Archives for July 2012

WOYWW – #164 – What’s behind the curtain?

My main desk in my craft room.

Hello Everyone!

I am super happy today, my best friend is flying in today from California for her annual visit that I have come to cherish.  We met in college and have stayed in touch over the years and I love her like my sister.

Enough of my chatter. You wonder what’s my title about? Well I have been coaxed by many of you to let my hair down and stop only showing my desk when it’s tidy (a rare thing around here). So today I am letting you begin to peek behind the curtain.

So if you are like me and you click on the photos, they enlarge to show even more detail (in my case “creative clutter”).  I manage to aways store stuff under my desk too. My chair is stragically placed to mask some of the madness under my desk (baby steps, I will share more of my clutter another time).  So when I am creating, I tend to take out a lot and don’t put away much until I finish or I can’t move and then I am forced to put stuff away. Yup, that’s my dirty secret, I tend to make a mess often.  So on my desk you will find some of my Copic markers, some Spellbinder dies that I haven’t put away (the irony is I am making a storage for them and haven’t completed it so I never put them away!).  You will find my momento and Jenni Bowlin ink pads along with my first copy of Cardmaking & Papercraft Magazine which most of you know it that are in the U.K. It cost so much here ($11.00 US) so I have never bought it. But with many of the US magazines closing, I took a chance and really enjoy it. So if any of you have old issues you can part with, I welcome donations and willing to exchange my mailing address to do so!! (yup, no pity in asking right?)

New cards I made for my Etsy store.

 

You will also note on my desk I have a little portfolio/inventory I started working on with all my digi images. It’s the black book on the right.  I started working on this a while back and return to it when I need a break from something else. The three birthday cards I made this week to put up in my Etsy store.  On the left I have two other work in progress cards. One is a gate-fold card that I just had so much fun cutting and scoring them. You will also see a MFT stamp and some greeting stamps and you can see I strung up my washi tape and hung it infront of me. I was inspired by one of your WOYWW’s that did that in their room. I am hoping it will inspire me to use them.  Oh and I have fallen a few days behind on my Italian calender word of the day. Hoping to get back into it.

A close up of the new cards and my digital image inventory.

Ok I will share more of my craft room next time.

Well I better get going so that I can start spanning the globe looking at other desks. If you haven’t learned about this amazing creative journey you can take every Wednesday, then head on over to Julia’s Stamping Ground and you will find desks from all around the world for What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday.

Have a blessed day!

Belinda

 

 

Guess what we did today?

 

We went bowling

Today we went bowling. Nicholas has been a couple of times before at his friend’s birthday parties.  Apollo has been asking me for while now and today he asked and I just had to take him.

Nicholas waiting for a strike!

When I was growing up, we used to go bowling with my mum often. Back then, we had to keep score on paper and I don’t remember guard rails. I thought it was so exciting to get my pair of bowling shoes at the counter. My memories of it was very happy and my mum always made me feel like I was so good even if I had a major amount of gutter balls.

Apollo getting help from Leao.

The boys had a lot of fun and we definately will add this to our list of fun things to do together as a family.

 

 

What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday – #163

Hello Everyone!It’s that time again to peek and snoop around the globe.  Well I first have to fess up that my desk is so messy right now that I am frightened to share it. If I did you all might faint or better yet run from your computer. It’s just one hot mess and I don’t even know where to begin with it.

I find that I like to project a somewhat tidy image while the reality is that my desk is a mess more than clean. So I decided to share a picture of my latest card for my Etsy shop.

A new card for my Etsy shop.

I had these vintage stamps for a few years now and I finally brought them out (ok I found them ) and made a card. The stamp set includes all the letters in the American Sign Language. So I decided a Hello card would be fun to make.

I used some pop dots to raise the letters for more focus.

Close up of card.

Last week, I went on a family vacation with my husband, boys, sister and her husband on Cape Cod. The resort we stayed at was great and it had loads of activities geared towards kids so my boys were really happy. The projected movies outside on a big screen each night, we toured the Cape Cod Potato Chip factory, played in the pools and went to the beach. It was just what we all needed.

Below is a picture the boys when we arrived at the hotel.

The boys when we first arrived at the hotel.

 

Well I better get going so that I can start spanning the globe looking at other desks. If you haven’t learned about this amazing creative journey you can take every Wednesday, then head on over to Julia’s Stamping Ground and you will find desks from all around the world for What’s on Your Workdesk Wednesday.

Have a blessed day!

Belinda

 

Happy Birthday Bert!

Silly pose for the camera in the kitchen

Difficult to find words. Missing you very much.

Goofing around for the camera as usual!

I only had one brother and you were the best brother. I don’t know how you lived with all the girls in our family. You rose to the challenge and you added the necessary element that completed our family.

Picking me up from College with mum. Giving me one of those juicy kisses. Yuck!

You were an amazing son and father and your girls are now grown young ladies. Your even a grandfather. Go figure!

You and I at Beth’s wedding.

I miss hearing your voice and talking about everything. You always were filled with facts like mum. I really miss hearing you make music. You were a true musician.  I hope you are making beautiful music up there. I miss you terribly and you will never be forgotten.

Always the musician

Happy Birthday brother.

Love you,

Belinda

 

 

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