WOYWW #817

  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! As usual I am writing this on Tuesday as I have Pickleball on Wednesday mornings. I do try to get to everyone on Thursday!

I am in the middle of re-organizing my art room, so everything is either in Jasper's room, in the hall, or just in a pile on my desk, as you can see here:

I am working on the area in front of my desk and behind me as I sit at my desk, putting the things I use or need the most there.

Looking into my room, I managed to get a lot of stuff off the floor and either in the garbage or in the hallway. The red tower used to be on the floor under my desk in 2 sections. I could never get to it.

This is the little rollie cart that was piled high with my Fodder School lessons, and things I could not get to. I do not need my Fodder School lessons available at all times. I will put them in my File Cabinet when I can get to it! Now I have things in it that I use all the time.

This is the wall behind my chair. I have not moved the cardstock, but the Distress Inks which used to be behind me have been moved (I don't use them every day) and I have there 3 baskets of paper items, cards, ephemera, etc all organized in bags so I can easily find what I want. This idea came from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Vb919_Tlw&ab_channel=TheCraftyOrganizer   She does this with everything, including all the little metal pieces of ephemera, and in other places in her home, but this will probably be the extent of what I will be doing with it. It isn't an entirely new idea, as I had already done something similar with my Fodder School scraps. I also have all my single words in a basket, and my word and sayings books underneath it, all in one place.

This rollie cart is now beside me. It used to hold all my large stencils in accordion folders, and my 12x12 stencils. It also acted as a catch all with things piled on top of it, and was behind me. It is now beside me with all my stencils organized in alphabetical order, and the large stencils in large bags behind the small stencils. My 12x12 stencils are on the shelf under the "words" basket. I think this is the perfect spot for these!

Here you can see most of what I have done in the last week. Still a lot to do!

Here is Jasper's room and the hallway...

Except the rollie basket is now in my art room. So I still have a ways to go!

Here is the view from my office window this morning...

Isn't that pretty! We are expecting a bunch more snow overnight tonight. I guess winter is finally here, this is more snow than we've had so far his winter!

I hope everyone has a wonderful week, purrs from Inky and Mittsy!

WOYWW #816

  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.

Today's post will be short and sweet. I'm off to play Pickleball this morning, despite the -15°C weather. I started re-organizing my art room this week, so it is a disaster zone. Here is my desk this morning:

I was watching a studio video by https://www.youtube.com/@luiseheinzl, and got all fired up. She posts in English and German, so what I thought originally were 4 posts, were really 2. She has an incredibly organized studio. I will never measure up to it, But I did get some ideas!

I did record a "before" video of my room, but until I figure out how to get it off my phone post it on blogger, it will have to wait for another day. Any tips would be welcome!

That's it for me today, short and sweet! Have a wonderful week everyone!   PS: I won't be able to start visiting anyone until tomorrow, so check your comments! I usually get to everyone.

 

WOYWW #815

  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.

Hi everyone! Last week was crazy with hubby coming home, finally, from hospital, so I had to miss, but today I seem to have a lot to share. Here is my desk, I was shocked! I haven't seen it like this in awhile!

But that doesn't mean I haven't done anything lately...

I have been working in my JIYA journal, and I'm starting to make a new one, as well as working in my Fodder School Project.

Only a few pages left in that journal!

When I was purging tablecloths I found some runners with beautiful blue birds on them, so I used one on the cover of my Fodder School book:

I'm deciding whether to sew it on or leave it as it is, just glued on.

My DD was very generous this year (she always is!) and here is what she gave me (art-wise)

So, of course, the first thing to do is to try out all the colours

That was fun!

Inky got a Christmas present too, a new scratcher to sit on top of! She's still getting used to it, it's a little taller than her old one.

That's it for me today, I hope everyone has a lovely creative week, and I will be around to see what you are all doing starting on Thursday!

WOYWW #813

 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.

