WOYWW 438

Good morning all here we are another Wednesday where are the days going to?

So what is on my desk/table this morning - pretty much the same as all the other previous weeks, I am so looking forward to see the back of Christmas material.

At present it is dog bandanas both Christmas and every day, because I am making so many I have cut templates from cereal boxes. Haven't had cereals for months so a nice change for breakfast for the next few weeks. Do you like the flamingo a friend knitted for one of the fairs, I had him lying in a storage box and every time I put something in there he popped his head out.

Saw this on face book and thought how appropriate.

Now to the trouble makers in my life. Our weather is still very warm and to get the last of the days sun my two cats have started lying right in the corner of the garden, I am sure it isn't comfortable on the stones but they don't seem to mind.

So that is it for this past week, a quick tidy round then off to my sewing class.

Now to link up with Julia who hosts are weekly get together at stamping-ground.blogspot.com

Please leave a comment if you drop by. Hope you all have a productive week.

WOYWW 437

Good morning all,

I don't know whether I am coming or going this last week but do know I am very behind even though I started preparing for Christmas many months ago.

Having taken my items to various meetings I have sold so many that I am beginning to wonder if I will have enough for the four Christmas fair I have booked,

Last week someone gave me a Dammit doll to make so the weekend was spent making these. I them sold six on Monday and have an order for another six.

Now someone has asked me for some Christmas bunting, someone else for Christmas dog bandanas. HELP

This used to be my business before I retired so enjoyed the big craft events but who would have thought that at 70 I would be starting over again!

So this is my desk/s this week every available space taken over with cut out, prepared, ready to sew etc.

cut out ready to be backed with waterproof

Finished ready for pricing

Ready to sew

Looking for material table.

I can just about find a place to eat and place a drink so onward and upward as my late husband used to say. Hopefully I will get round to visiting I did manage last week to visit all if not comment on all.

Off now to my sewing class well I am taking some knitting as a break from sewing then this afternoon to my Ladies class, retired, boredom  who me never.

WOYWW 436

Good evening everyone, can't believe I am posting at this hour 19.00 instead of 07.00 I have just come home from being out since 9.00am when I started at my sewing group, then on to the Ladies group this afternoon and this evening to meet a member of the Spanish Red Cross who want to do a presentation along with the Guardia Civil on security for the over 65's.

I am supposed to be retired well no time to be bored.

Where has the week gone? I don't know but have quite a stash of goodies now for my fairs. The machine and me has been working overtime.

I have had to move my material over to the other table as a lady gave me this dammit doll and asked if I could make a template and sew some of them so brown paper a pencil and a quick draw round and hey presto. Needs a little tweaking and obviously I can't get the printed fabric label so will have to do with a label round the neck.

Also in view are some little Christmas socks.

Right I am going now need a drink. will link up with stamping-ground.blogspot.com

Have a good week all.

WOYWW 435 4th October

Good morning all, can't believe it is October already - well yes I can because it has gone really quiet here and we have are resort back to ourselves. Most of the hotels closed over the weekend and now with the demise of Monarch one has to wonder what summer 2018 will bring.

So what is on my table this week, see below.

The items at the back are Christmas aprons all folded and priced ready to take to my Women on Wednesday group (we have now changed our name though, LOL Ladies of Leisure or whatever you want the initials to mean!) A number of us have broken away and started a group of our own as we didn't like the chosen new venue.
Last week I took the aprons with me to show someone and ended up selling them and being asked for some more, so this week it has been sew, sew, sew. The colourful material at the front are a number of peg bags cut out and ready to sew.
I am beginning to wonder if I will ever get back to my card making I do miss it.

Hope all who went to the crop had an enjoyable time looking forward to seeing pictures and trying to put names to faces as I have never met any of you.

Now to link up with our host Julia at http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.

Will be along later to read and comment. I leave you with some pictures taken from my terrace on Tuesday evening. Beautiful coloured sky, then the moon putting in an appearance and finally a close up of the moon. I am so lucky to live in this part of the world.

WOYWW 434

Good morning one and all, well actually good evening as it is Tuesday night as I find it a rush on Wednesday morning.

So what is on my desk this morning just some peg bags, all slightly different as I couldn't remember how I made them so each one is an improvement on the last. Some with coat hangers and some with a carabiner as I find with coat hangers they tend to blow off the line. 

Had trouble buying cheap children's coat hangers.

