WOYWW 383 - a new toy (or several)

Hi there, deskers and it's Wednesday again already.. time to meet up with Julia and the Gang at the Stamping Ground
Some of you have already seen the review of the Happy Stampers show (here)  the walk round Port Sunlight village (here)  and Liverpool Waterfront (here)  the latter of which just blew me away (helped in no small part by a gorgeous day, warm sunshine and the bluest of blue skies you could imagine for England in October.  follow the links if you haven't and if you want to!

But I will include a quick snap or two here for those of you in a hurry!

 Shaz and Neet - I've been blogging since 2009 (golly, THAT long?!) and have known Neet 'virtually' probably for most of that time.  Saturday was the first time we've met... So pleased you were able to make it Neet, and hope you feel a lot better!

It was wonderful to meet this lovely lady at last, and it's always great to catch up with Shaz and Doug.



Sarah Anderson (friend of Chris's), Neet, Shaz and Chris (PearshapeChris)   - everyone kept congregating at Paperartsy's stand... wonder why?!








Stash from Happy Stampers... see, I CAN do minimal - shopping anyway!

and ahem. the desk from Tuesday... I am off work this week (I think I may have mentioned!)  and went into Kingston to the art shop as my bottle of gesso is getting low... I like the Liquitex one and the art shop had a giant bottle that is best part of 1 litre , so it made sense to get the biggest they had!  the price was good too.

  A few other pieces "may" have fallen into my basket - some hot press watercolour paper (two for one in the pack, so obviously that was a bargain!) some more micron pens, and a small pad of 'natural' colour card - a pale Kraft.. it's nice!  and er... a new lens for the camera...

 I've had my eye on a really wide angle for some time (wanted a Macro as well for all the flowers, but they were a bit lot more pricey... next on the list though!)

 this one is 10 mm to 18mm focal length and this is it set at it's widest 10mm... you can see quite a lot more  of my "stuff"...  as I will demonstrate...

 this is my "standard" zoom which is 18 mm to 55 mm and it is set at 18mm so this is the most you'd normally be able to see... can't wait to get it out and about to play

(by the time you read this, unless you are very early, I will be out and about with it, in London!)

and this is the view of the room at it's widest 10mm again, back from the doorway towards the window.  oh my...  think I need a radical sort out!!

Hope you all have a good Wednesday, I'll do my catching up with your desks this evening!

and if you want to see London it'll be on "photosbyh" later today!! (click the fountain at the top right)

WOYWW - new toys

Welcome to another Wednesday's desk hop-fest! Julia will set you straight with all the info here at the Stamping Ground.

So, I say new toys - but maybe not the kind of toys you are expecting (they haven't arrived yet, ha ha!) No, this is the new toy I mean... some of you saw the tweets and FB update about this! (I couldn't wait for today!)

I have finally upgraded my 35mm film SLR to a digital one! Found a great deal online which was price matched in Jessops (always been my favourite camera store!) and on Saturday I took myself off to Oxford Street in London to purchase it... now I need to work out all the functions and settings!  The instruction book is 300 pages... Luckily I got a quick demo from the very knowledgeable chap in store!

This was my floor on Tuesday morning - a pile of Christmas cards ready for posting (they've gone now, so it's really cheating to show this today!) the tag is just to hide the addresses...

Underneath is the dictionary I've been using for the Craft Barn Dictionary Alpha challenge, as I've been working on the final two letters - watch this space for the big reveal!

I look forward to seeing what you've all been up to and will be round as many of you as I can, very soon!