Good Grief is it WOYWW 216??? I have been away tooo long!

Hello Everyone!!  I am sorry that I haven't been up and running so to speak on my blog...grrrr, life has a way of getting in the road and don't you agree that this year is just zipping along at the speed of light??? I don't know if I am Arthur or Martha of late lol.

I had a great week with my cousin, we managed to get out a bit with  her in the wheelchair and me and my bad back.  We were hilarious together, I kept running her into things as I only have my L's driving the wheelchair and I needed the wheelchair to walk as far as we did to hold me up!  We kept laughing that we are two broken down chubby ladies (although we didn't put it quite so delicately as I have done here lol) that needed to help each other to get anywhere!!

I am sad to say that she is in hospital again, and she said that she feels that she is at the pointy end of the stick now, and God love her she was comforting me!!  She is truly one of God's angels.

I have a photo of my VERY messy desk this week and I REALLY do need to do something about it as I am starting to lose things....hmmmm not good!!

The rest of the photos are some art journaling that I have done while at my cousins and a couple of mixed media canvas's that I have done for classes that I am teaching. 

Thanks to the wonderful Julia Dunnit over at Stamping Ground, I am off to look at some of the great desks that I have missed seeing over the last month....Huge cup of tea next to me and off I go :-)!  Have a great week everyone!!

Janene

WOYWW211!!!

Hello Everyone again!! Where has this week gone lol!  This won't be a long post as I am trying to get lots of things done before I go to see my cousin for a week on Friday.  So without further ado..:-)...here is my desk this week!

I have been working on some backgrounds that I had in my Dyan Reaveley art journal and just zoning out doing them, what a great way to distress.  My desk hasn't changed much over the weeks, never really tidy hehehe.  The lamp that you can see, the silver looking pole... the light part lifts up and comes on when you do, and it is just wonderful as it is a daylight lamp and now I can see in my little dark corner....yippee, my eyesight thanks me lol!

These next 2 photos.... the first one was a mop up page and when I looked at it I thought to myself that would make a great page, and this is the way it turned out :-).  The next photo are my first attempts with the Gelli plate.  I don't care what anyone thinks it does take a bit to get used to it! But I think that I am going to love using the plate!!

Pop on over to Stamping Ground to check out the wonderful desks from all over the world!!

Okay that is all I have to show.  I hope that you all had a great week and will have an even greater week ahead. Live laugh and love well.  Until next time take care.

Janene

WOYWW 210!! I missed a few....

Hi there everyone!!  Sorry that I have been MIA for a while, but I needed a little down time and now I am back hehe.  Not a lot happening but I do have a couple of photos to show you.

First off is my desk for this week....

I am working on a card for my youngest daughter's birthday.....mind you that is today!  But she has already gotten her gift and told me that she wants a card...so I am doing what I am told and making her one.  I didn't think it would bother her not to get one as she has been too busy and excited about the iPad that her father bought for her.  Lesson learnt lol.  On the paper I have placed rock salt and I love the effect that it gives as you will see in the next photo.

It looks like heaps of little daises!!

The next 2 photos are a quick drawing of my granddaughter Andie, which I don't know what I will do with it yet, and the 12"x12"canvas that I have shown on here before but unfinished....well guess what..it is finished now :-).  I am going to show it to the next art journal class that I am teaching on Friday morning and see if they would like to do one in another class.

 

I thought that I would also show you what we are doing in the next art journal class...

Wish you all a wonderful week, and now I am off to visit some other blogs and see what is on their desks for this week.  Thanks to Julia over at Stamping Ground that we are able to share in this wonderful get together :-).  Take care of yourselves.

Janene

WOYWW 207!! How time is flying...scary!!

Welcome fellow bloggers!  I hope that the last week has been very good to you all :-).  I haven't been up to very much this week, working and having a lazy weekend hehehe.  I was hoping to get a lot more painting done on the weekend, but I didn't!  I am playing around now with my new Gelli Plate that I got in the mail this morning...yipeeee!  So by this time next week I will be able to show you something :-).

Okay taaaaa dummmm (think drum roll here lol) to my desk this week....

On my desk is an unfinished 12" x 12" canvas that I have been playing around with, developing ideas for a class in July. I was thinking that with Christmas looming the girls might like to do a work on canvas as a gift.  Got to keep their interest!!  I have been having fun playing with the canvas and have done one for my sister's birthday last week. What else is on the desk are some stamps that I had ordered in from Stampendous! plus the big acrylic stamping block witch is fantastic!!  Also I got some more moulding paste to add texture on the canvas from my local art shop. 

