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My dear bloggy friends!
Yes I am actually writing my blog post! I have not posted for more then 2 months - I just can't believe it is such a long time. And so much sad news! First the news of our lovely WOYWWer Eliza from Australia passing away and now I have just read Julias sad post that Janet Fairythoughts has passed away too. Two lovely ladies! I am sooo sad!
Everything I am given by friends I keep so I kept things I got from Eliza....
This was a lovely card, ATC and even the envelope sent to me by Eliza.......
This was something I got from Janet.....her lovely talent of jewelry making....
She was always kind and giving, I once mentioned on my blog I was looking for shaped sequence....she offered to send them to me and in a weeks time I got all this lot.....and she didn't want a thing for it!!!!
So today I am sad that these lovely ladies have passed away.... I am in Slovenia at the moment so I can't come to Janet's funeral but my prayers and thoughts will be with the family she loved and lived for!
I have been away for such a long time because of many reasons....We went through the operation of my DBF - he has fully recovered btw - I had visitors - my dear friend Jo from Jozart and her lovely Dave have been visiting - we started on the quilt I am making for my daughter and Jo has been showing me lots of sewing tricks! Then we made our way over Europe in our car and we are now in Slovenia! When we came here we found my flat in a bit of a disaster - the block of flats where I live has been painted so everything had to be cleaned and put back the way it usually is and it took me a while to do that, especially as we have been having temperatures between 35 and 40 deg C, Then I had to visit my mom, celebrate my daughters 30th birthday and visit doctors as I haven't been looking after myself while I have been caring for others and my health has deteriated - my ticker was not ticking the way it should and now I am on tablets that keep that in check!
As you all know life must go on so this was my desk after I arrived home....
A right mess.....I have since cleaned up and I wouldn't be able to write this if the situation would have been the same....I just started making a card for a newborn little girl but it isn't finished yet so I can't show it. I can show my sewing project in the making...You probably saw it on Jo's blog but if you haven't this is the center piece.....
and these are the blocks I am now making with my new sewing machine (Janome TXL 607) because my old Husquarna went up in flames - literary!.....Did I mention there has to be about 200 hundred of these blocks? Huh...I do take on more then I can manage don't I????
Ok then that was me entering the WOYWW world again...sorry I was lost in space - but I have now returned to the mother ship and our captain Julia from Stamping Ground can rightfully tell me off!
Lots of love and hugs to all of you! Friendship my friends is the glue of the world!
Yours faithfully,
Cardarian
Hello my dear bloggy friends!
I have been out of action, as some of you know, my DBF had an operation and is now recovering and I have to care for him! He has been quite good, he is walking and feeling ok so I am happy that has gone well.
Of course I had to put crafty stuff on hold but as he is recovering I am back in action. I have made a card and a few more ATCs -I know I am late with all this but believe me today was the first day I went out!
So a bit of housekeeping as our Queen Julia says! Shaz, Neet and Diane you will get my ATCs asap. Diane please send me your address! If anybody else would like to have one of my ATCs I still have some so let me know but please send your address - I can't send them if I don't know where!! Also the lady I was suppose to send the ATC Annie from Annies pantry - please send me your address so I can send off the ATC.
So thats the housekeeping.
Now comes the thanks to Annie and Twiglet and Neet who have sent me their lovely ATCs via Royal Mail. They are now in my lovely 6th WOYWW anniversary collection!
And finally my desk....here are a few shots...
I didn't do much crafting but I could still do a bit of online shopping! :-) As you can see above I bought the Tim Holtz Flower Garden and the Stampendous Fran's Butterflies...as you can see below I have already used them - I clear embossed the stamping and I will watercolor it....
Also here is a look at the leftovers of my projects, I have used a lot of distress spray stains and I just love the vibrant colors of my background that will be used in something you will see next week! There are also some lovely die cuts from Ellen Hutson's spring die cut collection.
So there that is me for this week....not much but there will be more next week! I will try to get round the desks as I am now able to nip to my laptop every now and then.
Lots of hugs to all of you,
CARDARIAN
Hello my dear bloggy friends!
Today we celebrate the 6th WOYWW Anniversary! How wonderful is that? For 6 years we have been snooping around desks, seeing everybody's new stuff, seeing everybody's mess and tidyness and generally having a fun time - most important building lovely friendship and support in good times and bad times which is the best part of this lovely weekly gathering! Thank you to our Queen Julia who summons us all together every week and has been the heart and soul of this WOYWW thing for all the 6 years! Thank you to all you ladies who come every week show and tell and comment - you are what this is all about!
SO HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY WOYWWers ! You are amazing!
Even though we are celebrating the show must go on so here is my desk of this week...
