WOYWW 554

It is Wednesday and time for another blog hop around some lovely crafting desks courtesy of Julia and WOYWW.  

Here is my desk as it was on Tuesday night - a nearly finished journal page, a nearly finished mug of tea, acrylic paints, brushos, gesso, water spray bottle, baby wipes, stabilo all pencil. and Tim Holtz paper dolls and ephemera all on my desk.

This was a quick journal page as I had got into a bit of a crafting rut, getting put off by the blank pages of my new journal so I challenged myself to put something together in less than 10 minutes and this was the result! I used two scraps of paper, gesso (one colour), dark grey acrylic paint, gesso, black pen and stabilo all black pencil and a Tim Hotlz paper doll. The paint and gesso were applied using finger painting - so satisfying and deliberately messy.  It was definitely a releasing type of page and different from my usual controlled style.

Alex is also being creative at the moment - if I get permission I will share one of his drawing next week. In the meantime here he is painting some Orks!
For those of you who were asking, I am over the worst of my pneumonia and am back to work, but tire easily so had to go to bed on Friday afternoon to recover from the week. Hopefully I wont need to do that this week!  Take care of yourselves everyone and have a good week.
With love and God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 553

It's Wednesday and time for another tour of the crafting desks courtesy of Julia.

Here is my desk - I have been doodling on some gelli prints in my art journal as a form of relaxation so you can see my art journal, my doodle journal and my mug of tea.  In the background you can also see a lovely card I was sent by Kathryn Franz, which appropriately arrived on Epiphany!

Here it is in close up - it is beautiful and I love the shine on it. It will go in my Christmas box and come out again next year!

This is the close up of my art journal page.

The other 'creative' activity of this week was to finish my first ever 3D jigsaw.  This one is of Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter world.

Alex and I were back to school and work respectively this week so in the last few days before the end of the holidays we had a few trips out including to Star Wars and to Chatsworth for the Christmas decorations and fun in the grounds.

Finally, this is the sunrise from my crafting desk taken yesterday morning before work. Have a good week everyone,
With love and God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 552 - Happy New Year!

Firstly an apology that I failed so dismally to comment last week - illness and family got in the way, but I am back this week determined to do better.

Here is my desk as my entry to WOYWW - a new Tim Holtz glass mat in evidence (my Christmas present from Tim), a mug of tea, some new Scribble sticks (another present and I don't know how to use them at present!) and my diary. At the back of the desk you may spy a photograph - this is of my grandparents and was taken the year of their golden wedding (1997) and is one of my favourites of them - Grandad died less than a year later.

Thank you for all your concerned messages - the antibiotics have vastly improved things and although my throat is still bad and I tire easily, I can breathe more easily and have managed to sleep better since last week.

I made it to my in laws for Christmas day and even managed to eat a little.  We then had a very lazy Boxing Day to recover and get some energy together ready for the trip to Somerset to my Mum's.

We had a lovely time in Somerset, enjoying the mild weather

helping with the gardening (the boys driving the tractor),

some walks (I did the gentle, shorter versions),

a lovely Christmassy dinner party and trip to the theatre to see the musical version of the Railway Children.

If 2019 has taught me anything, it is that you never know what is going to happen and you should not take things for granted. It has been a year of adventure (trips, and a new Church course, preaching etc) and deep sadness (the death of Gran less than a year after Dad died), and through it all I have been loved and supported by family and friends and sustained by my faith.  Wishing you all a very Happy 2020. God bless you all,
With much love
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 551 - Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas to everyone who is part of the What's on your Workdesk gang (and anyone else who may be reading!).

Well this week turned out to be even more challenging than last week - I was diagnosed with pneumonia and Strep Throat and have been living on soup and not a lot else as I can't swallow anything solid. I also can't breathe properly, especially if I lie down so sleep has been in short supply. I am now on antibiotics and feeling a little better (yesterday was the first day I didnt doze off during the day) and am hoping to spend the day with my in laws. This is not actually my desk, but the dining room table - they are napkins folded into flowers and filled with party poppers and chocolates ready for the Christmas Dinner table.

Alex and I celebrated Christmas at the Christingle Service, which was lovely and atmospheric with a packed church, sadly my only service of the season.

So that's it from me today, short and sweet and I will leave you with these daft photos of the three of us to say Merry Christmas to you all.
With love and God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 550 - the pre-Christmas edition!

Another Wednesday in December and another glimpse of my desk courtesy of Julia (the creator of the What's on your Workdesk Wednesday phenomenon).

To be honest this week has been a bit of a write off - Alex was ill with a temperature of 103 for three days and then gave the lurgy to me!  Hence the box of tissues on my desk. I have been ill for five days so far and although I am slowly improving, I am still not well and am beginning to get fed up.  It is a proper flu and I have felt truly revolting. Anyway, enough moaning, here is my desk - I have managed to fill the lovely little stockings that Jan made with little chocolates and a candy cane ready to decorate the Christmas table.  You can also see my little diary, my mug of tea and my box of tissues (This is my fifth box of tissues since Friday - someone turn the tap in my nose off please!).

That is all from me for now... not up to writing any more. I hope all your Christmas preparations go well and that you all have a wonderful Christmas Day next week. Stay well and warm!
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 549

Welcome back to my blog for the Wednesday blog hop around our crafting community courtesy of Julia (her blog has all the details)

My desk is looking a little more chaotic than normal as I have been working on getting my bullet journal/daily journal up to date and adding penwork and stickers - just photos needed to finish it off.  On my desk you can see little stickers (lots), some Christmas papers and stickers, my journal, a mug of tea and various pens and my little pencil case. There is also a Christmas card at the back from a crafting workshop I attended with my Girls Night Out group from church last week.

14 of us met in the church lounge to create one card from a pack that Sue had put together - needless to say we all went our own way with some following the design exactly, but others doing something different

This is the picture of all the cards together (the one on top right is the original design)

I thought that I would also share the other crafting desk in our house - this is Alex's desk.  At the moment, he is having fun drawing cartoons, using some of Gran's colouring pencils which is lovely. He tends to draw in the last hour before bedtime as a way of calming down.

Finally, Alex and I popped into town at the weekend to sample the delights of the Christmas Market (Bratwurst and donuts) and here is a photo of Alex in front of Santa!
Have a wonderful week everyone,
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 548

Welcome to my blog!  I am back again after a crazy week last week involving several nights of working late meant I failed to post.  As usual I am joining in with What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday - check out Julia's blog for details.

Here is my desk - all clean and tidy because I have been doing my crafting electronically.  Each year I make a calendar for my Mum containing photos of all the family from the past year, so I have been sat at my computer collecting all the photos together. On my desk are a few new decorative items from our trip to The Harry Potter Experience at Warner Brothers Studios last Thursday - a miniature cuddly Hedwig, a Hogwarts Express and a Knight bus!  Finally, it wouldn't be my desk without a mug of tea, which is currently being drunk.

The other reason there hasn't been a huge amount of crafting is because I was preaching at the all age advent service on Sunday and there was a certain amount of preparation involved.  The talk was split into two, with the second part involving children opening some presents which needed preparing!  This was my first all age service/preach and there were definitely some lessons learnt - the most prominent of which was 'Do not help to lead a vigorous action song immediately before you have to talk'!  I was so hot, sweaty and out of breath that it was hard to talk - the first part came out in gasps!  (Mental note to self : Get Fitter!).  That said, I did get good feedback overall so it wasn't all bad.

I am going to finish with a few of the photos of Alex and me from Hogwarts in the Snow last week - it really got us in the Christmassy mood.

Have a wonderful week everyone,
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxxx