WOYWW 189 - Project Life Fest! Warning - Photo heavy...

Edited to add:  Apologies - I seem to have linked you all to the Mobile version of this page - please scroll down to the bottom and it will say "View Web Version".  If you want.  Not compulsory, but you might feel a little less like you're in the wrong place!

Hello!  Back at WOYWW once more.  For those not in the know, the deets are here.... feel free to join in with whatever your workdesk may have lurking on it, no matter what...

I am still at home recuperating - I have an appointment with the doctor today, and just had a date for a post-op appointment sent to me.  I will know later whether or not I go back to work on Thursday but if truth be told, I'm still feeling pretty worn out and the thought of driving an hour each way either side of an 8 hour day is rather daunting.  We will see what the Dr says. (Update: Dr said stay home another week....)

In the meantime I'm filling my days with an awful lot of nothing much.  Not being allowed to lift and lug anything seriously reduces the amount of housework I can do (yay) but after a while it does get tedious not being able to run the hoover round or get the washing from A to B and back again. 

Mr Mojo has also taken a hike but I have managed to get a little bit caught up on my Project Life work.  I'm determined (absolutely!) to get 2012 put to bed by the end of this month....  following are most (but not all) of the weeks I've done.  The pages not included are awaiting the arrival of prints to put in - no point showing you the pages if there's nothing to look at!  Any gaps you see are also waiting on prints.  The reason for the gaps?   A couple got missed, but deadlines for getting free/reduced price prints were looming and I had to send off a certain number by a certain time (eg, 50 prints for free, 75 prints for 1p + postage).  Net result, only half the odd week got sent in.  My apologies for the awful picture quality - poor light, late at night...

I'm going to keep up to date with 2013.  And true to my word, here are the title page and Week 1 of 2013.

Catch you around!

WOYWW 188 - return of the Morti

Hello strangers!  Who am I kidding - I'm the strangest one around... as long as you don't look too closely at the rest of my crowd "to everyone else we're a normal family".  LOL  Well, I'm back after my break from WOYWW and my recuperation is still in full swing but this is the first week I've really felt like joining in.  That's if the dogs give me five minutes peace - they know someone is in the house and they do NOT like being left alone in those circumstances.  Every hour....woof woof woof woof woof.... sheesh.  Worse than kids... Anyhooo - wanted to say A BIG THANK YOU to everyone for your kind well-wishes, and I'm sorry I've not been by your blogs to say thank you personally.....

So, why are we here?  Oh yes - back to the old WOYWW.  If you've happened upon my blogginess by accident and are wondering what on earth I'm on about, go HERE and read Queen Dunnit's post, and then if you've a mind to - join in!

Soooooooo - my desk this week.....

Scary, isn't it?

Very messy and untidy.  You wouldn't think that I'd had not just one but TWO different visitors staying!  Mum went to my brother's for New Year, and Mr B then took her home *why brother couldn't do it, I don't know, but that's normal* to London.  The day after Mum went, my God-daughter came down from Cheshire for a couple of days but only stayed overnight because she was "homesick" (at 15? Ohhhhhkaaaaayyyyy, anything she says!) Praise where it's due though - it was her first solo journey on public transport...!

I'm digressing aren't I?

SOWWY.....

The desk, Morti, the desk!

Ok, the reason for the muddle is that said God-daughter had a go at making her first card and in the flurry to get her back home next day, we didn't tidy up.  I will rectify that later.

I have been a bit busy creatively but there's not much to show here.  I've made a couple more crochet squares, completed several weeks of Project Life (but the photos are waiting for processing, home printing just ain't cutting the mustard) as well as made a start on 2013 (I WILL get caught up on last year's by the end of this month) AND I finished the gothic tassel on Christmas Eve......

And just to finish, I thought I'd throw in a random Christmas tree shot, just for the heck of it.  Because it was Christmas, and I didn't do it before...

Hope to see you on the 'hop!

WOYWW not....

I'm not officially taking part this week but figured I should put up a quick post for anyone stopping by...

