WOYWW #875

 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! Today is a rainy day, meaning all the snow is going away! Yay! We can see our fence again! I missed last week 🫣I totally forgot it was Wednesday until the evening! Oh well...I remembered today!

Here is my desk this morning:

I'm trying to design my own stencils since I can't buy them anymore from the states. Apparently Canada is "overseas" and they can't send anything overseas. I feel so bad for the small businesses like Megan's who are suffering.😢.  Anyway, designing my own stencils will be fun, and learning how to cut them on my Cricut Joy will be fun.

I have almost finished (1 more page) my journal:

I framed two of my weavings, and gave one away for a birthday present (the blue one) and the other is hanging in my kitchen. I found the frames at a thrift shop, I think they turned out great!

I'm also still working on my tiny 3-inch journal:

I ordered some things from a new (to me) company called Taperology (based in Canada, I think shipped from China) and I was very pleasantly surprised at what I got!

Plus a freebie! A few days later I ordered 2 rolls of stamps (like the sample on the bag of houses), and got another freebie! So far I like this company!

I will leave you with this cute little pattern in the snow

Have a wonderful week, Inky and Mittsy are happy that the temperatures are above 0°!

WOYWW #873

 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 from a snowy wintery day! Here is my desk this morning: 

You can see that I left the lid off the glue🫨! That'sbecause I last used it at 3 in the morning🥱! 

I made a little addition to one of the pieces from last week, adding "Today will be a Peaceful Day". I also made a 12x12 woven piece with the same message. This is the message of the Bhuddist monks who walked from Texas to Washington DC. Did you guys get to see that? It was pretty incredible.

 And I did work on my self-care journal a bit this week. Not sure it's completly finished...this page was to remind myself of my accomplishments.

Well that's it for me today. Mittsy went to the vet for her yearly check-up, and is now 16.44 Lbs! She is so heavy! But not fat, all muscle! (well, maybe a little fat!)

She used to be so little! And so cute! Now she is a "bruiser"! She is also now considered a "senior". Too bad that doesn't mean she gets senior discounts from the vet!

Have a wonderful week!

WOYWW #872

 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.

First, I apologise for not getting to my comments this week. Thank you to all who commented and wished me well, it always helps! I think I was in a bit of a fog last week, still dealing with my cold, coughing and shingles, but I think we are on the road to recovery! Here is my desk this morning:

My journal is awaiting the next page to be started. I did manage to do a Fodder School 2 project, and I really liked it! Something I remember doing in grade school, but now I'm using my own papers!

I thought I would add a focal point to this one:

And I had cut off all the fringes. Bit then I thought I liked the fringes and made another one with a bigger focal point...

Which one do you like best? Or is it better with no focal point? I have some more ideas with this that I want to try. A great way to get rid of scraps!

My Mom turned 91 last week, here is her card:

And of course, Valentines Day...

I am so grateful to even be able to make him a card after his ICU scare two weeks ago.❤️

That's it for me this week, I will be much better at commenting this week, I promise!

WOYWW #871

 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! I have been off for 2 weeks, a lot has happened. I've been dealing with shingles, then a bad cold on top of that, then hubby in ICU and the stress of that...it's been a heck of a two weeks. But I'm on the mend, hubby is home. I'm now just dealing with the pain of the shingles, and the awful coughing through the night. I'm not getting a lot of sleep🙁. But I've been taking honey instead of cough syrup - it works pretty well! I haven't been able to do much in my art room, but here is my desk this morning:

And here is the Gratitude page for my Self-Care journal:

And that's it as far as any art goes. I am hoping to get back to it very soon. My next page is supposed to be "achievements". 

Inky has been by my side a lot lately, she always knows when something is up. She's never done this before though! Sitting on the back of my chair...she's done this several times now.

And here is a beautiful photo from Feb 1st...

His den is right in front of our house. He is one handsome fox!

I hope everyone is well, especially Neet, and that everyone has a lovely Valentines Day!

WOYWW #869

  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! I am looking out of my office window at tons of snow...

My fence is almost comptely covered! Here is a view from Toronto at my DD's place...

We got a bit of snow this week! Pickleball  was cancelled 2 weeks in a row due to snow☹️❄️. 

Here is my desk this morning. I am working on my Gratitude page for my self-care journal from watching You Tube videos by Megan Quinlan.

I finished last week's page on Books and Movies/TV shows I like:

That's it for me this week! I will leave you with Jasper making snow angels!

Have a wonderful and creative week, Inky and Mittsy send their purrs!

WOYWW #868

 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! I hope everyone is well! Today is a typical winter's day, expecting 15-20cm of snow. So I am tucked up in my nice warm house in my nice warm fuzzy pajama bottoms! Inky has the zoomies this morning, she really wants to get outside!

Here is my desk this morning. I was working early this morning between 2 & 3am because I couldn't sleep. It happens sometimes...

I made that whole 2 page spread early this morning.

I am working in my Self-Care Journal that I started, It's a journal essentially about me, my favourite things, gratitude, etc. I'm following a You Tube tutorial by Megan Quinlan. The pages I did this morning will be about favourite movies and authors.

Here is the one I worked on last week, I did add somthing to the page on the right. I haven't filled in anything yet on this page, but it is about my favourite things and things to do. And I used my new house stamps! I love how this page turned out.

I made a new page in my tiny 3" book, the first one since November I think:

And finally, a shout out to my good friend Therese who sent me a funky birthday card! I love it!

Well that's it for today, hunkering down for a snowy day! I will leave you with Inky, dreaming of warmer days...

Have a great week!

WOYWW #867

 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 have played in my art room several times this week, and my desk this morning still looks like this!

Amazing! I don't know how long I can keep this up, and it's a little boring...

I did some "tweaking" of my desk arrangement...

We were purging our many cups the other day, and so I brought my favourites that DD had brought from the many places she's been to into my art room. They were perfect for my Posca Pens and other paint pens! And they fit perfectly on my large lazy susan! So I think ths arrangement will do very well, and I can still enjoy my favourite cups!

But here is what I have been working on. Megan Quinlan has a free You Tube Self-Care Journal tutorial that I have been following (only 3 videos so far). 

Making words and phrases with her stencils

I made the journal, the first page, and the next two pages where I write the things that give me joy. Already these 2 pages give me joy! My DD gave me some Washi Tape for Christmas, one was very shiny so I thought I would use it, but it turned out that it was blobby shapes instead! Very cool, I've never seen that before! So I will be adding to this journal, also I want to make another "regular" journal.

I got $50 (£26.77) in Gift cards for Christmas and my birthday for Michael's (a big nationwide craft store, the only one we have here), and of course, spent ot all at once. It doesn't go very far! But I got a 12x12 scoring board (something I've needed for awhile), some new brushes, some house stamps, and 3 white pens.

These house stamps are so CUTE! I think I will do something with them today!

Yes, we are finally at the end, and here is a photo of Mittsy and Inky playing. Yes, only playing, even though it can sometimes be alarming, they never hurt each other!

Well, that's it for today, Mittsy. Inky and I hope you all have a wonderful week!