Not much to see just a few ATCs that have to be sent off to various people - also the one that will have an asteriks and will post after I have linked. Also a little sketch of a quilt my daughter wants me to make! Huh! That will be a job!
Anyway I will make this short - ha, ha for once I will be a good girl and obey our Queen Julia who likes it short and sweet!
Enjoy a lovely day, celebrate and keep on WOYWWing for many years!
Lots of hugs and love to all of you,
CARDARIAN
Hello my dear friends!
I am a day late posting but I had visitors all day yesterday, cooking and baking and making tea so at 10pm when they left I was so tired I couldn't stand on my feet!
But I am here as early as I was able just to say a few words about the crop!
So first of all thank you to Jan and Julia! As you can see I put Jan first as (so Julia says) she is the main organizer of the event and Julia just turns up - not true really - she makes tea and coffee for us she chats all day and organizes the raffle and well she initially tells us about the crop and gives us all the detail. But the real working force is Jan - she and her boys make sure we have tables and chairs to sit on, she makes sure we are well fed, she makes sure photos are taken and that we have a constant supply of cake! Thank you to both of you - you both do your bit and we are ever so thankful you do it!
Now to tell you about the wonderful chat and friendship we have, the ability to actually see the person who's blog you comment on week after week is just amazing! I am so happy I was able to go because really every time you go there are new people there! I was happy to meet Chris, Debbie and Maggie who I have not met before! There was 17 of us there and I hope there will be more of us next time it happens because it is really fun and girls you should go!!!!
So first a bit of the usual business....showing my desk - this week what you can see is a load of ATCs which I have swaped at the crop!
Thank you to all the girls for this lovely collection of ATCs. If somebody didn't get one from me or would want one please let me know! I know I didn't seem to have picked one up from Wipso but I did put one in her envelope so please Annie can I get one from you? I will also send one to Shaz as she left before I had dished mine out!
I loved the lemon cake we had at the crop - ha, ha I was so inspired I baked some yesterday! I think it wasn't as good as the one at the crop but my visitors seemed to have liked it!
I pintched a few photos off of Jan's blog - please visit her blog if you want to see all the goings on at the crop - I will just show you a few!
The usuall big photo of all of us together, then you can see me, Jan, Shaz and Julia, my DBF playing the unusal instrument and the happy birthday ZOE!!!!
Thats it from me! I have to have a cup of tea now!
Lots of hugs to all of you!
CARDARIAN
Hello my dear friends!
I am not on here as frequent as I would want to be mostly due to so many things going on and I just can't cope with it all! I am settling into the English way of life but I must admit I miss my family and my country! We hear about immigrants daily in the news and the sometimes really hostile words against them but believe me unless you have to leave your homeland, there is no place like home. Everywhere else you will always be a foreigner. Oh sorry that is just my little political thought after the general election and the now next big theme coming up: Europe! The media has almost bored us to death with the election, now we are going to be finished off with the European theme! HUH!
But sorry really I must get back to what this blog post is supposed to be about: WOYWW. Well I will have to start with the sad news first that are again not crafty but are to do with my DBFs operation. He was supposed to have one yesterday and was called up at the last minute and was told it is cancelled and we were given another date in 3 weeks time! Not fun at all! He already had 2 pre op assesements and nothing happened now he will have to probably go for the third one! NHS - what can I say? If you don't have the money to pay for the operation you are doomed! But to get to the point of all this writing is that after finding out that the op is off, my calender has opened for 3 weeks and I have time to go to the BIG WOYWW CROP! YIPEEE! Yes that is the happy good news of this week!
I will have to put on my thinking cap and start making those WOYWW swap ATCs which I would like to dish out at the event! I haven't been doing much crafting lately so it is hard to start but I guess I will get back into the mood!
So finally showing my desk today....
As you can see I am still crafting on the table in the lounge! I put my craft room decorating on hold because of the op but I will probably start next week as I would like to have my own little space!
Soo what do you see on my desk - a bunch of Lil' Inker dies - love them and I think they will be used for my ATCs but not sure yet! Then there is a Winnie and Walter stamp set - new I must say and this:
It is a zen colouring book I bought in Tesco, supposedly there will be more of them. I love what it says at the bottom of the front page:
I am looking forward to coloring in this book - I think it will be really relaxing!
Here is another shot of my desk from the top....
Here you can see I have taken over most of the table - I try not to invade too much of my DBFs space but the crafty stuff just seems to spread....:-)
One more shot - it was my birthday on Sunday - another year older but we can't turn the clock backwards can we, so we just have to brave it ahead...we went on a trip with the MG club and had an ice cream on the beach in Margate....and here is a picture of another year older me....
