WOYWW 194 & to sleep perchance to dream

The last time that I had a chance to pop over to Julia's to sneek at peek at everyone else's workspace was too long ago. My desk this week has actually had a fair bit of scrapbooking on it. So whilst my mojo is still with me I thought I would share a layout.

This layout was made for the weekly challenge on UKS last week. The photos are some of my favourites of my nephews and nieces.

Don't you wonder what they dream of....

The challenge was to use green, pearls and a shakespeare quote.

I also rediscovered a RAK that my old teamie sent me last year with 4 different washi tapes. I am starting to love that product. Have you rediscovered anything in your stash lately???

JYC a year late

Shimelle runs this little course called Journal Your Christmas (JYC) which I started subscribing to in 2010 when I spent Christmas in Turkey.

I realise that you are meant to do the project in the current year, but 2011 was a bit of a whirlwind for me, so rather than start a new one this December (2012) I felt I should finish last year's first. There were only 16 pages that I wanted to do, partly because of time and partly because most of that year we were in and out of hospital.So without further ado....here are the pages...

I have come to realise that I don't actually like pages with no photos so i added a couple of similar photos to pages with only journalling.

The papers & embellishments were primarily Peppermint Twist by We R Memory Keepers, some Christmas Fancy by Dovecraft.

I think I am now going to start my 2012 album, but along the same lines - only selected pages because with the house move and other things I didnt follow all the prompts.

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A long time no see...well I saw, I just didn't post my own little piece of chaos on the blog of loveliness that is Julia's domain.

We moved in to our new home 20th Dec, so crafting has been usurped by DIY and trying to settle Little Miss A into a new house and a new routine. None of which has been entirely successful....YET!! I'm calling them works in progress.

So as to my workspace....normally it's called a coffee table, but for the moment it suffices my crafty urges. I am working on a project for next Christmas, but only cos time overtook me on this year.

Glitter, spray glue and a wipeable table cloth (well it is a new coffee table)...and we went from this bland version

to this lovely sparkly glittery version

Mum loves them now, she hangs her favourite baubles from them but they did look a wee bit bland on the mantle piece at Christmas this year. Next year they will be all shiny and bright.

Hope you all have a lovely crafty wednesday and join in the fun.

Halloween and another admission

This time it was me....back home now minus a gall bladder!

I haven't been blogging over the last couple of months because with one thing and another I never seemed to get a moment to log on.

Hoping to get back to blogging more regularly, but we are trying to get our new house ready for entry by mid December and desperately wishing it is ready by christmas eve.

CHAS has some photos of Ayla on www.chas.org.uk please pop over and follow the challenge santa link

Hope everyone has a great week

We're back ....

For the last 3 weeks we have been with Baby Girl in hospital. One of those weeks was spent in Yorkhill ICU, the others in Forth Valley Royal Hospital.

I can tell you that when you see your precious girl stop being able to breathe for herself, it is THE most scary thing you will ever see.

Thankfully we were in the right place, as opposed to being on a flight to Turkey - which had been booked for that day!

So, holiday cancelled, hospital food tolerated, Ronald McDonald house appreciated, Nursing staff and Doctors admired and baby girls recovery amazed at!

Something to bear in mind, the next time you drive through a McDonalds....the odd change you get back from a £20 can just as easily be thrown in the charity collection basket at the counter. Having somewhere to stay through that awful time was a blessing.

Thankfully for her 14mth birthday we were at home recouperating, all of us ..... another blessing!

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Well, Tuesday night and I can't believe that my desk hasn't been touched since a fortnight ago. That was the last time that I had a chance to pop over to Julia's to sneek at peek at everyone else's workspace.

I need to start tidying my desk so that I might have a chance of crafting on it. It looks more like an unloved dumping ground at the moment. Most of my work-in-progress lives in a bag at the moment. That is because on Wednesdays I beat a hasty retreat when the carer comes in and I escape to my local      
craft shop for a few hours of retail therapy and crafting me-time.

So I hope to drop by a few blogs this evening, why don't you join in the fun.

cut and blow dry

Everything I do just now seems to be at a single pace.......FAST!

That is the speed if it relates to something that I want to do. I was at the hairdressers this morning. I booked 5 min prior to going in. Unusually for me I had 2 shampoos and a conditioning, and there was a sneaky wee head massage in there too.

I joked with the hairdresser, that I can have a shower and wash my hair in the time she took to shampoo! I wasn't joking.

Admittedly, that doesn't apply to the footmuff from the previous post. The fabric for that hasn't even seen the light of day since purchase.

Do you speed your way through the day? Or are you selective like me in the things that lurk at snail's pace?