WOYWW 688

 WOW, it's been warm again, and it promises to be even warmer over the next few days.  Hope everyone is ok with this heat and not suffering any effects.  

This is the dining room table with a bit of my cloth on to protect it.  I have just started to make a card but didn't get very far as I had Sean Connery on as James Bond at the same time and am afraid he took up too much of my attention.  He still is THE James Bond as far as I am concerned - how I used to wish I was Miss Moneypenny back in the day.

Top left is my file with the instructions for several cards I have downloaded from the internet, to the right is my Cream Tea Box which I use to carry bits and pieces with me.  Front left is a piece of card on top of a craft mat and opposite is a container with some ink pads in and a box of removable sellotape.  Nothing exciting - oh and my blending tools in front of the inks and a baby wipe.

I did say I would upload some more of my Thrinchies so here we have 

23 Alphabet

24 daisy

25 Quirky

26 Clocks

27 Numbers

I tried to use some of the older stamps,  be a bit more obscure and use stamps that maybe others would not choose but I am not sure I chose that wisely.  Anyway, at least I did attempt the challenge.

Well, that's it for this week.  Maybe more to show you next time as I will have had a workshop with Jo Rice whom I admire very much.  We have her coming to our club on Saturday and I am so looking forward to the day.  We are decorating a calendar so the pieces we do will be quite tiny - now what shall I have for my theme?  Wait until next week to see.

Not long to go to the Crop now, the annual meet up of WOYWW'ers takes place once more.  Got the date firmly booked in the diary.  Have you?

WOYWW 687

 Another week has flown by, why do the days pass so quickly now that I am getting old - I am sure there were more hours in the days when I was younger and went out to work?  Perhaps I have little moments of 'nodding off' that I am unaware of and that is where some of the time goes, or perhaps it is just that doing anything takes twice as long as it used to.  Result - only half the jobs done these days, it's always time to get in my PJ's and climb into bed.

It's been an end to the Thrinchies challenge.  I have done all of them so that is one thing I can put to bed.  Now to the Journal pages I keep doing along with my Thursday Journal (Jeudi Journal) and then I have an exciting workshop to attend, but before that I have to plan a birthday treat for my other half.  Here's catch up with the thrinchies:

17 Love

18 Critters

19 Colour

20 Containers

21 Leaf

And that is where I will leave it for this week.  (Or should I say 'leaf' it - sorry).  Here's my desk

I think you can more or less name everything - the jar to the left of my brushes (make up type for those not papercrafters) contains watered down Gesso, the stamps are some new ones I just bought after seeing them on TV.  Oh my, did I really spend so much money on these stamps?  OUCH!  A new designer for Aall & Create and I thought they would go well with the fairies in my journals.  Not that I have really got the hang of using the fairy stamps yet.  Far right is the birthday card for my other half.  He loves pens, not the dip type granted but it was the best I could come up with for his birthday card this year.

This is a photograph of the huge stamps I bought, apologies for the shine, hadn't realised until just now.  Such a lot of detail in them.  I've turned one over so you can see the size of the image - the brown bit is a three inch square (thrinchie that never got used) to give you an idea of the size of the stamps..

Can't wait to get using them but it will be a while yet as I am too busy at the moment.  So I'll leave it there for this week and go for my "fix" snooping at desks with my WOYWW friends.  See you over there.

Apologies to anyone who visited me but did not get a return visit.  We were away and the internet connection was non existent since they put a new system in.  Have complained and complained  in the past about it but this last week it was worse than ever - we had nothing!  So sorry, if you were latish in getting to me I didn't get chance to visit you in return.  Hopefully I can make it up to you this week.

WOYWW 686

"Here we are again - all good friends and jolly good company" - would have continued with "never mind the weather" but I think it's only us who are getting the rain, and even then it does brighten up in the afternoon so no grumbling from me.  Better than the heat of the other week.  Friendship is the name of the game as far as WOYWW is concerned and we have a crop coming up in October where we get to meet up again.  Hurrah!  It's that time of the week that we all get together and look at what one another has been up to over the past week and/or what we are about to do in the next few days.  So let's see what I have been up to.

