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workspace wednesday // 17

Late last year while shopping with my bestie before she moved state, Kristy and I came across this book from typo.  Kristy and I have been sending each other a morning message since mid last year with three things we are grateful for.  We had a break for this over Christmas holidays, mainly because I went away without service, it's a busy time of year and having family home for the holidays makes us grateful enough.  The book is all about digital detox, with 100 challenges and 100 colouring pages.  Mind you there are some challenges that I just know I wont be able to do, but I plan to give it a darn hard try.  I can't wait to get into it with my bestie.

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Documenting our lives is my favourite thing to do.  Designing stamps is something I am passionate about and right now I have a three month subscription in my store to start in March.  You can check out all the details here : http://kelliestamps.bigcartel.com/product/subscription-3-months

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Kira bought this book when we went to see Fantastic Beasts, OMG love that movie.  I was a little shocked for the fact she even bought a book, let alone a book full of poems.  Then I started seeing it pop up everywhere and so I decided to read it myself, making my 50 books for 2017 now 47, work in progress.  What did I think of it personally?  I've never really read a book of poems outside of school and I found it interesting, meaningful and deep.  But I'm used to books with a story line, or about someone's life from childhood to where they are now.  Would I get another poem book?  I don't think so.  In saying that Kira has bought a few more since the first and so I wont say I'll never try again.

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Yesterday was first day back for my girls and on their first day back I went to work with my husband.  Why not right?  What I've been crafting a lot of lately is Summer memories!  I sold out of this stamp set pretty fast.  Usually I go by the, once sold, it's gone, method.  but for 2017 if something sells out first round and requested I'll aim to get it back in as quickly as possible and so that is just what I've done with this set all about summer now in store for pre-order, HERE.

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I'm not sure how many times I might do this for my workspace Wednesday, but my goal is to read 50 books this year and I have an idea in mind of how to document this.  But for now I wanted to share a little about this books, because it moved me, it made me really think, it change my opinion on so many things I had read and heard via the media.  Rosie Batty lost her son, Luke, to murder in a public place from Luke's father.  If you live in Australia I'm sure you have heard about this heart breaking story.  I've always had mixed feelings by how much Rosie put herself out there in the media after Luke's death.  Rosie was the person to speak to the media first when it's usually a family member or friend.  Rose went against the grid.  I went into this book with judgement, I wont lie.  BUT I came out of this with open eyes and a completely different perspective on Rosie.  It made me once again release you really can not judge someone by what is shared via the media.  I highly recommend this book.  Not only could I not put it down while at camp, I smiled, I had tears and it gave me information on subjects I knew little about, even typing this I feel the emotions again.  Rosie Batty is an amazing mother and hr love for her son Luke pours out into this Mother's Story.

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workspace wednesday // 12

Why do you have three instagram accounts?  I get asked this when people find out I have three. Honestly I don't think it's that many and my reasons are simple.  One for craft, one for my Kellie Stamps store and one for personal.  Now for the WHY.  Kellie Stamps, my reasoning for having this account is to have a place for people to come and check out the latest release and creative designs by the ladies on my team.  Hopefully they love it and follow along.  I've had my 'main' account of Kellie Winnell formerly Give a Girl a Blog for years now, I mean instagram started in 2010 and I think I can pretty much say I've been a user with this account since 2012.  I cringe to think of my first photo, haha.  The last account in my daily account.  Doesn't mean as it stats, lol!  It's an account for me to share my girls and adventures with family and friends.  I know a lot of them aren't crafters and this way I can share more of my gorgeous girls with everyone near and far.

So there you have it, the why of having three IG accounts.  How many do you have?

workspace wednesday // 11

With the new year I'm always planning and brain storming on everything in life, but today I'm going to share with you the planning and brain storming of the craft/blog type.  Where do I want to go with my crafts?  Do I want to aim bigger for Kellie Stamps in 2017 or keep it small?  Should I unsubscribed from a lot of the junk emails?   I know people say, you don't have to wait for the new year to think about starting something or having a fresh start.  Personally for me, I love nothing more than deciding on where I want to take my blog/craft/stamp designs for the year to come, all of the above mentioned are all big parts of my life and who I am.  This year I'm excited to try and not let what others say/do effect me as much as I always have.  I've seen a few people stat this on instagram.  We all need to stop focusing on what others think, easier said than done, OH I know!  I'm aiming on not holding back for fear.  Fear of rejection, failing or being judged by others, because the anxiety I get and often give myself, over it, just isn't worth it.  If I try and fail at something, that's is A-OK and if people judge me for that, then MEH.  Better to have tried and failed than to have not tried at all, right?

