Wednesday 26 October 2011

WOYWW

My first WOYWW for a while (see previous post for the many excuses I came up with!!).  I have missed you guys and gals...the week just wasn't the same without the excuse to behave in the nosiest (is that even a word!!) manner and hop around desks across the globe.  If you are wondering what I am blathering about now, hop over to julia's desk (WOYWW blinkie on the right>).

So, on my desk this week is a new journal page.  Now this is a new thing for me, I have only completed 1 page before...but it seems like a good way to experiment so what that hell?

I have stuck a page from an up cycled book and gesso'd over it....its like watching paint dry!!But at least it gives me time to think about what to do to the page next.

Also on the desk are my new oil pastels (well, pre loved but new to me) and some fabric I have been stamping up and colouring.  I don't know about you, but I buy stash..sometimes it is too pretty to use and you just want to look at it and touch it (I know, it sounds perverse and a bit fetishistic-but I cant be the only one, surely?!), other times its SO useful you run out and wish you'd bought the entire stock...but often (though not as often as I used to, I think I am getting either more discerning or maybe just fussy!) the stash stays in the drawer...or sometimes even in the paper bag you brought it home in......sitting there.....unloved.....unwanted..... so you pass it onto a fellow crafter you may have a use for it....then bugger me......you find a project it would work perfectly on and I have to go out and buy it again!!!!!  But not this year....I have a list....(I know I had a list in March when I went....but having never been before I was unrealistic and hadn't realised all the lovely goodies I had problems sourcing in the past would all be under one roof!!).....and I  am running a book as to how many items over and above my list I will purchase......ladies and gentlemen...place your bets!

Happy crafting
Li'l pidge x

8 comments:

  1. Up-cycle, one of my favorite things to do. Thanks for the peek and sharing, xoxo Marjo

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  2. I love lists. They are so wonderful, aren't they -- even when I don't follow them.

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  3. This is my first visit and I loved looking around your blog... the journal page is looking pretty cool and I am list phobic so I admire anyone who can even write one let alone stick to part of it. Happy WOYWW

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  4. I am SO NOT taking a bet on you at the NEC!! Meanwhile, lovely to see your desk..you are not alone in the stroking and not using and then using and then having to re-buy..no ma'am...and if it gets really bad, we're here for you. It will make all of us feel so much better! Like the idea of your journal...gives me blank page shudders!

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  5. Hope we get to see how the journal page develops. I am off to the NEC next week and may well have to take cash this year and leave cards at home - limited income at the mo :( It is the only way I can show any kind of restraint........

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  6. A list is just a guide to take you to all the other things you desperately need. My crafting tends to go in waves, through different styles and back again, so things tend to get used in the end.

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  7. Scrolling through your wonderful art here, I'm sure this page is going to be lovely! Happy late WOYWWED!

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  8. Oooh yes, Stash for Stroking! I'm sure we all do it! I've got stuff I just can't bear to use, and get it out every now and again for a quick stroke!! I love gesso... your album page is going to be great! Happy belated WOYWW, Shoshi #84

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