🚨 Creative confession… Two weeks before launching 9 new Whimsykel designs, I had what can only be described as an excellent terrible idea. “I should stop procrastinating and totally rebuild my entire website.” Because obviously that’s what every sane person does right before a major launch. 😂 I’d been avoiding switching themes for months, and suddenly my brain was like… TODAY IS THE DAY. So I dove in headfirst, fully convinced I’d have everything redesigned, connected, polished, tested, and looking like I’d had my life together all along. Narrator … She did not. After 2 weeks of hard work and focus. I launched today anyway. Now I’m finding pages that have apparently entered the Witness Protection Program. Buttons are playing hide-and-seek. Links are out there freelancing. Pages I know I connected have quietly decided they’re independent contractors now. When I told my sister I’d launched and then discovered all these missing pages, she said, “Wow… you must be stressed.” Honestly? Nope. Launching reminds me of throwing a giant party. You spend weeks cleaning, decorating, planning every little detail… then your guests arrive and you realize there’s still a roll of toilet paper sitting on the kitchen table, you forgot to light the candles, and the chips you thought were in the pantry have magically disappeared. Do you stop the party? Nope. You laugh, move the toilet paper where it belongs, light the candles, forget about the chips, and get back to enjoying the people who showed up. That’s kind of how I look at creative work. The website will get finished. The missing pages will find their way home. The buttons will eventually remember what they were hired to do. I’d rather launch something imperfect than spend another six months polishing something no one gets to enjoy or let’s be real procrastinating because it’s hard. Progress has always been more interesting than perfection. Now tell me… what’s the “toilet paper on the kitchen table” in your current project? 😂

Today’s walk wasn’t about getting my steps in. It was about connecting and training my eyes. I find beauty in places most people would walk right past without a second thought. A single leaf lounging in a patch of clover like it owned the place. A discarded beer can with a whole untold backstory. A weird piece of roadside debris that made me stop and go, “Wait… what is that?” Black seal coat footprints etched in the road like random street art. A rabbit that startled me, then paused like, “Yeah, you’re welcome for this heart pumping moment.” When you walk, don’t just move through the world. See it. Really see it. Listen to the birds like they’re performing just for you. (The video is for you if you don’t get to see much nature) Feel the breeze like it’s trying to tell you something. Study the textures, the colors, the tiny details everyone else scrolls past in real life. Inspiration isn’t just hanging out in epic landscapes waiting for you to show up. It’s scrappy. It’s weird. It’s hiding in cracks, clover patches, and forgotten corners. Take a walk. Ditch the expectations. Bring your curiosity, your weirdness, your willingness to notice. Because the world is constantly throwing creative sparks at you—you just have to catch them. None of these are “photo worthy” but examples of how the journey can help train your eyes to see what others miss. So take some time this weekend and put your observation glasses on… what did you notice that you might have missed before?

Remember in school when Show & Tell was like… “Here’s my rock.” And somehow another kid rolled in with a live turtle, a haunted porcelain doll, and a story about their uncle finding treasure in a ditch? Yeah. This is the grown-up creative version of that. 😏 I want to see what your brain has been cooking up lately. Finished. Half-finished. Slightly unhinged. Covered in glitter. Held together with caffeine and blind confidence. Show us: 🎨 art 🧵 projects 📸 photos 🛠 experiments 📚 ideas 💡 sketches 🔥 happy accidents 👀 something you almost didn’t share because your inner critic was being dramatic again And because this is Creative AF… bonus points if there’s a weird/funny/backstory behind it. Drop your latest creation in the comments and tell us: 👉 What inspired it? 👉 What almost made you quit it? 👉 Or what weird little detail are you secretly obsessed with? Tiny reminder from the creative gremlins in the ceiling: You do not need permission to share your work before it’s “perfect.”

Please show me what y’all have been up to! I used one of Kelly’s fabulous designs to make another mirror! Found the framed mirror on Marketplace. I love it! It goes so well with the other one I did and my pink fireplace! (Fireplace is not finished yet!)

WTF Wednesdays started as my way of dropping free designs for you to play with… but if I’m being honest? Lately, it has started feeling like… Kelly makes things 👉 you vote 👉 repeat. And that’s not what I want this space to be. I don’t want this to feel like it’s about me. I’m not the show. I’m just the host holding the door open. What I actually want? I want this to feel like the place where you walk in and think: "Oh… these people get me.” The ones with too many ideas. Half-finished projects. Random bursts of genius at the worst possible times. The “I don’t want to pick just one thing” energy. The kind of space where… ✨ You share something messy, and people encourage you to keep going ✨ You get unstuck because someone else said the thing you needed to hear ✨ You stop overthinking and just start creating ✨ You feel like you found your people… your "tribe" So if we’re shifting WTF Wednesdays… we’re not just changing what I post. We’re changing what this space "feels like". 👇 So tell me… In your dream version of our Creative AF tribe… What makes you stay? What makes you show up? What makes you think “yeah… this is home.” No filters. No “right” answers. Let’s go down the rabbit hole and build this space "together" 🔥 ps... feel free to use this "The Dream Awaits" design if it strikes your fancy.