WOYWW 558

Last week I visited Shaz in Oz (via blog only, sorry, did not go to Australia) and she mentioned that she had stopped using baby wipes as they were not good for the environment.  That prompted me to tell her about the 'Lawn Fawn Shammy'.  I looked it up on Google and found that it was £5.20 at CraftStash, there are others who stock it but that seemed to be the best price (last week).

It is a green piece of 'something' and you just wet it under the tap, wring it out and then clean your stamps.  Perfect for polymer as well and no messing about disposing of it, it just gets rinsed out under the tap again at the end of the crafting session and it is ready for future use.  I keep mine in a poly bag to keep it damp but if it goes dry it just hardens and needs the tap water again for use.  Caro saw me using one at the last Crop and she bought one too, as did my friend Paul who saw it at my house one time when we had a crafting day (gosh, over a year ago now).  The only thing is it becomes stained with the black ink but it does not affect its use in any way.  Took me a while to get used to it not returning to its green look but I am well over it now and not having bought baby wipes for my stamps for a couple of years I reckon it has paid for itself over and over.  Plus it's my bit for the environment - we all need to think of that don't we, and I am a Goody Two Shoes when it comes to recycling.  Anyway, that's my bit of enabling for you all.

Hope none of you suffered with the terrible floods over the weekend.  It was heartbreaking to see folks having to leave their homes and businesses and most of the news I saw was for areas around me and places where I have friends and family living.  I am going to sort some clothing out and see if it can be donated to the flood victims close by.  Wonder if I could make up a craft kit for a child?

Once again I have been crafting on my knee and using the trolley to hold my supplies.  Here is the top tray

You can see my box of Promarkers (the one I made from two Felix cat food boxes years ago) and in front is my little Moleskin with my latest pages showing my birthday present from my bff (see later).  Behind it just peeping is my pencil case which has all sorts of things in, scissors, ruler, pens, pencils, collage bits; my silver mug with the straw is for my water that I take my tablets with and the yellow topped container has my pain pills in and the long one my daily 'other' pills.  You can just about see the brown and pink bag that Wendy once made me which hangs there for my paper rubbish ready for the recycle bin but I am sure Julia will straight away notice the large gin glass with my Rhubarb Gin and Tonic in.  Yes, I needed a pick me up last night.  Not sure I should with the tablets I take but hey ho, I've been ok before.

Most of you who visit are WOYWW'ers but those who aren't can find out what I am on about by visiting the Queen of Deskers here.  And my 'real' desk yesterday afternoon looked like this

I had been wanting some swirls for my Journal tomorrow so I started to go through my small inkpads.  I could not believe it.  Most of my small 'Chalk' inks had dried up and so they got thrown away (a full tier of that container to the left of the cardstock) but you will never guess what are still working!  I must have had these inkpads from the early days of crafting, if not almost the beginning of my craft life.  How many of you remember Ancient Page?  They are just as good as when I first got them and they have stood unused for at least five or six years.  Shame on me, I found four that were still wrapped, brand new!  Guess who will be using them from now on?  Does anyone still sell them?

Those swirls are Dylusion images that I inked up ready to cut out and put away for a rainy day, ie when I want to use them on a journal page.  When I came to it for my tomorrow's page they weren't really the right shape - story of my life.

I did promise last week to show you my little book that Miranda had shown me, sorry, I fully intended to do a video of it as that is really the only way to show it without repeating or missing some bits out.  So no pictures of that today but I did start making another book with more characters from PaperArtsy in it but that one needs a bit more on the flaps so I think I will have to buy another set or two.  This second book features the little mice as in my Moleskin, and the two stamp sets were an early birthday present from my bff.

On Saturday I went to the club as it was the AGM but my back was giving me some gip when I set off so I got Chas to wait for me whilst I attended the meeting but I came away before the workshop.  Lorraine gave me my birthday present with the instructions I had to open it when I got home.  She knew I wanted one of the mice sets so she bought them both for me PLUS a gorgeous pad of 12 x 12 papers featuring 'bees' because she knows I have a thing about them.  She is so good to me.

Health Update:

Still not heard about the Endoscopy Camera Capsule Test I had so am working on "no news is good news" and there is nothing sinister happening.

Went to see Johanna, my lovely wonderful chiropractor, yesterday and she worked her magic fingers on me.  I cannot believe what a difference she has made to my life.  Three weeks was a long time to go, at the moment, without treatment, so we have discussed me going to the training college in Manchester when she next goes away for anything over two weeks.  It was my suggestion and she thought it a great idea so has said when it happens she will forward my notes to them so they don't have to go through things with me before starting treating.  For now I will just be glad to see her again in a fortnight