Halloween Crafts

Happy Monday!

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. The weather here in the North East was absolutely beautiful and we were very excited to celebrate my youngest Baptism on Saturday. It was a small, private ceremony and dear friends acted as godparents. After we went to my daughter’s favorite restaurant. The entire celebration was perfect!

I also was able to get in some more dollhouse time and I am working on a brick wall which should be really fun! I cannot wait to share that update. I may need to sit it aside however since my kids have requested Coraline dolls for Halloween.

If you have been visiting my little corner of the web for a while you may know that I like to make little gifts for my kids on the holidays. I purchased this Coraline-style doll pattern last year thinking I would make them for Christmas but ended up doing other gifts for the. Now that Halloween is only 6 days away it makes sense that I try and tackle 3 fabric dolls between now and then right?

We shall see how they get on and I will even try to film some of it for you. It will however require a massive desk clean as I have been in the midst of 2 projects right now so I think today I will start with a good clean up and then try my hand at making the dolls. I had to order some fabric (it would seem everything I chose to pack up is now required) which came in Friday and I picked up some felt sheets at the craft store for the clothing. I think they will go together pretty quickly so I am happy to get started.

For today however I am sharing a fun little junk journal mash up. As we were going through our attic, basement and barn we found lots of papers and things that were saved. The certificate from when I purchased my love bird back in the late 90’s, some cards and even some items much more recent. I am trying to keep my “junk journal” supplies to one small box and when it starts to overflow that’s when I sit down and do a few pages. It was so much fun. I absolutely love this journal I made and I think the pages are coming out nicely as well.

If you have some crafts to work on, why not hit play below and join me for about 15 minutes of creative time? I would love to hear what you are working on!

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

I am so excited to share that I finished the final edit of my first Cozy Mystery called Houseplant Homocides! I cannot wait for it to be available for you to read but I still need to find an editor and send it off for them to review.

I have spoken with one editor who is going to do a sample edit so we can see how we work together but I would also like to try and find a few others before committing. This is all brand new to me so I am just taking it one step at a time. For now, that step is just enjoying this accomplishment!

I also started work this week on my first ever serial based on my dollhouse renovation. I am really excited about the concept and I will be sharing it both here and over on my Substack. I am still working out the logistics of that but I also need to get one chapter under my belt before I need to worry too much about that. If you would like to write your own serial I found this awesome creator who talks about it on Substack.

I have also been making some great steps on the dollhouse renovation project. If you haven’t already you can check out my channel where I share the progress. I am up to 21 videos over there and I upload every Friday.

In addition to the dollhouse video I am sharing a fun create with me video on a Five Below ceramic bookshop I picked up that is Halloween themed. It is so cute and I had a lot of fun painting it. I’ll link the video below and if you want leave me a comment and I can also make a video for the two other Halloween houses I picked up.

We went pumpkin picking on Sunday and it was such a lovely day for it! Not too hot and not too cold. DH and the kids got the last of the Halloween decorations up so we are all ready for some times. My youngest is being Baptized this coming week which is really exciting and we are looking forward to celebrating with her godparents and lunch at her favorite place.

There isn’t much new to report on the move. We have done some house shopping but have pretty much decided to stay where we are at least through the year end most likely through the winter. It’s not the best time to relocate across country and with all the travel DH is doing at the moment it’s not really ideal to add a major move on top. Still we are open to what comes our way and I’ll keep you all updated. I am still thinking of blogging the process and the trip across the country. I do love watching people’s vlogs so let me know if you would like to see more from me. I am giving some thought about taking part in Vlogmas again this year so let me know if that sounds interesting.

That’s all I have for you this Monday. I hope you have been able to get some creative time in this past week. If so let me know in the comments below I would love to hear!

Until next time…

-Michele, aka The Dreaming Dilettante

You can watch the video I mentioned by clicking below

Halloween Crafts

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