I have a photo below but it wasn't quite finished as I finished it when I got over to the coast and I FORGOT to take a photo of it all completed!!  But you get the idea from the photo as it was nearly finished, just had to put the antenna on the butterfly and a little bit of writing in black just above the flowers.

Now I am going to get my usual big pot of tea to keep me going around all the wonderful blogs that get together over at General Julia Dunnit over at Stampng Ground!  It is great catching up with people that I now feel have become friends.....have a wonderful week everyone :-)!!!

Janene

WOYWW 206!

Hi everyone!!  I hope that you have had a wonderful couple of weeks.  I didn't blog last week and I am sorry about that, but I felt snowed over with things that are happening in my life...so I just zoned out for awhile :-).

Julia Dunnit over at Stamping Ground is our wondrous leader in the What's on your work desk Wednesday, and it is wonderful to have the chance to be able to see and connect with people of like mind.

I won't fill this post with to many words as I have a few photos to show you :-).  First is my desk for this week, and then I have a photo of the class that I taught at the local craft shop on the 3rd May.  The girls were great and I just love showing them what they can do.  Ok, here we go.......!

My desk has Dyan's journal book open to where I am having fun playing around with Jane Davenport's Jane Girl series of face stencils.  I love the profile one!

This is the art journal page that I had done for the class.  This is the sample for them to follow but I wanted them to make their own out of it.

We had a lot of fun as you can see!! 

These two pages are just some samples of the girls work.  Aren't they great!!! I am so proud of the work they did and am looking forward to the next class in June.....Hmmmm wonder what we can do then lol!

Have a great week everyone and now I am going to go and get a BIG pot of tea and go around and look at some desks and see what you all have been up to! 

Until next time....take care of you and yours :-).
Janene

Oh Boy I Can't Believe It!! WOYWW 204!!

Hello again my fellow bloggers of WOYWW!!  I hope that you all had a great week :-)!  I am happy to say that my week went well, I now will be working 3 days a week.. yippee, so the money will not be as tight as it has been lol, and I have the most wonderful bosses that have been patient with me on my learning curve.  More money = more art stuff hehehe...

My cousin has just gotten out of hospital and we are hoping to take a cruise if she is up to it soon, around the Pacific Islands for 10 days.  At the moment we are trying to work it all out as we want to do it sooner rather then later for her.  So please cross your fingers that all will go well and we can go on the cruise and my cousin gets to have the most wonderful time that she deserves.

Without further ado here is my desk....!

 

Well I selected the desk shot and the face stencil ones at the bottom to go first and they all came up!! Lol!  Anyway I had ordered the fantastic face stencils in from my local craft store....Michelle is wonderful to get these as I am going to use them in my art journal class this Friday, as the ladies wanted to know how to do faces and some said that they can't draw and loved my faces.  So I knew that Jane Davenport had a great series of face stencils, so now the girls can do faces and have no fear how they will turn out and they can add their own touches to make it their own.  Win win I thought!  These faces are a series of 4.. a full on face...a 3/4 face....a side profile and an eye stencil, how cool is that and all for A$23!!  Not bad for 4 stencils I thought!

The other pages I loved doing during the week, at least my kids know where to find me these days....in the office painting away...bliss lol.

Ok I am off to see some great desks thanks to the wonderful Julia Dunnit over at Stamping Ground!  Just got to get my big cup of tea and I am away....!  Take care and until next week, live well and laugh much.  :-)

Janene

P.S.  The Jane Davenport Jane girl series you can get here from Artistcellar.

WOYWW 203....How time flies!

Hello everyone!  This week has crept up on me!   I want to say a big 'Thank You' to everyone that visited my blog and left such lovely comments.  I try to get around as many people as I can, but it is hard to get to everybody :-(.  

I had a great visit with my brother and it was hard to see him go.  I have been doing a few art journal pages and of course my desk is NEVER tidy these days hehe.  I get in a painting groove and I don't want to stop for anything and then I get my youngest daughter saying what's for tea Mum......gees Louise, I think,.... I have to stop for life!

Here is my weekly photo of  THE desk lol...

I have finally gotten all of the Dylusions Inks...yippee!!  Beautiful colours and so much fun to play with.  On Monday I had my kids art journal class and there ended up being 13!!!  I thought what have I gotten myself into.....but it was so much fun and they were a great bunch of girls and they want another class next holidays :-).  I am game......I think!  No it will be good and I have the adults class in just over a week and I hope that one goes as well as the first.

I finished these two pages the other day and I have two more on the go! 

I am going to pop over the Julia's at Stamping Ground to check out more desks from around the world and catch up with people that I now consider friends :-).   Ahhh just get my big cuppa ready and off I go!  Have a fantastic day xxx.
Janene