WOYWW 747

 Hello fellow deskers.  Wednesday again and time for WOYWW .  and the end of yet another month!

I have't got a lot to share today as I did diddly-squat at the weekend, coming down with a cold and apart from Kew, zero energy!

I hadn't even opened the neon glosses until Tuesday evening, 

you have to shake them very hard to re-mix the colour as the neon settles out to a thick puddle at the bottom of the bottle 

I  managed to take a slightly wobbly one-handed photo of the dropper doodling neon on the page.  

I think it was Mary-Anne who said last week that having droppers would give a different effect to sprays - well yes, sprays go everywhere (in my experience!) but the droppers are much more controllable.  A totally different effect, for sure 

I am hoping to be more productive next week!

There is one more early Kew opening this coming Saturday and come rain, shine or the remnants of my cold, I will be there...

till then, here's the link for last week! 

Kim has indeed  broken her ankle and at time of writing, has been stuck in hospital since last Tuesday waiting for surgery to pin the ankle - and it's looking like it will be delayed again!  

it was a lovely sunny morning 

and more flowers on the cactus in the Princess of Wales conservatory. 

WOYWW 746

Welcome back for another WOYWW.  Desk sharing day... 

I had a play in my white Dina Wakley journal with the neon paints 

I stamped one of Dina's faces onto a blank transparency (using stuff again!!)  

added some  collage tissue pieces to the page.  

I made a birthday card for my boss

and ordered and received the new neon glosses (they have stopped calling them sprays, and are changing over to droppers rather than sprays due to the clogging problems)

you can at the moment still get spray attachments separately but gradually the droppers will replace them on all the glosses sold. 

The rest of my week off passed in a flash.

I went to London and took the planned tour of Buckingham Palace and really enjoyed the Coronation displays.  The robes were magnificent and the embroidery on the Queen's gown was superb.

unfortunately although not surprisingly you can't take photographs inside.  

this is the back garden where they hold the Garden parties. 

Saturday was another lovely visit to Kew 

the cygnets are growing so fast and losing their grey baby feathers -  the neck looks so soft,  but I wouldn't want to stroke it, I bet they've already got a nasty nip if they fancied!

I'll be heading back again on Saturday although it looks as if my Kew buddy Kim will be missing for a while - she's managed to break her ankle and is in plaster. 

We have a work team meeting which runs over lunchtime so I'll be late visiting those of you I can't do before work.

Happy WOYWW and see you soon 

WOYWW 745

 I am at the half way point of my week's holiday from work. which means it must be Wednesday.. and WOYWW   

I had a few things planned for this week (more of that later) and so finished off the journal page from last week, at the weekend in advance for sharing.   (Kyla,  the leaves on the other page you commented on,  they're from a mask/stencil set, by Dina Wakley)  

took a couple of close ups

the figures are Dina's transparencies, I decided to use some rather than just store them up!  

and some other bits - collage tissue pieces and scraps from a Dina live FB workshop from months (12 plus probably) ago....

so the week off... Monday, as planned, an extra trip to Kew after the late Saturday due to the fun run.  

Tuesday (today, as writing )  NOT as planned and as explained in the blog... meant to be Wakehurst, a Kew members coach trip... short version,  I missed the coach...

for WOYWW day I may just stay in bed....   Thursday I have a slot booked at Buckingham Palace as part of their summer opening, but you're not allowed to take photographs.....(till you get to the garden)  

So, depending on what I decide to do or not do on Wednesday I'll catch your crafty spaces very soon!

WOYWW 744

 Happy Wednesday, deskers.  time for another day desk hopping with Julia  

once again there's not a lot been going on, but I started another couple of journal pages 

neither anywhere near finished

and I prefer the one on the right, as the left page didn't go quite how I (didn't) planned.

there's a layer of stencilling under the top layer that didn't work (no photos)  so it got covered up

we'll see what happens next!  

and because I have't shared the mass of boxes for a while here they are once again.  

the 4 big (no, 5, I can't count) all have Paperartsy stamps in 

behind that are my original storage boxes - double stacked - all with my wood mounted stamps in. (apart from the other boxes elsewhere in the room....) 

it all needs a good sorting out, but it's the kind of job you can't start unless you can finish as it will get worse before it gets better... so best to leave it as is!!

