Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!
why: At the end of August, I ended one of my challenge blogs, FQHSKCB, and then started over with a new name, new blog address and new theme for FarmQuest Home Challenges Blog or FQHCB. This time the theme is broad: anything home goes! YES! Interior or exterior. Any room. Any item/activity typically found in or out of your house. Whole house pics or Just the front or back, etc.
when: this #1B post will be shared on September 4, 2025 with the main launch of the first challenge having started on Sept 2nd. (trying to generate attention for this new blog by having some extra posts)
what: Project for #1B (2nd bonus post for new blog) = digital scrapbook layout on my new craft studio; [yesterday #1A was a digital scrapbook layout about the new boards on our back deck that my husband did on Sept 1-2.]
how-to notes:
1. using Google Slides Portfolio template and 1 of the layout suggestions with some changes: added light gray background color, changed the font and colors for the titles; inserted the different arrow shapes and changed their colors to get more red into the layout; added the dotted borders around the text boxes
2. Shed was bought in early June; interior wasn't finished; husband offered to do the work!!! Bless his heart! I'm working backwards on these layouts.
3. During the last week of August, the reclaimed pantry rack from my mom's house was added to the inside of one of the doors (husband added a layer of styrofoam, painted white and even used white caulking to go around the edges of the foam that helps with more insulation)!
4. On the left side photo behind my little helper, this metal cart used to be mine back in the 1980s and then my mom wanted to use it for their microwave and then when they moved to IL, she used it for a TV cart. So now after all these years, I decided to reclaim it. It has wheels so I can move it around and even extend a side up to make a table for either my little helper or I to use!
5. On the right side photo of the layout, the 5.5 foot wide dresser had been left unclaimed by nieces and nephews so last week, Joe measured it to make sure it would fit on the west end of the shed. It does! It did! And bless his heart, he moved it for me and then one of his buddies helped him get it off our truck and into the shed! The painted cow on a blue splatterware plate was another recovered treasure from the farmhouse! The shelf unit started out a few weeks earlier on the east end but got switched to the west end. In late July, its back panels were painted white. They had been neon lime green!!!
6. Those are some highlights. Dresser drawers are empty but will soon be full. Oh! My die-cutting devices will be used on the dresser top! I've not had enough room in our small house to have them out for easy access and use, so this will be wonderful to start using again within the early weeks of September. Also many file drawers are still empty and most are only half full.
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where to find this linked-up:
* Everybody Art; new; theme = everything goes; every type of art welcomed
link = https://everybody-art-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/583.html
* We Love 2 Create; new; theme of anything goes mixed media; using cell phone photos that were sent to email and then downloaded to use in digital layout; edit the Google Slide layout
link = https://welove2create.blogspot.com/2025/09/challenge-9-craft-card-making.html
* Mix It Up; new; theme of anything goes mixed media (not the option); different electronics/digital uses
link = https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/miucb-79-anything-goes-optional-fancy.html
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where to find the FQHCB #1B extra posting
https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1b-extra-inspiration-project-on-4.html
where to find the FQHCB #1 main posting from Sept 2 that has my first projects using a front side house ephemera and a dining chair ephemera plus the Mister Linky Widget tool for linking up=
https://farmquesthomechallenges.blogspot.com/2025/09/fqhcb-1-name-change-and-theme-change.html
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Crafting in the USA heartland,
Becca S
* owner/DT = FQHCB, FQGGCB, FQCCCB, FQGS, FQCB; HQCB, HQFCB at TFATU, HQFSCAT, HQCOLCB; also CCC; ConBC and AA.
* DT member only = P-R-S
Wow, that's very interesting again. You present some truly fascinating impressions. I think it must have been a lot of work to create these aspects. I truly admire your work.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this stunning project with the Everybody Art Challenge.
Hugs, Uschi
Ah now, I'm feeling inspired and bursting with creativity like a wee spark of sunshine! And well done on the new craft space—sounds like the perfect happy nook where craft ideas come knocking on the door. Can practically feel the creative buzz already!
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