WOYWW Week 888/108

Hello Everyone

It's been a while! I won't bore you with the reasons why I've been missing except to say I've gone through a difficult period health-wise which affected my ability to concentrate on the fun things in life. However, I'm doing much better now and feeling more my old self again. In fact, the last month or so has seen me starting to get back into scrapbooking, reading and even a little light gardening!

So, after all the months of neglect, it's great to be able to show you my busy desk covered with evidence of scrapbooking in progress. There's several completed layouts, a pile of paper scraps and some photographs that I plan to use on the next layout. 

If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram you will already have seen that I have been taking an online course, Shimelle Laine's Clear the Desk Live. I hoped it would get me scrapping again and it well and truly has! I won't post all twenty pages made so far,but here's just one because the subject is very dear to my heart.

Love this photo of Alan when he was indeed the family handyman. Here he was showing me the herb rack he made for our daughter, Juli. He also made one for our kitchen which is still in use today.

I'm keeping it short this week as it's the first time back in a long time, but I will leave you with a photo of my beloved cat Silver. 

She's proudly posing in front of the painting made for her by my granddaughter Shari. 

To see more creative workdesks pop over to Sarah's blog, Sarah's Craft Shed. If you don't already do so, feel free to join in the fun and show us what's on your workdesk this Wednesday. You'll be made most welcome.

Have a great WOYWW day and a fabulous week everyone,

Take care everyone,

Elizabeth

WOYWW Week 847 - Not a Lot to Show

Hello WOYWWers, Followers, Everyone

It's true. There isn't a lot for me to show on my desk this week, or, for that matter, any other week recently. I'm finding it tough getting back to the fun things when there's still so much other stuff needing my attention. both here in the flat and outside in the shed. Those boxes seem to be bottomless! 

Anyway, enough of my moaning. What's on my desk is the beginnings of a new layout. The photos are of my mother and her older sister, taken sometime in the 1930s. The papers and alphas are leftovers from a kit I used earlier this year to make another page.  When will the layout get done is anyone's guess but it's there waiting for me and my mojo to return.

Silver enjoying a blissful moment of sunshine. We've had a lot of rain in the last few day. I believe the slab she's sunning herself on covers a well of sorts but for her it's just the perfect sunspot. She brought me a present the other morning. A live vole! I know she was only showing me how bringing home food should really be done - there's no need for those trips to the butcher's after all - but I'd rather she didn't. I was able to catch the poor wee thing, take it out to the garden, and set it free. Hopefully, it survived the trauma. 

Finally, the funnies - these make me think of how Silver must have felt when I rejected her wee pressie this week.

A really bad-tempered cat cake! 

That's enough from me today. To see more creative workdesks pop over to Sarah's blog, Sarah's Craft Shed. If you don't already do so, feel free to join in the fun and show us what's on your workdesk this Wednesday. You'll be made most welcome.
Have a great WOYWW day and a fabulous week everyone,

Take care everyone,

Elizabeth

Further Finds From in the Shed

Hello Everyone,

Just a quick post this evening. 

Following on from yesterday's post I have uncovered more treasures from the boxes in the shed. This time it's a selection of page kits I put together what must be at least four years ago now. There's seventeen altogether, four of which are Christmas/winter themed. I remember now that I added a cutfile title to each one with the aim of using them up. Big fail so far!

There's photos in each one too; all bringing back happy memories. Always a bonus.

Less welcome was this wee, actually not so wee, insect. My bug app tells me it's a fly but I'm not so sure. It's huge and it's made itself at home despite all my efforts to show it the way out. Help!

So that's one more box emptied. Just six more to go. 

Take care and goodnight.

Elizabeth