WOYWW #604 - Scrapping/Jigsaws/50th Card

Tidy desk all ready for blog writing... Have found my tablet/phone stand works well as a 12x12 page stand.

Not quite sure when I fitted it in but I managed to do another 3 scrapbook pages plus revisit an old double layout which was decidedly missing something.

First up - my son finishing his 2nd year in Uni and his last trip abroad with his Uni mates in June 2019.

Second up (as seen on desk) - us getting the garage roof renewed - off with the old asbestos and on with Welsh slate - nice. We took the old wrapped roof pieces to the dump ourselves and the top pieces looked rather like a body - LOL.

My pink January page just needed something so added the diecut fairy and fairy wings plus some stickles - fairy dust trails.

Then I got a couple of jigsaws for Christmas so have been busy doing the double set of those!! Two 500 piece puzzles which join together as one long picture. Jolly glad they were bagged separately in the box!

And the day before yesterday I remembered a cousin's "get everyone to send his wife a 50th birthday card" surprise thing, so made that.

So nothing on my desk in the making and with the gradient jigsaw from my son pending, I rather doubt there will be anything next week either - we'll see.

Here's hoping we have a better 2021.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #603 - Photos Came - all 152 of them!

Yay my photos arrived, all 152 of them so I've been doing some more scrapping. Some of which is inspired and some not quite so. I mean sometimes it just works out well and sometimes it's a damp squid.

I'm Mrs tidy so all tends to get put away at the end of the day, mostly as stuff is usually spread out on my bed and I need to sleep! 

So there's my desk with the next couple of pages on pieces of card and covered with see-through plastic 12x12 bags, for ease of movement and safety of elements respectively. Oftentimes it is good to leave the unstuck pages overnight as you can have eureka moments in the morning.

Here are the the new pages I did in the week. Not included the ones I stuck after showing you them last week. The 12x12's cover May-June 2019.

Firstly the double 12x12 awaiting a couple of missing photos from the last order. It covers 3 geocaching adventures. Two to a local park, Gatton Park, where the caches were all puzzles, most enjoyable and a circle of standing stones thrown in, all with inscriptions. The other yet another park near by Marden Park Valley.

Then the beginning of the baby ministry at church, Twinkles, did I mention I love babies??? And we got pink t-shirts, yay. I had to give up helping shortly after this as my shoulder got really bad. All the babies have grown up now, oh my word.

Then a visit to Maccy D's after our church meeting, that's what you get with a young pastor, such a laugh.

As I have printed all my photos up to Dec 2019 I was in a position to do my yearly 8x8 page of the 3 of us. It used to show how my son was growing but now it seems to be, what length is his hair!

Oh and a little present I got for myself and me and hubby constructed yesterday evening. Not built any furniture in ages! Fits snugly next to sink and now we have somewhere to put our phone/tablet when visiting the loo!

So that's me for this week.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

And Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas

WOYWW #602 - Back to Scrapping

Have just ordered my next batch of photos. May 2019 to Dec 2019 so 152 prints on their way. I tried to be picky this time but it is what it is.

Don't know if that was what was stopping me scrapping but I needed a couple of prints I'd missed for May 2019 so scrapping had come to a halt.

I've become so stuck in scrapping chronologically that I hadn't looked at the rest of the May 2019 photos I already had and for some reason I did just that yesterday and found I could skip the pages pending additional photos and so a couple more in the meantime.

So here we have a couple of layouts in the making. WOYWW must have been in my subconscious as it wasn't until I was stopping to make dinner that I realised it was Tuesday night and that I would have something to show you all today! YAY

First up - Hubby's new bed, which we ordered from Dreams. I wanted a photo of the bottom so he could see how it was fixed together and the delivery guys decided to pose for me! Such a happy delivery crew. It had started on the spotty paper but the wording was lost on that one. Might add some of it in the corners. Still pondering it.

