Naturally Optimistic

October Craftapalooza was a success! There were 6 of us all working on different projects - cards, scrapbooking, collage making, ribbon making, knitting, sketching. We ate wild rice soup, hummus, huge cookies, apples with apple dip, chicken wings & drummies and pumpkin cookies. I was a prolific card maker last night (13!) which was great and it was so much fun to sit and chat with everyone and take time to just be creative & productive. It is inspiring to get busy on my other projects and cross some more gifts off my "to-do" list.

Craftapalooza was a success! 2 of 13 came but that didn't matter. We ate loads of food, chatted a whole lot and got some work done on crafty and/or arty projects. I made cards (above), Tanya worked on her scrapbook and Erin worked on some masks which have been WIPs for far too long. It was nice to just play for a few hours even though my allergies kept me fairly miserable feeling for most of the evening. I have left my supplies out and hope I can get a few more cards made before stashing everything away again.

I'm very excited to be participating in this years CAOK II or Calculated Acts of Kindness II. This fabulous celebration of doing good things, kind things, really nice things for no other reason than to just do them, was started by the Fabulous Miss Kelli last year. I was lucky enough to be a recipeient of a CAOK gift (a lovely wristlet & chocolates) and was so touched that I wanted to do something TOO. So, I will do SOMETHING. I don't know what yet....but here's what I do know. If you've moved, send me your address. If you haven't updated your Amazon Wishlist with things that you really want (preferably in the $10-$20 price range) DO IT NOW because you never know who might randomly send you something. (if I don't have your wishlist and you want to let me know you have one....do that too....I'm not saying, I'm just saying...). The first thing I did was bake some brownies for another blog friend who needs them right now. I mailed them this morning (t...

I had to pick this up while at the grocery store the other night because ooooooh how I love to drool and oogle all the latest holiday goodies & goodies to make from Ms. Stewart. My "to-do" list just got considerably longer!