WOYWW - 19th May

Welcome back again, WOYWW'ers.   At last the weather here seems to be warming up a little - about time too!   At the moment the forecast for the weekend is quite good so I will be going back to Kew Gardens again (I've checked the trains, there are no engineering works to disrupt my journey!)

I've had quite a crafty week since we last met, as some of you will have seen from my posts at the weekend. I have to say, I did have fun with the grungepaper roses again, although getting the glue off my fingers is a bummer! No matter how much I wash them, it seems to come back again, and again.

However, at the moment, there are some bits and pieces on my workspace (edit - what I call my workspace is the patch of floor the size of my craft mat - the rest is just the floor!!)  for my Rulerz book again:

The red flower (more grungepaper) isn't for the book, but I'm not sure what to use it for - I had made it a while ago and was going to incorporate it into my Sunday Stampers challenge, but thought it might be overkill!  So I'll keep it for something else. The fibres have now been plaited and stuck to the other side of the purple page which is waiting attention!

The book - which is sitting on a ball of string is hiding my so far very feeble attempt at my WOYWWAC. The string is for a background technique I haven't got round to yet!!

I have used some glossy accents to highlight the words "art" and life" from this dictionary page stamp (Hero) but I don't think it shows up in the pic; and the flower was coloured with a Marvy brush marker. I've accented the middles of some of the flowers with buttons.

I have used part of the torn out map from an old diary I showed you a few weeks ago, and some Wendy and Tim stamps and a grungeboard arrow (it's pointing to London on the map) which I've coloured walnut stain DI and covered with rock candy distress stickles and let dry overnight - I always knew I'd find a use for these maps one day!  The book page is coloured with crushed olive and forest moss DI's.

When I was rummaging for the flower stamp I realised I hadn't opened this drawer to the camera before - they're mostly Rubber Stampede stamps.

I really want to sort out my Idea-ology stash and keep it all in one place, but need to find something suitable.  I can't decide if I want to take the things out of the packets or not, I know it would make it easier to grab them to use, but I kind of like them in their packets too.  I guess it depends what I find to store them in - and I have no idea when I will do that!! At the moment most of it is chucked into this box - I know I showed it to you a few weeks ago, but I thought some of you (Linda!!) might like to see it again - and the new stuff is still on the floor next to me.... (nice and close!!) If I keep them in their packets, I just need a box.  Otherwise -  any suggestions? To be honest, this box is too full and I have to rummage madly to find anything.

Well, there will no doubt be loads more desks to get round so I had better stop burbling and start hopping! Hope you enjoyed your visit today, see you all soon. Check out the rest of the desks/washing machines/cupboards here or in my sidebar to see what the fun is all about.