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My desk this week, well one part of it, doesn't look as if much is going on but I have finished three projects. I really should take the photo before cleaning up, at one point  I had so much paper out I couldn't find my paper trimmer.

I had a little play with my Brusho paints, after getting ideas from you tube I stabbed a hole in the top of the pots, which makes sense after I took the lid off and ended up using far too much paint, you might just see on the top piece of card. I decided to use one of my new stamps, PaperArtsy Mini flower, to stamp on top of the blue, cut them out and make flowers with them, I actually only finished the one, I think you can just see it, but I quite like it.

This is for our eldest son, his birthday isn't until next month but I wanted to get it finished while I had the idea in my head. Its actually a similar colour to his wedding suit, not sure the shirt collar is the right size for the jacket but after making a few that was the best of the bunch, I even had to make an envelope, as usual I just started the card without any thought of not having an envelope big enough! 

I even managed to finish Katie's card, our Grandsons friend, the balloons I've had for years but they did match the Birthday paper quite well I thought.

And just to show I haven't been slacking this week, my Scraplift page. This was our day out with Joey in San Francisco last year, to take him on the Muni, Tram and Cable car. 

I've started using my Smash book as a Journal of our holidays and special events.

Well that's me for this week, hope you have a great weekend, thanks to all who popped over last week and left lovely comments.

Jan x

WOYWW 313

Looks like you all had a great time last week with the ATC swop, I was quite pleased with myself as I managed to do a scheduled post which Julia linked up for me, I hope the ATC arrived Julia!
Whilst all the desk hopping was going on we were en route to Bydgoszcz in Poland for our eldest sons wedding. Everything went to plan, we all managed to meet at the hotel as planned before flying out the following day.

 My room looks the same as last week, almost, with the addition of a pile of ironing which I'm sure you really don't want to see so here's a few piccies instead.

Bydgoszcz is a very pretty town with lovely riverside walks and plenty of restaurants and coffee shops selling an amazing assortment of cakes, I did have to partake, just once, honestly, a blueberry cheesecake which was absolutely delicious.

The bride and groom arriving at the wedding reception, a novel way to arrive, sipping champers while the guests wait on the balcony. Magdalena was quite concerned about it beforehand as we all joked it would be a rowing boat, Steve actually thought the whole wedding party would be joining them!

Bring on the Wedding cake, Polish style, we were amazed it didn't melt with the heat.

We had already had the main course, Chicken, rolled beef, pork knuckle and all the trimmings, after an hour or so of dancing the waiter wheeled out a roast pig lit up with fireworks! I was so amazed I totally forgot to take a photo.

We left just after 1am so missed the soup that was served at 2am!! Apparently some guests were still partying at 4am. 

We had a lovely four days, the last day spent at the summer house near the lake with the family, sadly we all had to say goodbye, we all flew back to Stansted together, bride and groom home to London, youngest son to San Francisco and we stayed in the hotel another night as we had a 6am flight back to Alicante.

Just off for a swim so until next week, Happy WOYWW

Jan x

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Hi all, Happy WOYWW, hope all goes well with the grand ATC swop.

My very, very tidy craft room, no work going on here, but greetings from Poland, by the time you are reading this we will all be meeting up and getting ready for the wedding on Friday so hopefully I'll have a few photos to show next week.

The front of the card I made, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out in the end and I even managed a few flowers too.

Also the inside, I put the sentiment on the back as there wasn't enough room on the inside panels, hopefully it will have survived the journey!!.

Have a great weekend.

Jan x

WOYWW 311

Well here we are again, another week gone by, I'm pleased to say my wedding card is finished and in its box, pictures next week.
Thanks to all who stopped by for a visit last week and thanks for your kind comments, if you thought my desk was tidy last week, well it's even tidier this week.

Actually I took this after I had tidied up, I had sheets of card all over, I managed to ruin four sheets of the pink card, the card was so thick I had to stick it to the cricut mat, it kept sliding off the mat while it was cutting, very annoying and a  shame as it was pearl shimmer but then again it has been hiding in the drawer for the past few years.
 The card is for Joey`s friends sister, Katie, it's not finished just laid out while I ponder how to attach the back and front, the white being the back, I haven't trimmed it to size yet until I decide what to do. I now have a pile of five's, all various sizes that didn't match up!
Oh and the envelope is my ATC all ready to post. 

