WOYWW 482

My desk this morning still has the pieces out from yesterday, I decided to make a few more Christmas cards, yes in 32c heat as I melted up here, crazy I know! Anyway I've had the church window die for years and have always found it difficult to find a use for it, yesterday I was inspired to cut it multiple times in red and green to try to make stained glass windows, I already had Poinsettia flowers cut in many colours so I was just playing around with the pieces and that's how I left it!!

My storage of Christmas items, my motto of never throw a box or plastic container away does have its good moments, I hate to admit that this is only a small selection, I have a complete drawer of Christmas items, papers etc but at least I know I only have them stored in one place when it's that time of year, I'm always surprised when I open the drawer to find some goodies I bought in summer and just threw in the drawer!

This is one of our beaches, from the end where we park, some may have seen this yesterday over at T for Tuesday.The other end is the start of the Marina, the boats are on the other side, there are several restaurants actually on the marina where you can sit at the waters edge to eat, the water is very shallow for quite a way out so very safe for children and as you can see very calm, and warm, like bath water! Our GSs love it as they live right on the Pacific Ocean but wear wet suits in summer to swim it's so cold!
The holidaymakers are gradually getting fewer so our morning walks along here are getting back to normal, no more fighting for a seat in the shade for our coffee, wonderful!

Thank you to all who left comments last week, it was lovely to see everyone again, sorry to say although I did visit lots of desks I didn't manage to comment on many, not sure if our WIFI was playing up or my ipad, hopefully I can do better this week.
Happy WOYWW, have a great week
Jan x

T is for Tuesday

Hi everyone, I finally have time to join you all over at Bleubeard and Elizabeth's for T is for Tuesday, we had the GSs here for almost a month but sadly they had to go home to start their new school, now we have two weeks before our eldest son and youngest GS arrives for a weeks holiday.

I thought you might like to see what they tried for their breakfast, we have a lovely restaurant on the beach where we went for breakfast a few times, although Charlie always has his two Weetabix when he first wakes up he still managed to enjoy these.

They are called Pop Dots, small donuts covered in chocolate, not what I call a balanced diet but they were on holiday! Unfortunately it was so hot that they melted pretty quickly, fortunately they didn't last too long!! They soon worked all those calories off with all the swimming they did, so did Nan and Grandad!
Also our favorite coffee, flower of Jamaica. If you look you can see how close to the beach we are, through the reflection in the glass!

Our Paseo, where we walk every day, it's 1Km long and we walk to the far end to the Marina where we have our coffee and then back to have breakfast. It has a lovely sandy beach with restaurants and cafes all along the whole length, in summer its buzzing, you might just be able to see the floating slides, they will disappear in the next week or so as the holidaymakers slowly go home!
We always look forward to September when life gets back to normal and the temperatures start to drop to manageable levels.

Hope you all have a great week.

Jan x

WOYWW 481

Hello fellow deskers, I’ve finally made it back to my desk after the month long visit from our Grandsons, it was so hot but we had such fun, we are totally worn out with all that swimming, they were like baby seals by the time they left, seems pretty quiet here now and pretty boring just swimming lengths after all that activity but now after their marathon journey home, 32 hours after being delayed they are back at school and Nan and Grandad are slowing recovering!!

I did have a fellow crafter here too, Charlie loved coming up to my secret room as he called it, he loves nothing more than sticking things together and having found my mini stapler even had Grandad helping, never thought I would see Steve with curvy edged scissors cutting card into shapes!
No boxes were safe, anything and everything had to be saved, LOL it must be hereditary, it got to the point when Steve was putting things into the recycling box before he spotted them as the conservatory was gradually being filled with his projects. He also managed to use two rolls of the tape you use for decorating that he found in Grandads little tool cupboard, we were scared to sit still in case we were taped together.
Joey was happy with a book and my water colour pencils as he loves drawing, mainly dragons but he spent hours between swimming sitting in the shade drawing.

My craft room is messy but here's my work in progress, I'm making a shadow box card for Charlies 6th birthday with Batman stickers, he's mad on super heroes, it's taken me two hours to get this far, I printed the BG from google images but it's taken me three attempts to get it in line, just pondering on how to decorate the front.
You might also notice quite a few half finished cards and whatever, I've been trying to complete them but I must admit I'm not having much luck, I think the heat is frazzling my brain, much too hot to have any inspiration at the moment although it has dropped about 5c since the torrential rain we had last week, typical we had rivers running down the streets but the next morning our water was off!

I bought this border punch set for Charlie, I spotted it and thought he would love it but after having a go I'm not sure he is strong enough, I had a red hand from using it so I think I will keep it until he comes over next year to play with as he might need Grandads help with it!!

Hope you all have a great crafty week, I'm off for a swim before I melt!

Jan x