Prompt: Thesaurus (October battle)
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Absquatulate ATC
Project Link: Bird and Word Swap ATCs
Brief Description: I made this card for roler in the Ongoing ATC Swap. Absquatulate is the kind of word you find in the thesaurus when you don’t want to say “leave.”
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Prompt: Autumn Leaves (Advent 1)
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Bionic Bird ATC
Project Link: Bird and Word Swap ATCs
Brief Description: I made this card for bluebird in the same swap. His name is Brian, and I may be biased, but I think he’s pretty fun. I definitely had a lot of fun with the bionic bird concept.
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Prompt: Corn Maze (Advent 2)
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Unforeseen Genius
Project Link: "Unforeseen Genius" Journal Page
Brief Description: There’s a lot of paint and glue here, which both take time to dry.
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This is perfect for the battle! I love it!
Thanks! I really wanted to support Team Thesaurus this month…
Prompt: Zap 1
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Voting Merit Badge
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: I’m normally all over the “I Voted” sticker at the polls, but this year it seemed like an unnecessary potential source of contamination. So I turned an inchie merit badge base into a replacement. (I made the base a while ago; the only “crafting” I did this term was adding the writing, which is why it’s a zap.)
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Prompt: Zap 2
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Scribbly Papers
Project Link: N/A
Brief Description: I tore up some graph paper and scribbled all over it with Sharpies as a busy-crafting exercise during the Zoom yesterday. They’ll be good as collage papers or some other crafty element.
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Prompt: October: Battle: Thesaurus
Team: Up to Snow Good
Project Name: Autumn Theme Atc
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I made this for bluebird in the ongoing atc swap. bluebird, don’t look if you don’t want your surprise spoiled!
Nowadays, the word mask carries a different meaning than it does in the context of this atc.
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The other atc will probably fit another prompt, but I’ll let it be for now until she receives. I wanted to post the other for our time sensitive battle prompt!
Prompt: Big Time # 1
Team: Up to Snow Good
Project Name: A set of fabric wrapped bowls
Brief Description: I was surprised how long this “easy” project took! Each bowl easily took me 9-10 hours. Wrap! Wrap! Sew. Wrap! Wrap! Sew. Repeat.
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To everyone who sent an address for a Bingo prize, I promise I’m working on it! I thought I would get a lot done this week, but that hasn’t happened. I hope to get them out next week, depending on work. Thank you for your patience!
@Bluebird
Ahhh, gift tags! So lovely. We’ve just taken to assigning wrapping paper to each other because I’m that lazy. I need to step up my wrapping game!
I like the misheard lyrics, yes, wine allllllll around! And Blathers, oh, Blathers! I’m so addicted to that game… That little Red Riding Hood ATC is gorgeous! The candle is really well-done, I love black and white art.
That finch is amazing! Yes to your realistic bird roll!
@storerboughtcreation
Loving the pumpkins!!! And your biscornus are to die for, so amazing. Merry Slothmas is just perfection!
@Megwell
I need to get back into ATCs, and when I was doing Lifebook there were a lot of collage pages and I never seemed to get them to look that put together! Thanks for the tips on it, too!
@gozer
I love love love Lucille the Seal!!! And the sloth. And your art.
@appledainty
Wow, that embroidered shirt is amazing!!!
@Lynx
Haha, adorable cat snowman cupcake! I’ve never seen crocheted Kokeshi dolls, how fun! That hummingbird ornament is lovely, and is the christmas tree one! I want an embroidr=ery machine so much, but I’m afraid I won’t use it enough to justify it.
@roler
Oh my, the Count ATC is so perfect! I love your felties, I wish I’d seen the owl one before Hidden Owl Operation (HOO) where we owled a friend’s house when she was gone… I’m putting that on the list for next time, it’s perfect!
@kwality570
Ooooh, great use of weaving, it looks lovely and would be a less intimidating place for novice weavers to start… I might have to try that!
I need that ribbon in my life… I love pickles, and weirdness!!!
@Bunny1kenobi
Hello Kitty! In a bowl cozy! One of these days I need to make some bowl cozies… I see everyone else’s and am so jealous every time I have to get a hot bowl out of the microwave! Your mini tins are amazing, too!!! That vampire lair is perfect. And the mini sofa looks great! And I’m glad you added the penny, because, wow, that is smaller than I thought it was!
