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 #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.

WOYWW #708

  Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

Hello all! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas wherever you were, and that you have recovered! It does take a lot out of me now, and after returning home, I slept like a log 2 days in a row! Unheard of!

Here is my desk this morning, awaiting a new project. I think I need a good tidying of my art room first though!

We left for Toronto to spend Christmas with the "kids" and DD's in-laws, and had a fabulous time! We were going to leave on Friday, but left on Thursday instead. This is why:

Friday Dec 23

Friday was the start of the Big Storm of 22, a once in a decade type storm. I was very glad we made the choice that we did! Many people did not make it to where they were going. Even the trains were not safe

This was just one of the trains stranded for 17 hours, full of people trying to get home for Christmas. No food, no water, no facilities. Our train system is pretty bad compared to Europe, and even USA. 

Anyway, we were very smart to leave when we did, we hunkered down for the storm on Friday and by Saturday Toronto had cleared everything and we were able to go to our son-in-law's parents for Christmas Eve and Christmas dinner - 14 people for dinner!

Granddaughter Jasper had a great time opening presents, though she still doesn't really understand any of it. Here she is with 2 of her fav presents:

I hope I have something more to show next week besides a very sad desk!

Have a great week, and...

Happy New Year!

 

WOYWW #705

  Another Wednesday, time for a peek at each other's desks and projects! If you would like to learn more, just go to http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.ca/p/what-is-woyww.html. Maybe you could join our little group!

Hello everyone! I hope everyone is happy and well today! I was travelling last week to Toronto and Niagara Falls, so wasn't able to post, but I'm back again today. I have been in my art room once since I got back, so this is what my desk looks like this morning:

If you go back to my last post where I was painting these pages you can see a big difference now that I've done some stencilling to tone down the colours.

I did buy some new Christmas stamps at a thrift shop, only $7.95CAD (4.78GBP) for these 3 stamps! I rarely buy stamps anymore as I have so many, but I couldn't resist!

So what have I been doing? Probably what most of you have been doing...decorating for Christmas!

You can see my snowmen collection, and hubby's passion - Scotch! All the boxes on top of the cabinet are empty. He likes to keep the boxes of the Scotch he has tried. The full bottles are inside the cabinet! I don't drink it, hence the wine shelf! Hopefully all of this will be done today, and I can relax. 

The tree is up but not decorated...

Unless you consider this...

The cutest decoration ever!

All our snow is gone, so it's just rain for us for awhile. We hope you have a wonderful week, meow from Mittsy and Inky!