October Blog Schedule

 Hey Y'all!

I can't believe how quickly September flew! It's Spooky Season now!

Sorry this is late, the scheduled postings never work. I should learn lol.

October Blog Schedule:

2nd Mon- Infusible Ink Mugs with Standard Copy Paper... 

4th Wed- Sept Looks & October Makeup Shelf

6th Fri- More Packing: Kitchen

9th Mon- How To: Spooky Scene w/ Cricut Window Cling

11th Wed- 5 items I'm Loving & 3 I'm Not

13th Fri- Friday the 13th!!

16th Mon- Making Stickers with the Cricut Joy

18th Wed- Cleaning and Decluttering Makeup Brushes

20th Fri- Updates!

23rd Mon- What's New in Crafting?

25th Wed- What's in my bag?

27th Fri- Books!

30th Mon- Trick or Treat!

If you have any suggestions for a future blog, leave them in the comments below!

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

This is Wednesday's Blog

 Hey Y'all!

So this was scheduled to be part 2 of the bathroom pack/declutter, but that was a simple one part-er. So I have no blog planned for today.

TBH I haven't really been feeling like blogging. Probably because I haven't been doing anything new either craft or beauty wise in quite a while.

So to not leave today as a total blank space, here is a short Q & A.

https://questionsgenerator.com/

I used this generator, gave it no parameters beyond question limit, so here we go!

1. What uncommon thing would you like to see become more common?
Being Nice.

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2. What is something that you like that your parents do?
Always say "text (or call) me when you get home".


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3. What thing have you been procrastinating about that you will begin doing today?
Start on packing the kitchen.


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4. What's the worst piece of advice you ever got from someone?
I don't know/remember.

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5. What do you consider the best decision you've made thus far in your life?
Getting married. We really weren't in any rush to do so once we got engaged. However other people were, so we planned the whole thing in 6mo and it was great. (We'd been engaged 2yrs.)


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6. What is the next thing you have on your to-buy list?
Groceries, lol.

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7. What did you recently learn the hard way?
Family means nothing (talking extended here, my parents and sister are/were great). Just because these people are related to you doesn't mean you have to talk to them, hang with them, or like them.


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8. What's the most difficult thing that you still do each day?
Huh? Nothing.


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9. What's your "famous person" story?
I met a local news caster when I worked at Sally Beauty. She was very nice.

1. What's the story behind why you replaced the last phone you had?
Simple. It quit working. The screen stayed dark, but the sound and everything worked. You just couldn't see anything, therefore it was unusable.

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Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

No Blog

 Hey Y'all!

Instead of making my sister something for her birthday, I bought her a few things instead.

No Blog.

CWC

Books!

 Hey Y'all!

Guess what?

I started one series (book one of three) that I just really couldn't get into, and that was all I (attempted) to read all month.

My apologies,

CWC

Bathroom Packing & Declutter

 Hey Y'all!

Pretty sure packing will never end...

However this 2 part-er is going to just be one!

We started by clearing out the bathroom closet, and all the items in there. I had already done a bit of it with the last yard sale. 

After that we moved to the cabinets. One of us sorted through the medications, and such (keep/toss/pack). The other packed up the hair styling stuff we decided to keep.

More trash than we thought there would be..

Just about done here. Top shelf is going with is, same with the towels. The rest of the bottom shelf is trash.

They all look like this! All cleaned out!

Just one (full) room left, the kitchen. There's also a bit left in every room- like our computers, desks, etc.

So close, yet still so far away from done.

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

What Am I Working On? (Crafty)

 Hey Y'all!

The short answer? Not much.

Previous WIWO Blog:

https://craftinwifescreations.blogspot.com/2023/08/what-im-working-on.html

I have started on the design work for our mugs, but haven't started the "Make it" process yet. Beyond that I've played a lot of Sims 4 in-between packing, and organizing, and errand running. 

Side note, In Sims 4 I'm 7 or 8 generations in- the longest I've ever played one family! I have noticed that people are disappearing from the family tree.  For example the second generation was 3 kids, only one of them (the girl, it's a matriarchy) went on to have children. She's the only one who still shows on the family tree from that generation. Further on down (generation 5) they had 7 children. (They had 4, then while I was with other family members story progression took over.) Only 4 of those 7 show up now in the family tree, the ones who had children. Sims players, is this normal? 

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

What'd We Do For Our 20th Anniversary?

