WOYWW - oh bugger!

I'm still at Lynne's so there's no paper-crafting going on, unless you count 'hunt for the BG paper pack that appears to have gone missing'.

What I am doing though is despairing at my laptop:


The lid part (probably has a name, but I can't think of it) has had a crack in it for a while and the hinge cover fell off, but over the last 3 days it has all gone horribly wrong. It's broken and it doesn't close straight any more:


I knew I'd be needing a new one this year sometime as it's been doing odd things for a couple of months, but I really could do with making do for a little longer. I'm going back to a Dell lappy, just need a good enough deal!

I did, however, start a new monkey yesterday in this lovely wool. The flash has made it look a lot brighter than it is, but it's lovely to knit with.


I shall have a look through the other WOYWW blogs a bit later on as it's lunchtime and I'm feeling a bit peckish!!

If you fancy having a nosey or joining in, head over to ~{Julia's Blog}~.

Kaz xx

Hellooo

Helloo everyone, I hope you all had a lovely Christmas? Ours was great fun; sooooooo much better than last year. It seems that I brought my pixies up here to Lynne's with me as they appear to have sewn the seems on my clothes tighter while I've slept! Little buggers.

We have been playing a new game this year called Pictureka. There are 9 picture boards like this and you have to find things quickly before anyone else. Also you have to bid to find the most of one thing, then find that many in a certain time, and just to make it harder you have to swap the boards over and turn them over from time to time. Great fun, very loud and occasionally violent!



Now santa has been, I can blog what I made Lynne for Christmas. She has this skanky notebook with her work contacts in, so I thought I'd make her a proper one, plus a few matching bits and pieces. I loved this MME paper set so when I saw some in a sale, I snapped some more up. The notebooks and memo block all came from the basic notebook range from Wilkinsons - dead cheap to buy, the mini notepad was 9p!!




I've used the instructions ~{Kathy}~ posted on ~{Bubbly Scrumptious}~ for the mini notepads and memo block. The mini notebooks are only decorated with a strip of ribbon and a chipboard piece so that it doesn't fall apart in her bag. I've painted the chipboard black and doodled with white inkessentials pen, then triple UTEE'd the lot!

The memo block is far simpler to make than it looks plus, as a bonus, it's extremely quick to make.



Kaz xxx

Sshh don't tell Lucy

Well I finally finished the canvases for Lucy for Christmas and, seeing as I'm not going up there for another few days due to the snow and ice, I can blog them. She only looks here with me, so I should be safe.
The canvases are 5 x 5 inches, so perfect size for the chipboard letters I got from Bubblyfunk ages ago (we're talking at least 12 months here)!


I've used all sorts of bits out of my stash and just made it up as I went along.


Kaz xxx

WOYWW - cough, splutter, sniff

My desk is looking quite respectable this week as work ground to a halt. I went to Lynne's for the weekend and came back with a rotten coughy/fluey bug thing, so I've spent the last few days doing bugger all, but cough, sneeze and sleep. Gggrrr. However, I am feeling a bit more respectable, so I've cut one letter and inked one canvas edge just to see how it goes.


I'm making my youngest nieces pressie and it's the last one I'm doing. I made an executive decision, and didn't even consult myself, that I am not going to go mad and finish everything I had planned. Lucy's 10 so she will get her pressie, but everyone else knows I've not been well enough so will have I.O.U's. Others have now got Amazon vouchers that I just have to print - I'm being a right old meanie and not even making gift wallets for them. Bah Humbug!!

So the desk has 4 canvases, giant chipboard letters and MME Pretty Please papers and I shall bung a few flowers on to fill up the gaps! Lucy is great as she loves anything she's given and she had a special section for me on her Christmas list that said anything handmade please! She thinks I'm making her a cow! *wink wink Annie (Wipso)*

A few of you commented on the beads in the glass, so I thought I'd show part of my room not shown before.


I bought these glasses in Asda so I could store the beads in them in colours. I've got cotton wool in the bottoms to stop them making a racket when I put them back in. It actually works much better than storing them in their individual bags. The pic you can see is of the orang I've adopted this year, with his real mum.

