September 1st

It's amazing where the year has gone!  The shops are putting out their Christmas displays and we haven't had Autumn yet.  I don't allow myself to think about Christmas until after Andy's birthday on September 19th.  However this year I was really organised about his birthday as friends were travelling to Australia and have taken his present with them!  So I could possibly start thinking about the end of the year.

Today is the first day of Learn Something New Every Day and 30 Days of Lists.  One of the things I've learned today, yet again, is that I really do sign myself up to too many things.  So I'm afraid 30 Days of Lists may well fall by the wayside. 

I've had a day off today from preparing for the launch of Wholly Creative.  In my mind, September 1st was going to be launch day but it's tomorrow now.

I thought that today I would finish all my August challenge layouts for Scrapbooking From the Inside Out and here is my last one.

On Saturday I am taking part in the Art From the Heart blog hop which will start on Dyan's blog.   I've completed my post for that so come back on Saturday to take part.

My new project

I have been working for a while on a new project.   I am setting up a small shop on Etsy to sell handcrafted journals, prayer journals and travel journals.

The lovely Kirsty Wiseman designed a great logo for me

and a blog banner.

I set up a blog account and a website with a domain name and sorted out an Etsy shop.

I hadn't realised just how time consuming all the background stuff would be.   However I am planning to launch the shop (on the unsuspecting world) at the end of this week.

Here's a sneak peek of what will be for sale.

To keep up-to-date with WhollyCreative you can find me on the website, Facebook and on the blog.

He-Art Journaling

This week's assignment:
Create a spread or a page using layering and paper piecing techniques.

I used an article in the May/June Somerset Studio magazine and the video on Dyan's blog as inspiration to do this journal page.

I met some ladies online through Soul Restoration 1 and an ephemera swap was organised.  I received envelopes of goodies from 6 ladies.  Thank you to Pippa, Mel, Judy, Dawn C, Dawn B Sue H and Juel.