WOYWW total blackout ...

Torrential rain, thunder and lightning last Wednesday resulted in no power from 4pm to 4am. I'm tempted to give you last week's desk, on account of today's look like this ...

and that can't be of any interest to anyone, not even me. Ok, so I will give you last week's desk, which was definitely more exciting ...

Admittedly, I'm not actually doing anything here either, but at least you can admire a little bit of new stash, super bargains (60% off) from the bittersweet closing of the only local craft store.  Now, practically everything I "need" will have to come from online.

Here's the latest (unfinished) Wanderlust canvas. The yellow circles are removable because I'm not sure about any of that. What do you think?

Hope to catch up with your desk in the next few days. Let's all meet over at Julia's place.

WOYWW playing with pastels

This month, over at Wanderlust, the emphasis is on pastels. Before I joined Wanderlust 2016, I first looked at the Supplies List (which was extensive), and found I already had about 95% of them here in my Giant Art & Craft Stash. Certainly, the pastels date back to last century (hey, it's not all that long ago!) and they are in mint condition. Pastels come in Hard or Soft varieties. I have both :)
Now, in case your first thought is that pre-schoolers have hijacked my desk, I'd best tell you that the first pastel exercise was to just scribble and doodle ... get the feel of them ... nothing else. 
So that's what I did ...

It's not "finished". It might turn into something interesting.

Here's a finished double page journal spread which I submitted for the Wanderlust October Challenge. 
It all means something but it's complicated so I won't bore you with the details :)

Here's a good start to this Wednesday.  I got an email this morning about a 50% off sale of all Tim Holtz, Ranger and Dylusions at a nearby shop. (This is after telling someone last week that we never have sales for TH stuff!)  So, after a quick detour before work ...

All useful supplies. The sort I can actually use ... almost immediately!

What are you doing?  Me and Julia and all her WOYWW friends would love to know!

WOYWW what happened to March?

Seriously, what did happen to March? Did it just up and march away?

Things remain much the same here ... a small amount of creativity amongst the chaos ...

 

 

Well, there's the chaos with the most recent and very small amount of creativity, a simple birthday card (cut and paste, cut and paste, although I did add more gold bling to the existing gold bling). Anyway, not happy with it, can do better ... will do better (by Saturday ... nothing like a deadline to get the creative juices flowing, right?)

 

I haven't been entirely at a standstill. Went to a class recently given by Rachel Greig (of Darkroom Door fame) and made some rather nice cards, using some new products and interesting techniques.
Here they are ...

 

 

Oh, and of course, you really wanted to see the most recent retail therapy, didn't you?

 

 

That's all self-explanatory, isn't it?

Except for that papery stuff at the bottom, which is GEN-U-INE American

deli paper!   What's all this about?

Why don't you visit Julia at her Stamping Ground

 

WOYWW layer upon layer

Another Wednesday and another layer of stuff creativity is laid upon last week's efforts.

Maybe you'd like to know what all that stuff is, I know I certainly would. OK, here goes ...
from bottom left ... BPA free pencil box which contains Sharpies, black and white, tiny perspex blocks, a tape roller, a cutting knife, a Christmas stamp standing on my home made Lazy Susan, a half made card with a photo stamp on it, new "Hello"/bear stamp, (isn't he cute!), another pink pencil case which probably has nothing in it, because I took it away on the weekend and have now emptied it. That's what it's for, just a temporary case, kept empty for putting last minute going away stuff in. Miscellaneous half finished cards. Not sure what that other pink thing is and there is a very nice 12x12 pad, which I found on the half price Sale table oh, and some more perspex blocks, another cutting knife, (green) stamped and cut out Christmas images which will make some cards ... any day now. If you are still with me, then you will want to know that next to the first pencil box is a piece of watercolour paper with some random Twinkling H2O's painted on it with the aquabrush ... and look, there is a new pair of anti-static precision tweezers!

Now why would anyone get excited about all this? Julia has the answer.

WOYWW it's time for a "Cardathon"

That's when you suddenly have an urge to start making cards. What for? Well apart from the obvious Christmas ones, I thought maybe a "batch" of multipurpose cards could be used as gifts?

Here's the beginnings of all of the above ... "quick and easy" being the guidelines :)

Those three stamps which I have artfully arranged :) centre stage, were bought the other day at my local craft shop. They were on the Sale table and everything on the Sale table was half the Sale price! How could anyone resist?  ($6.50 instead of $60! And I will use them.) What am I doing showing you all this stuff? Pop over to Julia's and she will explain everything.

WOYWW doing my bit for recycling

That's my spin take on it anyway. Maybe it's a bit OCD ... you be the judge.

Let's just collect as much reusable card as you possibly can, you know, from packaging, etc ... see top left hand in pic, which is just the tip of the iceberg. And save it all in recycled (naturally), cereal boxes, and when there is so much of it you are in fear of being swamped  get out your trusty Cuttlebug and start cutting out ... very therapeutic ...

It does take a while to whittle down that collected pile, but it sure feels good when you do!

 

If that doesn't excite you, maybe yesterday's retail therapy will ...

 

 

Why am I showing you random photos of stuff on my workdesk?

All will be revealed by Julia who doesn't actually have a real workdesk today but still we all love to visit her on Wednesday, photo or not, just to find out what is happening in her little corner of the world.

Catch you soon.