WOYWW #712

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

Hello everyone! It's so nice to be here and feeling better. I'm almost back to normal except for a little bit of coughing and rapid loss of energy, but that's OK, I seem to be getting a few things done anyway. First, my desk. Not very active today, but I had just finished putting tacky glue on the backs of 2 sets of letter stamps which can be time consuming! The date stamp on my desk used to be on a roller, but we now have surpassed the last year on the stamp so I cut it off and thought it my look good as a regular stamp with all those numbers, so it has had it's tacky glue and is now drying. While tidying this week I found  a stamp that I had thought I had lost forever, over a year ago. But when I lifted the phone book I had been using as under papers, there it was, stuck to the bottom! Never give up!

I got the Tim Holtz Bird die for my birthday, looking forward to playing with it!

Here is the view behind my chair, all of this stuff had been sitting on a floor in a big tipsy pile, hard to find anything, and now it looks like this! Much better!

When my DD stayed for week at the beginning of January, she needed space in her room to work, as she worked from home all week, so there was a lovely expanse of new desk! I am using it to stencil my journal pages, I have 2 papers left and then I can start cutting them up. It's very handy to have this second workspace!

A couple of weeks ago Mittsy knocked over my precious pottery creche, and now I am slowly gluing it back together.

Hopefully it will be as good (almost) as new.

I will leave you with a photo of my granddaughter, just settling in for a nice read...did I mention she was advanced for her age? She looks excited to start this great book!

Well that's it for me today, we are hunkering down once again waiting for "significant snowfall", we will believe it when we see it. Sometimes it peters out before it gets to us!

Mittsy and Inky say "meow" and I say have a great week! I can't believe it's almost February already!

WOYWW #711

 Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

Hello everyone! It's been awhile since I posted. I was in Toronto for awhile having Christmas with the family, and then, for the first 2 weeks of 2023 I was very sick. I think I caught a bad cold which went straight to my chest while babysitting Jasper for the first week of January. She was just getting over it (not covid) and somehow I picked it up. No one else got sick, but I am just now recovering. Needless to say, I haven't done any art since before Christmas, and this is my desk this morning:

What a mess! I am slowly trying to organize (again - seems to always happen in January) all the stuff that has accumulated on the floor behind my chair, which was just piled up, ready to topple at any moment. So I thought carts on wheels might be a good solution:

I like this because I can move things around. I may get one more small cart like the one in the photo. The first metal cart is one I had hanging around and forgot that I had, so I pulled it out. Not perfect, but holds my big box of stencils and misc. on top within my reach, so good. I have to figure out the skinny drawers below the top section. They may just hold collage fodder.

So this is what is next once all the tidying is done:

I have only finished that top piece for my new art journal from my class from Megan Quinlan. Hopefully I will have more to show next week.

Here is my Mom having lunch with me at our favourite Vietnamese restaurant called Mekong. It is my favourite day of the week because I get to have lunch with this wonderful person. We go every week, but hadn't gone since before Christmas, so this was a very special day, getting back to "normal".

So that's it for me, hopefully will be fully recovered by next week! Mittsy and Inky are watching the Snow Buntings at the feeder from their nice warm perch inside, away from the snow and freezing rain. Have a great week!