Head on over to ~{Julia's Blog}~ to join in with the nosiness. We are all nosey and proud of it!!


The puppies still look the same at the mo, so I thought I'd show a pic from the breeder's site. This is only a hilarious picture if the dog isn't yours!!!



Kaz xxx

Happy Birthday Mum

Well it's the 12th of December and I have done well with Tim's 12 tags as I made a grand total of ............. one! Well done me!!

On the other hand, I did very well with mum's birthday stuff as I had those already made and I can only thank Di at ~{Tando}~ for supplying me with the bits a while ago!!

I made the easel card and have shown that ~{here}~, but before that I made this to do list holder thingy. It's using the Tando bird with the loveliest knobbly knees and the turquoise binder on the second photo.


This is quite a nifty little gadget as you can add more pages when you need them.



I used MME papers to cover some cardboard and decorated it with some doodling, American Crafts letters and some prima flowers.



Kaz xxx

WOYWW - Plus a special treat

I can't believe the last time I blogged was a week ago! Well I did blog yesterday on Bubbly Scrumptious and Tando, but it's a pressie for my dad so I couldn't put it on here just in case.

This week the desk is tidier. Yesterday I had a call from my sister, Lynne, saying she was looking at my desk and it was a disgrace! Her words were 'no wondered you're so knackered if you're trying to make stuff in that!' Why she's surprised I can't guess as I was making that mess at hers at the beginning of the year.

So anyhooo, here's today's desk:




I've just started working on something for next Tuesday's BS post and you can just see a glimpse on the left. There's a little bit of beading to go on it, bet you hadn't guessed that? The turquoisey green ribbon on the right was today's gift from my secret santa.

The paperweight is glowing again, so I've taken a photo of it without a flash so you can see the lovely innerds.


It's surprising how glowy it is from just a few flakes.

Last week someone mentioned the bunnies in a photo on a drawer; they are my nieces bunnies, but sadly Pepper, the one on the left died this year, so it's just Mopsy now. I adore(d) those bunnies. When Pepper died, Lynne and Andy looked into getting a puppy as they have always said they would get one, and on Sunday the dog at the breader's gave birth to 9 puppies!! And here she is looking pretty chuffed at herself.



The trouble is, now I want to have one of them.

I shall now be off to examine the desks of everyone else. I'm hoping that Paige will have an update on her puppies!

Kaz xxx

WOYWW - It's All T!m's Fault!

Yes, it's not my fault, it's his (sorry Linda, but I have to blame someone and the pixies promised me it wasn't them). Just lately, as you may know, the things I've been making have all been for DT and Christmas gifts, so when I saw Tim's 12 tags of Christmas, I thought I'd do something for me. I don't think I'll be doing them all as I still have lots of things to finish, but if I can I'll do a few.

So anyway, I put my dinner in the oven and headed off to the craft room to begin. During the evening I did a few more bits to it and this morning, I woke to this:


It's pure carnage!! I can't believe I could go to bed and leave that mess (I'm lying, I do it often). Do you think the bin needs emptying? Well I sat down and poked the stickles that had been drying overnight and, guess what? Yep. Not dry. I think I must have used half a pot of stickles to get the effect that Tim got - I guess it helps if you work for Ranger as you can get your mitts on freebie stash.

So I spread it a bit more to cover the fingerprint hole and got the heat gun onto it, then tied the ribbon. This is the result:



It was the fact that Tim's tag had a snowman on it that made me go for it as I could use my fave stamp again. I coloured him with Copics again and added stickles to just the shaded parts. It's very difficult to see the sparkle as the light is crap for photos today.

I shall be round to you WOYWWers in a bit to see what you've been up to. If you haven't had a go at this yet, go to ~{Julia's Blog}~ and I'm sure you'll want to join in. It caters for the nosiest amongst us (as I say that in the nicest possible way) as we can rummage someone elses stash without leaving home. Fab.

Kaz xxxx