Saturday was of course, Kew 

I'm sure you can tell this is a sunflower

gorgeous colours.

this coming Saturday we can't get in till 11 am as it's the second of the year's half marathons run in the gardens and given that the day is meant to be really really hot that is a pain!  

I'll probably still go though!

Thanks for dropping by, happy WOYWW and see you soon.  

Julia is away so has published early so I  am linking early.  

WOYWW 743

Not sure how it's Wednesday again already, let alone the last Wednesday in August... but here we are, meeting for WOYWW once more...the day we meet to share our crafty spaces or projects.

I had a bit of a nightmare at the weekend as when I got back from Kew I couldn't get the photos to download from the camera... an update by Microsoft had stopped the app that reads the photos from the camera transferring (i think....)  I was all set to have to take the computer in to be "looked at"  on Tuesday (they couldn't do it on Saturday)  but I faffed about on Sunday after I'd stopped panicking, and re-installed the old version of the app and ... bingo.

anyway I am rambling.  Once I'd belatedly got Saturday's Kew trip blogged, I had some playtime on Monday....

I tore the masterboard in half and glued it to each half of the journal, having used another of Seth's new stencils (the one Julia thought looked like teeth...)  round the edges.  

I dithered for some time to think about a focal point and found a couple of older stencils of Seth's (they are all by Stencil Girl) including the large one which is just a small part of a 9x12 stencil.  There are some splatters on the page too but they don't show up very well.... 

Here's the link to the fateful Kew post (so pleased to be able to share it!)  

 the snail that freaked Elizabeth out last week, was still there, and so was this spider 

there was another burst of flowers on this cactus group in the Princess of Wales conservatory too. 

 

perfect timing!  

thanks for visiting, and I'll see you soon.

Happy WOYWW 

WOYWW 742

 Welcome again, deskers,  tis time for WOYWW .   

It's been another fairly unproductive week (what's new!)  

I added some stamping  layers to the background I started and shared last week....keeping to the same colours and keeping to Seth's stamps.

it's sat on top of the journal I intend to add it to.. either in pieces or in halves with something in the background.... not sure yet!

had intended to play with it Tuesday evening (i.e now)  but I am falling asleep so  not going to risk ruining it and will carry on flicking between the cricket and the athletics...

Saturday of course was Kew,.  my Kew mate Kim wasn't able to make it (she's having problems with gallstones ) so I was on my own.  

I noticed this teeny teeny snail on the centre of an echinacea flower... smaller than my little fingernail.    so cute!  

and in the Temperate House I loved these passionflowers tumbling down the outside of a beautiful terracotta pot.

Thanks for looking, happy WOYWW.   

WOYWW 741 (early)

 Time already for another WOYWW -  and indeed Julia has published early as she's off out and about early doors on Wednesday.. I stopped by for the link to find it's already Wednesday in Dunnit-land...

I have splurged again this week.... can't resist a stencil, and when they are designed for Stencil Girl by Seth Apter... well... what's a girl to do..

I'll make it a big photo so you can see nicely!   lots of Seth magic, mark-making favourites...

oh, and one of Alison Bomber's Paperartsy stamps launched a couple of weeks ago fell in too...

first off I played with the Dogwood Blossom stencil (not, you'll realise, one of Seth's!!) 

I had to search out a large enough piece of paper to get the whole image in... found a pad of newsprint paper gathering dust over yonder by the radiator.... perfick!

I used a make-up sponge (Primark specials) and 3 shades of Distress Oxide, including, topically given Julia used it last week, the pale Spun Sugar, attempting some shading with Kitsch Flamingo and Picked Raspberry.  and a splodge or two of Seedless Preserves which is a more purpley ink.

Had to trim it quite hard to fit it onto a journal page.

I intend to stencil some more of the flowers and layer them over the background.    eventually!

then it was time for Seth.... I used a variety of Versafine Clair inks  this time and several of his stencils but it's not progressed since this stage....

still it was a fun hour on Sunday morning...

Here's the link for Kew on Saturday  

the Broad Walk has huge drifts of echinacea and rudbeckia and i love them...

we've had some cracking sunsets the last few evenings too, though i can't see a lot of it from my bedroom window --  too built up, but

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday  - loved the way the rays shone through the cloud

ok that's me done,  Happy WOYWW and I'll see you soon - 

thanks for dropping by!