WOYWW #578 - When I'm 64

Not much doing this week except hubby's birthday card for Thursday.

Had a sort of rainbow moment.

Thanks for all the "missing pieces" jigsaw suggestions last week, might make some Christmas snowflake decorations, who knows, certainly won't take incomplete ones back to the charity shops despite getting them from there!

And I've been re-doing the jigsaw my son got me last Christmas.

I guess that is it for me then.

Happy WOYWW Everyone

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

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.

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.

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.

WOYWW #573 - Starry Starry Night

My desk has seen a bit of action the past week,

This is due to me eventually finishing the jigsaw

It took over 2 weeks to complete!!!

First up I sorted out the refills in my last remaining 3 scrapbook albums. 30 pages in each! The bed comes in real handy for crafting of all kinds.





Then I was compelled to do a bit of Bible Journalling.










     

Now I'm back to the scrapping...

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #572 - UFO Upholstery!

UFO stands for Unfinished Object and my dining chairs have been crying out to be recovered for a while now. I'd washed the fabric I was going to use weeks ago so I just needed the push to actually get on and do it and Julia's UFO challenge for the 11th Anniversary was just what I needed.

So I exchanged my craft and sewing boxes for my upholstery tool box and did some hammering!

I bought the set of 4 chairs from a secondhand shop back in 1992 and completely re-upholstered them in 1997 after attending upholstery classes.

I recovered them last in Jan 2007 I found out as I'd chalked that on the back of one. So they were in need of doing especially as a couple were thread bear in places.

So that's me - a bit of upholstery

Happy 11th WOYWW Anniversary Everyone.

WOYWW #571 - A Week off Methinks

Not done much this week (other than the UFO I'll be showing next week).

Got some crafty goodies, a job lot of refills for my scrapbooks 75 in all.

A more "down to earth" Bible Journalling book with lots of traceables.

Plus some pens, a set of my usual uni-ball fine line in various sizes and a couple of Tombow Fudensuke Brush Pens.

Oh and don't mention the JIGSAW. My son got it for me for my birthday, back in February, and I've been saving the best till last!.

My old tablet cover had the same picture and of course I have a mug to match too...

I guess you could say, it's not the easiest of puzzles!




I've done a few odd hand sewing jobs like my slippers and oven glove but not at all easy when your right hand goes tingly/numb all the time. That has just started up again so even typing this is tricky. Couple that with my left shoulder/arm issue I have had for nearly a year now, it's a right pickle.

Also I got some material delivered from friend (as part of her click and collect supermarket run) to make scrubs and bags with but not started yet.

So not overly exciting this week. Bet you can't wait to see what my UFO is! Wondering if all that set my hand tingling off?? Who knows, my thumb was well sore after I'd done two of the 4!

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #570 - A Bit of Both

Yep some Scrapping and some Bible Journalling this week...

... coupled with a tad of window art (thanks to last week's inspiration of Bridget)

and yet another finished jigsaw.




   

 

Happy WOYWW Everyone.