Well, here I am posting a wee bit early, but I'm here for yet another WOYWW. Have to work but didn't want to miss out. Pretty clean desk due to my work schedule picking up and not having much time to do anything but sleep and see my son for a little while each day.

I have gotten patterned and solid papers glued onto those little mini books but that is about it :( I hope to share the finished project soon.

Miss Julia, in answer to your question, I used old magazines when I am using my glue stick to catch the messies lol if I happen to go off to the side I'm not searching for something to clean up, I just flip the page and start anew :)

I hope to have a chance to look around later. Hope you ladies have a good day :))

On my workdesk

I know it has been forever and day since I joined in on a WOYWW but having the day off, I decided it was time to join back in while I could. Don't know how many Wednesdays will see me posting as my work schedule is varied and if I do work it is way too late to join in.

Have some mini books in the works. I do a little here and there as I don't get much crafting time these days. Really should clean up after myself though, lol. My 1.5 yr old grand daughter thinks MaMom's craft stuff is hers also ;/
Hope to have a chance to nose around and see what other WOYWW'rs are working on :)
Have a blessed day all :)

Sometimes.

I just went back and looked and no serious posting from me in over 2 years :( I miss it, I surely do. I just can not seem to find the time or oomph to do it like I used too. There really isn't much to talk about, sadly. Truthfully, with working 2 jobs now and the hours that I work, I am tired :( Crafting has become a big luxury for me, although lately I seem to be getting more done (please don't let me jinx myself with that statement). I miss all the WOYWW ladies and checking their blogs for their desks :)) I miss the knowing I was not alone out there in the craft world, granted most of you are in the UK, but I was still not alone.
If I can figure things out and maybe get on a schedule or something, I hope to be back :)
Hope all is well with my followers :) I surely miss you all.

Missing my blog :(

I know I haven't posted anything in forever :( bad blogger, I am. Life has gotten in the way of not only my blog but my crafts also. Working 2 jobs and taking care of little ones does not a productive crafter/blogger make. I'm still trying to set up some kind of schedule for myself to get back to the things I miss. I hope to return, life will never calm down, I just have to learn to adjust.

Still here :)

I know I haven't posted in forever, I am very sorry for that. Lots going on and just no ambition to get anything done. Hoping that once things settle I will be posting again. I have lots I want to get accomplished and lots planned for the blog.

Be back soon :)

WOYWW

 The past few days have definitely been a good reason to stay in where it is warm and safe. We have gotten blasted with a nasty winter storm. Yesterday we got 4"- 6" of snow on top of what hasn't melted from previous storms. Today we are getting hit with sleet and freezing rain. Yuck to the max.

2-1-11 at about 7 am

killer icicles on the neighbors house

my new workdesk :) the loveseat..

What I have been working on lately.

First, be sure to head over toWOYWW headquarters and have a peak at everyone's work spaces :) Make sure you have plenty of refreshments handy because it will take a bit to get through them all. Be sure to let the posters know you have been there and had a nosey. We all love the comments :)
Now onto the business at hand :) My newest project is fixing a quilt top that I have had for many moons. It has holes in it and well I love it so much I can't bear to throw it in the trash. It is made of beautiful and funky vintage fabrics. Back in December I saw  this post on Smile and Wave and it gave me the inspiration to fix my lovely quilt topper. I am hoping to have it done soon but well my hands get tired and I haven't been doing much with it steadily. And I also signed up for a Valentine swap on Hilltown Families that are due out by the 7th, so I will be working on those the next few days.
Still trying to workout on how to answer comments so you can all see them. Until I figure out how to respond individually I will just do a recap :)
From my 1-23-11 post- Miss Virginia, I am glad to be back in blogland. I didn't know how much I missed it till I started blogging again.As you can see above we have gotten lots and lots of snow. Luckily, I have plenty of projects, food and coffee to keep me busy and warm. One of these fridays I plan on joining in on your Rocking Your World Friday.
From last weeks WOYWW post-
Karen- not always a tidy desk, just on Wednesdays (insert sheepish grin, lol)!
Samantha- I need at least 2 pots of coffee to get through the whole list of fellow WOYWWers, but it is just so much fun.
Vickie- I need all the help I can get to gain peace in my little world. After I have read it, I will definitely post what I think about it.
Tracey- Those black bins are empty chocolate drink mix containers that will be turned into banks. I am big on upcycling items that would otherwise be put the trash. I will be sure to share a pic when they are done :)

A big thank you to all for stopping on by. Hope you all are having a wonderfully Blessed day :)

WOYWW a re-return :)