All tidy on this side too, I have two scrap pages going on for the Scraplift Challenge over at SCS, one is my smash book on the left, that page is our day out with Joey last year in San Francisco. The other page is Joey's birthday from last year but I realised I had some photos missing so I need to ask our DIL to re send them but she's not feeling too well at the moment so it will have to wait.
I guess that's it for this week, so I'll just mosey or should that be nosy over to check out what you've all been up to, have a great week.
Jan x

WOYWW 310

Hi fellow Deskers, a lovely morning here in sunny Spain, we've had our morning constitutional, breakfast at the Marina, shopped and tried unsuccessfully to take Steve's suit to the dry cleaners, apparently they don't do clothes!!! Well that's a first, I wonder what they actually dry clean, anyway here's my desk for what it's worth.

It's not very exciting or colourful I'm afraid, I had a tidy up to make myself a space to make the box for the wedding card, you can see one lid with flowers and bits in it, that was my first attempt which was too big, I did say it usually takes me a few goes, anyway I managed to make one in the end and have attached silver ribbon around the edge and now I'm playing around with flowers etc trying to work out how to decorate it.

I haven't really worked on much else apart from card inners, I have three in the next couple of weeks so I have them all ready to post when we get home from the wedding, how organised it that!!

The other side of the room, I'm making another start on the scrap book I bought when Joey was born, he's seven this year, I had the idea to use it for birthdays but after doing two pages I lost enthusiasm for it, I've now joined the scrap challenge over on SCS and with encouragement from Sharon, Foxy Stamping so I've started another page, Joey's sixth birthday from last year, I will just have to work backwards and of course now there's Charlie too, he's three this year so I've a few to catch up on!! I'm hoping to do as much as possible so I can show them when they come over in July.

I have been working on my ATC but that's hidden under the blue card, I just have to make the back now and I think I'm done.

Thanks once again for all your comments last week, just off to see what everyone else has been up to. Take Care

Jan x

WOYWW 309

Well here we are again, how fast the weeks fly especially now we are on countdown to our sons wedding, poor things have been having building work done as well, which didn't go to plan, major stress all round but thankfully it is nearly sorted now.

My desk this week hasn't changed much from last week apart from it's a bit tidier and the wedding card is nearly finished, I just have the sentiment and finishing touches to do, oh and a box to put it in, oh joy, not my favourite things to make, usually takes me a few attempts before the card actually fits in the box!

I made quite a few flowers from different card, handmade paper etc and used the best of the bunch, added a pearl in the middle, cut silver leaves out and decided to go for it and glue it all together, always scary when you've spent weeks on it, just in case it gets spoiled at the last part, been there done that, LOL

Not sure why this photo is side ways on, I don't have a clue how to turn it on here, in my photo album it's the right way up. Last week I explained that a gift for a 44th Anniversary is groceries and my dearest husband said I could have the grocery cheque, well it arrived all 2.48 Euros of it, I've already spent it, on liquorice, how romantic is that!!

You'll be pleased to hear that our Anniversary is actually on the day of the wedding so it will be a big celebration especially as the wedding is in Poland so we will be having a mini holiday as well, we are all meeting up at a hotel in Stansted of all places!

 We fly in from Spain, eldest Son lives in London, he's collecting youngest Son from Heathrow who is flying in from San Francisco, as you can see nothing's simple in our family!

That's me for this week, have a great weekend.

Jan x

WOYWW 308

Happy WOYWW from sunny Spain, at last, can't believe its Wednesday again, how time flies when you are having fun!! We've had our morning constitutional, breakfast on the Marina, I've been trying to get a photo of our little bird, he actually sat on my hand to take the croissant last week, unfortunately we couldn't take a photo quick enough to catch him. 

Still working on the Wedding card, I've done quite a bit more since last week but nothing glued down until I've got all the pieces finished. I still have almost four weeks so plenty of time I hope, I'm still messing with the roses so I might try a few of the larger ones but I did find something I bought long ago, can't even remember why, white ribbons and silk roses, with tiny pearl strings attached, I bought it from the little shop in the market, an old fashioned Haberdashery, what I'd give to spend an hour rummaging in there, it's a little treasure trove but sadly all kept in the store room out of sight.

Not sure I mentioned that the date of the wedding is also our 44th Wedding anniversary, well my dearest husband thought he would have a look what he could buy me for 44 years, he's still laughing now as its says groceries!  He kindly told me that he will give me our Consum check when it comes next month, it's usually about 2 euros, I'm still wondering what I'll spend it on.
 I will get my own back next year though as its purple Sapphire so I've told him to start saving.

 The other side of the room, what can I say, I've been trying to do a challenge to use glue and glitter through a stencil, after four attempts I've given up, I've used plenty of glitter but only the flower looks presentable and I really don't have a clue what to use it for!!

Not much else happening here so I'll just say bye until next time, hope you all have great plans for this Bank holiday weekend and have some sunny weather.

Thanks for all your lovely comments last week and for visiting my desk, its lovely to hear from you all.

Jan x