WOYWW..........Off to see Tim!

Well this is how my desk looks this week.....( taken this morning at 6.00am - still very dark, can't wait for the spring!!!)

My desk is all nice and tidy and clean, already for the lovely new stash i NEED to buy tomorrow at ArtsyCrafts with Tim Holtz.  In the envelope is my ticket and badges ready for the workshop and the scissers and pokey tool are all I need to take with me..........very exciting!!!!!!

 This is what I've been up to this week.........My mum's friend has been married for 50 years and they've gone to South Africa for a holiday and she asked me to make a photo album for all thier holiday pictures. (not the best picture!)

Apologies for the rubbish pics this week, I'll try and do better next week!!

Okay I'm off now to get myself organised, i'm  leaving this afternoon about 3:00ish so can't promise I'll get around to visiting many of you until the weekend.
Have a great WOYWW......... Andrea.xx

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WOYWW and I'm back!!

Hi Guys, I'm back and hope you are all well.

I'm not sure where the past 13weeks have gone but I have missed you all. I have been peeping at your messy creative desks but just not enough time to leave a comment sorry :(
Just like to say big Hello to Lavinia (Lavinias Paper Emporium) for leaving a comment on my blog a few weeks ago to check I was okay. Thanks Lavinia.x

Okay what have I been up to........

• Had a fab time in DisneyLand Paris even though we had one or two snow showers!!
• Christmas was brilliant....seems such a long time ago now.
• Dylan has had his 11th Birthday.............he is growing up so fast.
• Finished my 6 month secondment and gone back to my old job......hooray!
• Been making lots of cards

and my tickets for Tim Holtz arrived........ only 8 days to go Woo Hoo!!

Here's a few pics
My daughter Kellie, Son Dylan, my darling little Granddaughter Katie-Louise and of course Mickey!!
Disneyland paris in the snow.....very magical!

and a few of the cards.

And last but not least here is my workdesk this morning

Its good to be back and hopefully I'll catch up with you all later or over the next couple of days.
Happy WOYWW..........Andrea.xx

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WOYWW '76'

Hi Guys,

This is my desk as I left it last night at 9:00pm last night.......... had to go and watch 'I'm a Celebrity'!!!

Very neat and tidy, with a fab new set of stamps from PaperArtsy waiting patiently for the weekend to come so I can have a play. and to the left is a some of the Christmas cards I have made ( still loads to go !!)

I had a really busy weekend last week - Saturday getting everything ready for the car boot sale( and the Sky man coming) and Sunday doing the car boot sale.

Now here's a question for you..........How mad am I ???????

I normally leave for work around 6:15am  Mon - Fri (stupid o'clock)......... To go to the car boot sale on Sunday me and my daughter left the house at 5:00am (really stupid o'clock)...........100% mad I think!!

We did have a good laugh though and made a few pennies for our trip to Disneyland Paris  - only 29 days to go......Woo hoo!!

Catch up with you soon, happy snooping.........A.xx

P.S. If you've arrived here on the off chance and are wondering what's going on hop over to Julia "Queen of the WOWWers" blog to find out what it's all about. Link is on the side of my blog.

WOYWW '75'

Another quick post from me as I should have done this last night. I've had a different job for the past 6mths and it means leaving at stupid o'clock in the morning.......never mind only 23 more days to go!!!
Not much on my work desk this week as I've been busy 'spring cleaning'. I'm either 6 months to late or 6 months too early :) There is a reason behind the 'domestic goddess' tendencies - The Sky man is coming to fit a new box and multi room. All Corners and skirting boards are sparkling so he can fit new cables without having to battle with the cobwebs!!!!
Anyway here's my desk........a really quick Christmas card on the stand, made out of the gorgeous Paper Arsty Christmas papers.

and you know the 'push back' technique that a lot of you use out there (you know who you are!!!) Well I haven't really got much room in front of me to master it so I gone for the 'side way' technique and the 'pile high' technique this week and I think I've definitely mastered it!! What do you think?? Good job Mr Sky man isn't going in my messy room!!