Hello again :) Wow 2 posts in a week, there might be hope for me after all :)  Be sure to hop on over to WOYWW Headquarters :) to have a sneak at everyone's desks. But be warned, it is time consuming, and you can't just look at 1, you just have to keep having a sneak :)
Not much going on my desk this am. But the day is still young. I have been working on my inspire sign for over a week and have not got much done with it. The book is "The Peace Book" by Louise Diamond. Haven't started reading it yet but I am hoping for some insight into some inner issues I have.
Not much of a post for today. I am awaiting a visit from the grand baby :)
Have a blessed day :)

attempting a return to blogging :)

We all know that life gets in the way but wow, I didn't realize how long it had been since I blogged. Hoping to blog more this coming year. January has been fun so far haha We celebrated my grand daughters 1st Birthday :) That is her and I in the picture above. That lil girl brings so much joy into this heart of mine.

While going through totes from the basement I hit a goldmine of vintage goodies, including this lovely necklace above. Along with treasures from my childhood that I am so grateful to have now, even though there was no rhyme or reason for me keeping them way back when.

One thing that has not been fun this month is the amount of snow we have gotten. The above picture was taken on 1-12-11 and man it has just continued on a weekly basis. Tomorrow we are due for single digit temps with -30 to lower wind chills. Not my favorite time of the year at all.

Something I miss so much, sunshine :) Looking forward to warmer temps, for sure.

This is what my room looked like a few weeks ago. Total mess and I felt like I hadn't fully moved in, even though we have been here since summer. So, it was time to get busy and get totes and boxes gone through. Took me a while but I got it done and I love having the extra space. Not saying that there are a few boxes that need to finish being organized but it looks so much better in there.

So happy to  have found this lace shawl that belonged to my mom. The wall behind my headboard needing a little something and this fit the bill. I love it.

 Metal craft shelf reorganized :) The top shelf holds extra page protectors, albums in progress (smaller ones) and extra albums. The middle shelf is negatives and idea and inventory binders. And the bottom shelf is all albums. The wine rack in front is now being used to hold fabric and patterns (even though I have yet to learn how to follow one lol)!!

More re-organization on this shelf. Current projects, idea books, already made cards and other lovely stuff. The chest in front hold unused journals, composition notebooks and sketchbooks.

This is what it looks like in front of the house today. Still piles of snow everywhere and we are expecting another storm this week. Hoping the groundhog does the right thing this year and cuts our winter short :)
Hope to be posting more pics of projects soon. And without such a LONG delay in between.

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Dale's sunflower

Finally after way too many months of not having a digital, I have one again and woohoo I'm loving it :) I had to include the above picture. Last school year Dale's class planted sunflower seeds, and he brought home this plant and well, mom had to take care of it. Mom, has been know to have a black thumb lol The flower is alive and well and thriving :) I didn't kill it lol

crafting area

 Here is a better photo of my crafting area :) Being that I do not have the whole room to craft in I have lots of stuff shoved in wherever I could find room.

mostly tidy desk

 Not much going on here. I have been working on this recipe box for my oldest, but I am taking my time with it.

partial right side of crafting area

I have my paints and glitter at the ready :) Hope to have more time to use them but it seems I never do.

art journal page

I made these a few weeks back, have added a few things here and there but haven't done the journalling yet. One day when I get more than 2 or 3 minutes here and there I will get more done on my journals.
Well, now that you have had a nosey at my desk, hop on over to woyww headquarters and check out everyone elses desks. Now I haven't been there in a few weeks but I have a feeling that it will take you (and me) more than a few hours to have a looksee :)
Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful wednesday.

WOYWW

Sorry for the not so good cell phone pics but I still do not have a camera :(  Not much going on on my desk this week. I am still in the process of organizing my stuff. It is bothering me NOT to be working on projects lol but I am determine to get this done, so I can be more productive. 

After my shelf was put up, it didn't take me long to fill it up. I still need to move some stuff around to get it to where I like it. But it is getting there.

I had to add a pic of this little cubby to show Julia that I do indeed have a journal/notebook obsession. These are all unused and just waiting to either be altered or added to my otherwise extensive journal list.

Sorry, not much to look at this week. Have had a slow time of organizing with meetings, lil man in camp, and job hunting. Hopefully soon I will have fun stuff to share.

Don't forget to pop on over to WOYWW headquarters to have a peak at everyone elses desks. It has grown by leaps and bounds and might take you a day or two, or like me over a week :) lol

Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

WOYWW... I'm back :)

This is the left side of my room. It looks a bit different now but this is the pic I took when I first started setting everything up. I still have stuff to put away lol but this will be how it looks for a while.

 This is my desk area at the beginning :) The picture boxes are now under the desk.

 The finished (well almost) desk area. I am slowly getting things organized and set up. I really haven't been working on too much lately, just playing around in my art journals.

