WOYWW #556

WOYWW - All the deets on how to link up etc. and, more importantly, why you should, can be found at the top to the page.  Thank you Julia for hosting another week of fun and mayhem.

Still beavering away at reducing the pile of outstanding mail - both email and hard copy.

The desk is much the same except that the 'stackers' and pencils are put away.  *Double checks in amazement!!!*
Forms are still waiting to be filled in..... why bother with a passport when I have no foreign trips abroad planned, not even Paris...... and Funeral arrangements must be the most awful ones to put in writing.  I have a friend who has hers arranged down to the last detail.... I think she has spent months, if not years, planning it out and adjusting plans.... I am not that brave.
Much better to sort the post on the left of the laptop.... latest cards and ATCs delivered this morning.... along with this months Creative Stamping Mag Iss 81.  I am trying to use new stash at least once before 'filing' it.

I did very well with last months mag - I managed to create a zine (small booklet from one A4 paper - deets to follow) and a card.

Issue 81                   Zine                   Card        

I think I will be a bit more challenged this month!

Just to let you know that I have just learned how to merge the above photos ..... thank you Google!!!!
Maybe I will try Windows 10 after all!!

WOYWW #555

Nothing going on round here ..... wrong!
I may not have been at my desk but I have been crocheting for the wildlife caught up in the Australian fires (all supplies sent and now need UK wildlife rescue links).

I have managed to create some ATCs, which will be posted later and at the moment I am sorting stash (again!!)

My desk is much the same:

Forms still waiting to be filled in and posted off ...

I have been notified that I need to go to another hospital for further investigation into a discovery that was made during my heart tests ..... (this just confirms that if you go to the Doctors, they will always find something wrong with you!!! )
I went to the GP back in October with an annoying cough which wouldn't go away!!!  lol

I hope this week to be able to clear and update some of my 'waiting to be sorted' post, both hard copy and electronic.

You all have a good week and keep on crafting....

WOYWW #554

Happy New Year!
I survived Christmas after all so here is the desk....

My GPs and Consultants appear to have it all sorted now and I am certainly feeling a lot better.  I am trying to catch up with all the 'things' that had to be left while I was'under the weather'.......

Here is the desk

From the left .....
a small Zine, should've been swapped back in November but hope to post it tomo.  To the right of the laptop ..... that passport renewal form is still there ...... but more importantly is the folder.  It may be a very pretty pink flowered one but it contains lots of patterns to knit, crochet and stitch little pouches and nest for the poor wild life caught up in the fires in Australia.  I have sent out copies to members of my craft Group so that we can collect some 'help' for the animals.  I have a local hub which will distribute  them out to Australia..... so organised in such a short time but the support has been tremendous!
Hoping to catch up again soon
x
Just a thought ... it would have been my daughter's 43rd birthday today.  Happy Birthday Leanne Denise, too beautiful for this life here on earth......

Australian Wild Animal Rescue Collective

I found this Group on Facebook and joined immediately.  My prayers are for the Rescuers and animals and land as I thought this was all I could offer.
Now I can knit and crochet to my hearts content and then send it out to my nearest 'Hub' which happens to be a few miles away.
In case you would like to join in here is the link.... please feel free to spread the word.

I think this is the link for the Main Group - not really au fait with Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2526579050910692/

this is the West Midlands link - again I think

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=australian%20animal%20rescue%20effort%20uk%20-%20west%20mids%20hub

Wombats in Stitched pouches

Bat Wraps and Joey Slings

Joey Pouches

Pouch

more nests of various sizes

Nest

Birthday 2019

Well, another dank miserable day dawns ..... so dark it's not worth opening the curtains!!!

But, heigh ho .... it's my birthday!!  Another bonus, another year achieved.... although I must admit my friend was right ..... when I was 65 she told me "enjoy it, it will be all downhill from now on!!"


I have received a card.......

made by one of the ladies from my Craft Group, thank you Jill. 

It arrived bright and early in the week and I have been able to enjoy for quite a few days.


Ooooo Look!  The Postman .....

I am not going to rush excitedly to the door ...... well, maybe just a bit......






ANOTHER card!

from my sister in law, Thank you Doreen.


So now comes the long wait until tonight .......
The family are going for a meal, I am hoping there will be more cards and maybe a pressie or two.  I wanted to go to this particular restaurant just to have a nosey really at how the place has been refurbished.  I am hoping that the toddler area has been cleaned up and repaired.
I am already enjoying one present as I shared earlier.......

They are so com....fort....able ..... love 'em to bits!!


Well, I am off now to do some more birthday things...... clean sheet the bed, catch up on my mails......

WOYWW #549

WOYWW - All the deets on how to link up etc. and, more importantly, why you should, can be found at the top to the page.  Thank you Julia for hosting another week of fun and mayhem.

Another busy week for Doctor and Hospital visits but we are still here!!!
The desk:

Just a dumping ground at the moment.
The cards are still there, along with the insert stamps.
All the bumpf from our trip on the Polar Express.
A New Year stamp has fallen out of the box but all else is as it is.

We haven't managed to get any further with setting up the Christmas Village although a 'Brass Band' and some 'Skiers' did fall into our basket the other day when we went out with the Boys!!

Still ..... onward and upward.....

Here's a few Christmas Carols for you:
1 Approach Everyone Who is Steadfast.
2 Ecstasy Toward the Orb
3 Hush, the Foretelling Spirits harmonise
4 Quiescent Nocturnal Period the Ascent of Apollo
5 The Autocratic Troika Originating Near 90 degrees N Latitude
6 The Primary Carol
7 Embellish the Corridors
8 I'm Fantasising Concerning a blanched Yuletide
9 I apprehended My Maternal Parent Osculating with a Corpulent, Unshaven Male in Crimson.
10 Obese Personification Fabricated of Compressed Mounds of Minute Crystals

and there's more .......Answers next week

Christmas Dinner 2019

This year the Craft Group and the Volunteers chose the same day for their Christmas Meal
Shame.... I can only attend one ...... The Craft Group won!!!
We booked in at the Crowne Plaza in Solihull.  Little did they know what disruption we would be causing!!!

The table was beautifully laid but of course this numpty forgot to use her camera!!!


We had lots of fun while we waited for our food, the waiters must've thought the 'inmates' had arrived.

We all managed to fire off our 'rocket' balloons, all at once and they went all over the restaurant.  Much laughter ensued..... must note here that it was NOT my instigation!!!  lol

These pretty gold boxes came home with us of course.... and the serviettes ......

We spent the best part of two hours there and all agreed it was wonderful, the food was very tasty, the company the best and we should all do it again soon.