What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #825

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW,  now being hosted on Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself. 

How these weeks do fly,  but lovely to see some slightly better weather and unmistakable signs of Spring. Might even make it into the garden soon!

Desk has been fairly quiet until yesterday when I used up some pieces that had been stamped and coloured pre-covid I swear!! This is my standy-uppy desk. 

Today my other desk has evidence of me testing out a layout for a commission (the blue one) , and why not make a couple more cards while these flowers are out? All scrap bits!!

Hope to do a better job of getting round this week as I don't have a lot on though I am having a short drive to check out the new Range that has opened nearby and also to check the parking near a local 'Monkey Music' that I have agreed to take Lionel to every Thursday. Which of course let's the old man off of babysitting for the whole morning so not best pleased. Heaven help me, sitting in a room full of toddlers and singing for 45 minutes - what was I thinking? 

Hope you are well, have a lovely week, love n hugs Cindyxx

WOYWW 824 - late late late!!

Morning deskers, (or should I say afternoon, very late on parade) welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW,  now being hosted on Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself. 

Needs to be a quickie!

1. Lionel's  finished birthday  card

2. Two commission cards I managed to get done this week. I have 3 more to do, then I think I am going to stop - they take too long!!

3. We'll ignore the desk, it's just piled with boxes!!

Instead couple of pics of the birthday boy. I'll try and get some photos of his trip to diggerland for next week. He really enjoyed it!!

(He also loved his birthday cake - first time eating chocolate cake!.)

I won't be round till later, have a good week, love n hugs,

Cindy xx

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #822

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW,  now being hosted on Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself. 

Well I'm back after 3 1/2 weeks of lovely Tenerife sunshine, rested, refreshed and suitable chilled, (or would be if I wasn't so bummed out by the activities of a certain orange haired clown and his cronies but I'm trying not to let it kill my vibe for a few days).

The internet was terrible in both places we stayed so I had zero motivation to join in WOYWW. I'm guessing that is not a surprise. I've not got much crafting to show but here's my desk anyway.

Aah, well I did go to craft club Tuesday afternoon and made a start on a card for a very special boy. 

Did I mention Little Splodge will be 2 on Sunday? 

And he's crazy about diggers? 

I'll let you see how the card turns out. Meanwhile here's a pic of him on a beach in Mexico. DD wanted to do a long haul flight before they have to pay for his seat and they had no babysitters as we were away ...I'm sure it would have been cheaper to pay for extra childminding but I think they had fun.

Hope you are all well. I have a clear day and everyone else should be gainfully employed elsewhere today so hopefully I can dash round to everyone without interruption - first time for everything.

Love n hugs, Cindy xx

What's On Your Workdes? Wednesday #817

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW,  now being hosted on Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself. 

Apologies to everyone about last week. I just didn't get round due to visitors. And Lionel. And the fridge freezer breaking down. 

You know, life.

Well this week I remembered it was Wednesday , but still here I am posting at lunchtime.....

I know it's constant excuses but I just can't seem to get a handle on life at the mo, the days just seem to slip away dealing with stuff. Another reason I didn't get round as planned was at the last minute I signed up to to the (Create with Your Stash) Card Making Summit run by Justine Hovey. It was pretty intense from 2.00 pm Friday until 2.00 pm Monday.  3 sets of 24hrs of content, videos and challenges. Even more if you paid the fee to unlock extra content and have lifetime access. Which I didn't do, mainly because I have paid for courses I haven't even opened yet. Each day's videos expired after 24 hrs.  The time limit pushes me to get things done. 

So I was very selfish, no cleaning. outings. shopping, cooking and very little communal TV watching for the best part of four days.

One day I never got out of PJs. But I had a great time, made lots of cards and have lots of ideas for more as I didn't manage to do it all. Broadly the focus was on using your stash, using sketches, papers, focal points, all in a variety of styles from cutesy to MM. There were several aha! moments. Also using colour and discussion of the colour cube. 

Now I know I said no shopping this year but my will is weakening. I'm sure someone here has bought it/them (probably Angela?). Are  they a good investment? Will decide when I get back from holiday so for now I need to finish a couple of cards and put my craft room away. I'm also sure someone was going to be in Tenerife in the same time frame (February) and we talked about meeting up? Was it this group? If it was give me a DM. 

