WOYWW 910

 I hope those of you who were able to watch the stream of Sarah's funeral found it comforting, and I know Jo and Max were able to attend in person.  I am hoping to watch the stream when the re-run is available.  (edit - I have watched it this morning ; what a beautiful service and a wonderful tribute from Eva) 

It is time for WOYWW with Julia at the Stamping-Ground - all are welcome

I made a bit of a hash of a journal page at the weekend - I had added the stripes of colour some time ago

I was playing with the versafine clair inks 

I wanted to add something to the page (obviously) 

so used the bubble stencil 

still ok at this point!

and then added stamping - grassy stem  stamps by Alison Bomber, I used a dark brown (fallen leaves I think) but it doesn't really show up.as well as I hoped

not sure how I will rescue this. A friend suggested bold black designs but not sure what I have. 

watch this space!

Kew was foggy on Saturday but that created for some atmospheric photos. 

there was still quite a lot of colour on the trees - the ones that still have leaves

I expect they will be falling more rapidly now

I will be round to see what everyone has been up to and check out your crafty spaces.  Happy WOYWW 

WOYWW 909

 Happy November peeps.  We find ourselves back at Julia's the Stamping Ground for WOYWW again.

I didn't have much playtime at the weekend, mojo was missing, but I did try out some of the new trees stamps I got last week. 

I had a lovely walk at Kew on Saturday, it was sunny and gorgeous. 

the trees were full of colour

I took the rucksack for the first time since breaking my wrist so had a choice of lenses.  

since then I have been bad at keeping up the exercises (the two events are not connected)  so I must do better. 

Happy WOYWW, see you soon.  

WOYWW 908

 Welcome back deskers, time to meet at Julia's The Stamping-Ground for our latest week's desk snoop.. 

We've had the date for Sarah's funeral and celebration of life in November and the service will be live streamed and the family will post details later. .

I have been shopping this week, lots of goodies came through the door... on 2 occasions. I blame Paperartsy totally...

first off was this pile...   

and Tuesday this lot... 

the 2 minis at the bottom were out of stock (or not yet arrived) when I put in the first order, otherwise I may not have got the rest of the second batch... 

yeah, right)

I had a play with some of the top goodies on Sunday 

I used my square journal  

the blue paint, Dusk, is a beautiful colour (I mixed it a bit on the page but on it's own it is gorgeous.)

I hope you all survived storms Austen and Boelo, I did think about leaving Kew till Sunday as the weather was forecast better/sunnier, but in the end Saturday was ok - it did rain a bit whilst I was there, and the wind wasn't bad at the time. 

I took the macro lens (helping my wrist exercises with the weight of it)  

I'll be round to visit as soon as I can, happy WOYWW  and fingers crossed Lynne's broadband gets sorted soon! 

woyww 907

 Here we are again, time to meet with Julia for our weekly desk hop for WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday )   the link is now back at the Stamping-Ground where it belongs after Sarah looked after it for a while. 

I started this journal page a couple of weeks ago but didn't like the start of it 

it was too dark so I added gesso to knock it back

the stencil is by Stencil Girl and I love it.  haven't used it for ages... (no surprise there) 

I added stamping around the edges (a kind of smudgy background image) in brown and then some greenery (almost wish I'd not done it in green)

the skulls at the bottom are a Carabelle stamp (before they went out of business)  I think I got it in Paris so that's 2014 .... they are stamped in grey on tissue to merge into the background. 

a couple of stamped quotes - from one of Alison Bomber's very early sets for Paperartsy... was horrified to see I had never opened the pack let alone stamped any of them!

both quotes (I only zoomed on one) are by her beloved Shakespeare

my weekly trip to Kew on Saturday was another beautiful autumn day... but the one coming may very well be wet!  I know we need the rain, but not on Saturdays!!  

the light in the Temperate House made up for not much plant-wise of interest at present 

thanks for dropping by. happy WOYWW to you all. 

WOYWW 906

 It was somewhat comforting to see so much love for Sarah on last week's desks and since then reading the comments on the post made on Facebook by her family.  I am glad they know how much we all loved her.   We are back at Julia's for WOYWW now as she has agreed to take it on again permanently - welcome back! 

In an attempt to get back to "normal"  I started a couple of journal pages at the weekend.  I was having a good day wrist-wise on Sunday and didn't need any support on it whilst crafting (mainly so I didn't get paint all over the tubi-grip support which is all I have needed for most of the time now. (I do still use a splint when i am travelling but really only to stop it getting knocked on transport.)

I made a right mess of the colours on the background, really didn't like where they were going but placing the cut out images on top hid a multitude of mess!

I had the stamped images from months ago when I was testing all my versaclair inks 

the background on this one wasn't much better but wanted something vaguely face coloured (ha ha) to put behind the tissue images (also stamped from months ago) 

I didn't link Kew last week because we were posting for Sarah but did go that last week and the most recent Saturday too so linking that one today. 

the early entries have sadly ended till May so we have to queue up with the "general public" horror of horrors lol.  

it was the most glorious autumn day so I hope you enjoy the colours. 

Happy WOYWW all.  

WOYWW 905 - in memory

 WOYWW friends are in shock this week.  Some of you will have heard of the sudden and unexpected passing on Friday, of Sarah, our recent leader in this weekly desk share.

I had a message from her friend Eva on Saturday, to let us know that Sarah sadly passed away in the night and was found by her family on Friday.  

To say that we are stunned, shocked and saddened, goes without saying as she was such a big part of this group and as you know had taken on the task of hosting from Julia.   Her Clarity team-mates and colleagues will also be suffering. 

Julia is hosting this week and the link will be at the Stamping-Ground and I am sure she will write a moving and heartfelt tribute to Sarah 

I tried to create my own in journal form but it was tricky still being mostly non-right handed. 

I cannot begin to know how Sarah's family will be feeling, but my love and condolences go out to them.  

I found some photos of the 2024 crop in Stoke that Sarah organised (they were filed incorrectly or I could have added some for our 900th anniversary so recently. 

 and Cindy and Julia and I were also lucky enough to have a short trip to Trentham Gardens 

this is a lovely one of Sarah (and Cindy) 

I really don't know what else to say today.... 

grab each day as it comes ladies, you just never know... lots of love to all of you as well as Sarah's family.  

WOYWW 904

 Hello deskers, hope you have all had a good week. It's flown round to Wednesday again which means WOYWW  with Sarah.  

I finished off the journal page I was working on last week, using my right hand as well as the left!

I added some little stamps in the background, numbers and text, 

then cut out the crow (he was pre stamped on tissue) so was easy to cut with my right hand, 

stamped the other bird in light card and cut him out too, right handed. 

the text as well, I managed ok with. 

I had an appointment with physio on Monday  -  got some exercises which I am trying hard to do often. 

whilst there I took a photo of the x ray of my metalwork!

the scar is healing, but I won't share that in case you're squeamish!  

I am just in a splint when I need it for support (mainly out and about so I don't get knocked) and a tubi-grip at work which is slightly better for typing. Hopefully the exercises will help with the bending of the wrist!  Mason, the physio was very impressed at how much mobility I have in my hand so is hopeful of a very good recovery (as long as I do the exercises!)

Work is going ok, am trying to take it easyish although that's tricky as we're always so busy. 

I got to Kew on Saturday - hurrah!!!  so have a Kew link for you too  

Can't quite believe that tomorrow is October.... I have decided not to make Christmas cards this year, certainly not as many as usual for posting out, which is one less thing to stress about 

til next week, happy WOYWW