Some more aprons and bibs have also found their way into the Christmas stock box.

This machine has found it's way out of its rather tatty box much to the annoyance of QC one of my cats, as it is on my computer table where she normally sits.  

So now she has taken to the other side and likes hang over the edge and kick her back legs in protest.

So that is me done for now nothing very exciting on the desk, peg bags, over locker and cat.

Will be linking up with Julia in the morning. stamping-ground.blogspot.com

Have a good week we still have very good weather here in the low 30's hope it continues for your holiday Neet.

WOYWW 433 (I think)

Good morning everyone, just as we thought the summer was coming to an end with the rains of last week, we have had some really lovely weather, in the low 30's but not too hot and humid. Weather that makes you want to prepare for the winter days haha.

So what is on my work table this morning, well talking of winter days I am still preparing for the Christmas fairs I have booked tables at. Now added another two fairs to my list, one is for a local animal charity. So in the top left hand corner you see a pile of dog bandanas.  Really need to get rid of some of my materials of all sorts, fabric, knitting wool, paper and card you know how it is. Also need to make some money as I am seeing my pension decrease month by month because of the value of the pound.

I have all my templates cut out of hardboard, my late husband made them all for me and they have been a godsend so much better than paper patterns. I brought them all with me, along with no end of material when I moved out to Spain. He also made me a cutting out table that he hinged to the wall so I could fold down when not in use. Often wonder what the people who bought my house thought of it as I left it there.

And lastly my TV knitting, I can't watch TV and not do anything or I fall asleep. These are the beginnings of some tortoises. 

The telephone engineers eventually came on Friday to install the fibre optic so after taking 15 mins to load photos to my blog they now just go woosh and they are there. Can't believe that my little town of Mojacar is slowly catching up with the 21st century. When I first came on holiday here there were more donkeys than cars, now you will be hard pushed to see a donkey.

Donkey transport

The local women used to do their laundry at the fountain and the washing would be carried in the panniers.

Local fountain late 70's

Well that's me done for this week, now to link with Julia our host at stamping-ground.blogspot.com 

Hope you all have a good week and I will be visiting later when I come home from my knit and natter group.

WOYWW 432

Good morning friends

This is the view from my house this morning at 7.15am the lovely sun about to rise. We have had an exceptional hot summer this year and even yesterday the temperature in the sun was 38C. It certainly drains you so hence no desk last week.

This is my desk today one cat taking most of it, so I am working on my ironing board. haha and this is all I have to show.

Two Christmas bibs - the one on the left is a new design, just wish I had a baby to try it out on. Very simple with an elastic piece to go over the head.

I will try and get round to visiting you all but can make no promises because I have applied for fibre optic internet comes with complete package of mobiles, landline, mobiles and television and they are supposed to be coming today to install, but this is Spain manana as they say here could mean anytime in the next few weeks.

Have a good week and now to link with Julia our host for WOYWW http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com.es/

WOYWW 430 29th August

Hello fellow followers, as I sit typing this on Tuesday evening a storm is taking place all around, lovely rain a god send after the long hot summer, thunder and lightening. I am just hoping the electricity doesn't go off as is usual when we have weather like this,

So down to business and what is on my work table this week, well after the big clear up of my work room and finding things I didn't know I had.  decided to finish some unfinished things and this is one of them.

Perhaps I purchased it when my grandson was born I did make him a pooh bear one which he still has. (He is now 12 years old). It will now go on the Christmas fair stall.

I have made a pile of the items I found that needed finishing so am slowly working my way through them.

Found some blue material when looking for the eeyore cushion cover so decided to cut a tabard out from what was left, thought it might appeal to the many waitresses we have here who seem to wear them. I used to make them for the children's hospitals in the UK all in bright children's fabrics.

Also this week some Christmas and everyday bibs.

So that is my contribution for this week but before I go must show you this. Remember the new cats scratching post I purchased back in March well in five months it has gone from this to this.

  

Have a good week and will try and visit you all during the week. it will not be Wednesday though as I have my knit and natter in the morning and then I am going to watch the Vuelta a Espana (Tour of Spain cycle race) as it comes along part of our sea front here in little Mojacar. (ITV 4 at 8.00p,m)

Now to prepare to link with our host Julia at stamping-ground.blogspot.com


All is quiet now think the thunder, lightening and rain have stopped.

