woyww #854

 It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! We are now sharing through Sarah, at Sarah's Craft Shed.

I think the dreaded purple rectangle is gone for good (🙏). If you see it, please LMK!

I spent most of last week working on the purple rectangle, but did get a few things done. Here is my desk on Tuesday afternoon:

I did manage to use most of the pieces I made last week like this:

The above little book was made for me several years ago, and is very small!

On Saturday we went on our annual "Fall Leaf Tour", which always ends up at a German restaurant called Maximillians, in Perth, Ontario. Here are a few fall photos-the leaves weren't as bright as they could have been, it was a cloudy day, and many of the trees hadn't turned yet...

Always the best tree!

Yesterday was our Canadian Thanksgiving, but nobody comes aymore, so I just made a dinner for 2, and now the turkey soup is cooking away! I bought a turkey breast, and then some bits and pieces of turkey (back, neck etc) for very cheap, and used those for the stock!

Pssst! and it was low carb!

That's it for me! Mittsy is quite disgusted with the colder days, although we are still able to have our "Wine Time" on the porch! Inky doesn't seem to mind. Have a wonderful week!

PS: Again, please LMK if there is a purple rectangle!

WOYWW #853

It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! We are now sharing through Sarah, at Sarah's Craft Shed.

Chat GPT and I have been working hard to remove the purple square — hopefully it is gone!

I've had a busy week, I was in my art room every day, and so have a lot to show today. First, my desk, it needs a bit of cleaning up as my workspace is getting smaller and smaller!

I had an inspiration from Fodder School 2 to make a Sympathy card for a friend who lost her father, and so I made this...

I made a masterboard from a bunch of leftover fodder, after cutting it up, and adding a botanical cut out (TH dies) I had the focal point. I had several pieces leftover, and two more focal points for 2 more Sympathy cards, and a bunch more cards as well. I even have tiny ones to put in my tiny journals!

That was a lot of fun, and I might do it again this week! I worked on several journal pages as well this week. You may remember the page I didn't like last week:

I remade it and I like it much better now!

And more journal pages:

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These images are from Collage Soup

These images are from Collage Soup

This page started out as something totally different, and then morphed into the Owl and The Pussycat poem! The pages read right to left.

Well that's it for today! Happy WOYWW and have a wonderful week! Inky and Mittsy say meow, Inky is outside enjoying a rainy day on the porch!

WOYWW #852

  It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! We are now sharing through Sarah, at Sarah's Craft Shed.

Here is my desk Tuesday morning. I don't know why, but lately I have been tidying up every time I leave my desk. Wierd!

On Monday night I couldn't sleep, so I got up at 2:30am and made these:

These tags (showing both sides) are made with Washi Tape! I learned this technique from Tiffany Sharpe on You Tube. I think it works really well! The orange and green one at the top is made with an outlined washi tape and coloured in, so I can make this one any colour I want!

I made 2 journal pages this week, here's the first one:

The insert paper was already coloured, so I tried to match the colours on the pages with acrylics.

And the second journal page:

I'm not crazy about this page, I may try to remove the person on the right. I also want to add a few fall leaves...so a work in progress!

So that's it for me! Jasper went to a Blue Jays
Baseball game and was on the Jumbo Tron!

That was fun!

Hope everyone has a wonderful week! Inky and Mittsy are enjoying the Fall weather! 

WOYWW #851

 BIG aplologies to everyone, I didn't get around to anyone last week, and this week I FORGOT AGAIN!!  I'm glad nobody will be kicking me off, but I really must be getting my act together and remembering to write my posts on Tuesdays, instead of 10 minutes before I have to leave for Pickleball! I will do better next week!!

Have a wonderful week!

WOYWW #850

 It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! We are now sharing through Sarah, at Sarah's Craft Shed.

Hello out there! I am back. I am not dead, sick or otherwise. I just took a little sabbatical and now I am back. My Mojo kind of took a vacation, and I just wasn't in my art room for several weeks. We did do our annual trip to Niagara Falls to stay wth a friend, and took in some wonderful plays at Niagara on the Lake's Shaw Festival.

Here is my desk, I am making 2 cards, one for a birthday, one for my DD and her husband's 5th Anniversary. I haven't made cards for so long, it was very hard getting back into it! I need to make more cards...

When I finally did get back into my art room, I made 3 art journal pages:

All the images are from Collage Soup books, except for the September page. 

Well, tht's me for today. I now have to finish the cards I started and deliver one of them. I hope you all have a wonderful week! Inky and Mittsy both say "meow", and are still enjoying being outside until the snow comes!

WOYWW #844

 It's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! We are now sharing through Sarah, at Sarah's Craft Shed.

Hello! Its a beautiful sunny day today, not too hot, but we do have smoke from wildfires affecting our air quality☹️which does have an effect on me, especially my voice. It's better today than yesterday.

Here is my desk from yesterday, you can see my fabric book page is being worked on, and I finished the page later on.

Here's the finished page. The little Tim Holtz metal bar says "reality has its limits, imagination is boundless".

Again I used Megan Quinlan stencils, and I did purple stitching on the bird's back. Megan stencils also on this next one in my JIYA journal, but I made the wave stencils.

Short and sweet today, I'm off to play Pickleball this afternoon! I will leave you with this awesome summer photo of Jasper!

Have a wonderful week, Inky and Mittsy say "meow"!