WOYWW - #769 - 26th Anniversary

Ah, the desk, sporting the RHS magazine "The Garden" passed on to me by a friend. I'm thinking of making a mini journal for March and the cover photo is perfect for the cover. 

I've managed my daily journal so have 8 to show:-

20) Connect - dancing for me

21) Chatter - speech bubbles with words

22) Shiver - Brrr it was actually really cold last Thursday too

23) Nurture - the tree had been asking for a home so I used it here plus a few mini printed pictures.

24) Craft - as in the craft paper colour

25) Jagged - selected pointy stencils then jagged rock/cliff pictures, jagged leaves on the roses, cogs etc.

26) Imperfect - A stencil with incomplete circles and hand cut circles for the flowers. Was pondering my late Dad as it would have been his birthday so wrote some words for him on the flowers.

27) Pine - Good old Timmy Holtz stamps and peg stamps

I was a bit late starting the Devotion in Action Lent series but have 2 done now.

Week 1 was about God's Love and Mercy for us. Time for God's Love. It was from Nehemiah 9:17.

Week 2 was about tuning into God's ways. Changing the channel via the remote. It was from Job 38:36 although my version was quite a bit different to the text talked about so I wrote the other version in my Bible along the edge. So worth looking at different versions and indeed the original Hebrew OT or Greek NT.

So with that there is just the 26th wedding anniversary card. The modern theme for 26 years is "Pictures" so I've printed off a few on my mini printer and popped them inside.

I've selected most of the next load of photos to print, just waiting for March so I can include February. Phew it's a big job, and trying to be ruthless and not get so many, we'll see....

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #768 - Can't Believe I'm 60yrs Now!

Thank you for all the kind wishes for my birthday last week, certainly can't believe I am 60yrs now! 

Had a lovely day, we went geocaching and I had badminton in the evening and they brought me a cake.

I got some Gelatos, and Bookmaking kit, Silicone brushes, and new speakers for my car. I also got a mini printer, it's on my desk stand.

Also on the desk stand is the next screening leaflet, now for bowel cancer, I get free prescriptions and eye tests now, the thrills of being 60yrs!

I've done more daily journal pages

14) - Diary (Valentine's and birthday week)

15) - Snuggle ... in the arms of God

16) - Endure (really a birthday recap but enduring this challenge LOL)

17) - Endless - A line with no end

18) - Sculpt - used my new mini printer

19) - Stolen ... kiss - from a card/poem I wrote back in 2016, glad it has a home now.

I did my monthly page from the Etched by faith Scripture 52 elements. I even found a cassette on my mini printer software so added that.

There's a FAITH page in my scripture journal on my desk too.

Lastly at scrapbook LO from my last printed photos, back in July when it was well warm.

We were walking in the fields behind where we live and sussing out a new placement for a geocache to make a circular walk of 4. 

Finally my favourite birthday photo, sitting by the River Tillingbourne in Gomshall , so sunny.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #767 - Prolific

Yes Prolific was today's journal prompt! Oh my! Just finished my page and tidied up so I could reach the keyboard to write my post.

Sorted cards for my friend's girl/boy twins who are 16yrs today.

Plus an extra birthday card whilst I was at it.

 Also a hand painted heart for hubby's Valentine.

The paper doesn't seem to want to stick so am taking action!

I've managed another week of daily journal pages.

7) Adore - apt for last weeks wedding

8) Hunger - being hungry for God

9) Introspection - oh my!

10) Glimmer - shiny bit in middle and the glimmer of Spring

11) Approach - approach God's throne of grace

12) Simplify - had a play with my oil pastels

13) Prolific - did a similar page over a decade ago, this time I used my collected and made papers..

Even did some scrapping, had this laid out pending since BEFORE Christmas!

Glad to get it sorted. Only enough photos printed for another double LO and then its photo choosing time again.... Really must rein it in some more.

And here's the fascinator I wore to the wedding last week. 

Friend told be to come as ME, be myself,  so I did...60yrs tomorrow- Yikes!

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #766 - Wedding Day

I'll probably be able to link up first thing then I'm off to my friend's wedding down in Brighton. 

Hopefully next week I'll have a photo of the fascinator I mentioned last week, but just in case my friend looks, not till then.

Here's my desk with some cards I need to sort for Valentine's birthdays let alone Valentine's itself! 

My Cervical Screening leaflet as I've just made my appointment. This might well be my last one.

My notebook art journal with the somewhat interesting prompts for February.!

I tried not to look at the list beforehand and they are a bit of a challenge. Not so easy doing this alone I have to say.

1) Cloak - used a couple of mask dies over a collage.

2) Restless - Gelli plate background and acrylic painted lady black posca for the squiggles. It was more the restless mind of a crafter with all the creations whirring around in your head, and not sleeping!

3) Relate - more of a connection and lead to the Holy Spirit for this one

4) Smoke - Smoke on the water by Deep Purple watercolour

5) Howl - I used up some magazine pictures which I had cut out yonks ago with collage and abstract stuff. Although quite "dark" in many ways, I like this one the best so far.

On a much brighter note, my Faith Journal with February's pages. 

Not sure I am a fan of using wax crayons as a background as you can't then write on it. So I ended up writing on the elements instead.

The focus for the month is God's Big, Bold, Beautiful LOVE.

God chose us, He dwells in our hearts, His love stands firm forever, He is faithful, compassionate, gracious, and slow to anger. His love is selfless and sacrificial.

The faux washi is really collage with patterned papers so that was interesting. 

The little feet were poignant as I have had a couple of falls in the past weeks and it has shaken me a bit. Last Saturday I went out for a walk and ended up flat on the pavement only a couple of doors down, and some passers by picked me up and walked me home. Oh my. 

The focus, God directs our paths.

EDIT - and 6) Confront - to which I took the lighter side and thought about confronting age and it not being what you feel inside....

I love to dance....if only....

Happy WOYWW Everyone.