WOYWW 885

 welcome back lovely deskers, it's time again for WOYWW . Hope you're all well. 

Thanks to LLJ for the card and atc for the anniversary - which I have forgotten to photograph!!  

I made a journal page in the Dina ledger last weekend,  I started by splodging red (Tomato) and green (Forest) Paperartsy Fresco paints somewhat randomly They're both translucent paints

added stripes of Frosty Fresco which is an opaque one. 

added a touch of slightly watered down gesso to tone down the green and red,  stamped some Dina men in  the "boxes" created by the Frosty paint 

stamped some more images from the same stamp set as the men (it's a set called You Are the Universe - the stones and the sentiment. 

Saturday of course, was Kew  

you know I love alliums!

the Canada goslings were huddling together 

and here's another Henry!  

I'll leave it there, blogger is being .... awkward  

happy WOYWW all 

WOYWW 884 17 and counting

Happy WOYWW week 884 - 17 years old ... I am quite sure Julia never thought when she created this group that it would last so long,but thanks to her for starting it  and thanks to Sarah for taking it on .  We have seen each other through good times and bad over the years.  

Sarah thought that it would be an idea to create an ATC to share on the desks this week without necessarily having a swap as we have in the past. 

This is the ATC I created for our 17th anniversary.  -  we have made good friends indeed. 

Sarah also suggested we try and find some atcs that we've received from Neet over the years, in her memory.  I did find one, from 2024 - she called it "What's on your Wash-line Wednesday"  

I do have more, but didn't have time to look them out -there is no organisation to the way I store things like this, they are just kept in envelopes all over the place,  and I was supposed to be having my new boiler installed this week and didn't have time to hunt through places they may have been put... 

The boiler hasn't actually BEEN installed this week as when the guy turned up Monday morning he took one look at the old boiler and said - "that's a 2-man job to get that off the wall, it's way too heavy for one"  and then looked outside at the wall where the flue exits (one storey up obviously as I live in a first floor maisonette) and said "you'll need scaffolding for that; you  need a health and safety assessment".    

you  may ask why this wasn't thought of at the time the first engineer took the photos to send to BGas before they rang the quote through with me.....  yes indeed.   me too.  

So, I did get a bit of journalling done last week 

it needs some kind of quote top right,  or something, to finish it off..  

Kew on Saturday saw the official opening of the Henry Moore: Monumental Art exhibition ....  they are fantastic..  the blog shows lots of them and they have removed the barriers, although some still have ropes so you can't get right up to them (to discourage climbing I think )

these are some of my favourites.. 

and yes, I did lie right down to take the middle one

sending you all love and good wishes for another year of WOYWW fun and friendship.   

WOYWW 883

 Hello, lovely deskers.  Time once again to gather for WOYWW - but today is a very sad day as we meet to remember our lovely Neet who we found out last week had passed away.  We all knew she had been very poorly and in and out of hospital since autumn, and whilst maybe not a surprise to hear the news, it was still a shock when we heard from Chas, her beloved husband.

Neet was such a vital part of our WOYWW group, taking part for many many years and attending crops, sharing her amazing cards,  and we will all miss her hugely.  

I have gone back through my photos of crops - but only seem to have a couple saved on my computer from the 2022 crop - I haven't got any more saved on the computer, but have trawled back through many years of WOYWW posts and can't find any others with Neet in 

this was Neet and Cindy crafting away

and Neet doing what we all do so well at crops - chatting, here to Annie and Jo.

Whilst going through files on my computer, I found one of the also much missed Shaz with Neet at the Happy Stampers show in Port Sunlight 2016

I look forward to seeing other memories of a wonderful WOYWWer .

I haven't done any crafting really, a part done journal page but it's un-photographed.  Two trips to Kew if you're interested - Friday, for the 1st of May and early openings   and Saturday also at 8 am 

take care all.