WOYWW - Happy Birthday to you

Good morning and a very happy fourth Birthday to all the WOYWWers out there. It is hard to believe that this has been going on for 4 whole years and I think I joined somewhere around the 6 months mark and have been hooked ever since!

In the four years we have laughed and cried together, I have learnt so much from so many of you, you have made me buy things that I did not even know I needed and you have shamed me into cleaning my dreadfully messy desk once or twice. Some of you have even help me find my glasses on that desk. Most of all, I have found some fantastic friends through WOYWW and I love my weekly visit to the many talented artists out there. Some weeks life gets in the way and there are not many visits at all, but I am always forgiven and welcomed back when life finally calms down. 

In the four years we have laughed and cried together, I have learnt so much from so many of you, you have made me buy things that I did not even know I needed and you have shamed me into cleaning my dreadfully messy desk once or twice. Some of you have even help me find my glasses on that desk. Most of all, I have found some fantastic friends through WOYWW and I love my weekly visit to the many talented artists out there. Some weeks life gets in the way and there are not many visits at all, but I am always forgiven and welcomed back when life finally calms down.

WOYWW - Still not very much.

Good morning all. Thought I would not make posting this morning because I was up half the night, thinking this was the way I was going to die - hugging the toilet. Feeling a little fragile this morning, but OK, must have been something I ate.

My desk is still looking very neglected - silly season at school (I have essays to mark, exams to set, parents to se, etc, etc... won't bore you with the details.) I am proud to report that I have made some ATC's and there are some in the process of being made.

I have also finished this card for a friend, our Maths teacher. Its her birthday soon and the Birthday club still has to all sign the inside of the card. I am a bit worried that I am starting to like playing with inks. Looks like WOYWW might be contagious in more ways than one! 

That's me folks! Nothing more to report, other than the fact that I am late for school and I have to run. Have a great day.

WOYWW - What happened to Autumn?

Good morning all! School has started and I am running myself into a coma again, trying to get to everything. We started last Tuesday and since then I have had 10 meetings, the school had Matric Dance, we had parents day yesterday and I am in the middle of metings with parents of girls that are failing to try and help them pass at the end of the year. You can understand then that there is very little time for crafting.

 

 It feels like we went straight from Summer into Winter and that Autumn has decided to skip South Africa this year! It is bitterly cold in the mornings and only the colours on the leaves are an indication that we should be having Autumn right now. My desk is looking very lonely. Just the left overs of the last bit of crafting before school started. There is a little box I made and forgot about (I wanted to fill it with some chocolate for a friend)

My DD made the local papers this week, I am a very proud mom (Please note, they used one of the photo's I took at Nationals last year! ) Such a good feeling to see it in print.
Have a great week everybody, hope to see you all this week at WOYWW

WOYWW -still looking OK-ish.

Good morning all, from a very cold South Africa. School started yesterday and we are right back hitting the ground running. .It doesn't feel like I have just had 3 weeks of rest and play. I have to apologise for my lack of visits to all at WOYWW, I was hit hard by a stupid chest infection and could hardly lift my head, I did read all the lovely comments and  appreciate each and every one.

I am happy to report that the desk still looks relatively tidy after I cleaned.

 I did a LO of DD's wedding. Used a sketch from Let's Scrap and managed to fit 19 photo's on one LO. I cut the filmstrip borders with my Silhouette and used some cardstock.

 I have wanted to scrap this photo of my DH and his 2 best friends for a very long time, but it landed on the 'to do' pile and I never really got round to it. Then the guy on the left committed suicide and it became just that much harder. I cut the chipboard with my Silhouette, just to see how it cuts chipboard and suddenly the idea popped into my head. I showed DH (not knowing if it was the right thing to do, because he was and still is, devastated by the loss of his friend) He looked at it for a very long time and then handed it back to me with tears in his eyes and a whispered thank you.

It is moments like that that remind me why I scrap. To preserve those precious moments that we often take for granted,
Personal rambling to follow, stop reading if you only came to see the desk.
My youngest DD is a waterpolo player and has been playing goalie for about 13 years. She has been considered to be one of the best goalies this country has ever seen by many, but because of many reasons (mainly political), she has never been chosen for the senior National side -in spite of being the goalie of the tournament' at Nationals consistantly for the last 11 years! I am so very proud of her for not giving up and for working harder than ever this year.
She finally got the nod from the selectors and will be going to World Championships in July this year. The only problem is that Swim South Africa has just lost their sponsorship and she will have to pay her own way. She has launched a fundraising campaign on indiegogo and I am asking everybody I know to please donate 1 dollar to her and to share this link with as mant people as you know. Please help me make my special girl's drems come true. Go here to read about the campaign and please share on Facebook and everywhere else you can, you can also follow her journey on Twitter @waterBOKKIE1
Have a great week everybody, see you soon.

WOYWW! I cleaned!!

Good morning all, its a public holiday over here in South Africa (and in 80 other countries in the world!), so if you are enjoying Workers Day at home, I hope you have a great time visiting all the other wonderfully talented people that make up WOYWW. I was shamed into cleaning my craftroom after last week's picture with the result that I am rather proud to show you my desk this week. There is still some scraps of left over paper, but I plan to use those today. Even the tablecloths were washed and put back on, just wait a second while I polish my halo quiskly. LOL

 I have been very busy playing, my friend, Audrey, came over for a play date and it was awesome! We talked more than work, but it was still great and this is the card I made with the image I coloured while she was here.

 It is my new Wee Stamps digi (that I accidentally deleted, if anybody knows how to recover my digi file, I will be grateful!) She was coloured with my beloved Copic markers. The paper is from a paperstack by DCW and the cardstock is Bazzil. Her wings were glitterified with Stickles.

 I have been scrapping up a storm and using my Silhouette a lot.This LO is of my two grandies (cousins) having a conversation about how to eat a fizzer. They were unaware of the camera capturing the whole thing. I love these pics and just had to scrap them.The butterfly border  and title was cut with my Silhouette. Paper is Upikit and Bazzil.

This is a LO that I made of my other grandie' first day of school. Details can be found here.
A warm welcome to my new followers and thank you all for your kind comments. I think I made it about half way through the list last week, I am going to try to make it through the whole list this week.
Have a great and arty week everybody!