Second up - me and a mate when we went to the Big Church Day Out last year. Seem to have got away with one of those big print papers I was gifted when my son was in primary school. (Now that was quite a few years ago, half his lifetime infact as he's 22yrs on Monday Eeek). Pondering some embellishments but not sure what yet, maybe some perfect pearls/stickle highlights on the print flowers. 

All suggestions welcome.

I seem to be back in the saddle and looking forward to scrapping more, hope it lasts.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #601 - Thanks for the Zoom Meet-Up Ladies

It was so good to meet up with lots of you lovely ladies last Saturday on Zoom. 

I was even inspired to make some Christmas cards. I was going to make just the one, based on one I'd seen on Julia's #598 blog post. 

Then I remembered a tree die I'd bought a few years ago and a few developed from there. 

Following that I was checking out my card blanks box I foundsome "designer" cards so used my left over diecuts and some more on those.

Voila, 12 Christmas cards! Woo Hoo the most cards I've made in a long long time.

I did make my son's 22nd Birthday card before putting everything away. I'd mentioned it to him and despite blue being his favourite colour, he said not blue again! I said I wish I could used Pink and Purple and he said Why Not! So I did just that.

Thanks again, it was a super meet-up.

Happy WOYWW Everyone

WOYWW #595 - On a roll...

 Yep quite inspired this week, 6 layouts and started a new jigsaw too.

Here's my craftcorner and desk. I've moved my monitor up a "Thesaurus" which has helped my neck enormously.

Oh my life I just dragged the photos on to the blog page (auto response as to how it used to work) and it worked!!! Didn't need to go through the rigmarole of all the steps to upload a photo. YAY .

Anyway, I finished off scrapping February 2019. 

Managed to fit all of March on a double layout, and started on April...

Still having a bit of trouble placing the photos where I want them and text in between with this new blogger thingy but really happy you can drag them on now.

Yep and the new jigsaw is another borrowed one, I tend to swap with a friend when we see eachother at church once a fortnight, other than that and hospital appointments I don't meet up with anyone these days so lovely to have a window into the crafting world via WOYWW.

Just managed to put the text where I wanted too, definitely picked the right title today.

Oh and one last thing, my medical insurance had said it didn't cover the full amount of my anaesthetist's fees but in the end it actually paid it in FULL. Happy dance.

Happy WOYWW Everyone

WOYWW #594 - Post Surgery (AWOL 9 Weeks)

Nearly 2 calendar months since my left shoulder surgery and I was determined to do some crafting before joining in here again. So here's my desk with a double layout - YAY.

I did get back into jigsaws about 3 weeks post op and have done 4 of those. 

However all the shoulder exercises and physio have irritated my neck so I can't stay at my desk too long.

I can now more my arm about 90-95% of normal range which is a huge improvement but it is still quite sore and my right arm/shoulder has decided to join in with hurting along with the neck and right hip and back so sleeping is quite torturous.

The house jigsaw was lent to me by a friend but the other three were from my "The Works" order per-op. I did get a partial refund for the one damaged jigsaw I returned, it was less the voucher I used to pay for order, not sure if that was a coincidence or not - still pursuing that.

My main activity is walking, although it's raining today, shall I? Unfortunately I'm unable to get back into my "normal" activities of badminton and dancing due to COVID restrictions let alone the shoulder!

Anyway I "need" to make an anniversary card today, have been lacking in sending greetings cards the past few months but I really ought to get back into crafting and sitting at my desk with SAD light, now the days are drawing in and murky.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #585 - Surgery Next Week!

In a bit of a whirl here as got a date for my surgery for my frozen shoulder on Monday for NEXT Monday! Eeeeekkkk! Had two days trying to sort it all out as the anaesthetist's fees weren't all covered by the insurance so haggled with her directly on the phone yesterday! Oh my! It has all suddenly become so real. I go for my Covid-19 SWAB this afternoon, hence reminder on desk, and will need to self isolate from household after that till Monday too.

Did finish off my LO from last week and added secret journalling on the tag behind my photo.

