WOYWW #261

I am (again) trying to make sure I hit this room AT LEAST once a day, even if it's just to tidy up! So today is Wednesday, time to share with other WOYWW's (see sidebar for more info!), and here is my desk this morning, at 9:20am:

I worked on my journal this week, and finished last weeks page as well. We went to a friend's farm on the weekend, and she used these napkins:

OK, how awesome is this napkin? Of course I asked for one to take home. . .(as we all do - don't we?)  And first thing Sunday night, I glued it to my next journal page as the background. What did it make me think of? India, so I chose this cool henna pattern stamp:

And went to work. Here is the journal page:

Complete with bling!

Last week I had a page that at first I hated:

 

I had just kind of thrown things together, and I really didn't like it

Then I fixed it!

What did I fix, you ask? Well, I changed her hat from "always" to "Music", because I had dreamt of music the night before, and I found the meaning of dreaming about music:"To dream of harmonious music is an OMEN of pleasure and prosperity." I can live with that! So, still not my fav page, but much better!

That's it for today, see you soon! 

WOYWW - on Thursday #260

Had such a busy day yesterday, I wasn't able to get my What's On Your Workspace Wednesday post up! But here I am today, pretending it is yesterday. If you are wondering what WOYWW is, just go to the beautiful new 5 year WOYWW button on my sidebar, and all will be revealed! This is the 260th week - 5 years for WOYWW, and so I got to choose a button for my site!

I had been away from my workspace for a week, then made sure I was working again this week, even if only for 30 minutes. Boy, other things can sure push me away from what I really want to do!
So here is my workspace:

 As you can see I was working on my journal. This page is an interesting one for me. I went on a House Tour last weekend (where you get to snoop in people's beautiful houses) and one house was owned by an artist named Barb Carr who made awesome canvases of just colored squares - using only one predominant color. Here is one of her pieces:

Barb Carr

 I loved it and wanted to try it myself, but, of course, it's never as easy as it looks! I came up with this page for my journal:

Now, you can see a gold moose and a small gold deer - those were inspired by another canvas in another house - a large white background with a single gold moose in the center.  So this journal page was inspird by 2 different artists! I love gold, so everything is edged with gold as well.

Thanks for peeking! See you next week!

Lighthouse Tag

Finally made into my Stamping Room this week! Yay! I made this lighthouse tag for a challenge at Tag Along, and it also fits the challenge at Rhedd and Rosie's (Rhedd and Rosie's) Challenge blog - NO flowers. Anywhere!
Here it is:

This tag was made with inspiration from Dee Dee Catron's tag, here. I was at a garage sale last week, and this guy had hundreds of very old books for sale. I found one in bad shape (good!) no cover, for 2.00. if was from the 1800's. It was called United States Lifesaving Services, and there is an awesome had written page inside, where someone was practicing their writing. The guy I bought it from thought I was crazy. "You sure you want this one? Look, there's marks and everything all over it!" Oh yes. I'll use it for sure! So that blob you see near the compass rose - probably made a hundred years ago! Anyway, I love how it turned out, hope you do too!

WOYWW #258

I missed last week, but here I am today. If you are wondering what WOYWW means, just pop on over here, and all will be revealed! I've been so busy with work, I haven't really been able to spend much time here, but I did get my Mother's Day card made in time! I don't have a picture of the card - just the mess!

I had pulled out a bunch of ATCs, thinking I might find one for her card. I ended up using one from last week, but I did find this gem:

an ATC I made a few years ago!

I went "garage sailing" last weekend, and I found these!

Perfect for all my eyes, snaps and brads! They wanted 10$ for them (the wife wanted 10$ each!) and I got them for $4.00 for both! It certainly pays to haggle!

Ta ta for now, lovely Peeps! Hopefully will have something more to show you next week!

WOYWW #256

Here it is, Wednesday again already! I have been playing with ATCs this week, just like our fearless leader of WOYWW, Julia Dunnit - here ! Her ATCs are here, along with the story behind WOYWW! There is an ATC swap coming up - I may just join!

