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WOYWW 210 | & a link to WOYWW 211

[6/19/2013: Good grief. I linked up over at Julia's blog with the link for 210.  WOYWW 211 is here.]

It's a bit overcast this morning. My daughter is just getting on the school bus and I've got to leave for work, but not before joining in with my favorite Wednesday ritual: What's On Your Work Desk Wednesday. 

I made three Father's Day cards last night and left the aftermath to clean up later. 

These are the ATCs I made to share on the 4th anniversary -- the orange one with the flowers went to Jo (Twiglet), the VW Beetle went to Julia, and the typewriter with the swirly background went to Chris. I had a couple left over -- I'll put one in my Project Life and will take the "banner" off the one with the birds and use it for something else. 

In the interest of brevity, I'll close here. Try not to faint in shock. ha, ha. Happy Wednesday to all.

~ Laura 

[P.S. To the friend who emailed me for my address during anniversary week -- I wonder if my email back to you ended up in your spam folder or something? Totally not nagging (at all), but if you still need my address, you can reach me at BookwormLD@gmail.com  Thanks!]

WOYWW 209

Good morning, afternoon, or evening to visiting crafty friends and artists (depending upon your time zone!) I still owe a few return visits from last week (your blogs are open in my browser as I type). 

Many thanks to Julia and Jo (Twiglet) for the ATCs! Yours were mailed Saturday, so hopefully will get to you soon. :) I've got one more to mail out, so I'll post pictures of mine next week. 

Here's what's up on my desk and what I made over the weekend:

Bits and pieces to include with May 12-18 Project Life. I need to get some pictures made up. 

I made this card to give to my daughter's teacher at the end of the school year. 


I'm still using up the 8x8 October Afternoon "Sidewalks" paper pad (which I've used for quite a few school-related layouts). I'm getting down to the ones I don't like as well. I might give myself permission to make cards with the rest! 

Happy WOYWW everybody!

~ Laura

 

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 160 (WOYWW)

Join the artists and crafters of the world -- show us your work space! (Or, I suppose, you could just browse ours and not share . . . but you'll be lured in eventually.) Pop over to Julia's place and see what's up. 

Today will feature lots of pictures and few words, so hopefully that will make this "short" enough. 

The room is painted, including the trim, and now awaits the carpet man, which will hopefully be a more advantageous wait than waiting for Godot. ha, ha. The carpet should be in by the end of this week and then the installation needs to be scheduled. 

Here's what I made with last week's alcohol ink pieces. Happy with both, except needed a better, less gloppy adhesive solution for the fence. Next time will be neater!

4th of July card sent to sister-in-law, since we won't see her for the holiday as we normally do, since it's in the middle of the week. 

The "remote" crafting area is getting cluttered. I had to move the vacuum out of the way to take this picture. The pink bins are new -- husband expressed that he'd prefer the room not be quite so cluttered when we put it back together. :)

Thanks for visiting and happy WOYWW!

~ Laura

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 159 (WOYWW)

Happy Wednesday and especially a happy WOYWW to visitors from Julia's blog. We all link up pictures of our work spaces and then visit virtually -- it's awesome. I'm a relative newbie enjoying getting to know everyone. :) I alway do a return visit to visitors here and then try to visit everyone whose number in Mr. Linky ends with the same digit as mine, plus some others. My day job does get in the way of this a bit.  ha, ha

Here's the den, in progress. Since I took this picture, husband also painted the ceiling. The wall color is on hand, and I'm silently hoping that gets done today. Tonight we might go look for carpet. 

Here are my temporary digs. Each time I take this picture I notice the old need-to-be-tossed sneakers on the brick hearth, and the jester hat that my husband received as a joke gift at Christmas. Need to toss the former and store the latter. 

I played with alcohol inks over foil sheets on a tag and an embossed ATC last night. Pondering where to go next with them, but it was fun. And my left thumb is still a bit green.

I rarely put sympathy cards together ahead of time, so then when we need one, I have to get in gear. Unfortunately we have need of one, so I pulled out some suitable bits and pieces. 

These are for happier occasions: The lanterns are for a high school graduation, the card with the flower photo is for a friend's birthday, and the thanks card is for my daughter's classroom teacher -- tomorrow is the last day of school for the year. 

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura 

P.S. Someone told me she had trouble posting a comment, that it told her she was entering the wrong URL. No idea what caused that. I tried commenting myself and just left the URL box empty and it worked. 

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 157 (WOYWW)

Good morning or afternoon or evening, fellow crafters and artists. I am drafting this post Tuesday evening, since it's hard to find the time to do it before work on Wednesdays. If any visitors here are not "in the know" about WOYWW, just visit Stamping Ground for all the details.

The themes of this week are "Organized Chaos" and "Thanks." Chaos because the room where I craft has been emptied for the painting and carpet project. My sweet husband is diligently removing wallpaper as he has time. So here is my workdesk this Wednesday:

I normally have a card table to the right of this table that holds the drawer units, but to conserve space, I stacked them on the work table instead. I've got a view of the woodstove instead of my usual windows, but this is working pretty well temporarily. :)

Here is the layout I made the other day:

And a heartfelt thank you to kind Sheri from Texas who sent me the ATC below. Thanks again, Sheri! Your ATC is so pretty, as was the card you sent it in. 


Thanks for visiting! I'll try to get around to as many folks as possible this week! 

~ Laura