Crafting Vicky

Oh boy oh boy.... 2019 has come and almost gone without any content at ALL on my blog.  If this was like one of my favorite ninendo video game "Animal Crossing" there would be ton of weeds and bugs on here :) It's been a very very busy time in 2018 and 2019 with home renos and a lot of learning on my part.  I have also rediscovered stuff that I really enjoyed doing in the past like canning.  But I took it to another level by doing pressure canning this year not just water bath. I have been binge watching prepper, how-to, zero waste videos.  They have altered a lot of the way that I think and made me think on how to save money and eat healthier.  I have started making a lot of items from scratch like bread. My outside work place has also been time consuming.  We got a lot of different government audit and I was the person responsible for managing them.  I ended up getting promoted to Finance director.  For the biggest part of the year I had e...

For those of you that follow me you will have seen (probably) my Journaling by 5s series using playing cards!  Well I'm very happy to share with you the finished album that I made!!!! I used a box of wine to make the cover with some Verday paint and it gave it a very nice patina.  I also added some metal corners.  It was put together using some eyelets and some beaded chain. Here is the final project and the back I have a video where I show the finished cards you can find it here: NOW the EXCITING part!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I will be GIVING away this album!!!!  YUP you read right I will be giving it away to one of my youtube subscriber (anywhere around the world).  All you need to do is be a subscriber and put a comment in the comment section of the video!  I will be making a draw from those who have left a comment.   It has to be in Youtube not here (I do like comments here too lol but for that giveaway it's all about youtube!) ...