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!

WOYWW #808

 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.

Once again writing this on Tuesday, Pickleball starts again tomorrow! It is a rainy fall day today, they are threatening snow on the weekend, but I can do without it!

Here is my desk this morning:

I had just finished making 2 more Christmas cards...I now have 5 cards in total.
I'm sure you know how to make these cards, but just in case, here is how they started:

I used watercolours and Posca Paint Pens to finish them off. Here are the three I previously made:

I wanted to try a couple of nighttime scenes, but I think I will stick to the daytime scenes! I also might add some sparkly snowflakes.

I have also finished a stage of my masterboard. Last week I showed you the collage, this week I stenciled over both sides.

Wait until you see what I do next week!

I can't believe our next WOYWW will be in December! Time flies! We are getting ready for our annual Christmas Party this weekend - our 50th if you can believe it!(I have a hard time...) These are all people from Uni, the boys all lived in the same house, and us gals married some of them! I will leave you with a picture of Granddaughter Jasper, getting excited about Christmas - her Mom has the tree and decorations up already!

Have a wonderful week!

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.