WOYWW - AWOL

Oh dear ........................



..................... not a lot going on there is there? The mojo has upped and been gone since the weekend. Nothing. I sat at the desk and had some bits in front of me, but it was a blank so I put it away. I do, however, have an alternative workspace on my kitchen table:


........... I finally got around to felting the crocheting I did a couple of weeks back. The glasses and vases are to shape them until they're dry in case you're wondering. To join in the desk nosiness, go to ~{Julia's Blog}~

I've been struggling a bit emotionally of late to do with the illness and the restrictions it has on my life, but since I admitted it to my sis, and therefore to myself, I've been feeling better about it. I also have had the best therapy you could have. My ex's sister took me to Dunelm yesterday for a spend up. I hadn't seen her since before my birthday, so I had another few pressies to open. She bought me this:


Can't think why. The only trouble with the shopping was that I decided I wasn't going to use the wheelchair, so I walked. I haven't tried it for a while and I guess you have to give it a go else you'd never know if you could. Well, I can't! I was being stubborn as it really is so difficult shopping when you're in a chair. Within half an hour of getting in, it was very clear I shouldn't have done it! And now, today is pretty pants, but the best thing is, I am happy today. Yes I feel manky, yes I am sore and yes I was silly, but I had the best time. We had coffee and cake and I got this little lot:



So sorry this post doesn't have any mess on a desk to look at, but I have given you bargains instead. That pink box was £1.99 and the silver thingy that will be cut up for crafty projects was 99p!! And those balls? £1.99.

Here's hoping that the other desks I'm about to nosey at will entice the mojo back.

Kaz xx

Warning!! Wild animals on the loose

This weeks challenge over on ~{BS Challenge Blog}~ is to use 'wild animals' in your craft project.

I have got a cd of lovely animal images, but I couldn't resist this lot:



Scary aren't they? They are an Autumn Leaves stamp that I have coloured with Copics and cut out. The papers are Autumn Leaves too. It was a bit fiddly to say the least trying to hook their tails onto the card, but I got there in the end! Their santa hats are from a whispers stamp I think and the Ho!s are from a studio g set.

Short post from me today as I'm knackered!!

Kazzzzzzzzz xxx

SCD - Pink Tree

This week's challenge on ~{SCD}~ is to do a Christmas card that has a pink tree on it. Well this has been dead simple for me as I'd already started making a new batch of cards that includes ........ pink trees!! Bet you're surprised I said that!



A while ago I'd white embossed this PaperArtsy tree stamp onto various coloured Bazzill card and cut them out. They've been sitting in the box with those snowflakes for a while. Last night I started to stick them onto card blanks with silicone glue. Spooky or what?! I finished this one this morning ready to post and just have to ink the greetings for the others, which are blue, purple, light pink and even a couple of green ones. How boring!

Kaz xx

WOYWW - the return of the snowflakes

It's Wednesday again already, so it must be time to have a nosey share workspaces via ~{Julia's Blog}~. My desk isn't looking too bad this week, it's just organised chaos. The snowflakes have been dug out and I'm finally getting them put onto some cards. Unlike Kathy, I'm going for the easy option and making a few exactly the same - it involves far less thinking!! I've got 6 cards out of one sheet of 12 x 12 paper and have another sheet the same. I got sent a couple of these adornit papers last year for one of my first DT projects on ~{Bubbly Scrumptious}~ and I liked them so much a bought a few more for this year. Last year I went to town and stitched them and made different cards, but not now as it's far too much work to do!!



You can see that I'm batch producing. I've done all of the colour choices, trimming, inking and stamping so all I need to do now is stick. I don't know about you, but I get grumpy that the daylight hours are so few and even with a daylight lamp it's just not the same, so I can dip in and out of sticking during the manky light now.

The paperweight is still glowing and I'm hoping it has strange mystical powers so I can get it to predict the lotto numbers.

Finally, here's the first card to be finished.


I'm off to rummage through the others stash now, whoo!!!

Kaz xxx

Something Completely Different - never to be repeated

This month's SCD theme is Christmas cards and I need to be getting on with mine so it's good to get pushed.

For this week, it's holly and the ivy in green, red and gold. Well that gave me the perfect excuse to use the holly punch and make the card I've had in my head for a while. Remind me never to listen to my mind again. It doesn't know what it's on about.

I have to say I am pleased with how it turned out, but it was a bugger to put together!!


The holly leaves are tiny and I've punched various shades of green card from my scraps and the odd gold one, then just doodled a couple of veins on them. The tricky bit was the silicone glue and picking them up with tweezers. I got covered. The desk got covered and the card got covered. Thank goodness you can just pick it off once dry!! I've just finished off with some gems and left it at that. I'm going through a less is more phase at the moment after spending months sticking loads of bits onto each card.

Kaz xx

I am a numpty

Karen's just called me to check the topic for tomorrow's Bubbly Scrumptious Challenge as I mailed her a photo of 'Something Lace' I had made when, in fact, the topic is something completely different!! Somehow, between reading the e mail and writing it in my notebook, I lost the plot. Sorry about the swearing Karen and Jeremy when I realised what I'd done! Luckily though I did have something I made earlier this year that fits in.

So I shall blog this today instead on here.



I've used the last scraps of denim fabric I had leftover from the size 22 maternity jeans I bought in the sale. Nope, not preggers, nor never have been (sadly), but I loved the fabric so got the biggest pair I could. I decided to have a play and gessoed onto bubble wrap then stamped it onto the fabric and then coloured the gesso with ink. It doesn't show up very well on here. I've sewn the lace around the heart - very fiddly - and then stitched a bit across it.



I cut grungepaper flowers with a sissix die, gessoed them, embossed them and inked them and attached them with buttons, thread and paper flowers and finished off with a stamped butterfly and some gems. If I'd had any, I'd have stuffed some lavender into them.

The little one may become a bag charm yet, I'm undecided.

Oh well, I'd best go and check I've got the rest of the list written out correctly!

Kaz xxx

WOYWW or third time lucky

I'm still at Lynne's, just till tomorrow though, so my workspace this week is my lap. Again. As I've only been here a little bit this week, I just brought knitting with me. And this week, I'm knitting wrist warmers for Rach.


Actually I started knitting them a year ago for her Christmas pressie. Unfortunately, I knitted them too small so I said I'd remake them for her. Well, it's only taken me 10 months to get round to it and last night I started sewing them up. Would you believe it, I made them too big!! Don't answer that.

Sooo today, I've started them for the third time. Mind you, I saw over on ~{Dyan's Blog}~ that she bought a pair for £3 in matalan! And hers have stripes. But, in true Mastermind fashion, I have started and I'm going to finish. That could also be down to my stubborn streak that I have been told I have lately.


You may wonder why I've got a hair thingy on the end of one needle. Take a look at the rug. I lost the end somewhere in there. That rug of Lynne's is magic. You lose something in it and it will reappear months later, along with beads, sequins and the odd bunny poo.

Off for a nosey at other peeps workspaces now.

Kaz xxxx