Thank you to everyone for your well-wishes - surgery went well and I am home being well looked after. I've not quite got the get up and go for crafting yet but I am most definitely at the point of having had enough daytime TV!!!  I'm not able to concentrate for too long on any one thing yet either, so this is about my lot on the blogging front...

See you all next week.

WOYWW 183..... it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas....

Wooooo!!!

Here we are again for another round of WOYWW, and it's now December and we're 5 days into Advent.  For all the WOYWW shaped deets, head here for the fabulous Ms Dunnit, Mr Linky, and to join in!

I'm quite conscious of the fact that you lovely visitors pop by and see my desk in the throes of making something, but you never see anything actually finished.

Well, this week I'm doing a complete turnaround, and I'm going to show you something I have finished but you never saw it started!!!

I had a panic attack last Wednesday evening - I suddenly realised that we were only two days away from the first of December, and I hadn't started Lil' Miss B's Advent Calendar.  I'd bought a Tando Creative octagonal advent calendar, with a view to making it up, and then promptly forgotten about it.

Cue much panicked makings...

I started out with a coat of silver paint on everything - can I just suggest to you all that you don't do what I did?  Make sure you know what you're doing BEFORE you assemble it, that way it's a lot easier to paint!  LOL.

I've used Dovecraft Christmas papers, glued on and then Chipped Sapphire DI round the edges topped off with silver pigment ink to tie them all together.  Liberal application of glitter glue followed, and having bought Tando's advent numbers, I double embossed these with Personal Impressions Silver Dollar EP.  And edged them with a Krylon silver leaf pen.  Took AGES..... hehehehe

I stuck on a few snowflake buttons with the shanks removed, glitter glued those too, and topped it off with a star cut from Mirri board on my Silhouette.  To finish, fill draws....!

Ok, so Lil' Miss B ended up getting it late (on the 2nd) but she loves it and I just want to stroke it.....LOL

Oh, and while we're on the "finished job" tack - here's my finished labels.  I have a modest collection of Distress Inks, but as you can see, I have room for more!

 

Oh - and before I go, my apologies if I don't get around to you this week.  I'm in hospital tomorrow for surgery, and fully expect it to be at least 4 days before I feel like looking at a computer!  I should be home on Friday though....!  Happy hopping!

WOYWW 182

My WOYWW is another non-event this week really.  My apologies to all my visitors from last week - I did get round to many of you but didn't leave a message - it was mostly a quick hop and skip and you have my apologies for not spending more time at each of you.... bad Morti, BAD Morti....

Here's my desk, covered with the current debris of me trying to come up with some Angels for a certain swap... Mr Mojo has left the building and taken my muse with him.

I will be popping by sometime this week, that's for sure - keep a cuppa on the go for me!

WOYWW 181 - not...

Mary Anne, bless her, has left a comment on WOYWW 180 wondering where 181 is. 

That’s the thing.  This week, technically, there’s no 181.  But I’ve elected to slap up a picture of my work desk today just to keep up the numbers, so to speak.

 

Regrettably, family life is getting in the way more important this week.  Normal service will resume shortly.  And then be interrupted again when I go for my op (two weeks tomorrow!) but after that I’ll be off work for a while and I’m hoping to try and get round everyone at least once while I’m off.  Maybe on Boxing Day.... shhhh.....

Apologies to everyone I’ve not made it round to from last week – family life, like I said.  For those who suggested the Ranger labels as per the web for my Distress Inks – one jump ahead of you guys, one jump ahead. Thank you for your help though.  Folks should note that Ranger have yet to add the spring and summer labels to the PDF, you need to create your own.

TTFN!

WOYWW 180

Short and sweet from me tonight as there's a lot going on in the house of Mort, and it ain't crafting, sadly...

So, it's another round of WOYWW - for the deets go here - and whilst I've not done an awful lot this week I'm working on a fairly major project.

So, here's my desk.... you can see new storage for the distress inks.  They need labels!  Something else to do, eh?  And there's a lap tray - desk no 3 if you're keeping count - and the latest project on it. 

Come closer....