First of all I cannot show you my journal pages as they are for  a GD spot which I thought was for next month so now it is panic over and I have quite a few done.  "Relaxay voo!"  I do, however, have my Thrinchies from the Aall & Create Challenge to show you.  Now where were we up to?  Vintage was the last one so we start with number 9 Happiness which, for me, was a watering can - I am happy when watering my garden, especially when it has been warm and the flowers are asking for a nice long drink.

10 Hexagons

11 Sewing

12 Botanicals

13 Woodland

14 Heartfelt

15 Squares

16 Bloom

I'll leave it there for this week.  I am up to, and including, number 30.  Just the last one to do now and I can kiss them goodbye.  I haven't found the subjects as easy to do as the JK ones I did previously and I was disappointed with the way they have scanned.  No way could I get the colours right, they are in fact much brighter than shown.

I have been much sleepier than usual and seem to come around at night time so most of my stamping is done in the early evening at the moment.  Last night it was back to the journal for September as I want it out of the way so I can concentrate on other things I want to do but I must get a birthday card done for the other half and I haven't a clue what to do.  Think that is why I am enjoying the journaling - stalling when I can't think of a subject.  So here is my little table - I do enjoy crafting on here and using my worktop for all the bits I need.

Just a couple of Oxides I used on a journal page, the blending tools and my Nocturne ink pad.  The two pages, lilac and turquoise, are waiting for the images to go on but I need some background stamping first  - the cream page is the actual journal.  I made this specifically for the theme and I used my Rollabind to hold the pages together.  Haven't used it in years but I did enjoy how quick and easy it is to use and it's ideal for adding pages at a later date.

So that's it for this week, see you around.

WOYWW 685

Well, what a scorcher it has been.  I do hope that you all managed to stay in the shade, or indoors, just as you were told by the various media.  I think it was last year I suffered terribly with the heat and so we bought, yet another,  portable cold air type thing.  This one is near perfect!  It really makes the difference between a good night and a bad night's sleep.  Useful during the day too when the temperatures reach unusually high numbers although it struggled against the high temperatures on Monday and Tuesday.  I do hope that you peeps down south coped, as I understand our heat up north was somewhat less than yours.  The one time I did not grumble about the difference twixt north and south.

It's a Probreeze and is just short of £200 but what price do you put on sleepless nights?  It really works - sometimes I woke in the night and it was like being in Siberia.  That's if I  forgot to put the timer on it.

I am sorry if I did not get around to you last week, we were away and there was no internet connection.  Now that might sound like bliss to some but I needed to keep a check on something and the other half is lost without his computer (needs to keep up with the news in various papers and politics of course).  Guess we both felt it - a big chunk out of our daily contact with friends and the world in general.

I did promise some Thrinchies for you this week, some of you may have seen the first four on FB but here are some others as well: - first we have Spring, Wings, Circles, Pattern

The next four - Butterflies, Feather, Poppies, Vintage 

(anyone remember dip pens and Quink Ink?)

I'll leave it there for this week, more to follow

It's certainly a busy time at the moment.  I have 31 of these Thrinchies to make in total and I am GD at Art Journal Journey next month so need to get some pages done in advance.  Haven't had time until now with sorting my friend's craft stuff out and preparing for the class the other week, thank goodness most of that is behind me now.  This is my desk at the moment - stuff just plonked down from the holiday:

A cream tea box which I used to carry most of the bits in.  You can see the Thrinchie list, a sneak peek at a page in my small journal, a dvd case with bits in, some blank thrinchies, ink pad, my watercolour crayons and brushes - oh and some scissors for fussy cutting and a glue pot.

And so now it's time to put this one to bed, see you in the morning at WOYWW headquarters for our weekly snoop.  Take care, stay safe and well.