 Hey Y'all!

I'm sure, if you know us the answer won't surprise you...

9/13/2003

Nothing much! (We don't typically go for a big hoopla.)

 We've been busy getting this house packed and in order for our biggest adventure yet!

We ran a few errands, and went to my mom's for dinner. She made us stuffed clams, shrimp alfredo, green beans and a salad. For dessert we had a beautiful chocolate cake.

Cumberland Gap National Park 2009

Then we came home, and watched the Annabelle movies since we'd yet to see them and all three were available.

It was a very nice day.

Parker/Outland OBX Vacation 2018

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

Current Favorite Outfits

 Hey Y'all!

It's still in the upper 80s here most days, so I'm definitely still wearing shorts.

Here's my top 3 items this season:

Shorts-

Black

Denim

Dress-

Not exact since mine is from a local boutique, but close enough.

Temu

Tops-

Basic tees... sometimes graphic tees, other times just plain or something I've made.

I cant wait for it to cool off some, here's a few Wishlist items-

Torrid Jeans

Torrid Skirt:

Walmart Sweater:

How cute would the skirt above pair with this?!

Walmart Top (any solid color)

What's on your Wishlist for fall? Share in the comments below!

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

How To: Cricut Infusible Ink Markers (Pens)

 Hey Y'all!

Guess what I did?

Packed up the items I needed to do this project. 

I didn't want to leave you hanging, so here are just a few of the great how-to's out there!

Cricut Infusible Ink Markers

From Cricut help page:

https://help.cricut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360021080293-How-to-use-Infusible-Ink-Pens-and-Markers-on-Cricut-apparel-blanks

https://help.cricut.com/hc/en-us/articles/360024217513-Infusible-Ink-Application-FAQ

Videos:

I purposely chose to feature smaller craft channels, so give them a view to show support! 

Crafting with Delonda

Kelly Rossouw

Craft-e-Corner

Artsy Joycee

Blogs:

https://www.firstdayofhome.com/cricut-infusible-ink-pens/

https://heyletsmakestuff.com/cricut-infusible-ink-pens-markers/

I will dig our mugs out, and post about the process soon, but this was a nice way to still get you the content, and feature other crafters.

Any questions? Leave a comment below. 

Have you used infusible ink before? Share a photo, or video with me- @craftinwife on most platforms.

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife

Day in the Life (DITL)

 Hey Y'all!

A typical day starts the same:

Wake up, check email, social media, etc. Watch a little YouTube and eat breakfast. (Today was French Toast, with the Pepperidge Farm Pumpkin Spice bread.)

Fetch some receipts. We both only got 5 bonus points today, boo.

Get dressed and ready for the day...  most days I stay in my pjs lol.

Started to do makeup, and decided nope, too hot.

Chris listed all this for free, and was busy all day with people stopping by,  multiple messages, and moving it around. 90% is gone now. YAY!

He also carried down about 3 bookshelves of books, those are supposedly getting picked up Monday...

I did some Outland Adventures avatars work...

Posted to YouTube, as the ending of videos, stickers are in the works.

Blog stuff.... like this.

Tackling the clothes. What we're keeping, getting rid of, and taking.

 

SO many socks!

First dresser drawer cleared out..

Seriously, more socks?!

Vacuum bags from Dollar Tree, lets test them out.

Snack break, with Downton Abbey.

Chris is still downstairs with people...

I need to get the vacuum in here to suck the air out.. but it seems like it's holding well. (So far so good. They're not huge, but they hold about 15-20 items and seem to be holding well so far.)

More.

Dressers are all empty, this basket is going with (not packed like this, just the items).

No plans for the empty basket, the bottom one is filled with donations.

Too hot to cook, and a few people today took a lot of items and gave some cash. So, thanks to them for dinner!

After the trip to town to eat, and grab an iced coffee, it was makeup removal time.

Shower, pjs, and skin care.

Waiting on the update...

Internet being insanely slow. Partially because Chris is playing World of Warcraft, partially because our internet is sketchy.

While waiting I talked to my sis and BFF. With my sister we talked about kids and school, with my BFF we planned the next trip and talked about life updates.

Next was lounging in bed watching horror movies (Sleepaway Camp 3, it's campy {haha} but that's totally or taste. The other was Amityville: The Awakening and it was okay.) in front of the A/C... and falling asleep.

Have a great day,

Craftin' Wife