So here's a few things I did. Not sure if I will see you for the next four weeks. I will have time, but I may not have internet. Or inclination. Sorry.

So see you when I see you.

Love n hugs Cindyxx

Whaat's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 816

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW,  now being hosted on Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

EDIT: I forgot it was Wednesday this morning. Hence joining in very late. Being organised the day before only gets you so far. Will be visiting tomorrow

Hello all. I am writing this post on Tuesday evening before I have a quick tidy up. I have a guest coming for some crafty play today (Weds) so I need to make some room!! 

I am prepping a sample card for my craft class ladies at the end of January. It looks most unprepossessing in the photo!! 

Hopefully I can jazz it up a bit before then. 

Had quite a good couple of days tidying and managed to clear 5 (almost complete) pads of K&Co paper purses and boxes, some (kids) alphabet stencils and two of my son's Warhammer presentation boxes on a local re-cycle page.The purses etc were very pretty but once made up very easy to damage and I finally acknowledged I was never going to make them. That's half a shelf cleared in my paper tower and better than going to be mushed up. The WH boxes would make a great MM project but I have a hundred of those in waiting already and no space to store them, glad someone can make use of them rather than breaking down for re-cycling. I also managed to sell some of my son's books. Got a pittance for them but somehow seems better than just giving them away - they are a bit LOTR artwork/niche. 

I am less happy with this box. It is actually worse than it looks in the photos and doesn't include all my new Christmas stuff...........oops.

A whole box of new dies, stamps and embossing folders that have not been used yet........

I read an article today about decluttering. Apparently you don't declutter then straight away go to the store and buy different stuff just because you have space.......

So that's me on a 'no new stash' regime for the foreseeable. Maybe I can use the money I save for a nice weekend away....... 

Have a great week,

Cindyxx

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday #815

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW,  now being hosted on Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

Here's my desk:

On the right you can see my samples from craft group last Friday. The ladies all enjoyed making this card which I think was inspired either by Tracy Evans or Christine Stokes - can't remember now!! I ended up with a few,  just need to add some sentiments and of course they all turned out slightly different. It was nice to get a  bit inky. 

In the centre are some sentiment strips and a little set of shimmer watercolour paints - haven't tried them yet. On the left is a new stamp and die set - another NBU that I should get on and use (though tbh that's only just arrived, there are probably a few more waiting).

I was given a list of commissions by someone whose friends are all hitting sixty this year!! 

I did 2 before Christmas, now these 3 which will be picked up tomorrow and there are still 3 to go.  The briefs were Lavender, afternoon tea, and beach huts. 

So that's pretty much me. I will be in and out on Wednesday as I am hosting a lunch for 7 of my ex work friends. I do it every year around this time (originally it was always on Black Monday as we didn't work on Mondays but now pretty much everyone is retired people's schedules are more varied!!). We just have soup and sandwiches and a good old natter. 

And just because I haven't posted the little guy for ages here's some photos of little splodge. He was so adorable over Christmas!! 

Goodness!! Halfway through January already! 

Have a great week, love n hugs Cindyxx

What's On Your Workdesk ? Wednesday # 814

Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

 Well, belated Happy New Year greetings, missed you all last week as I was babysitting. Didn't even stay up to watch the fireworks though they did keep me awake for a while.

First week of the New Year gone already and I have been working on some  commissions and. as usual, having a bit of a tidy up. HERE'S MY DESK.

I have recently put my monitor up a few inches higher as it occurred to me the reason I was finding it difficult to focus might be because I was looking through the wrong bit of my varifocals. Been a few days now and does seem better. 

The 3 house cards to the right were left from a class in the Autumn and the black basket is full of WIPs which I need to do or bin. I probably need to try and sell a lot of stuff too as everything is overflowing (had another load of clarity stuff given to me) but can't remember how to do ebay!! Can't have been that hard.....

Anyhoo,  just got to pop out for a quick appointment this morning then hopefully I will get round everyone. Hope you are all well,

love and hugs, Cindy xx