ArtyFartyAnnie

 Hello Fellow Deskers,  Wednesday has come around again, and so it's time to show everyone What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday. I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours, just pop over to Julia's Stamping Ground to join in the fun.  I've missed a couple of weeks due to being busy with Other Stuff, but I have been able to squeeze in some crafting - and inspired by other Deskers I've made a start on Christmas cards woohoo, get me!!  Never have so many Christmas cards been made so early in my craft room  - possibly it's something to do with being retired now :o) I pulled out all of my hoarded Christmas-themed stamp sets, dies and papers and promised myself to use the whole lot. Mostly they're front-of-magazine "free" gifts.  Here's a peek at the results so far ... The second photo shows some experiments with a technique I saw on You Tube, where you ink up embossing folders before running them through your machine, to add colour to the non-...

 After a class with Jerney Marisha as part of PYHaS 2020, starting with a charcoal underdrawing, adding a wash of colour and then building up layers of paint. I went with gouache instead of acrylic paints and finished with coloured pencils.  It was a bit of a battle, the likeness came and went many times and one eye was stubbornly wonky for a while, but in the end I was happy with it.  Still wonder if the original quick charcoal sketch was better though ... Learning so much from all the amazing artists on PYHaS 2020 - I've signed up for 2021 AND for Wanderlust 2021 ... well, now I'm retired I have all this time to play :o)

 Good Morning Fellow Deskers,  It's What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, time to show the world what we've been up to in our crafty spaces this week. Check out Julia's Stamping Ground to find out all about it.  Here's mine as I left it last night, after finishing the electric lighting in the book nook I showed you a couple of weeks ago ... The lighting gubbins is all contained within the ceiling, which fits on like the lid of a shoebox and has a dinky switch at the front and a miniature "loft hatch" to allow access to the innards to replace batteries and so on ... I'm ridiculously proud of myself for having faced the Demon of Electrickery so that I was able to design and wire it up by myself. Here it is on my bookshelf all lit up ... I thought it might be nice to create a label for the front with my old typewriter, but not sure what words to use, maybe "A Stitch in Time" ... hmmm ... any suggestions? Ok, enough waffle, time to head over to Jul...