Halloween will be here before we know it… even if some of us are still firmly clinging to summer. 😂 But creating this moodboard had me thinking about pumpkins, flickering lanterns, deep purples, burnt orange, and all the delightfully spooky things we could create. So I have an idea… What if we did a Halloween Challenge? Or is that a holiday you skip over? Nothing complicated. Just a reason to pick a project, actually make the thing, share what we’re working on, and see where everyone’s imagination takes the same spooky little season. So before I start plotting… Who’s up for a Halloween Challenge? 🎃 And more importantly: What would you want to make?

Does anyone else feel like the calendar is gaslighting them? 😂 I've been talking with friends whose kids started school this week, and it completely threw me. Growing up, school didn't start until after Labor Day, and we were out before Memorial Day. August was still 100% summer. School supplies are almost sold out in stores, everyone is talking about pumpkin spice, harvest is only about a month away, my retailers are asking for Christmas, and I'm over here trying not to melt in the August heat. 🥵🎄🍂 To make the line up even more fun, I attended a Skool Summit with a Bridgerton theme, so naturally I had to create something Regency-inspired. My creative brain is apparently living in three seasons at once. 😂 So here's this week's creative lineup: ⚾ A nostalgic baseball summer 🍂 A dancing scarecrow 💃 A Bridgerton-inspired romance 🎄 A Victorian Father Christmas The creative calendar waits for no one! Tell me...where are you right now? ☀️ Still soaking up summer 🍂 Ready for fall 🎃 Bring on Halloween 🎄 Already planning Christmas I'm somewhere between "it's still summer" and WTF "apparently I need to be designing Christmas." 😅

It feels way too early for fall... ...and yet here we are. Kids start Back-to-school tomorrow. Pumpkin spice ads. Halloween displays. Craft stores acting like October starts tomorrow. Meanwhile, summer is looking around, wondering if anyone noticed it hasn't actually left yet. So where do you stand? ☀️ Team "Don't Rush My Summer" or 🎃 Team "Bring Me the Cozy" Drop your vote below, and tell us which image from today's moodboard makes you want to grab your paintbrush first.

Well… I said I was going to finish Dad’s chair by last Friday. And here we are. A week later. 😂 In my defense, I got into it and discovered I didn’t have any jute webbing for the base. Apparently chairs require actual structural support and not just creative determination and a staple gun. Who knew? So I ordered the webbing, waited for it to arrive, and once it showed up, I got back to work rebuilding the chair from the inside out. Tonight I finally gave it to Dad. ❤️ He was pretty happy when he saw it and immediately told me, “It’s too pretty to sit on.” Sir. That is literally why I rebuilt the chair. 😂 So naturally, I made him sit on it anyway. A week later than I planned? Yep. Did it matter in the end? Not one bit. Sometimes a project takes longer because you procrastinated. Sometimes because life gets in the way. And sometimes because you discover halfway through that you are missing an apparently rather important piece of chair anatomy. The deadline might have been mine, but this moment was the whole point. Chair finished. Dad happy. Project off my plate. Butt successfully in seat. ✅ I’m calling this one DONE.

This past week I've been playing along with a Colour Clash Challenge in another SKOOL community, and I thought I'd share my seven entries with you. The only rule? The colors of the day had to take center stage. Design Topic and everything else was fair game. I love creative challenges like this because they force me to stop reaching for my usual comfort zone. Sometimes the colors click immediately. Other days they stare back at you like, "Good luck with that." If you scroll through these, you'll probably spot the one that stretched me the most. Day 6. 😂 Funny, yet so not my style. But that's exactly why I made it. That community leans toward a completely different artistic style than mine, and instead of trying to make everything look "Whimsykel," I decided to meet the challenge where it was. It felt awkward. It felt unfamiliar. It also reminded me that growth rarely shows up wearing your favorite color palette. I'm definitely the oddball in that group, and honestly... I'm okay with that. There's something exciting about stepping into a community where you're the odd man out. I'm learning, experimenting, and occasionally wondering, "What on earth am I doing here?" But that's where new ideas tend to sneak in. So here's your little Creative AF nudge: When was the last time you intentionally made something that wasn't your style, just to see what you might discover? Here were the color clashes of the day: Day 1 Black & Gold Day 2 Red & Blue Day 3 Purple -Orange -Blue Day 4 Green -Pink -White Day 5 Grey -Yellow -Red Day 6 Silver -Orange -Black -Green Day 7 Blue -Purple -Orange -White