Wednesday… WOYWW day… and I owe all woyww-participants an apology – I did not visit one of your blogs last week! I planned to blog-hop but the weather got very nice during the week, warm even and because of that temperatures raise real high in the office space. There are more ‘machines’ in that room and it gets really hot as they all work like little heaters! So I turned off my computer as soon as the necessarily work was done. I know a lot of you woyww-hoppers are from the UK – and you must have had the same weather on your isle – so I hope you understand and forgive me. I try to do better this week – I promise!

Here’s the Wednesday golden oldie scrapbook layout – lifted from one of my old scrapbook albums.

(I don’t create ‘traditional scrapbook layouts’ anymore but every Wednesday I dive into my albums and lift a ‘golden oldie.’ The layouts I pick are random, YOU – blog readers – name the number of the album and layout to show. Let me know in a comment which album you want me to open next week – find the list to choose ‘golden oldies’ from here)

NOTE: I have been doing this for a while now and I notice that the risk that you name layouts that have already been requested is high… therefore I made a list showing the ‘free’ numbers and the ones that have been requested/shown already.

This week’s request came from Margaret – from Glitter & Glue
Ali asked me to open album 3 and show layout #5

Here it is… BFFs {click on the image to enlarge}

This is me with my BFF Lena. We are friends since primary school so that is indeed ‘forever’ 😉
I think this photo was taken in 2005 (is that correct Lena?) and the layout must be created somewhere around 2007… I never dated my layouts and kinda regret that now! And EEECKKK… we’re both smoking there! Lena quit a long time ago (when?) and as you might remember, I stopped smoking last March (and – although I still miss smoking A LOT – I concider myself a non-smoker now.)

Anyway, Lena is a talented painter and her work can be viewed on her blog  Six Lilies Studio
(I tell ya – it’s worth a visit!)

Because of the heat ánd the “Tour de France” (I am watching the report of this big bicycle race on TV every afternoon) I didn’t spend much time in the studio last week, but here are my latest index cards. (submitting to ICAD and Glue it Tuesday.)

Good morning.

Good night.

Here’s how my desk looks like this morning… SUMMER INDEED!

WOYWW #214

The WOYWW headquarters can be found over at The Stamping Ground from where the lovely lady Julia hosts the biggest weekly blog hop. Thanks Julia.

Bright sunshine through the window shining on my little table (as a result, the big desk in the corner behind this table is standing in deep, dark shadow and invisible on the picture)

There’s not much going on here, but I want you to have a better look on the art that Jana from Tangled Pen send me.

For the WOYWW 4th anniversary swap I made some extra ATCs and Jana emailed me that she would love to swap my little card with work of hers. She told me it would take her a while before she would ‘answer’ my ATC but I didn’t mind that, and last weekend I received an envelope from Sweden. It was worth while the wait!!!

Jana is also creating on index card – she send this one to me.

If you know Jana, you know that she is a talented painter and I especially admire the way she paints birds! Jana knows I have blackbirds in my garden who wake me in the morning, singing in the pergola beneath my bedroom window, so she painted this blackbird for me. Isn’t that the most sweet and precious painting?

Thank you so much Jana!

The blackbirds (and jackdaws, we have a lot of those lads visiting our garden too!) had their beaks wide open from the heat over the last days but today it cooled down a bit. Just enough to call it a nice Summer day. A bearable one – yay!!! Hope you all have a great day too!

Is it Wednesday already?
OK then, time for “Tales from the Studio.”

Wanna know what’s going on in my crafty space?
Wanna see what’s on my workdesk this morning?
Come on in to my studio and enjoy!

Let’s start with looking at a golden oldie layout – lifted from one of my old scrapbook albums.

(I don’t create ‘traditional scrapbook layouts’ anymore but every Wednesday I dive into my albums and lift a ‘golden oldie.’ The layouts I pick are random, YOU – blogreaders – name the number of the album and layout to show.)

The request came from Neet who asked me to open album 7 and show Layout #7

Aaahhh… look at that!
Meet James!

You can really call this lay0ut an ‘oldie’ – I made it long before I started blogging and never showed it online. James was my pet. He came live with me in 1989, when he was only 4 weeks old. His mother had died short after giving birth and actually the kittens were too young to survive without her, but I wanted to try keep James alive and fed him with a pipette… He grew up to be a big, tranquil cat. He moved houses with me four times in sixteen years. Then a strange type of crust appeared on his nose… it turned out to be an incurable type of cancer and in April 2006 I had to let James put down to sleep. I do hope he is at the happy hunting-grounds – laying in the sun like he loved to do when he was alive.

Next, I have pages to show for Glue it Tuesday.
Week 4 of Glue it Tuesday, hosted by the lovely Aimee of Artsyville. If you like to cut and paste something – anything… come on over and play along.

I’m in this week!
Not with ‘box of longing’ collages on index cards today. This time I made pages in my grid journal. Does someone remember that journal? Anyway, I have this stack of mono types backgrounds that show gorgeous details, so I cut squares and made two pages.

Purple Haze

Yellow Submarine

I may have to work on them some more, especially the yellow page seems to be missing something (shadows? contours?)

Speaking of collages… I received this wonderful happy mail from Tammy Garcia yesterday including one of her famous little collages.

