WOYWW 857/77: Some Down Time

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

Sending Neet well wishes and continued healing hugs.

My desk shows the program from Riverdance - a spectacular show, a couple of items that I have made recently using some of the backgrounds I made at the Clarity summer retreats, and the parchment pages left over from my last lot of sample making. 

A never forgotten experience when I was 18 and at university.

As you can see, I finally finished the Harry Potter puzzle.  It is now back in the box to pass onto Mum.

Eva and I are meeting for an early walk tomorrow, followed by breakfast at Trentham Gardens.  Mum and I are spending our Friday together as usual and on Saturday it is #1 son's birthday.  Next week I will be packing for the journey down to Kent for the Clarity Open Days so I am enjoying a little down time in the meantime.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Reindeer Gift Tag

For my second sample using the new 'Twas the Night Parchment collection from Clarity Crafts, I decided to create a tag.

'Twas the Night Sleeping Baby

I love this new collection of the 'Twas The Night Before Christmas printed parchment from Clarity Crafts.  They could be used to create a book with the story, but I used individual pages.  Here is my first sample.

Be Unique Bookmark

 I decided to use up more of my retreat background and one of my stash of Pergamano bookmark sleeves to create this quick gift.

Birch Tree Tag

I wanted to create a quick tag, so started with one of the backgrounds I created at the Clarity summer retreats.  This is how it ended up.

#dailydrawing2025 - October Part II

 Working my way through my seventh Clarity Petite watercolour journal with my #dailyart2025, following the prompts on the 365 Days of Drawing Prompts and Other Art FB page.  Here are my drawings for the second half of October.

I play the violin.

An optical illusion with 2 side profiles.

Daffodils - William Wordsworth

Sealed for privacy.

Word Play on Halloween

The current challenge over on Try it on Tuesday is Halloween - I thought this tag with a play on words would fit the bill.

WOYWW 856/76: Still Sample Making

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

As you can see, I have progressed with the jigsaw but have now hit a roadblock.  I can only work on the remaining sections in good daylight.  So challenging, that I have divided the remaining pieces up by shape and am often resorting to trying them one by one until I find the one that fits.  There is nothing I can show you on my craft desk.  I have been working on more samples over the weekend and am now getting on with my ATC and PTC (parchment trading card) ready to swap at the beginning of November.

I am off to the theatre this evening for the 30th anniversary River Dance Tour.  I booked it over a year ago thinking it was for last October lol.  Yesterday afternoon was our regular recorder get together in Lichfield.  Friday is my weekly get together with Mum.  We are going to go to 'Spoons for a late breakfast. 

Sending gentle hugs and healing wishes to Neet.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Winter Christmas Card Ideas

 I thought I would share some ideas and inspiration for Christmas cards (and one art journal page) using the Winter Wonderland stamp sets, the Bijou Overlay Bauble stamps and the outline and miniatures stamps from Clarity Crafts.  As always, links to the projects are below each photo.

On a marbled background (see HERE).

Water Colouring Over Acrylic Paint

I decided to see how water colouring over acrylic paint would work out and used one of the Mr Painter stamps to see.  Not sure if I am entirely happy with the result and I should have matted the sticker onto something, but the concept works.

Sorry You're Leafing

 Another former colleague moved on recently and I made this card for the staff to sign for her.  I used the Elementree stamps again and the Word Chains from Clarity Crafts.

Baubles, Baubles Everywhere!

I thought I'd share some inspiration using the build a bauble stamps and the SHAC bauble stamp sets from Clarity Crafts in time for Christmas card making.  As always, links to the projects are below each photo.

Building a bauble (see HERE).

November Calendar Page

 I finally got round to making my November calendar page.  I thought I would use one of the backgrounds created in a recent online workshop with Barbara Gray.  This is how it ended up.

First Christmas Card of 2025

 I recently took part in an online workshop with Barbara Gray using alcohol inks on a gel plate.  It was fabulous fun and well worth a look.  I decided to use one of my many small background pieces to make my first Christmas card (that was not a sample) of 2025.

WOYWW 855/75: Sample Making

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

I am up to my neck with sample making at the moment so unable to share what is on my desk so thought I would show you my jigsaw desk today.  I bought this one from Home Bargains when I was over at Mum's last Friday.  Having to work directly onto the coffee table as it is too long for either of my boards.

The kittens were finished last Thursday and returned to Mum.

I am planning to take a day off on Friday and visit Mum again - we are going to make it a weekly routine now I have retired rather than at a weekend.

Wishing Neet a continued recovery and hoping my card arrived.

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW. It may be the weekend before I get to visit once the samples are in the post.