Have a lovely week - I will see some of you at the crop, others I will "see" next week at the usual WOYWW meeting!
Lots of hugs to all,
CARDARIAN
Hello my dear friends!
Have you heard the one retired people say "I am so busy, I don't know how I ever had time to go to work?" Well I know what that means now! I have been sooo busy I just can't believe I am retired!!!
Still I do have news....my DBFs operation date is now set for the 12th of May and we have now done everything we had to do before this will happen. What is sad though I won't be able to come to the WOYWW crop and I was sooo looking forward to it especially as I now live in England and it would be really nice and easy to go! Oh well I hope to go to some WOYWW gathering at some point!
I will of course send off and participate in the ATC exchange although I must admit I haven't done much about it yet!
But now lets get up to business....first up shots of my desk....
What you see is all sorts of things among them a stand for glasses which I picked up in a Tiger shop - love it and also a start of an ATC although honestly I don't know what I am doing! I will get there eventually - maybe over the weekend! Have you noticed the colors on the ATC, they are the new TH distress inks called abandoned coral and fossilized amber - really nice colors - he, he and the coral one matches my top...
I got this really handy crafty thinge from Jo from Jozart where I keep quite a bit of my crafty goodies....
And last a few cards I have made in recent times....
Thats it from me folks! I have made a big change in my life and it hasn't been easy but I am getting there and once I am back on track my blog will be seeing more posts again!
Lots of hugs to all have a lovely week
Cardarian
Hello my dear WOYWWers!
So happy to be back blogging but as I am so busy it is still very rarely that I can come on here! Still the work in the house is chugging along and we are almost finished with the first lot of improvements. The kitchen has been slightly renewed we have a new dish washer and washing machine, we have ordered new wardrobes for the bedroom and my future craft room is beginning to take shape. My DBFs sofa bed is coming this week ( he is going to have an operation soon and we needed a bed downstairs as he won't be able to go upstairs for a while). So that is what is happening on the home front. On the crafty front there is also news!
I HAVE A NEW SEWING MACHINE!!!
It isn't a superfancydoeseverything one but for the beginning of my renewed sewing career it is good enough! I used to sew a lot when my daughter was young but then other things took over and I didn't do much sewing at all. I am hoping to get back on the horse and start again - especially as there is so much decorative sewing to do in the house now!
I have also made a few cards - my mojo is a bit low lately - I have ideas but they come and go and when I sit down to make something there isn't much of a result! Still here are a few examples of my latest makes.
Here is an Easter card....
The stamp is a lovely Avery Elle one, I fussy cut the bunnies and gave them a bit of glitter and a lift, the oval frame is Sizzix and the paper in the background is from some magazine I have picked up at Tesco's .
Next up is a card I made for my brother - it is his name day tomorrow so I sent him a card ....it is quite simple but you can't really make a card too frilly for a man, can you? I did go with the trend and put some mirror card on the card - it should have been foil but I am not very good with foil so I opted for mirror card.
The die and stamp is from Clearly Besotted stamps
Next up is a card I made for my DBF's granddaughter. The stamps are a combination of Mama Elephant and Lawn Fawn.....just a cute card for a special little girl...
And now a bit of spring for you.....the flowers are trying to convince us it is spring but the temperatures are not really that convincing!
Our camelia is just coming out.....
and the daffodils....
So there that is me for this weeks episode of WOYWW. Go on if you are interested what that weird combination of letters means have a look at the Stamping Ground and you will find out all the deep secrets of WOYWW.
Lots of hugs to all, have a lovely week,
CARDARIAN
Hello lovely WOYWWers!
300 WOYWW! What a lovely celebration! How many blog hops can boast with that sort of anniversary???? I think there isn't a single one in the world! How lovely and many thanks to our Queen Julia who organizes it week after week! What would we do without our lovely Queen at Stamping Ground?????
Happy birthday to all you WOYWWers!
I have been missing out lately due to my big changes in life but I thought to myself as busy as I may be I am not going to miss this one. So here I am back with a bit of the usual stuff we show week after week - a desk - messy as usual and a few bits I have managed to make in between the big makeover of my DBFs house!
Well it isn't that big but whatever you do, in a house that hasn't had a change (and a woman's touch) for over 25 years, seems to be big! And there is just so much sorting out I hope once this is all done I never have to sort out anything for the rest of my life! Huh! Still the first leg of the kitchen makeover is done and we have a new wash machine and dishwasher! Yipeeee!
Ok back to business now lets start with my desk - actually dinning table turned into a crafting desk....
What you can see is a pack of new papers and an Avery Elle Easter stamp, my art journal I have been playing with lately, my little drawers that are full of little crafty trinkets, oh dear my Avon foundation (don't know what that is doing there) and my glasses hidden in my glass case! Have a look around there is more to see even a little bag of pecans! Really????
And now a few things I have made lately....
Here is a card made with my new Paperartsy stamp set....The sentiment is from a Unity stamp set - it has been sent away so I hope the recipient has it already!
Next up is a card I made for my DBFs grandaughters birthday....the bluebells are a Clearly Besotted stamp and the little girl is a Mama Elephant stamp....
And here is a card that is actually a sort of copy of one Julia Ebersole has made with some new dies she designed, but I didn't have any of those so I used ones I had and I think my versions looks quite ok!
And here is one I made for my daughter - she had her diploma exam a few days ago and I thought this one would let her know how proud I am of my lovely daughter....
So there - this is my 300 WOYWW anniversary post.
Enjoy this week and keep crafting and WOYWWing! It is great isn't it?????
Lots of hugs and love to all
CARDARIAN
Hello my dear friends!
It is another Wednesday when we wizz around blogs and look at what people have been doing and what their messy or tidy desks are showing or hiding! We all congregate at the Stamping ground where our leader Julia presides...
Anyway going back to last week lots of you thought it was amazing that I moved with only 2 cases. Well to be honest I will still be living some of the time in Slovenia. I didn't take all of my crafty stuff with me because when I go back every now and again I will need some there so I am having stuff here and there - he, he that is why I need to buy new crafty stuff here and also I need to buy new clothes here - isn't that fun ?????
Just so you know! :-)
Now it is time to get back to our usual business!First up my really messy desk (actually the table in the lounge).....
As you can see there is a big mess of pottage there - 2 cups - one for tea, one for water for water coloring. lots of baby wipes as I can't stand dirty stamps and a card on the side there which I will show in detail in a moment....also new docrafts markers - they were the cheapest I could get and they will do for coloring if I need to.....I don't want to buy the copics....I have them in Slovenia but I don't use them that much as I am a not very good at coloring anyway....
So here is a card I made this morning - I am into these rainbow colors at the moment and hearts are the theme up to Valentine's day! I used dies from Papertray ink which I love as they are so funky and used foil paper because it seems to be in fashion at the moment....the stitched hearts are a Lil' Inker die and the sentiment is from Altenew.
My next card I made for mom a few days ago - she was quite sad that I went to England but as I call her every day and send her stuff every now and again she seems happy now. The sentiment says "Spring will come..." I guess we all wish for spring....the dies and stamps are from Clearly Besotted stamps...oh yes and the bunny is from Lawn Fawn....The background is just a bit of water coloring.....
And can you believe I started knitting.....I am not sure what yet but it is a start :-)
That is it for today....I will see you soon - I will be around blogs later as our friends are coming to visit and I will be tied up most of the day!
Have a lovely week, enjoy Valentine's day!
Lots of hugs to everybody
CARDARIAN
Hello my dear friends!
I am sorry again for being away for such a long time, but I have another very good excuse! I have moved to England! It is temporary at the moment, but we will see how things will go! Can you imagine packing only two suitcases? And of course most of the stuff had to be for crafting and the suitcases only weigh 20 kilos? HUH what a struggle! Of course as soon as we got here I had to go to the shop and get a Big Shot - you can't live without a die cutting machine these days! Luckily my dear friend Jo from Jozart has provided me with lots of crafting goodies so I am now fully equipped to make cards! And I have been making them when I haven't been sorting out my DBFs house! Huh! You can imagine how much work there is to do as there hasn't been a woman in the house for 20 years! But we sort out things everyday and soon it will all be sorted! :-)
Now let me show you my new desk....actually it is the big table in my DBFs lounge - I have taken it over completely so this morning my DBF said : "Should we buy a bigger table???"
I will have a craft room upstairs but at the moment there are so many other things to sort out the craft room in on the back burner.
So here are a few shots of my "new" desk......
As you can see in the background is my new Big Shot, my laptop and other bits and pieces. I have been very busy making cards so as you can see it is quite messy! Do you see that lovely bin for paper bits - Jo from Jozart made it for me I love it - it is so practical to have something like that so you don't have to run to the big bin all the time.
Now you have seen my desk, have a look at the lovey dovey cards I haven't been making.....
All of the cards are made with a bit of stamping, die cutting and coloring. I have used inks and watercolors...
The photos are not super good because the light in the morning is soo bad...I will have to remember to take photos in the afternoon of the previous day.
Let me bore you with a few more photos.......
Thats it - the lot for today! I am really lucky to be here at the moment as at home they have about 20 inches of snow - not much fun really!
Anyway I will be popping around to see you, don't forget to check in at the WOYWW HQ with our lovely leader Julia!
Lots of hugs to all of you
CARDARIAN