And yes… it ‘blew…’
In fact, it blew my mind!

Thank you so much Tammy!
Something happy is coming your way too 🙂

Last, as usual, I show you a photo of my desk.
I visited my parents last weekend and my mom had cleaned her studio (she’s a poet and writer of children’s books – find her website HERE.) She had a bunch of empty books and notebooks that she wanted to get rid off, and guess who took them home? HAhaa!

The books are still on my desk but that’s about all there is. Oh, and that one spread that still lays there from last week… I didn’t play in my studio since Saturday. So I zoomed out a bit to give you a wider look at the desk… there’s a lot going on on the side that I normally don’t photograph. So now you know what’s there 😉

WOYWW #201

The quirky abbreviation woyww stands for What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday. Every Wednesday, crafters from all over the world take a photo of their desk ‘as is’ and show it on their blogs. We then all gather and line up at Stamping Ground – where our host Julia keeps an eye on us.

Now I hope to find time to visit a lot of you woyww-ers today. The list is loooonggg, but I try to visit as many desks as possible.

See ya!

Time flies and wohwee, it is again Wednesday! Time for “Tales from the Studio.”

Wanna know what’s going on in my crafty space?
Wanna see what’s on my workdesk this morning?
I invite you to come on in and look around…

Enjoy!

First, I have a golden oldie layout for you –  lifted from one of my scrapbook albums.

I don’t create ‘traditional scrapbook layouts’ anymore but I find it fun to dive into my albums and lift a ‘golden oldie.’ Which layout I come up with is random – blogreaders name the number and this time the request came from Winnie. She asked me to open album 6 and show Layout #5

I found a layout with a story!

Rock ‘n Roll is an Attitude…

This layout is made in June 2009 and shows ‘my men.’ Actually, it is the second layout I made with the photo/title/theme… I did not like the first one and started over. I found both layouts next to each other in the album. Here’s a picture of both:

You can read the complete background story in THIS OLD BLOGPOST

When you visited my desk last week, you must have seen the Box I was altering,
to store my index card-collages in.

Well, here’s the finished Box of Longing

… and here’s three more collages I made last week for Glue it Tuesday

The Desert Is In Constant Motion

New Dimensions In Time

Everything. Everywhere.

Last but not least… my workdesk!
There’s a lot going on here… I usually clean up one thing before I start working on another, but I was focussed on making the cover for the ‘writing over writers’ journal and did not even notice what was laying around. Ha… that must be a sign I’m starting to get used to my studio and desk.

WOYWW #200

What’s On Your Workdesk. Wednesday is hosted by our pretty headmistress Julia.
Each Wednesday, artists hop all over the world to view desks in all shapes… clean ones and messy ones… it’s fun! Find the list of participants at the WOYWW headquarters at Stamping Ground

(Oh, and all that knitting is done in the evenings in front of the telly – to keep my hands busy and avoid smoking… Yes sweeties, I’m ‘clean’ for over two weeks now! It is also getting easier every day, thank god – otherwise I would end up with a zillion knitted slippers 😉 )

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.
hope to visit as much desks as possible today, so see you around!

Good morning, good morning – it’s Wednesday and you know what that means: Tales from the Studio! Yep, I’ll show you what’s going on in my crafty space (new work!) and I also have a ‘golden oldie’ layout for you – lifted at a blogreader’s requests – from one of my scrapbook albums. (As most of you know, I don’t scrapbook anymore – I’m more of a mixed media art journaler nowadays.)

Well – here we go, come on in sweeties…

Sue (MiniOwner) asked me to open album 6 and show Layout #21… and when I did that, this was what I found:

Walcherse Dracht

This layout is made in November 2009 and shows me (photo on the left) in the traditional “Zeeuws Costume”. You can read more – and see detail photos – about this layout ánd the ‘background story’ in THIS OLD POST

And here is something new I want to show…
Erm… it does not look that new at first – it is an old, rusty, metal index card box I got from my dad a few years ago. It stood in the closet all those years. Sometimes I took it out, wondering what I should do with it. A few weeks ago I put it on my desk to have it near. I stared at it from time to time and suddenly I knew!

I decided to call it the Box of Longing and to make little collages on the indexcards inside.

Some of you will remember my Letters from the Wasteland  and I wanted to do something similar with the index cards in the box. Here are the first, small collages I made.

To The Ends Of The Earth

The Simple Truth

New Worlds To Discover

I submit these little collages to Glue it Tuesday – a new blogseries that Aimee from Artsyville started. If you don’t know Aimee, check out her blog! She’s a huge inspiration for all creative souls!

Now that I decided what I wanted to use the index card box for, it was about time to alter it.
How does a ‘Box of Longing’ look like? Hmmm… the first ‘altering round’ can be seen on my work desk this morning. It’s not done by any means, but the box looks better already compared to the old, rusty metal look it had. There’s more ‘waiting until it is dry’ on my desk this morning ’cause yesterday I was so clever to prepare some so I would find it all dry and ready to continue working on this morning.

WOYWW #199

WOYWW is hosted by our pretty headmistress Julia. Find all the info and the list of participants at the WOYWW headquarters

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That’s it for today dear ones. I’m off to visit some of the other work desks now.
Happy Wednesday!