The #CraftyBlissChallenge on Instagram wrapped up on May 1st, and Melissa and I had so much fun hosting the spring challenge. I loved scrolling through the hashtag and seeing all the great photos, the interesting interpretations of the prompts, and getting to know some new people.  There were 1000+ photos tagged, and 83 people made it all the way through all 10 days! Melissa and I agreed we would each do a random number from the list of those who completed all the prompts, and send a little gift to that person as a thank you for participating. This year, the amazing Caterpillargreen Yarns and The Blue Brick have each offered a skein of something special to two lucky challenge participants – @spirittrailfiberworks was my lucky winner, and @k_express was the winner for Melissa!

 Here is a very small sampling of some of the awesome photos shared– and if you’d like to see more, click on the #CraftyBlissChallenge and see all the wonderful photos!

It was a great feeling of community, sharing our posts every day, checking out everyone’s photos. People posted at all sorts of different times, and in different time zones, so there was always something new to see. I also felt that so many people shared real moments and truths about their lives and how they felt about certain things, because of the prompts. Things that people treasured, and why. Or reflections on certain aspects of their life and craft. It was amazing.

As for myself, I had some challenges with truly grey and dreadful weather for days and days and days, and we all know how hard it is to get good photos when natural light has gone to play in someone else’s timezone.  These were my contributing photos to the prompts:

If you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I don’t usually post every day (and there are way more photos of my kidlets there than on the blog), so it was fun to stretch myself a bit. I’m actually terrible for forgetting to take photos of things, I don’t live my day-to-day life thinking, ‘I need photos to post on social media!’. What I found most interesting with doing the Instagram challenge is that I felt more alert, more tuned-in to my surroundings and how I could interpret the daily prompt. A fun way to flex some creativity!