WOYWW 700

Well, what do you know it's the 700th Edition of of WOYWW.  What a milestone!  Well done Julia for giving birth to what must be the longest running blog in existence (well, I imagine it is - apologies if this is not so).  700 weeks of blogging! Well done.

On Monday it was Halloween and the witches were out and about but none came knocking on our door.  I guess most parents are just too worried these days to let children out for a bit of Trick or Treating and the tradition has not been going that long here in the UK.  

I have noticed, however, that there are more and more houses with a bit of decoration, or a lot, and I passed a yard where something exciting was obviously going on on Saturday.  I would have loved to have stopped and nosied around.  

This is as far as we got - my Halloween display has grown and grown and now, this year, has the pretty picture I did with Jo Rice in a workshop as centre stage.

Here is our window sill in all its scary glory

I am hoping you can enlarge it - it is so dark and small but it is a big display and not easy to photograph.

Prior to Halloween, I went to the Hellaganza at Lavinia's in Ruthin.  Imagine my surprise when I was walking across the car park and I heard my name being called.  I turned and wondered who on earth was shouting - then I spotted someone getting out of a car and it was Angela (Crafting with Jack).  Angela had never been before and so she discovered her only vocabulary for the first few minutes was "Wow".

If you have never been you don''t know what you are missing as far as a shop's interior is concerned.  It is beautifully decorated, every room is a real pleasure, it really is like a journey through an enchanted forest.  And it even smells lovely.  I'll leave Angela to tell you about it.

There were lots of demonstrations going on and I managed to sit in on one of Jo's and she passed me one of her demo tags - so it is in my journal now and I just need to do some decoration around it.  I also went to see Sarah and she was doing the cutest little folders using lots of papers she was making with a stencil and some spray.  I'll make one and show you.

In the meantime - here is my desk - and all the goodies I bought on Saturday.  Rather a big spend on stamps but oh those hares!  (LLJ watch out)

Spent all morning (it's Tuesday here) sorting and cleaning one tiny bit of my craft room.  Well, it was a bit more than just morning.  Intended throwing lots of things out, filled a bin up but only with junk papers etc.

See you next week.