WOYWW 116 = More new stash!

Very good morning to all. I am pleased to anounce that my desk is still relatively clean. Two weeks in a row now, must be some kind of a record! LOL! You will see some really yummy new stamps on my desk today. The mini Maggies that I ordered at CHA and my Whiff of Joy Stampclub! They arrived yesterday and I have already stamped all of them, they are so gorgeous! The biggest problem was which one to colour first. There are some finished cards and I am sorry to say, the same photo's from last week (month? since Christmas?) waiting to be scrapped - mr. Mojo is not feeling the scrapbooking thing right now.
Here are some of the mini Maggies I used. The first one is an oval card cut with my Nesties. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and the bling from my stash.

Another mini Maggie. How cute is she? Papers are from my scrapbox and a paperpack that came free with a magazine. Ribbon is from my stash and the sentiment from the Magnolia Spring Club from last year. Her wings were glitterified with Stickles once again.

The last card for today is the first one from the WOJ Club. How beautiful are those princesses from Elizabeth Bell? Paper is from the scrapbox once again, ribbon from the local habby store and so is the butterfly. All images were coloured with my beloved Copics.

My 4 scrapgirls are coming for a playdate tthis morning. They were here last week and as always I loved having them. It is very exhausting to work with 5 girls between the ages of 4 and 14, but very rewarding! Kids are so creative and not afraid to try a new technique at all. This afternoon a friend is coming to look at the samples I made for her son's wedding invitations.

All in all a great day ahead for me.

My thoughts and prayers are with my friends in America that were affected by the earthquake, I hear there is a hurricane heading their way too, so I really pray you all are safe.

Happy WOYWW everybody and don't forget to visit Julia at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ to find out what I am talking about if you still don't know!

WOYWW - You got me!

OK, I admit, I was ashamed last week, very ashamed. More so because I got the messy award. It took me three days (yes, I am hanging my head here!) but... Behold! Its a work of art! My desk is clean. I put everything in its rightful place, which theoretically means that I should be able to find it again without too much bother. I managed to visit and leave a comment for everybody lasy week, so I do have some reason to feel good about myself!
Today is going to be a crazy day. I am babysitting my 8mo granddaughter, Gemma, for the day and my other granddaughter phoned her oupa to pick her up too. Tertia-Lee is almost 5, so not too much work, as long as I let her into my craftroom (EEEKK!!!), she is happy.
I am having my regular scrapbooking class too - 4 sisters between 4 and 13! Should be fun, it always is, but I don't know if I will still be able to walk after all of that. LOL I just remembered - my beautiful room!

I have been playing with some more La La Land Crafts stamps from CHA (I think I am slightly obsessed) and loving each one more and more.

All of them were coloured with my Copics and all cardstock is Bazzil. This one has little teeny pearls in her hair and her dress was glitterified with Stickles. The Dp is from a DCW paperstack that I got at CHA. Ribbon and trim is from Realy Reasonable Ribbon.

This one uses some freebie papers from a magazine. She had to get some real pearls of course and the shoes just 'had' to get the Stickle treatment. The die is another new one from CHA and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts and my stash. The ribbon is from the local habby man.

How cute are these swimming stamps? This one was so bright that I did not need any more than one sheet of Kaisercraft paper. Even the 'ribbon' is from the same sheet of paper!

Here is the boy version. Don't you just love the goggles and feet? Papers are from a paperstack(DCW I think) the ribbon from Really Reasonable Ribbon and the charm from my local bead shop.

I have made 18 (yes 18!) La La Land cards this week, so I will show the rest during the next week or so.

Remember to pop over to Julia's blog ( http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com ) to join in the fun!

Well, I better get my hair dried before all those girls arrive at my house, have a great day everybody.

CDAC Progressive Freebie challenge and more La La Land.

The lovely Priscilla Styles has this Progressive Freebie Challenge on at CDAC ( http://priscillastyles.ning.com/group/cdac-progressive-freebie-challenges ) If you join before the end of August, you get 6 gorgeous free digi's and then you just use them to get more, how very clever and generous is that? I could not decide which one to use first, but then realised that I needed a card for my DD who happens to be a trained chef, so the choice was obvious!
The background paper is from my scrapbox, I think it might be Fabscraps, but I am not sure. The lace was punched with my MS punch and the image was coloured with my beloved Copics.
While I was at CHA there were so many make and takes. I could not do a lot of them, because it would have been impossible to bring home on the plane, but I did take some to make at home and these three gorgeous La-La Land Crafts stamps were some of those.

All coloured with my Copics and the mermaid's tail was glitterified with Stickles.

How cute is this Rollerskating Marci? My granddaughter is going to love her.

And last but not least, there was this beauty. All of them were easel cards and they are quite small, only 4x4 inches.

Sigh, now there are more of these beauties I HAVE to get.

Had a huge to do with my cellphone provider today. My service was suspended 'due to non payment' when the payment gets done by debit order! Took MTN 5 hours to fix the problem. I am proud to report that I did not lose my temper once and stayed relatively calm the whole time. My DH's phone was suspended too and no patience there I am afraid! All my fault (isn't it always?) At least we are both up and running again, so hopefully he will be calmed down by the time he gets home from work.

Have a great evening.

WOYWW and some CHA finds.

I can not believe its been only a week since I have been back from CHA! So much has happened. I came back and had to organise a huge prize giving function at school (the old leaders were handing over their reigns to the new ones!) and my grandchildren (3 of them) are being Christened next Sunday, so invitations needed to be made and of course, I was itching to get my hands on all the new toys I got at CHA.
That is the reason for the mess on my desk this morning. I was hoping that it would look better if I took an artistic photo with sunbeams reflecting, but it still looks terrible LOL.It was so bad that I had to flee my craftroom last night and work on the couch!

