WOYWW - Week 707

I know I've been missing in action for a few weeks but I just had to join in with Julia's What's In Your Workdesk Wednesday and wish you all a 

Very Merry Christmas! 

There's not much to show on my desk today. Just the glittery gold Christmas album and the last page made waiting to be filed in it. It's looking a bit too bulky now, weighs a tonne too, so time to order a new album. 

Here's a close up of the page. The design is a good way of using up lots of leftover strips of paper. 

I've not been able to do much scrapping, or much of anything really, because of arthritis in my hands. All the packing and unpacking with moving house has caused a flare-up so I've been advised to take it a bit easier for a while. Not too difficult as it is Christmas so I'm giving myself a break. 

I hope to get back to normal again in the New Year.

ln the meantime, I wish all of you wherever you are, whatever you are doing, a wonderful holiday weekend. 

Elizabeth

WOYWW Week 703

Hello Everyone,

And happy Wednesday to you all too. I'm dropping in for the weekly workdesk event, hosted by the fabulous Julia over at the Stamping Ground, What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday? 

There's not much going on here. Silver thinks the desk makes a perfect perch. Besides, what could be more important than her comfort and company.  She's right, of course. 

We're still struggling without the internet. Waiting for Openreach seems to be neverending. 

There's been some progress with the unboxing. Both desks are now in place in the workroom and the bookcases are filling up. 

My wooden stamps, at least some of them, are back where they belong. 

I'm finding some time, mainly in the evenings, to work my way through the page kits put together before the move - when Silver allows! Otherwise, there's not much doing. 

Hope you're all finding plenty time to craft and that there's lots on your workdesk today. 

Take care and have a great week ahead. 

Elizabeth 

Sunday Chat

Hello Everyone,

Happy Sunday to you all. I thought I'd start a regular post for Sundays to chat about what I've been up to recently. This week it just happens to be about scrapping from a sketch. 

I like using a sketch. They make a great starting point.  In particular, I'm a great fan of Lisa Sikorski's sketches - they can be found on her Scrap A Sketch Facebook group  This one is sketch is No.2. I've used it not just once, but twice. 

Our Sweet Kind Boy

Fresh Air

Seen together like this it's obvious I used the sketch both times. But different backgrounds, colours, patterned papers, embellishments and, of course, photos and each page looks completely different. 

I created the tags by cutting a variety of papers to size, rounding of the corners with a corner punch, and punching a star centre top ... the hole punch is still packed away goodness knows where! It's a trick that I often use when there's no suitable labels in my stash. 

Eventually each page will be filed in different albums so the similarity of the layouts probably won't be noticed. Not that it matters to me if they were - I'm just pleased to be able to use a sketch more than once. 

If you are a scrapper do you use sketches and, if so, do you use the same one more than once ... your favourites, perhaps? 

I have an evening of scrapping on my temporary workdesk lined up, after dinner, of course. And I'll be catching up with Strictly Come Dancing in Blackpool too ... hoping my favourites get through to dance another week. Can you tell I'm addicted? 

I wish you all a lovely week ahead and 'keep scrapping'! 

Elizabeth