WOYWW #618 - May 2020 Nearly Sorted.

Desk shot taken Tuesday evening. 

The eagle eyed will spot my watercolour of my pond. 

I had a go at the  little square samples last week, along with an origami twisted box, then thought I'd have a go at the pond. 

I'm more of a splodge and go type of a painter LOL.

 

I seem to have managed a few layouts nearly wrapping up May 2020.

Oh and the pond, it you'd like to see the creation to date, click on Amelia Pond for my previous post on the matter. Here are a few photos anyways.

So that's me for the week. 

Some more plants on order and cracking on with scrapping. 

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

Amelia POND - The Beginnings

 I had a dream of a pond for many years but it had got forgotten in time. 

Then I was doing a Bible study and it was about having a dream, and I thought, "I don't have a dream" so I prayed about it, and soon after the pond dream came back to mind.

I did the Amazon thing and found a "starter pond" preformed liner and then I posed the possibility to my husband and son. Within days my hubby bought the liner for me. Whilst awaiting its delivery, I made a paper cut-out to see where I could place it in the garden. The most obvious was down the bottom, as it can be seen from the kitchen, the lounge and my bedroom but it is quite shady there. I then researched shady pond plants....

It arrived Tuesday evening of 23rd March so Wednesday 24th March was digging day! 

Hubby and son went off to Homebase to get some sand to line the hole and some pebbles for round the edge. They also got 3 new fence panels!!! I got down to the digging.

 

A few hours later and I was filling it with water butt water and arranging the pebbles and cleaning the gravel...

It was murky for a while but soon cleared. The following day hubby and son replaced the fence panels!!

I ordered my first lot of plants from Puddleplants in Llandeilo and they took a week to arrive. I received them on 1st April (Maundy Thursday) and had them planted in a couple of hours. 

The following day the Water Hawthorne flower opened, it's like a little dragon's mouth (it is a plant OK in shade whereas Water Lilies require full sun).

So today we went for a family walk in the woods and happened to find a big angle cut piece of wood and some sticks, so they are now to the right of my pond. I love my little water garden.

WOYWW #617 - Amelia POND

Here's my desk with a couple of scrapbook LOs awaiting attention, and my little Lent Journal on its last week.

But you don't want to hear about that do you!

What about the pond?

Well, I dug the hole last Wednesday.

Hubby and son went off to Homebase to get be some sand to line the hole and some pebbles for around the edge.

They got 3 new fence panels whilst they were at it too.

Hubby helped me site the liner in the hole using the sand to fill in any spaces.

I filled it with Water Butt water. 

Edged with some Flint and an old curb stone which were in the garden, plus the pebbles and some gravel.

Awaiting plant delivery now....

Oh and I did the jigsaw from the inside out as the edge was too confusing to start with!

Maybe I'll do some crafting next week!

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #616 - Into April 2020 already

So the desk, with my little CD album of flowers. 

I added all the photos from last year but only decorated the facing page to last week's so far. 

So my Mother's Day flowers from last year...

I finished of last week's two LOs which depicted life BEFORE lockdown....

Then came LOCKDOWN followed by a family walk (only as we'd been prescribed an hour's exercise - we rarely got out all together these days)

Then my hubby and our son going to fetch the rest of his things from his Uni rooms. Certainly an end of an era.

The A4 sheet has extra photos and journaling and will slip in between the LOs in the page protector. The ribbon shows it's there to see.

And into April, the shopping queues and the rainbows. I am so enjoying documenting 2020 in my scrapbooking.

Other things:-

A jigsaw compliments of hubby's work.

Taking rubber stamps off wooden blocks and replacing with cling stuff.

and....

A pond!

 

Happy WOYWW Everyone 

WOYWW #615 - March 2020 started

On my desk a couple of March LOs awaiting inspiration...and my ongoing Lent Journal. 

Please don't fret I stood on my bed to take the photo so no deskers were harmed in making this WOYWW post!

Things I've finished this week are:-

My February 2020 Valentine Flowers photo went in my little CD album.

I finished off February with a couple of caching outings on windy days, hence the title "Windy Miller". I added some hidden journalling on a leaf diecut behind the top central photo. My usual journalling is written direct on the page around the photos, but sometimes I need to say a bit more...

It would seem I got more prints for March than January/February combined! 

I've made a start with a page of me and hubby visiting our son in Uni in Southampton (we live near Epsom, Surrey). 

He'd been quite poorly the past few weeks and this was the only time we went to visit him in all his time there. We got a couple of geocaches on the way home.

The next page is hubby making a new DESKTOP for our son's desk. The original one had become quite worn and I thought he'd like it as big as space would allow as he was due to finish his degree and be home in the Summer (little did we know it would be sooner than expected).

And finally an old St Patrick's Day page from one of my journals.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

PS Does anyone know how to make your photos really big when clicked on, not just a little bigger like mine. It used to happen but not anymore and can't work it out???

WOYWW #614 - Jan/Feb 2020 nearly in the bag.

I'm writing this Tuesday afternoon as I'm taking my husband for his vaccination tomorrow morning. I got my "letter" yesterday but haven't made my appointment yet. Husband's leaflet was entitled, "A Guide for OLDER Adults", mine is just for Adults - LOL. Jury still out on whether I have mine as I'm severely emetophobic so taking ANYTHING new is a real struggle for me, including food and drink as well as medication. Hmmmm???

Anyway to the desk, as the title says I have nearly got January AND February scrapped. So on my desk is just the second February page (pink page) but I can't decide on a title. It's of 2 different geocaching days. One where we went back to the area where we got our New Year's Day cache (top left of red page). I didn't feel well the first time so we'd just got one and gone home. The other day was our Leap Day Cache. 

I grouped January's photos into types so there's Caching and Cycling of Me and Husband, when son was at Uni (red page above). Then Son going back to Uni (and as we now know that was the LAST time as he was in his final year - blue page). And me dying hair getting new glasses and finding a note left by my son under the Christmas jigsaw he'd got me. (purple page). Yes loving my new coloured card.

My other February page is from my birthday party last year. It rather went through an iterative process. I tend to crop my photos first and try to assemble on the 12x12 page, then choose card/papers for the backing. Photos seem to get cropped more and more till they fit.... The 8x8 backing paper I ended up using was the last of a Christmas set which was rather whimsical and one of my favourite colours.

Anyway that's me started on my scrapping journey for 2020.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #613 - Photos

Well I actually got to the mammoth sorting of my photos on Monday. To save any confusion, the 347 photos I had printed by Photobox were just the ones I have specifically chosen for scrapbooking or putting in frames, for the whole of 2020.

Thought I'd start with the yearly update of the "Family" album for 2020. I get duplicates of any photos of all 3 of us for this 8"x8" Album, the green one on my desk. It has 35 pages in it so will accommodate 70 LOs - 39 LOs done so far. 

Then there's week 3 of my little Lent Journal. Monday's thought was entitled, "Created to Create" which I thought most appropriate. I'd left a bigger space as it was St David's Day too so I crafted some daffodils from a floral die which just about did the trick.

Been busy in the garden this week too, redid my baskets and boxes and attacked the overgrown borders. Think it is getting colder again so back to more scrapping....

Happy WOYWW Everyone.