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Hi, Welcome to my Blog. I'm an eclectic kind of crafter delving into many pots. I am just about managing to keep up my Scrapbooking Diary (usually about 6 months behind), plus any cards as required. I have a new found love of watercolour and Bible Journaling plus recently Junk Journaling too. Previously I've also dabbled in ATCs, Tags, Altered Books, Mixed Media, Art Journaling, Décopatch, Knitting, Crochet, and Embroidery amongst other things. I live in Surrey, UK with my husband, our son has left home now. For exercise I usually play Badminton and go Ballroom and Latin Dancing, but am plagued by a bad back. I like walking which I couple with Geocaching and sometimes Bouncing on my Rebounder (mini trampoline). I guess I am officially retired now. I am a born again Christian, currently worshiping at my local Vineyard Church.

Wednesday 24 June 2020

WOYWW #577 - Jigsaws (missing pieces, what to do?)

Not much happening on my desk this week so giving you a "craftcorner" shot.

The last couple of scrapbook pages are up on the coathanger on the picture and usually remain there till I do the next ones.


Have reached November 2018 and as I hadn't "found" where husband uploaded his Christmas 2018 photos (in a March 2019 folder) I will need to order some more prints to complete December 2018!! Typical!!

Photo selection takes simply ages and I like to order a job lot to save on postage.

So November consisted of my cousin's funeral and a couple of meet-ups with my Geocaching buddies.

Anyway back to the topic of the post. I have completed my latest jigsaw, enjoyed this one, love the colours and slightly tricky so took 6 days. Being new all the pieces were there.

However, and here's the crux, I have a few charity puzzles with pieces missing and a couple of newly bought ones which I seem to have lost pieces from over the years. I have left notes in them saying which pieces are missing.

So what should I do with them?
1) Keep them?
2) Recycle them?
3) Other?

Answers on a postcard (comment will do LOL), Any crafty use for all the pieces perhaps? Look forward to suggestions.

Happy WOYWW Everyone

Wednesday 17 June 2020

WOYWW #576 - Lots of Layouts!

Well last week's show of crafty inaction really gave me a push to get some scrapping done. The pages awaiting sticking on my desk for 2 weeks were from a little get away hubby and I had in the Autumn of 2018. Not my thing, going away, so it was the last time we'd been anywhere, for years.

Anyway, as it happened I got the bigger lighthouse there, in Worthing, you know the one I was trying to match with painting my smaller one. I think I finally got a better paint match after hubby gave me some white undercoat as my white paint had died.

Then on to some more layouts...


The last one was when I started dying my hair purple, so I thought I'd do it again this past weekend and put my back out in the process. oh man!




Which brings me to my latest jigsaw. I went from tiny winy regular shaped pieces to large irregular pieces, really enjoying the change and can confirm that shape is a big component in jigsaw completion as well as the picture.



So that's me for the week, actually on my desk are my next two pages all ready for sticking, which will almost wrap up October 2018 and I'll need to order some more photos soon.... Getting there.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

Wednesday 10 June 2020

WOYWW #575 - Blue Lighthouse & Screen

Not done much crafting this week other than trying to paint a lighthouse blue like one I bought a while back.

Not getting the blue right at all...




Also found a lot of my Acrylic paints had died in their tubes/bottles!

Even got a blister on my finger when trying to open the tube really stuck tops!




Finished a tricky little jigsaw, 500 pieces but not much bigger than A4 size. The pieces are really tiny about half normal size.







The last thing was a purchase of a screen room divider, so all my life doesn't have to be shared during Zoom calls. Love it.
Oh and actually went to Asda yesterday, first time since March, and no queue either. Got some new pants as hubby wasn't going to get those in the weekly shop LOL.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

Wednesday 3 June 2020

WOYWW #574 - Just Scrapping

Not much on my desk this week and not much done either, just a bit of scrapping.

So here are my 4 pages plus a lowdown of how I am feeling just now!


Struggling with this lockdown thing. Not for the talked about reason of being stuck in but quite the opposite, not wanting to go out!










I've suffered from OCD for many years and going places, travelling and the such like is a struggle, even to Asda! So now as my hubby has taken over the shopping, I'm not going anywhere much, not even for walks as too many dogs about in the fields and I'm terrified of them.

I've had an issue with my shoulder for nearly a year now, tried Osteopath, Steroid Injection, and Physio which took me up to lockdown but it's getting worse. I do have a consultant appointment for 7th August (hospital not open for this till August btw) but it makes for difficult sleeping and coupled with the hot flashes in this hot weather, I'm shattered in the mornings!




This past week we've even had workmen in to replace our 4 back windows (including my bedroom) which was postponed from the beginning on April. That's also added to the stress and last night I seemed to have a cold with sneezing and blowing nose all evening. So all in all quite fed up with life.

Hopefully a better WOYWW  for Everyone else.