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workspace wednesday // 10

Last Workspace Wednesday for 2016.  As of this morning I am packing to go away camping with family and friends.  Luke and the younger two already left yesterday.  Kira and I have been packing and cleaning up from the Christmas festivities.  I'll have little to no service, hot weather, skiing, fishing, cold beer and all of that jazz, can't WAIT!  The one thing I do NOT do anymore is set New Years resolutions, because they go right out the window usually within a week.  Instead I set goals and for some reason they don't seem to fade away as quickly?  For 2017 I wanted to set a few main goals that are all just about crafts, blogging and myself and share them here with you all :

1.  Blog 3-4 times a week consistently.  2.  Have a blog guest for Q and A each month.  3. Give fitness memory keeping a good old hard crack.  4. Read 50 books during 2017.  It's not too high of a goal I think.  5. Keep up with project life 2017 and sharing on my blog as well as project "my" life.

Do you set New Years Resolutions?  Or do you like the idea of setting goals more so?

workspace wednesday // 09

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workspace wednesday // 08

Today is pretty much a double whammy, a kill two birds with one stone sort of workspace Wednesday. It's release day over at my stamp store, a sort of re-release day, with bringing back two most requested alpha stamp sets, SLIM JIM, used above and STAND TALL, an oldie but a goodie.  You can check it all out, here.

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Sometimes a a picture really is worth a thousand words, and other times it's worth no words at all, but it's still a memory and a memory is worth a thousand words - Kellie Winnell

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PODCASTS // Are my absolutely favourite lately!  I listen to so many, constantly finding new ones to go back and listen to all the episodes.  I also listen to lots of different types.  From craft, Elise Gets Crafty is my favourite.  To Story telling, Lime Town and The Black Tapes, oh man they are spooky and I love them.  To crime podcasts, Case Files is one of my favourites, Australian and all.  Of course I listened to Serial, I much preferred the first season, I couldn't get into the second season.  Australian, Meshel has amazing interviews with people that just keep getting better and better, almost every time I get goosebumps.  Shailey and Katie talk real and laugh along the way.  Then there are a couple that are radio shows that I never get the chance to listen to, Em Rusciano being one and Hamish and Andy, omg they make me laugh, which in turn makes me look like I'm laughing to myself...  A few others I listen to are, The No Sleep Podcast, Welcome to Nightvale, Sword and scale, Pocket Talk, Being Boss, Creative Biz Rebellion and Real Crime Profile. 

DO YOU LIKE PODCASTS?

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workspace wednesday // 05

It's always around this time of year that I start to think about project life and the year to come.  I always start to question the way I do it, what I can change, what I can improve.  After some thought on this, I'm starting to think I'm going to look at going digital/hybrid.  After getting into the whole travelers notebook craze I can't see me letting it go quickly.  I love the freedom of it, and have plans people, I have plans...  Now will what I've got planned go through is a WHOLE other story.  So going over my previous albums, I think, "THINK" I've decided to go with digital / hybrid.  WHY?  Because I've liked the idea for a while and feel I want to add a bit more text wise in the new year.  Messy box?  I have an album that's all about me, I love going to TOWN on that one with embellishments, stamps, flair, veneer and more, so that messy box is going to get a work out there. I also use a lot of the above in my travelers notebook.

Have you thought about your plans for next year already?

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workspace wednesday // 04

Why I got into designing stamps?  The story is pretty simple actually.  When I started documenting our lives and getting serious about it, not a passing fase that I would quit, haha.  I didn't like the fact that so many of the stamp sets had American wording.  I looked around and couldn't see stamps with the Australian spelling.  Favourite was a HUGE one.  I knew then it was something I wanted to do.  This time everything fell into place and I designed my first stamp set.  Since then it's been a long journey and I'm still learning years later, by far I have a lot more to learn and a lot of growth to do.  But you know what?  I feel I'm starting to finally find my footing.  With only getting back into clear again this year after going only digital.  I've felt better about Kellie Stamps than I have in the past few years and I'm excited to see the next few month and what will happen in 2017.

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Why do I document our lives and my own life?  // I used to think it was for the kids, it's what I would say.  Honestly yeah it's for them, but you know what?  It's for me!  It's for me to play with paper and be creative.  I've gone through a few style changes in my pages over time.  From scrapbook style, I say this because I would decorate absolutely ever pocket card.  To handwritten journalling, ink platters, stamps and embellishments...  Now I tend to do what ever is working for me.  I use the collect app to document and stamps are my JAM, because HELLO I design them.  I add embellishments that are always from Color Cast Designs and flair from Feed Your Craft.  The Messy Box is my GO to only kit I like to use a lot for the time.  I've now started to purchase a few downloads from Push Print Studio and a new world has opened up for me! // Why do I document?  I document for me first.

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