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Use it Up, Wear It Out...WOYWW #142

That's a song, that is.  It's also what I'm trying to do with my stash.  Use it up, rather than wear it out.  Although either will do, if it gets the stuff out of the drawers and being useful!

I'm training myself to go through one particular display book I have, in which I've stored lots of stickers and other flat embellishments.  So I pick something out and use it - as it is, or altered.   So far I've managed this

 

Play Time

...I altered the chipboard after emptying a sheet of all the remaining bits.  Gesso, inks and then Rock Candy.  The stems have been heat embossed with a rather neat verdigris powder I got from Papermaze.  Not only have I used the chipboard, but some stickers from a sheet of hardware-effect images, a couple from a 7 Gypsies sheet, and those coaster circles which are actually more Christmas ones from an earlier LO.  I inked the backs of them with Fired Brick and Spiced Marmalade (a favourite combo) and then stamped a swirly design on top before breaking them up and using them on the page.  I also dug out those Daisy D hinges which I've had for ever!

The next one is a rather lovely photo of my man - always inspiring using a really nice photo! 

 

Seaside Garden

Again, I've used some of the hardware stickers, the remnants from a sheet of G45 and that monogram disc which I distressed a bit with alcohol inks and sanding.  The butterflies are (hopefully) a subtle touch - I dived into a little box of die cuts I've saved from mass cutting sessions, and I thought I could get away with them even on such a masculine page.

My intention today was to show you a photo of my desk.  It's not very exciting but I don't seem to have shown one lately.  Only when I looked, I appear to have deleted the one I took.  Sigh.  So here are some little jars which I keep little things in

 

 

These are, as is much of my storage, from Ikea.  I got the rack off Freecycle ages ago to keep my Distress ink pads on, and then when the jars appeared in the store the Distress inks got their marching orders and I spent some happy time decanting various bits and pieces into my lovely shiny jars.

Don't forget to pop over to Julia's blog for yet more desky goodness.

Oh, and as you are reading this (well, if you're reading it on Wednesday), we are being Ofstedded!!!! Aaargh!  Will let you know - should you be interested - how we fare.

 

 

WOYWW #141

 

Okay, this is going to be a bit rushed because I'm supposed to be going to see War Horse in a minute.  Maybe I won't go because Youngest went out for a run one and a half hours ago, and hasn't come back yet.  Oooer.

Today, sorry, yesterday (aha, he has just returned!) we went on a Valentine's outing to Farnham, because Farnham is where we want to go and see Larry Miller, and we thought we'd scope out the B&Bs.  As soon as we arrived we spotted an antiques shop so nipped in there for a quick look.  Not very quick, as it happened, because it was housed in an old mill and just kept going up, and round, and round, and up...

Pretty soon after we got through the door, my man spotted a bow.  No, not a dicky bow, an archery bow.  You know the kind of thing - you pull the string back, the bow bends, creating tension...and then snaps in half.

Well, not in half exactly.  But it was a very old bow and the noise it made whilst breaking sounded like a pistol shot.  So my man hastily put it back and we bumbled around the room for a bit longer before deciding that he really ought to tell them what he'd done because it would be tres embarrassing should someone put a hand on his shoulder and say 'excuse me, sir, but I believe you just broke this bow and have tried to leave without paying for it'.  It cost £15.  And here is my man with his new bow

 

Also on my desk this week are a number of LOs.  Unfortunately I didn't get around to photographing them in daylight, so here is one being held at arm's length by yours truly

I have some other photos but have just realised that they are in the drawer, inside my camera, inside the camera case, blah blah, so will maybe upload them another day!

Now, if you don't know what all this malarkey is about because you have been under a stone for a thousand years, hop over to Julia's blog where all will become clear.

And happy WOYW Wednesday!

 

 

Valentine loveliness?

Well, I hope it's lovely, anyway.  My man cannot complain because I have made it with my own fair hands, and photographed it with my own newsecondhand camera.  Here tis:

I had a look through my downloaded images and this one jumped right out at me.  There's something a bit Burlesque about it, although I haven't particularly made the most of it!  Every year at around this time I search through my stash for red/glittery/red and glittery stuff to use, and I was delighted to find the chipboard heart already die-cut in my 'already die-cut' drawer, lol.  I'd already used the same card for the background.

Now, of course, I've got to make an enormous and strangely shaped envelope to hold it all!

While we're on the subject of my newsecondhand camera (we were), here are some photos what I have took since I got it:

This is one of the fields round the back of our house

This is a guy called Mike playing the guitar

This is me and my man after we had watched the man called Mike playing the guitar

...and there were some others, but I don't want to bore everyone, lol.

Hopefully I will be back here on Wednesday, since it is half term, when I will be able not only to post for WOYWW but also to visit some blogs....*gasp!*