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WOYWW 206 | Posting late today!

Edited to add: I'm sorry if some of you tried to leave comments yesterday and never saw them show up. I tried to leave a comment myself yesterday -- tried twice -- and it never turned up in my queue to approve. It does appear to be working normally today. 

Hello, friends! This is how my table looked this morning before I left for work. I've been catching up on some Project Life pages after getting a bunch of prints made up. I printed out two free PL items -- one from Cathy Zielske and one from Ali Edwards -- and made the colors match. I'm caught up now -- just have to do last week's page. It should come together fast, since I have a bazillion pictures from Gabi's two birthday parties. :)  I'm linking up to blog hop extraordinaire: WOYWW -- come check it out, if you like virtually visiting all over the world. 

I prepped these frames for Gabi and her friends to decorate with glitter glue, sequins, and stickers. I glued the letters on, did a layer of gesso, then paint. One little girl hates pink, so did blue for her. 

This is one of the Project Life pages I finished yesterday. 

Hope you are having a good week, with time to play and plenty of your favorite snack and beverage at hand. 

~ Laura

WOYWW 205 | Quiet desk after a weekend of scrapbooking

Good morning, friends! I've got my bowls of embellishments out on the right (brads, buttons, tiny wood veneer, etc.), some punched butterflies (I got a new large butterfly punch and I love it), and all the flowers dumped out of their jar. I'm going to do something with the stencil for a page background, but since yesterday was daughter's birthday, I didn't do anything on it. (If you, too, have an insatiable need to show your workdesk and see what lots of other folks are doing, link up with Julia's WOYWW.) 

Used up some hoarded October Afternoon papers here. Fussy cutting makes me nuts, but always looks pretty in the end. :)

This layout (as with the one above) was submitted for a Big Picture Classes challenge. In this case, we were to attach a divided page protector as a second page with washi tape. The page protector was from a different manufacturer and the sizes were markedly different, so after I took this picture, I substituted one that worked better!


This one tells a favorite story.

Daughter and I made cookies for her to take to school to share with her classmates.

Thanks for visiting! 

~ Laura

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WOYWW 204

Happy Wednesday and happy WOYWW (a great excuse to show what you've made and see the work desks of lots of other folks.) Waving hello to our hostess Julia in the UK from my spot in upstate NY. The sun is out and the birds are singing. Now if I could stay home and play. . . but no.  ;-)

What you can see on my desk is my TH tag for April in the center (that needs to be flattened in a book, I'd say). You can get a closer look here. Other than that, I've got stamps, ink, spray mists, scrap paper, and another tag to play with some other time. 

Here is the layout that I was about to start on Wednesday last week: 

Thanks for visiting! 

~ Laura

BPC: Creative Crop: Free Inspiration on (inter)National Scrapbooking Day!

For the first time in years, I am not throwing a birthday party on National Scrapbooking Day! (We're having it the following weekend -- lol.)

So, I'm very excited about taking a day to be creative and have signed up for Creative Crop over at Big Picture Classes. (Did I mention, it's free!)

 

 

WOYWW 203 | It's a nice sunny morning

My next layout is going to be about my daughter's love for horses and horse books. Misty of Chincoteague is based on a true story and the map shows the location of Chincoteague Island and other locations from the book. 

A card from over the weekend. In retrospect, I wish I would've used just shades of green on the continents (and not the slash of brown over by California) . . . but c'est la vie. :)


Short and sweet -- I've got to get to work! Happy WOYWW, friends. :-)

~ Laura

WOYWW 201 | Knock wood, the snow is melted

Happy Wednesday and Happy WOYWW for those folks who routinely post pictures of their work tables, desk, etc. and post links over at Mrs. Dunnit's blog. You know you are hooked on this weekly tradition when you feel a bit of sadness at not participating in a given week. 

I've got a couple things going on here, which will be easier to see in closer pictures.

A partially filled Project Life page is sitting next to some photos that my husband kindly picked up for me yesterday. The top picture is of my sister-in-law and my daughter -- a nice shot. I haven't been using much ephemera this year, but this page has daughter's list of borrowed library books and clothing tags from our Easter finery mounted on some Basic Grey Kioshi paper. Underneath the PL page protector, I've pulled out some patterned paper -- I've got a two page layout I want to make, but haven't managed to begin sticking anything down yet. 

This is a quote I hope to make an art journal page with . . . hopefully opportunity and energy will collide and make this happen sometime soon. :)

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura

WOYWW 192 | More Valentines

Heavy on pictures, light on words this morning. I've injured my right elbow (and I'm right-handed), so am having difficulties this week. Hope to go see the doctor today. I'll visit all who are kind enough to comment here, of course, but may not be able to manage more than that. Happy Wednesday, friends.

~ Laura

Update: I've seen my primary care doctor and had x-rays, which were not entirely conclusive. Possible small fracture, or possibility of the triceps muscle having pulled off the bone. I'm hoping there is some other possibility -- ha! I see someone in orthopedics this afternoon. 

Second update: The PA in ortho -- named Javier -- thinks I only have tendonitis! Hip, hip, hooray! So, I'm home from work today with a sling and a more robust anti-inflammatory medicine, feeling much more optimistic! Thanks so much for all your sweet comments -- you are the best.

WOYWW 190 | It's a cold one!

Good morning (afternoon, or evening, depending upon your time zone)! Our thermometer says -10 degrees Farenheit this morning, which the Google calculator tells me is the equivalent of --23.3333 Celsius. I'm joining in with the What's On Your Workdesk? blog hop, hosted by Julia each and every Wednesday. 

Here is my table. I've been putting Christmas pictures into divided page protectors, sandwiched between two very simple 12x12 layouts. I thought I was going to put these away last night, but I need to get another album. I told my husband we have to build onto the house to make more room for albums. :)

I made this art journal page over the weekend. 

And I promise this is the last bit of Halloween until October! 

I'll probably be in Valentine's mode by next week -- I'm in the mood for a new holiday. I've actually got a few bits and pieces out already -- they're just buried from view on the table at the moment. 

Thanks for visiting!

~ Laura

WOYWW 188

It's 9:27 PM my time as I type this -- didn't have time to post this morning before work. I've got an art journal page in the foreground. The quote is from Matisse and I attempted to imitate some of his organic lobed shapes with pastels. It was fun. I may revisit this subject/idea with paint sometime . . .

I'm doing Project Life more formally this year, using whatever page protectors I have on hand and my own stash, one page per week. This page serves as both a "title" page and the first page of the year. 

And this is the super simple page for the Halloween costume minibook. 

Happy What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday -- click the link to find out what it's all about. :)

~ Laura

Final pages of December Daily album

Over the weekend I got more pictures printed and finished my December Daily album! I did it through the 25th, which is honestly just right. By the time Christmas is over, I'm ready to be done with the project. 

Basic Grey paper, new Hero Arts Christmas stamps (yay), gold embossing powder, Freckled Fawn washi tape

American Craft paper ("I Do" line, believe it or not), Freckled Fawn washi tape

Plain AC cardstock, paper tape (unknown), Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type stickers, new Martha Stewart presents border punch

I didn't write this, but saw it on Facebook and thought it was the perfect final page for this year's album.


The 6x6 AC albums are the perfect size for this project. Painting the raw chipboard is super time consuming, but it is fun to make it my own after that.