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.

WOYWW #580 - Spot the difference...

Desk is totally uninspiring so I included my shelves this week.

How things seem to pan out is I do my blog each week and it gets me scrapping for a few days then is fizzles out until I blog again so I guess I have WOYWW to thank for my mojo these days.

Did 4 LOs last week nearly rounding up 2018 in the process.

A friend's Baptism and me with the kids at church. I've not been able to help with the kids for over a year now due to my shoulder issue.

A mishmash of various stuff up to Christmas and some friends round for dinner afterwards.








Then there's my son's 20th birthday. I was SO not happy with the layout as I fixed the photos intending to put the balloons all around but when that didn't work and they ended up on the side the photos were too high on the page. I ended up cutting up the original page and remounting it all on another 12x12 sheet. What a pickle and it hardly looks moved at all!!

   

And finally the jigsaw update - I finished the balloons and started the butterflies, really glad the latter is only 500 pieces LOL. I did the design first on my tablet, so electronically, and had to get the actual puzzle last year. It is quite a challenge.

 

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #579 - Mrs Neat

I guess I am Mrs Neat, I craft and then I put it all away, well it is the corner of my bedroom after all...

Got my photos delivered all 130 of them from Dec 2018 up to May 2019.
    

I noticed I needed to add a couple of garden flowers to a little CD book I made back in 2013 so I did that this week. The Snakes Head Fritillary pages are the new ones. Only get two popping up each spring, and they always surprise and delight me.

I did a couple of the Christmas 2018 pages, I was an interesting time as my husband had an operation early December, which saved us going to visit anyone as I hate travelling and staying away from home especially at Christmas.
 
I finished my jigsaw and started on redoing one from last year, but I guess that's all for me for this week.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

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.