WOYWW #802

 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 everyone! I missed last week's post! I completely and totally forgot about it until Thursday. It's because I now go to pickleball on Wednesday mornings, and that's all I can think about! So I will make a concerted effort to write my blog on Tuesdays. Here is my desk this Tuesday morning:

Not much on it, just my instructions for the new project I am working on - an Accordion Book.

Here are some of the pages for the book that I have done so far:

The big pages with the painted "dots" are done on scrapbook paper, something I have a lot of but rarely use, I love this idea for background paper!

Here are 2 more JIYA Journal pages, the journal is almost done, I need to make a new one!

Some days I just choose to be miserable...LOL!

We had our Canadian Thanksgiving yesterday. This has been a day in the past where we had a full
houseful of people and friends...but this year it was just us, so we had a "mini-thanksgiving" dinner.

No big turkey, just a skinless turkey breast which I wrapped in bacon - yum! It kept it juicy!

Well that's it for me today. It was 4°C this morning, winter is definitely coming! Even Inky refused to go out first thing! I hope everyone has a wonderful week! The kitties say "Brrr! Meow!"

WOYWW #800!!!!

 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 #800!! Wow, that's a lot of Wednesdays! I've been posting since August 1, 2012, #165. I wasn't as much into journaling as I am now, and I made a lot of cards, which I really don't anymore. I had 2 views of my desk at the time:

All of those drawers are no longer on my desk! I was noticing the little pile of Washi Tape on one of the boxes...I have a whole big drawerful now!

Here is my desk today:

Just waiting for the next project! 

I gave Jasper the cat book, but she wasn't too impressed, hopefully she will like it more later on. We had a lovely few days with her, "Miss Bossy" these days, as 3 year olds often are! Here we are at a local coffee shop, listening to live music with our coffees, and a "Jasperchino" for Jasper (steamed milk)! Jasper loves live music, and the woman in the background is singing "Crazy" by Patsy Cline!

I hope everyone has a wonderful first week of October! The kitties are getting a bit chilly in the mornings, they come in to get warm then out again...but yesterday afternoon it was 30°!

WOYWW #799

 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.

Only 1 week away from #800! Very exciting! Fall has landed in Canada, and the trees are just starting to change colour. Not so much right now, but the colours will get brilliant soon!

Here is my desk Tuesday morning. In this photo I am almost finished with a little book I made for Jasper, my 3 year old Granddaughter.

And here is the book, completed!

It has all of the cats that my hubby and I have had in the last 40 years!

The Back: this brilliant idea came from Naomi Tipping!

The Front

Sleeping cats

Awake cats

This was definitely a work of joy, remembering all our cats from the past, and sharing them with Jasper. Her mother will remember many of them, I but not all! I think I will laminate the cats before I give it to her on Thursday just to make it last, and the cats will slide in and out easily!

Here is Jasper on her first day of Montessori, in her third year! She's growing so fast!

Well, that's it for me, have a wonderful week, Mittsy and Inky say "meow" to all their cousins across the pond!

WOYWW #798

 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.

It still feels like summer so far, thankfully! Although some of the trees are just starting to turn colour...

I am writing this on Tuesday, since I have no time on Wednesdays to write anymore. I haven't done much this week, so I will be short and sweet. Here is my desk

I spent some time making my friend a birthday card, and a 4th Anniversary card for my DD and her hubby.

Birthday card using one of my Megan Quinlan stencils and watercolours.

and this is the Anniversary card that I actually made in April, just had to write the inside.

I made a new page in my JIYA Journal:

I wrote the things I was doing or watching in September - watching Monk on Netflix, playing Pickleball, working on my journal, playing WORLDLE (any one playing this? I love it. NOT Wordle. Type in Worldledaily.com in your search, for some reason a link won't work), going to choir, and watched the US debate - I will probably add a few more as the month goes by.

So that's it for today. The kitties are enjoying the sunshine while they can, chasing our one and only chipmunk we have named "Chippy", but never hurting him! They send their "meows" to their kitty cousins, and I hope everyone has a wonderful week!

WOYWW #797

 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.

Since I'm off to Pickleball on Wednesday mornings, I'm writing this on Tuesday morning. Here is my desk this morning:

I'm just getting started on my September page in my JIYA Journal. I have my 2 Tiny Journals beside it, and the stencils I want to use. In the little box is a pendant that my Mom needs fixing.

I have finished my June-July-August tiny journal, here are the last few pages:

This one is the last page:

This, opens up to...

This!

And I have started my September Tiny Journal. I chose this paper for the cover because it had the word Paris on it, and my DD and Jasper are going to Paris at the end of the month to meet my SIL there (who was working there for 2 weeks)!

And here is the first page:

Well, that's it for me today. Sept 11 is a very sad day, as we remember the attack on the Twin Towers in NYC. I remember that day so well, I was teaching at the time, and we were trying very hard to have a "normal" day with the children, not letting them know what had happened. When we came back to school the next day we were shocked to find that on every single fence board were crosses in chalk. One or more of the children had been marking on the fence with chalk, but we were in such shock that we didn't notice until the next morning what they had been doing.

It still brings tears to my eyes. 

Have a lovely week,

WOYWW #796

 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.

It's September already! The kids are all going back to school today, yesterday was a PD Day! I am starting Pickleball today on my own, hubby isn't playing again until next year. Pickleball is like a combination of tennis and ping pong, played with a wiffle ball (the plastic ball with holes) on a smaller court. We use paddles instead of rackets. It's fun!

Anyway this will be short and sweet as I have to leave soon. First photo is my desk this morning. I have more room to work! I spent the week tidying up my space, trying to make things more accessible that I use, and move the things I don't use very often. I finally put the garbage and recycling behind me so I could reach it.

If you remember, this is what the space to my left looked like last week:

So, a bit of improvement!

We went to a very cool art show on the weekend called Fantasy in the Forest. It was deep n the woods, and it was like a community of Elves, Sprites and other creatures! Here are a few pics:

It was a lot of fun, and some beautiful art, jewelry, and fun things!

Anyway, I have to get ready to leave now, so hopefully I can show my own art to you next week. Have a wonderful week, Inky and Mittsy say "meow"!