WOYWW #905

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

Oh my, 😢 I just heard about Sarah. I'm in shock. I didn't know her personally, but you do get to know someone through their art, and she was quite prolific! I always enjoyed reading her posts, and choosing my favourite ATC of the week, She also loved to share her travels as well, and those posts were fun too. I know that we will all miss her, and remember her in our own ways, and hope that she can watch over us as we continue WOYWW every week. Condolences to her family, I know they must be in deep shock right now, my thoughts go out to them.😢

Once again I am having problems moving my photos from my phone to my laptop, I don't know why this happens, but it does, at the most inconvenient times. So you will just have to make do with the photos I was able to move a few days ago. (why do these things happen? Arrrgh!😖)

We went on our annual "Fall Leaf Tour"last Saturday, just a short drive though the trees, on back country roads, then we pick up our niece and head off to our favourite Schnitzel place called Maximillians! We stopped at Upper Brewers Mills Locks, part of the Rideau Canal, a series of locks connecting the  Ottawa River to the Rideau River, opened in 1832.  This significant infrastructure project connected Bytown (present-day Ottawa) to Kingston on Lake Ontario, effectively establishing a navigable waterway to the Saint Lawrence River. There are 47 locks along the way which are all still in use.

And here we are, hubby and myself, enjoying the fabulous day!

So that's it for me, my desk photo is still inside my phone, desperate to get out! Hopefully by next week things will be working again. And this weekend is Thanksgiving, so Jasper pics will be coming! (🤞)

WOYWW #904

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

Everything is still pretty much green here, although my Birch tree outside my window has a few yellow leaves🍂soon to be more, I'm sure. The weather has cooled a lot - why does 15° feel so much colder in the Fall than in the Spring? Brrr!

Here is my desk yesterday morning: 

I'm working on a Halloween Journal for October, and working on my client's Soul Journal, 3 pages done so far! Obviously I can't share that unless I have permission, I will ask her when I am finished.

Here is the beginning stage of my Halloween Journal cover:

 And here are the insides waiting to be stitched together...the top piece is the inside of the cover, with a pocket. 

 
We had a lovely visit with our very good friend last week, and we are on our porch in this photo. I just think this is a photo of pure joy!

And to end this rather boring little post, I did my Civic Duty (yes I am American living in Canada) and voted! I just hope I did some good! If you are an American living overseas or in Canada, PLEASE VOTE! That's all for today, have a wonderful week and a Happy WOYWW!

WOYWW #903

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

Happy Fall, y'all!

We don't quite have orange leaves yet, but they're coming!

 Short post today. My friend from Niagara Falls is visiting. Here is my desk:

I'm working on my first "paid" Soul Journal! I'm very excited!

And here are a couple more "Blob People" - I love these guys so much!

That's it! Short and sweet. Fall has come too soon for my liking. but those of you who are getting Spring - Yay!! Have a wonderful week,

WOYWW #902

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

Hello! I made it again, I'm on a roll! Almost didn't becasue I couldn't get my pics from my phone to my computer🙄 but then Google said to look in my junk mail, and there they were🙂 So much is being sent to my junk folder, and I don't know why!😖

Anyway, we're all good now. Here is my desk, I just finished making the signitures for my new journal, otherwise nothing much there!

I did finish my Mother's Soul Journal page. She is going through a stage where she says "no" to everything anyone suggests, and refuses help taking care of her 94 year old hubby who has dimentia. She is 92! So this is what the oracle card she pulled said:

I am always amazed at how right on these cards are!

Here are some fun little blob creatures that I made following Megan Quinlan's idea. She loves making these little moon faces (so do I!) and then tried putting them on blobs of paint - voila!

She puts them on all kinds of things, her stencils, and on the TH paper dolls - I did that last week on my journal page! So cute.

And here is what I got at Michael's this week, 50% off. I think I will make a Halloween journal this year, I keep coming across the ones that others make too late to start my own! I just need to go back and get the pad of 12x12 Halloween paper.