I did make this card for my Bestie :) Tried some new things on it and I am very happy with the results.
Now that we are all moved in and pretty much settled I have set some goals for my crafting space lol I NEED to get my pictures and memorabilia organized and get back to working on my scrapbooks. That and I have a bunch of started projects that aren't finished so I want to get those organized and finished.
Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to pop on over to Miss Julia's Blog to have a peek at everyone elses desks :)

Ready to be done

Oh, how I am ready for this move to be over with. And I'm not even done packing yet :( I just want to sit down and work in my art journals and yet, I am stuck going through stuff and packing it away. The pain of it all is, I'm only moving 4 streets over haha. But yet stuff still has to be packed and packed safely so as to not ruin any of my precious crafting materials. Notice how I mention nothing of the rest of the house, just my stuff haha. Although last night I went to roast some zucchini in the oven and didn't have a spice that was needed, why??, because I packed it lol Also packed the piece that goes in my rice cooker to steam veggies. UGH!!! The next couple of weeks can go by very quick so I am done and in the new (old) place and getting settled in.
Explanation on the new (old) place lol Before the kids and I moved to Louisiana we lived in the apt. that we are now moving back into :) This is the neighborhood I grew up in and in some ways it feels as if I am going home. So, yes I am ready to be done.
Still no camera :( Haven't had a chance to get out to Wallyworld to check them out. I am so lost without it. I know I have my cell but, it takes very poor quality pictures.
Ok I just need to vent a little and there is no one around here to vent too :) Back to sorting and packing I go.
Hope everyone is having a blessed day.

WOYWW **out of commission**

Due to breakage of my camera :*( I have no pictures to post. Am hoping to get to Walmart today and find at least a cheap one for now, I soooooooo miss my camera, I feel like I am missing out on so many picture opportunities. So, until I am able to get a camera, I will be out of commission for WOYWW :( But you can go to Julia our fearless leader's blog :) and take a snoop at everyone else's desks. Be prepared though, you will be there for a long while :)
I have gotten a few scrapbook pages done :) Decided it was high time I got back into doing them as I have pics just sitting in boxes and before the memories fade even more. Wish I could share them with you. I will when I can.
On another note, I will be packing up said crafting supplies to move in a few weeks. I do plan on packing one box with art journal supplies, that way I can have at least one outlet for my creativity. Other than that I am giving myself a few months to get things sorted and truly organized. I have so much stuff that I truly don't know everything anymore.
Hope everyone has a wonderful wednesday and a great rest of the week :)

Memorial Day weekend happenings

Taking it pretty easy this weekend. I completed the right side page yesterday. I like the background so much I did 2 other pages with the same technique. I inked the page then went over it with a baby wipe :) First time doing this and I am liking it :)

 Inside the circle reads "In a world that is NOT!!!"

 I used some paper that I had in my supply along with book pages and a magazine cut out on these 2 pages. Still undecided on how I want to proceed with this one.

 The other 2 pages I prepped today. I also made a tag for this page but it was still drying so I didn't take a picture of it.

 Today I have spent loving up on this happy, smiling, gorgeous, lovable baby :) I don't get to spend much time with her since they moved to their own place, so Memaw needed some time with her Popeye :) She makes me smile and laugh and I just can't get enough of those chunky little cheeks of hers. It is hard to believe that in 4 days she will be 5 months old. She is rolling all over the place now, has discovered her feet lol and tries to talk aka baby screeches :) Before I know it she will be all grown up and giving her moma all the trouble she can :)

Hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend :) I know I am :)

WOYWW

Welcome to another edition of WOYWW :) Make sure you head over to Our leader Julia's blog to have a nosey at everyone elses desks. But, make sure you have plenty of time on your hands cause you will be there for a while since the list has grown :)

 Not too much going on this week on my desk. Doing some prep work on some art journal pages. I paint and decorate then leave them till later (lately it is way later) to journal on. I don't have a distinct purpose for most of the pages I prep, I just do what my mind wants to do at the time :) I seem to use my scrapbook supplies for this more than I use it for scrapbooking.

** I finished the curtains in record time last week. And surprisingly (to me lol) they were even for the most part haha. The son is happy with them so that makes me happy **
Thank you for the comments last week on the little bunny box. As for the scrapbooking, well I have enough supplies sitting around to do many, many more albums. If only I had the inspiration to organize the pictures and actually sit and work on them.
Off, to start my day :) The sun is shining brightly here in Massachusetts and our high today is supposed to be 91, definetly loving it :)
Have a good day all and see you next week :)

WOYWW (a day late)

I did not forget to post yesterday, I just had no time. Dear son, picked me up early in the am and did not return me to my humble home till 6 pm last night. See, he just moved into a new apartment and needed to go shopping to buy home decor. So, he asked me to go with him. So much fun shopping at the thrift stores for vintagey looking goodies :)

 Here is the little box from last weeks post. I changed my mind about using the punched circles to make the bunnies, they wouldn't have looked right. I like this way better.