Here was my desk at 10am this morning:

 and some ATC backgrounds with one finished ATC.
I have also done a couple of journal pages using ATCs I made last week:

 

That's it for this week - short and sweet! Now to see what everyone else is working on!

WOYWW 255

What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday again! Just follow this link to find out all about it! I haven't really been in my stamp room this week, due to Easter, but my daughter came for the weekend and we completed her Photo Album for her trip to Mexico - that was fun! I enjoyed doing it, she enjoyed watching! LOL! I made this album from an old Address Book I found at a garage sale a few years ago (2008 I think). It was Mexican themed, and as my DD and her boyfriend were going to Mexico, I made it into an empty trip scrapbook for them. Alas, their trip didn't turn out, but they vowed to go at some point. So they did, this past March!

I'm sharing just a few pages with you, wouldn't want you to get bored! Here is my desk this morning:

 The journal page is a page that one of my students that I tutor started. He's 12, and said he had never painted before, so I showed him how! He still has to finish it. He was awed by the giant word stamp you see on the side and wants to make his words with it.

 And here is my "put away" pile! I need a basket or something I can throw these stamps into, then take time once a week to put them all away!

Oh, and my prize came from Rhedd and Rosies (here!)! Last week I entered a challenge on their site and won! Crazy!! A nice surprise! Thank you!

Until next time, have a wonderful spring week!

WOYWW #253

Yup - that day again! Today I have exciting news - I am a winner at Rhedd and Rosies Challenge Blog! My first entry for a challenge that had to include a tree, and I won! So I get to put a button on my blog, and I get a prize. Happy day!

If you want to know more about WOYWW (What's On Your Workspace Wednesday), just pop on over to The Stamping Ground and all will be revealed! I am very late today - I've had a busy day. My DD's boyfriend has his 30th birthday this weekend, and I needed to make his card. I knew what image I wanted to use, a recent one of his trip to Mexico, but that was all. So here is my journey into making his card!

This is what my desk looked like first thing this morning:

Then I got down to business.
First I need my helper. . .

And we're off. . .

For the inside - I lost one of my plates if you can believe that! Where would it go? LOL! I had to use one from my Spellbinders machine.
 

And then I lost my scissors. For ten minutes. I thought I was going crazy - I JUST had them!!

Can you see them??

All done! Now THERE"S a messy desk!

Thanks for dropping by!

WOYWW 252

Happy April! Today is Wednesday, so it's What's On Your Workspace Wednesday! Just go HERE to see what this is all about!

The truth is, peeps, I really didn't do much this week in my room as you can see by this photo:

not much happening! But I did start on a card:

 The bling is floating around because I haven't stuck them down yet!

But here is what I finally did do this week:

My mounted stamps are all organized into boxes like this:

which is fine. And they are numbered. I have pictures of them all in a giant binder that is rather cumbersome, so if I want to look at the stamps I can, without taking them all out of the box.

I also have my unmounted stamps organized into envelopes like this: 

All this was working fine, except I got new unmounted stamps, and realized that this way of sorting them (by company) was just not working - I still couldn't find anything and had to go through the giant book everytime I needed to find a stamp.

I realized I really don't need to look through the giant book each time, AND I don't need to store my UMs by company. So my UMs are now sorted by number, much easier to add new stamps, and I have made a MASTER LIST for all my stamps - because I can skim over words much easier than hefting the giant book.

Here is my master List for my Mounted Stamps. . .

Which shows the number of the stamp, the name, the description, and location. So I have 1347 stamps so far (mounted). My Unmounted List is waiting to be printed, but when you think that each unmounted set has from 1-20 stamps on it, and my last number is 1545, there are a few more stamps that that! I think I will like this much more than hefting the BIG BOOK, and I will only really need to use it if I can't remember the stamp from the description.

So now that I've wowed you with my organization, I feel my desk can be as messy as it wants to be!

Hopefully, I can show you a very messy desk next week!