Now the couch and the TV room looks just as bad as my craftroom! I think its time for a clean up, don't you?

One of my favourite finds from CHA was La La Land stamps. They are just too gorgeous! I bought a whole lot of them, because I could not actually find any that I did not like! For my South African friends - she has some Summer Christmas stamps!!! They were not quite ready at CHA, but I have ordered some if anybody is interested!

The first one uses some Prima and other flowers from my stash and some lace from Wild Orchid Crafts. Of course they were all coloured with my beloved Copics.

Here is a close up, hoping you can see how I glitterified her shoes and jewelery.

They have some awesome boy images. Don't know about you, but I always seem to battle with the boy cards. These images are so cute, this card just came together. The bread tag with the sentiment on is another new CHA find. The die cut is from My favorite Things.

Last, but certainly not the last LA La Stamp you will see from me is this gorgeous Cupcake Supergirl! Just love her! The sentiment is from My favorite Things. All other dies are Nestabilities and all cardstock is Bazzil and the dp all came from my scrapbox.

I am going shopping for paper - not for me, I have to make wedding invitations for a friend's son!

While I am gone go and snoop at all the other talented ladies' desks over at Queen Julia (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/)

Have a great week everybody, its school holidays so I hope to post more than once a week.

WOYWW - I'm baxk!

Good morning everybody. I am sorry I missed last week, but I was having so much fun at CHA in Chicago, I completely forgot it was Wednesday!
So this is what is on my desk (my floor) this morning. Some of the goodies I brought back from America. Yes, I said some, because I could not fit everything into one photo and the kids have all taken their presents already LOL.
Most wonderful things there? My pink ATG of course! Now I no longer have to be jealous every time I see one on somebody's desk. Then there is my Copic Certification handbook! YAY me! I am now officialy Copic certified, the Copic shadows and shading book by Marianne Walker (I met her and she signed it for me!!!) A whole lot of stamps, mostly LaLaLand and My Favourite Things, all the make and takes from CHA and of course, just to prove I was really there, my badge!
It took me more than 48 hours to get home! First the plane had technical difficulties and we had to spend the night in Chicago, then there was bad weather and we were further delayed, so I am so tired today, but its back to work for me, have a great day everybody. I took loads of photo's so I will be back with more from CHA later.
If you do noy know why I would post my 'desk', pop over to Julia (http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com ) and all will become clear.

One more sleep, so no desk today.... Sorry!

I know I have been driving everybody stark raving mad, but can i just say it one more time please!!!!? I am leaving for CHA tomorrow!!!!! So no desk today, I am frantically trying to get everything sorted out at home before I leave.
I just had to come and say good bye though and leave you with some pics of my adorable grandchildren. I am going to miss them terribly while I am gone.
First, our little Gemma, already a Diva at 7 months old. She is the only baby I know that won't take the glasses off, she thinks she is just too cool! LOL

Then there's my namesake, Tertia - Lee. We took the 3 eldes grandies to the zoo last weekend and even though she was really sick, she did not want to stay home. See how pale she is? And.. she did not complain once the whole day.

My beautiful Hannah, 7 and so not fond of school. She is the most knowledgable little 7yo I know and yet, she struggles terribly ay school. It breaks my heart and I wish I could help her.

My beautiful boy, 9 yo Luke (I know he doesn't look so very beautiful on this photo, but he is at the age where he starts pulling faces the second he sees the camera! LOL) My super clever grandson, who sometimes scare me with his intelligence. I really hope he does not discover its uncool to be so smart. He promised to keep an eye on oupa and Skype me (yes, he has his own Skype) the moment he sees another woman near his oupa, or he catches oupa smoking - Its been 7 weeks since he stopped and so far he is doing great!

Now I have to run, but make sure you pop over to Julia at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ to get your weekly fix of desks.

See you all in two weeks, maybe next week, but even though I am taking the laptop. I am not making any promises.

Mo's free image = how cute is she?

I hope I am not too late posting this. Mo Manning posted this freebie paper doll on Facebook and of course, if its one of Mo's I have to have it (even if its not a freebie, but shhh... don't tell my DH)
She was printed and coloured as soon as I downloaded her, but you know how it goes. One of my grandchildren got the Adeno Virus (nasty stomach bug!) and I had to take him for a day to give DD some rest, I wanted to play with him too, so it was actually for me and not DD that I offered. Then there is CHA that I need to pack for, and do some last minute shopping! Did I happen to mention that I was going on my blog before? Maybe once or twice? More like I am wearing you guys out by now, LOL.
Friday night we spent with old friends and only got home in the early hours of the morning - nothing like old friend and good memories hey?
Yesterday we took the three eldest grandies to the Pretoria zoo. Great day, lots of fun, but no crafting or blogging time for me. This morning my DS came to visit and we had a braai (barbeque for those of you that don't braai) One ray of sunshine in mid winter and we braai, so South African!
OK, now I have run out of excuses as to why I didn't finish my card, so here she is - al done and looking really gorgeous I think.

Here's a close up, hoping you can see the bling on her dress, shoes and bow. Paper are Bazzil and 3 bugs in a rug. She was coloured with my beloved Copic markers. Flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts and the bling and ribbon from my local Chinese market.
In case you missed it, let me remind you - only 4 more sleeps till I leave for Chicago!!!!