Did one of my jigsaws but the picture was all cracked so I have sent it back for a refund. I'd say it was diecut before the glue on the picture was dry. Glad it was just the 500 piece one.

Can't believe it takes 6 clicks of buttons to upload a photo and then one to add it. You can't upload a few and go back to add each one where you want as they disappear from upload and you can't just drag and drop them in anymore either. Then how on earth do you move them to the right place!!! It's doing my head in. 

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #584 - Drastic Times - Drastic Measures

Well here I am back on the Computer (Long Story) and automatically straight to the new blogger and can't spot the legacy button here either (like tablet last week) so I'm going to go with it!!!

Managed to add photo but no idea how to move it, deleted it by accident but really glad of "Ctrl Z - Undo" on the PC!

I'm really struggling with this heat and go to sleep naked under a damp tea towel. Yes you heard it right. 

I saw a consultant about my shoulder yesterday (apparently Frozen Shoulder) and on entry to the hospital my temp was 39 C the highest the guy had ever recorded. I had to wait until it came down before I could enter! I sat with cool pad and mini fan - LOL. Question is, do I opt for the surgery as I've had this for over a year now??? Tried Osteopath, Steroid Injection and Physio over the past year btw.

Anyway, here's the draft of the scrapbook page on my desk. I know now it marks my LMP as it was 18 months ago. I'd struggled with extremely heavy and prolonged periods for quite a few years and had to resort to taking Northisterone once a year to just stop it all for a while. This was the last time days before I turned 55yrs.

It's left me with Frozen Shoulder loads of aches and pains and generally HOT with hot flashes on top. Even in the Winter I don't have heating on in my bedroom and the window open! I am SO struggling right now!

I have managed some scrapping in the slightly cooler times.

My Friend's live streamed wedding from the USA, back in January 2019, who knew this would be the new norm? My son's return to Uni in Year 2, I took him as my hubby was recovering from surgery.

Some stuff with hubby whilst son away. Some geocaching when we popped into a garden centre and I got this fairy half price in the January sale. The last time we actually ate out, so quite a moment for us!

Here's the  pile of goodies I got from The Works delivered yesterday. I used my loyalty voucher on-line but the reduction didn't show up despite clicking the button. Hence emails ensue only to find out it doesn't show online but is actually counted so I was charged less than it says - curious.

Think I best stop whilst the going is good (blogger speaking) and go for a walk in the relative cool as now hubby is up so I won't have to close all the doors and windows.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #583 - On Tablet!

Our broadband went down yesterday at 9.55am and the BT engineer isn't due till 14th August (10 days!!!). As usual they blame it on our set up and will be sending a replacement hub today despite the fact that we've tried two already to the same effect!

Our backup wifi 4G mini hub is unreliable and extremely slow so using my PC is out of the question as it doesn't have WiFi, so I've tethered my tablet to my phone, with the backup unlimited data and attempting to write my page from there.

Add to that the new blogger interface seems to be the default now, and I have no idea how to add my photos...... Had to use Help as I didn't realise the options bar scrolled!!!

Oh looks like I've managed it, but this is so not easy. So let's just say I've actually scraped a bit. The end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, yup still a fare bit behind.

Can't seem to move second photo now and can't delete it either to place it differently aaarrrrhhhh. Oh my just deleted it by accident!!!! So added in a better place now! Phew

Best stop while the going is good.

Happy WOYWW Everyone

WOYWW #582 - FIRST - Proud Mum

It's safe to say that my desk hasn't changed from a fortnight ago!

Last week I was waiting for my son's degree results on the Thursday so was totally preoccupied. I even BOUGHT him a card!



So proud, he got a First in Computer Science at Southampton University.

Have since found out my friend's son also got a FIRST so I actually made him a card!











Oh and I saw this rainbow picture on my walk this week. Get annoyed at the number of rainbows with only 6 colours, this one certainly addressed the balance!

Happy WOYWW Everyone.