 A card I made on Tuesday. I was just playing around with some stash that I have :) I know the desk is really tidy except that pile on the right.

 A little nosey in the top of the built in. This is the bottom and first shelves. This is where I store my albums that have pages I have done. One of these days I will get back to scrapbooking and get them filled :)

 The first shelf holds items that I had listed in my Etsy shoppe (that is no longer open, due to circumstances). It also holds a few other things that well I just had not other idea where to put :)

The white box on the right is holding 8.5x11 scrapbook pages that are done. They used to be in binders, then I had a bright idea to convert them all to 12x12 and well, after the binders were given away, I decided to just leave them as is because I had no time to do it.
   Not much else going on around here. The next few days will be consumed with making curtains for the dear son :) and some major house cleaning.
   Don't forget to stop on over to Miss Julia's (you can get there by clicking on the link to the right). I'm sure there is an even longer list than last week, so it might take you a few days to have a looksie at all the desks :)

WOYWW

Woohoo I made it back again this week :) a wee bit late but still I am here. Not so clean desk this week. I printed out these journalling tags from Creativity Prompt. Avital is gracious enough to share journalling tags for your personal use only.

The second photo is a pillow that I need to finish sewing and my swap project for next month's stamp club meeting. I picked Easter out of the jar lol And in accordance with Virginia's challenge of altering the alterables we have haha I decided to use the little cardboard gifty box that I have had for so many years, I can't even remember lol

Above you can see a page from inside my Quotes notebook. I just write down the ones that I think I will use in my scrapbooking, art journalling or even cardmaking :)
Now I have been remiss in answering questions left in the comments :( So, here goes :)
From March 31 WOYWW
   Paula Gale-- I don't have to hide my stash from the "other half" as there isn't one. Just me and the kiddos at home.
   Paula Gale and Cher- my kiddos are not into artsy stuff like me, so I was not sure if daughter would like the art piece I made her or not.
   Brenda (Butlersabroad)- the room I took over is supposed to be the dining room. Although for the life of me I can't figure out why anyone would want carpet in here haha So I took it over for my crafts.
From May 5 WOYWW
  Liverpool Lou (Anne)- I received the star hanging thing from one of the very talented ladies in the Altered_stArt yahoo group I am in. :)
And also a big thank you for all the cudos on my art journal pages, I am still learning and it is just so much fun for me. Kinda lets me be a kid again to just go with the flow :)  Ya'll did have me wondering what a cotton reel was though :) Then I looked at the picture and realized it was my spools of thread :)
It will probably take me all week to get through the list of desks, I noticed it has grown considerably :)
Make sure you hop on over to Miss Julia's blog to check out the rest of the desks. I can't say it will take you just a little while, it will take you a LONG while but it is just so much fun.
Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week :)
Till next week :)

WOYWW (no longer MIA)

Not much going on this am. Yesterday I sat and was copying quotes into my quote book. Today I will be going through my "alterable" cabinet to see what I can find to work on and get out of the cabinet, I have enough to keep me busy for a while lol
After a break, due to oldest moving out, rearranging of bedrooms, and just life in general, getting in my way. I am back to posting :)
Hop on over to Julia's blog  to have a looksie at all the other desks. Might want to grab a drink and a snack, you will be there for a little while :)
Have a great day everyone :)

Sorry for being MIA :) and some art journal pages

Lots going on here. Oldest moved out a few weeks ago and I'm adjusting to life without her and the grandbaby here. So, I have been cleaning ALOT!!!! And I am addicted to Facebook games lol.

 Other stuff going on too, just not at liberty to say at the moment. Nothing really exciting although I sure wish it was.
Anyway so here are some art journal pages I have been working on. I have gessoed all the pages in my one journal. This is the one made with newspaper. I have tried drawing, like the pic above even though I am not too good at it lol

 painted, tissued, and stamped.

 painted, and lettered :) Now just to finish them with images and journalling. I am thinking of sitting down and painting a bunch of the pages with different colors that way they are at the ready, when I am.

 Ordinary composition notebook that I decorated to be my all in one To Do list spot, instead of grabbing pieces of paper here and there lol. And that way the notes don't get thrown away in case I happen to need them at some point.

 a fabric book I am working on for my nephew.

 a little notepad to keep in my purse. Sorry for the crummy pic but I couldn't get it to come out good no matter what I tried.

Off to work on a few things. Hoping to return to WOYWW soon :)
Have an awesome weekend all :)