Thanks for all the fab comments last week, see you all soon,

Happy Snooping.........A.xx

P.S. If you've arrived here on the off chance and are wondering what's going on hop over to Julia "Queen of the WOWWers" blog to find out what it's all about. Link is on the side of my blog.

WOYWW '74'

Neat and tidy for me this week........sorry!

I was busy on Monday making my challenge entry for Simon Says Stamp and Show and Compendium of Curiosities (better pic in the previous post) and my 10yr old Son was playing along too and there's not really enough room for two in my craft room. There was so much stash everywhere I had to tidy up and this is as I left it on Monday night.........

Here is a pic of Dylan's  - Twinchie, he was following the Compendium of curiosities challenge too! (sorry about the rubbish pics, It's so dark at 6.00am)

Off to work now, see you later.........A.xx

P.S. If you've arrived here on the off chance and are wondering what's going on hop over to Julia "Queen of the WOWWers" blog to find out what it's all about. Link is on the side of my blog. 

Challenges

Here is my entry for two challenges this week. Simon Says Stamp and Show and Studio L3 Compendium of Curiosities.

The background is a  canvas painted with white acrylic paint and then touched up with Hazelnut paint dabber, The pink flower is paper stuck to Claudine Hellmuth's sticky back canvas and die cut using Tim's tattered florals and the blue one is paper stuck to grunge paper and then die cut. The Wendy Vecchi butterflies are stamped on the same pink and blue paper . As for the Key, you'll have to hop over to Studio L3 to find out how I did it!!!

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.........A.xx

Spooky Book!!

I love joining in with the challenge blogs but a few weeks ago someone came along and pinched my spare time (not that I had much of it to start with!!) and the weeks seemed to have passed by. This week I've had a weeks holiday from work so I've no excuse. This is my little 'Spookay' Book that  i am going to enter in 'Simon Says Stamp and Show' and as there is 'Extreme Masking' on it I thought I would enter it in Linda's Compendium of Curiosities challenge No 19 (I've missed the other 18 weeks!!)

Here's the front.........

 The inside...........

and the back cover...................

Hope you like it and thanks for stopping by.

 

A.xx

WOYWW '73'

Hi Guys.......missed you all last week as I was feeling a little under the weather or more like under the duvet with a cold!!! but I'm back fighting fit this week so here goes......
This is my desk this morning. WIP is a book, to put all our Halloween pics in and I'm going to enter it in a few challenges, so need to get it finished today!!

Thought I'd share this with you.........

This was taken on Monday afternoon in Aberavon, Port Talbot and I live about 10mins away.......how lucky am I??

See you all later......A.xx

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WOYWW '71'

I had a fab time this weekend at LB Crafts, Lin is a brilliant teacher and believe you me it is well worth the drive because this is what I made...............

and now for my desk, I went for the long shot this week so you can see all the mess!!

My WIP Christmas arch has finally got some metal on and with any luck it will be finished by next week!!
Short and sweet from me this week as I have to leave for work in 10mins and I've still got my PJ's on!

See you later..........A.xx

P.S. If you've arrived here on the off chance and are wondering what's going on hop over to Julia "Queen of the WOWWers" blog to find out what it's all about. Link is on the side of my blog.  

WOYWW '70'

I missed you all last week, I couldn't commit to visiting as I was a bit busy so I thought it best to give it a miss.
I have struggled to get in my craft room this week and when I have tried I've had to stand up as little Meg had pinched my chair and she looks so cute I couldn't move her.

 and her sister Gem (they hate each other with a passion!!) is curled up on a couple of cards that I had just made!!

 This is what I've been working on this week. I went to ArtsyCrafts weekend in march and made a Gothic Arch  (you can see it here you need to scroll down a bit) and really wanted to do a Christmas one. Hopefully the frame will be covered in metal by Christmas.

Off to LBCrafts on Saturday for one of Lin's wonderful classes....Melt Art.  I'll be back next week with pics!

See you later......A.xx

P.S. If you've arrived here on the off chance and are wondering what's going on hop over to Julia "Queen of the WOWWers" blog to find out what it's all about. Link is on the side of my blog.