If you have been following me for a while you may be asking yourself “When are you going to be done with this “Project” project?” And I wouldn’t blame you…seriously, wow!

I am happy to say that I am about as close to being finished with old projects as I have ever been…except for Project Life. I’m not sure I will ever be caught up with that. And this seems like a good time to ask, would you would be interested to see how I create P.L. pages? Please let me know in the comments.

On to the latest…

Crochet Projects: Three afghans…check!

One for me, one for my daughter, and one for my grandson. This one is mine, taking photos of blankets is a pain, but you probably get the picture here, tons of color. I create these by tying random lengths of neutral and colorful yarns together, rolling them into balls, and crocheting them into squares. This involves a ton of end weaving, but the end result is super fun!

Using up macrame supplies: Check!

A wall hanging for me and a hanging bed for my daughter’s cat. In my quest to find the right color of cord for my daughter’s wedding decor, I kinda got stuck with with a few skeins that I needed to use or give away. This is a new technique for me so it’s a bit wonky, but the cat bed came out super cute. Here is a link of the inspiration: Cat Bed (Seriously! I could have bought that for $25…doh!)

Hanging pictures and emptying containers: Double check!

A strange assemblage, but this wall needed something, and I needed to hang these or get rid of them. This is in my sewing/craft room so I’m not too terribly worried about the decor, as long as it’s fun and colorful. The gallery wall in our bedroom came out really nice with some midcentury florals. I’ll be working on a gallery wall of family photos in our hallway soon.

Organizing: Keeping the things I love!

I went through my whole sewing/craft room and donated what didn’t bring me “Joy”, clearly I still have a lot of joy left! (please don’t think the rest of our house looks like a thrift shop, just this room…or at least I hope so!).

I have been doing this throughout the house, and slowly it’s starting to feel a lot more relaxing and less cluttered. Almost everything in our house has some sort of sentimental value, things we have owned and loved for years. They all seem to fit together in a way that makes us feel cozy and comfortable in our little mid-century rambler. (Emphasis on little!)

The first page spread I have created in over a month!

I have so many things that I want to get back into now that I have caught up on house/creative projects, like my shoppes, art journaling, making videos, shorts for IG…this blog!

On that note, I have had a giveaway percolating in the background for a while, but we have one more round of family visits coming up, so that will have to stay on the back burner for a bit longer. I will announce that as soon as I get a bit more organized.

As Always,

Thank you so much for visiting,

A grateful Thank You to all my new followers,

Talk to you soon(er),

~Patty

Published…and Then Some

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Yay! I’m proud to announce that I’m published in the current issue of Art Journaling magazine by Stampington & Co.

That’s not me on the cover, I have a long way to go before that happens!

I wish I could share some of the photos of my journal, but I deleted them after I wrote my article.

But I have this!

When I submit a journal to Stampington, I take photos of all the pages in case they accept it for publication. Now that’s positive thinking!

This is my “Article” binder, where I organize the photos, sketch out ideas, and draft the article outline. Most of my previous articles are in this binder so I have a reference so as not to recycle ideas.

I made this journal back in 2016, so remembering where my head was at the time proved a bit difficult, but I muddled through. Apparently I was pretty stoked about some international purchases of washi tape!

Just like my articles, I never know where my blog posts are going to take me, so I hope you found this one interesting enough to make it to here 🙂

Thank you to all my blog friends for supporting my art and meanderings…

and Welcome to all my new followers! Yay!

Have a great rest of your week,

Talk to you soon,

~Patty

Holiday Journal: Organizing

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I changed the name of my journal to reflect the way I’m actually using it, mostly for art making and a little bit of journaling. My Advent journaling migrated over to my faith journal.

That being said, because of all the Christmas season commitments, I have fallen way behind on this journal. So in an effort to catch up, I had to pull apart the box I keep all my favorite Christmas journal ephemera in, and organize it all into small bins.

I organized my bins in order of size and use, meaning what I will start building my page up with first: backgrounds, tissue paper, paper pieces, doilies and larger images.

What I like to call the medium pieces, the most used to build up the page: smaller images, stickers, die cuts, memory keeping ephemera.

The smaller finishing pieces: postage stamps, labels, dates, word strips, small what-not.

Now when I try to blast through some pages, I just grab the right stack of bins and go to town! I may even try to get several page’s backgrounds done in one sitting, then go back and decorate. I hope this doesn’t sound too uncreative, but I like a challenge and throwing things onto a page with high hopes works for me.

Working with some of the things I’ve been holding onto for years is really a big part of my process right now. It’s really about getting some of this stuff onto the page!

So if I’ve kept it, I need to use it!

Well, I hope that this was a helpful post. Try this if your having a hard time getting a project finished, it might help. I’ve had to do this many times in the past. I tend to get overly inspired and have too many open projects that need tying up

I’ll be working on the memory keeping part of this journal in the next few days, so hopefully I’ll have another blog post up this week.

As always, Thank you for the visit,

Have a wonderful week,

~Patty

My “Reset Girl Collections” Organization

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I think that organizing has become my hobby. Truth be told, I find certain items irresistible when out “a-thriftin’. And one of them is vintage suitcases.

I found this white Samsonite beauty at the Goodwill for …are you ready?…$3.99! Luckily for me, they don’t consider the “60”s vintage, or this would have ended up in their online store. Score!

(And the fact that I am not considered “Vintage” having been born in the “60”s makes me pretty happy too!)

I think it was Cori’s “Paper Punch Buffet” idea that gave me the inspiration that this would be the ideal organizer for each month’s collection. This little tray is the perfect organizer for all my fussy cuts and punchables. All my girls fit beautifully in that front area, Love!

This month’s Collection is titled “Homemade”, and I absolutely LOVE it! The colors are perfect, a few fall colors excellently combined with pastels. A wonderful rest for the eye with all the earthy tones surrounding us this season!

A few of the items I keep in there at all times: paper pieces, washi tape, sticker paper, Reset Girl tissue paper (when Cori sent her orders in boxes), and my sweet little TRG Camp Reset pouch with a selection of doilies.

Everything fits in there just beautifully! I’m careful with what I put in the pockets because the elastic is a bit old.

There’s even enough room for journals!

Since my husband and I have purchased a little vacation/retirement home, we travel back and forth quite a bit, so I am definitely getting a lot of use from my vintage train cases.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this little peek into this month’s collection! Visit TheResetGirl.com for the latest collection!

As always,

Thank You so much for stopping by,

Have a great week,

~Patty

New Video Up!

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Oh the angst! After much trepidation, I finally jumped the technology hurdle and got a video made. It’s not much, but I had to jump in some where, so I did a flip through of my “Happy Mail” binder.

A sneak peek. I love this cover! As I say in the video, I’m hoping to get some of these into my shoppe soon. My hope is to make videos of shoppe newness sharing more details.

I’d love for you to take a look at my latest video, it’s only about 8 minutes long.  Here’s the link PattysArtJournals.

Keeping it short and sweet this week,

Thanks for dropping by,

Have a wonderful weekend,

~Patty