Better get this in before the deadline 
Prompt: Thesarus - October battle
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Dinosaur legs (Drumsticks)
Brief Description: “What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A Thesaurus” Whenever I think about thesaurus I think about that joke, and then I think about dinosaur legs. When my song was younger we used to pretend the chicken legs were dinosaur legs, we still call them dinosaur legs even though he’s 11.
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Prompt: October Neologism
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Dragon phone case
Brief Description: Drawing with sharpies is something new for me, there is no way to remove any errors.
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Prompt: Advent 1 - autumn leaves
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Starbucks cake
Brief Description: The starbucks “glass” is made out of chocolate, it’s quite fragile and I had to fix several cups because parts broke off.
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Prompt: Advent 2 - corn maze
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Persimmon cookies
Brief Description: I had hoped they would be more orange, but these cookies are quite yellow. They do taste nice so I don’t mind
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Prompt: Advent 3 - pumpkins
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Dragon ball jelly balls
Brief Description: The balls are orange, and taste of orange. It took a long time to make them but it was also fun.
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Prompt: Advent 4 - Halloween
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Naruto weapon cookies
Brief Description: These cookies are both sweet and black.
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Explanation of the owling - a friend went out of town, and her and her sister-in-law have been passing an owl statue back and forth in each other’s yards… I suggested we take it one step further and owl the INSIDE of her house, since SIL had access… hence, Hiddon Owl Operation (H.O.O.) was born!
Prompt: October Battle dictionary
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Tequila Bottle “clothing”
Brief Description: So this is a long story, but it all started with my phone’s swype dictionary that thought when I tried to swype “something” that what I really meant was “sombrero free”. Because that’s totally an everyday word. Unlike “something”. I posted this to FB, my friend replied, and so on his birthday… he go a sombrero (and poncho) wearing bottle of tequila!
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Prompt: October - Simile
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Spray Cheese is Love art
Brief Description: Okay, technically a metaphor, but since people always get those mixed up, anyway… and really, spray cheese is also like love, in that it’s messy but wonderful? This was drawn as a Thank You card, there’s a group of us who volunteer to send out thank yous to people who donate to one of the animal rescue groups (Always and Furever).
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Prompt: October Malapropism
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: The Pumpkin Scream
Brief Description: Made for my Pumpkin All The Things… thing, this year I decided to put a pumpkiny twist on famous art! Definitely something not quite right here…
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Prompt: October Neologism
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Macrame Owl
Brief Description: I actually don’t think I’ve ever done macrame, I was born int he 70s but didn’t start crafting until the 80s, and the trend had faded by then. But when you’re owling someone’s house, how can you not have the classic macrame owl?!
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Prompt: October Free Range #1
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Pug Art
Brief Description: Also for a thank you card for Always and Furever!
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Prompt: October Free Range 2
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Relay for Rescue Shirt
Brief Description: I was taking part in a charity event, but wasn’t going in-person and my registration was messed up so I didn’t get my t-shirt in time. They’d sent us a graphis we could print out and pin to our shirt, but I decided to just make a shirt, instead!
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Prompt: Advent - Autumn Leaves
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Owl Rocks
Brief Description: Again, for the owling of my friend’s house! These were done in lots of layers, letting them dry in between (including the time I painted over everything I did because I hated the colors I’d picked!
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Prompt: Advent - Corn Mazw
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Owl Button Hoop
Brief Description: I think it’s a fun interpretation of vaguely an owl! Another craft done for the owling!
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Prompt: Advent - Pumpkins
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Little Blue Owl
Brief Description: Just a little blue (and white) owl with a face, made for the owling!
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Prompt: Advent - Halloween
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Black (and greyish) Owl
Brief Description: Another little owl!
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Prompt: Big Time 1
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Owl Art
Brief Description: For the owling (of course!)
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Prompt: Big Time 2
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Brown Owl
Brief Description: For… you guessed it, the owling!
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Prompt: Big Time 3
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Crochet Cat
Brief Description: Something not for the owling! This was an ami I started quite awhile ago for a friend…
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Prompt: Zap 1
Team: Resting Grinch Face
Project Name: Owl Bookmarks
Brief Description: …three guesses as to why I made owl bookmarks…
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Those are all amazing. I’m not sure which is my favorite.