Happy New Year to everyone! The last time I posted, my hubby had a minor stroke, so I have missed a couple of weeks, but I'm back! I was also very sick from Boxing Day to essentially yesterday. My hubby was back in the hospital (he was able to come home for 2 days over Christmas), and the kids had just gone back home, so I had a week to myself to lay in bed, watch Netflix and feel sorry for myself all alone. But I'm back, hoping to get into my art room this week and do some purging. I have so many things I do not use anymore.

Today is my birthday, luckily hubby is home again for 2 days, so I'm not alone. But he has to go back tomorrow. He should be back home for good sometime next week.

Anyway, I hope you all had a better Christmas, with no illnesses, and lots of family!

Here is my desk this morning, having not really been touched since Dec 10th:

Christmas Cards made but not sent due to a Postal Strike, and a general mess. Luckily I only made a few cards.

Christmas was lovely with kids coming here instead of us going to them this year. Christmas morning, so beautiful with the snow!(it's all gone now🙁). 

On Christmas Eve I gave everyone matching jammies, except I couldn't find the matching bottoms for us gals, just the tops. Here is Jasper (now 3 1/2!) with her Mom and Dad:

That's it for me today! I hope everyone had a great Christmas, with lots of artsy gifts. I have one coming in the mail from my DD, a Windsor & Newton big set of watercolours!

No pics of Inky and Mittsy today, but they wish, and I wish you all a Happy New Year!

WOYWW #810

  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.

Good morning! I am writing on Tuesday morning, as I play Pickleball tomorrow. We are being blessed with freezing rain today! Hopefully tomorrow will be nicer weather. Here is my desk this morning:

Still working on my book project for Fodder School 1. I am getting the pages together ready for binding. 

Before this step, I had to make the cover of the book using many of the fabrics I had dyed:

Here is the inside cover (left side) with some pages on the right:

Then I had to practise binding with fabric pieces, so I made a practise book:

And I couldn't just leave it at that, I had to finish it!

One photo is missing, but you get the idea! So now that I have the idea of how to bind my project, I am getting my pages together with the fabrics that I want to bind it with, which is what is on my desk today. So next week...maybe a finished project? We will see!

 Here are some Christmas pics to end this post:

My Advent Calendar that my Dad gave me many years ago. It used to hold candies, but now it holds tiny Christmas ornaments for a tiny tree!

And here is Mittsy wishing everyone a Merry Christmas! Mittsy loves the tree, and if you look closely you can see that all the low lying ornaments are cat toys! Inky isn't all that interested in the tree very much.

Well, have a wonderful week everyone! 

PS: I don't get a chance to visit WOYWW until at least Thursday, so check your comments on the weekend! I usually try to visit everyone

WOYWW #809

 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'm writing this on Tuesday morning, the forecast for the next few days is snow, lots of it. So I might not even be able to got to Pickleball tomorrow, we will have to see. But here is my desk this morning:

The pages of my project are almost finished, cut up and ready to go, the cover will be made of many of the cloths that I have dyed. This is the "undercover".

Here is the process I went through last week. I "aged the paper" with instant coffee! I just sprinkled the coffee on, then spritzed it with water...

Here is the difference between the papers, before and after "aging"

Then I cut the papers up to the size I wanted for my book:

Then I stacked them up and made the "undercover"

My next step will be adding the fabrics to the cover. I'm almost done...

Last weekend was our 50th Annual Christmas Party with our Uni friends and their spouses. So hard to believe! We had a fabulous time!

The restaurant is in an old church and is called The Renaissance Supper Club. Lovely dinner! The then next day we went to brunch at a beautiful old inn called the Woodview Inn, owned by the brother of one of our friends:

This was just one of the trees! We had a wonderful brunch, it was a beautiful day, and a lovely time with our friends. Next year we are back in the Toronto area or the 51st.

Have a wonderful week, the kitties are inside keeping warm and send all their purrs to you!