Well, that's it for me. There was a question about how the kitties go outside. They have special servants that open and close the doors for them, and announce to the house who is in and who is out! Lucky kitties!😼

WOYWW #901

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

Hello! I'm back! I don't know what got into me this summer, I did hardly did any arting for some reason, and so stopped blogging. I missed everyone here, and obviously missed something BIG last week, our 900th week! Wow! I joined on Aug 1, 2012, #165. This was my desk on that first post,       

and my desk today (well, really on Monday). I will catch you up on some of the things I did this summer, but really the art was from the last 2 weeks. I am still working on my Soul Journal as well as my Mother's. First of all, a YT video got me playing with my dies for a day, and I ordered 2 more sets:

Ready for Fall! (There are some TH flowers there too) Now for the journals:

My Soul Journey journal:the words are hard to see on the blue side...

And this was the last page I did, and I'm working on the one beside it:

And here are the pages I did for my mother: I made a boo boo...and had to fix it!

Well that's it for now. The kitties are well (but Mittsy still won't go outside for more than a few minutes at a time for some reason!) Jasper just got back from a European trip including a Chateau in France (her great uncle's!), Switzerland, Lake Como in Italy, and Venice. She had a great time with her parents! I went to a choir practise/pot luck on a lake in August which was fun! 

And we went on our annual trip to Niagara Falls! Hope everyone had a great summer, and I hope Helen gets a new surgery date soon...

 

 

WOYWW #892

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

Hello! I've been a bad girl, forgetting to post until it's too late, just very busy! And that I hadn't been in my art room for a few weeks. But I was determined to make today! And I had finished 2 pages in the 2 journals I'm working on. Here is my desk yesterday morning:

You can see a pike of UM stamps on the left, I bought them a couple of weeks ago from FB, they were Teesha Moore stamps. What I think happened was she bought a grab bag of stamps, took the ones she wanted, then sold the rest. There are 2 stamps in there that I like, but I will keep them all. I still have to put them in the appropriate binders.

I finished my page in the soul journal, where I pull an Oracle Card, then journal about it:

Apparently I am a Lightworker!

And I finished a page in my Mother's Soul Journey journal, where she chooses an Oracle Card from a different deck:

I've been working a bit outside, and learning about Crystals, reading a book called Let Your Spirit Guides Speak by Debra Landwehr Engle. And I've started another course on tapping for weight loss. So very busy! But I will pull another Oracle Card and get to work on my next journal page!

Inky is loving the summer weather, and Mittsy found a mouse for us on the kitchen counter! She's not allowed on the counters, so she was just sitting and staring at the counter in "mouse mode", a look we have come to know well! We got the mouse and set it free.

I will leave you with a photo of our "fountain". We needed something to hold the fountain in the middle of the birdbath, so I found these Buddahs at the Dollar Store. There are now 4 of them. Hubby calls them the "Bathing Buddahs"!

Have a wonderful week! Inky and Mittsy send purrs to all their cousins overseas! I'm off to play pickleball at noon today!

WOYWW #887

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

Happy June! another favourite month! The trees and bushes are flowering and sending their scent wafting on the breeze! We have big Lilacs, and a Weigela right beside our porch that smells incredible!

and our wacky Crab Apple right in front of our porch. The flowers drop so quickly, we only have a few days to enjoy!

Here is my desk this morning:

Not much on here! To the left you can see something that looks like piano keys. This is something I need to make to help me with learning my chords. It's by Mat Creedon called the "Easy Key". I just have to put it together then I can let you know if it is helping!

I started working on my Mom's next Spirit Journal page, all I had at first was the washi tape border. When she pulled her Oracle card it was about mirror images - so I added the faces.

What I had pre-done was perfect! Here is where I am now, in the thinking stage of what will happen next!

I'm also getting interested in Crystals, and how they work. Anyone here using crystals?

I started a course called Love Your (Imperfect) Letters by Willa Wanders. We started with 7 days of letter drills:

Inky couldn't help herself!

Here is what I'm working on now, finding different ways to make each letter:

This part is quite fun!

Thats it for me today, we have beautiful weather, not too hot, just right. I hope the heat has left you alone this past week!