No, I do not have a tiny alien or robot on my desk, it's the light catching a red bauble behind a polystyrene ball that makes it look like two glowing eyes on a fat white alien with a red head....LOL

No, closer than that....

There it is!

I learned a new word this week.  Icosahedron.  I'd always known it, so to speak, but now it's buried in my mind.  It's a twenty sided shape, which just so happens to be the shape the black bugle beads make, buried under the 20 points of this star.  I know it well, because I had to unpick the lot and restart because the instructions were wrong at the very outset.  I'm sure Spellbound Beads don't think they are wrong, but I do - there is no way to make this whole star if you make your Icosahedron with double thread....  I digress...  This is a Gothika Tassel from Spellbound Beads and I'm making it as a gift for some friends of mine.  I'm sure they'll love it.

 

Edited to add - I've updated this blog with a picture of what the icosahedron part of the star looks like.  The shape above is actually a stellar icosahedron which is a 20 sided shape with star points added and is actually a 60 sided shape, or to give it its full name, a hexacontahedron.  My brain hurts.....

 

 

 

 

Adios - see you on the hop!

Drummed out of school.....

Scrappymo! asked me on Wednesday if the drumming out of school thing (see this post) is the norm where we live.  We-ell, it sort of is, and it sort of isn't.... let me explain:

 

At the time, we were living near a town called Warminster (clue is in the name!) and Lil Miss B went to one of several primary schools there.  For non-locals, Warminster is on the edge of Salisbury Plain (where all our military come to practice their war play) and is home to the 3rd Battalion of The Yorkshire Regiment.  Their barracks is there, and many of the army children go to primary schools in Warminster.  I think there's 5 or 6 primary schools which feed into a big 1000 strong secondary academy.

 

So, on the last day of term, the regiment split up and send several soldiers out to each of the schools and drum them out.  It's a lovely custom, and not only pays homage to the children themselves, but the links the schools have with the families and the soldiers themselves.  3rd Yorks in particular have suffered heavy losses in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the schools have to deal with the fall out on the children of the soldiers who have died...

 

We've now moved to the other side of the Plain, and it doesn't seem to happen over here, even though there are lots more barracks!  Hopefully, one or two of other Wiltshire WOYWWers will be able to confirm or deny if this happens in Larkhill, Tidworth or Bulford, or if it really is unique to Warminster.

WOYWW 179....nothing to see here....

....move along!

Oh?  You want to see my desk for WOYWW??

Oh, ok then!

As you can see, a right royal mess!

And here is the double layout that is lurking on here, waiting to be put in the album.  My one and only offering of scrapbooking from the crop on Saturday.  Granted I didn't get there until lunchtime, but Mr Mojo had left the building before I arrived.  I'd been meaning to scrap this for months, so it finally got done!  And the layout is of a truly momentous occasion - the day Lil Miss B left primary school, with the 3rd Yorkshire Regiment drumming the leavers out of school... I'm so glad I got to see it!

Nothing else for you today, so run along now....or head back to Julia's for the linky list and the deets about why I'm baring my desk to you today!

Ha!  Short and sweet, bet you weren't expecting THAT!

WOYWW 178 - Happy Halloween!

And that's as spooky as my desk gets this week! 

Just for a change, I'm not going to show you my usual desk.  This here is my other "other" desk.  Not my proper work desk, at work. No.  This is the "desk" in the lounge, next to the chair where I crochet and cross-stitch.  You'll see there's a bauble lurking, waiting for me to start beading.  And a couple of crocheted squares in funky colours....I'm using a random dyed wool at the moment.  My coffee cup, empty at time of shot.

Just for good measure, here is an update on the cross-stitch.  Slow progress, I'm afraid, but progress nonetheless.

The reason for not showing my normal desk?  Trial runs of wedding stationery are on it and I'm keeping them under wraps.... heheheheh

As for the lack of spookiness - Lil Miss B is in Turkey with Real-Mum, and we're off to see Fields of the Nephilim tomorrow night, so won't be in for the trick or treaters..... mwahahahahahahah... instead, spookiness is provided by Carl McCoy!

Have a good week y'all....