Prompt: October Battle- Dictionary
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Tiny Stamp Assembly
Project Link: n/a
Brief Description: In the summer of 2019, I started to organize my stamp closet. That involves cutting and mounting a sizable number of Stampin’ Up stamp sets. I made a decent dent in the project, but then school started, then 2020 started. I was tired of tripping over the box of sets that I hadn’t completed, so I set to work on them. Today, I tackled 3 sets that were mostly individual words- they can be combined to create a variety of phrases and sentences (just like dictionary words). Each set contains 56 words/phrases/punctuation stamps. The stamps were double mounted on the wood blocks and the labels were trimmed to size and adhered. My hands are cramped!
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Here’s the advent prompt for week 5! 
seasonal changes - Craft something to keep you warm, that is soft, has layers, or is blue
I just realized I had already used the fabric bowls as a Big Time # 1, so I am changing that post into this and un-submitting it as my advent # 5 —I will pick something else.
Prompt: October Palindrome
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: costume carpetbag
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Brief Description: Made for my Mary Poppins costume, it looks the same on the front and the back.
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Prompt: Advent #1 Autumn Leaves
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Mary Poppins hat
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Brief Description: Made for my Mary Poppins costume, it uses flowers and berries, which would be found in nature.
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Prompt: Advent #2 Corn Maze
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Christmas tags
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Brief Description: I made these for my partner in the Christmas decor swap. They will be useful at Christmas, when it is cold where she lives.
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Prompt: Advent #3 Pumpkins
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: mummified bat
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Brief Description: This bat has a face. And glowing eyes!
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Prompt: Zap #2
Team: Raking and Entering
Project Name: Mary Poppins tie
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Brief Description: I made this for my Mary Poppins costume as well. It has a pin back on it, to attach it to my collar.
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Prompt: November - Battle - Cooked
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Gingerbread Men recipe hanging
Project Link: Gingerbread Men Recipe
Brief Description: Made for @gozer in the holiday decor swap. Gingerbread dough definitely tastes better cooked. Sugar cookie or chocolate chip dough on the other hand, I may have had a harder time choosing battle sides!
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Prompt: October - Neologisms
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Countdown board 1
Project Link: Countdown to Christmas boards
Brief Description: This was also for @gozer in the same swap. I haven’t made a project like this before. This is the first time I designed a project on the computer, printed it off and used carbon paper to transfer to the wood, this is the largest item I’ve ever burned, and I didn’t hurt myself even once during the making of this project… All new things! 
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Prompt: October - Malapropisms
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Countdown board 2
Project Link: Countdown to Christmas boards
Brief Description: Before making the board I posted above, I did a trial run and gave this board to my sister. The spacing is slightly off on all of the wording for my first attempt. She said she doesn’t mind and seems to love it, quirks and all.
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Prompt: Advent - Seasonal Changes
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: chilly snowman
Project Link: Snowman for Gozer
Brief Description: Another item for gozer in the same swap. This guy is made with super soft yarn (Bernat Pipsqueak in case you were wondering). He’s hunkered down in his hat and scarf. Only his eyes are peeking out so he can see what’s happening around him.
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Prompt: Advent - Halloween
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Kitty ornament 1
Project Link: Kitty ornaments
Brief Description: This ornament is perfect for the Christmas holiday season
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Prompt: Advent - Pumpkins
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Kitty ornament 2
Project Link: Kitty ornaments
Brief Description: This cute cat definitely has a face!
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Prompt: November - Penny Bun
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Kitty ornament 3
Project Link: Kitty ornaments
Brief Description: I made these three cat ornaments completely from stash.
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Love the kitties!
Prompt: October - Hyperbole
Team: Gingerbread Mayhem
Project Name: Ollie Remembrance Box
Project Link: A Remembrance for Ollie
Brief Description: This shadow box exaggerates my love for my beloved lost Ollie. I miss him so much.
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Monkey is checking it out.
Prompt: November: Fly Agaric
Team: Up to Snow Good
Project Name: "Seed the Light" Poinsettia Ornament
Brief Description: It is red.
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