WOYWW 429 (I think)

Good morning everyone and welcome to WOYWW for this week. Well nothing much on my  desk this week but I spy some floor in my work room, yes I have finished tidying. I have emptied every box in there and now have a mental note of what I possess. Did find more Christmas material than I thought I had so plans afoot now on what to make.

I  know why I have the floor covered I hate those floor tiles, but it is an old house and those are the original tiles. We were going to replace them but as the tiles were in place before the internal walls decided against it.

Oh I did find three chairs in there when I moved boxes.

Clear run to sewing machine now and desk cleared to make some cards

All boxed and bagged

Apart from finishing this mammoth task nothing much to report, but feel now this is done I have some enthusiasm to begin something new, what - I don't know.
All in the planning stage as my late husband used to say when I asked him about a job that needed doing.

The weather here was cooling down or so I thought but this week it has been in the mid 30's again and with a very high humidity which makes it worse.
Did take my knitting and a chair down to the beach on Sunday and sat right at the waters edge where a lovely cool breeze was blowing.

So I leave you with my two lazy cats I often say they are joined at the hip, I honestly don't know what would happen when/if one of them dies. when QC had to stay overnight at the vets Kavvie went around miaowing all night. They have always been together when I went to choose one I couldn't so took them both. Gosh that was 12 years ago.

QC                         Kavvie

Now to link with our host Julia atstamping-ground.blogspot.com

Thank you for your comments and will get around to reading all posts by the weekend. I promise.

WOYWW 428 16th August

Good morning Ladies, thank you for your visits last week. Well 'what's on the table Mabel' - who remembers that from a famous radio show?
This is what is on my table today remember I said my workroom needed a clean and sort well yesterday I began.

First pic ah you can see the floor.

Second pic this what was on the floor now on the table.
Now when I have some time not today I need to go through and sort it out.
Then on to the next part of the floor, update next week.

Noticed Spanish Lidl had an offer of pencil crayons and brush pens last Thursday, so went along couldn't believe our local Lidl had sold out of them by midday, so went to another in the next town and all I managed to get were the brush pens. Something told me the pencil crayons were a good buy, should have been there when they opened.

Hope you all have a productive week, the weather here is at long last cooling down well it's only 32C instead of 37C but the nights are cooler so sleeping is better.

Now off to link with Julia at stamping-ground.blogspot.com before I go to my sewing/knit and natter group.

WOYWW 427 9th August

Good morning one and all, sorry for lack of enthusiasm but this heat is beginning to get to me, first time ever must be getting old. We have had continuous hot weather since early June and now with the humidity it drains you of all energy.

This will be short as I have to go to the nurse to test my blood sugar levels at 9.30 then on from there to my 'knit and natter' group.

So for my work desk today or the paste table it is showing my box of Christmas material/scraps. I am going through them to see if I can get some inspiration.

Below is a set up of the items I have so far for the Christmas fairs , not all made by me - a number of the knitted items were donated from my Wednesday group. There are aprons, bibs, knitted toys, cardigans, hats shopping bags not forgetting the pink flamingo he has such a cute face.

Well that's my short and sweet contribution for this week, now to link with Julia our host for WOYWW at stamping-ground.blogspot.com 

Have a good week everyone, although I didn't comment on many posts last week I did read them on my kindle but find typing on the device a nightmare and it was just too hot to sit at the computer. Will try and do better this week.

WOYWW 426 2nd August 2017

Good morning all,

Well what a week it has been, I am sure it is getting hotter and hotter, so much now I will not go out after lunch.
I have Windows 10 and have this week installed an update, wish I hadn't bothered, firstly all my passwords went, then a different layout, now when I come to open my blog page kept saying it is searching, well my searching was better and here I am at last.

What we are here for - a nosy into my desk and here it is in all it's Christmas glory, (if only working for Christmas would cool me down). I have been searching the web for little bits and pieces to make and came across these 'Snowman Poop', so what you see is mass production all cut out, scored, taped, etc. At the front are 25 felt stockings cut out for the advent calendar and buried under all that are the triangles for the Christmas tree from last week. So that is my desk or should I say table for this week. Have to work on the table because the fan is overhead,

I really need to get into my work room and tidy up - don't know if I dare show you the state of it.

Everything needs to come out and bit by bit all sorted into proper boxes. Then I could sit at my sewing machine easily and not nearly break by ankle every time I go in there, but it is much too hot to do this sort of job at the present, well that's my excuse. I don't know why I can't keep this room tidy, my card making store room is really tidy everything in plastic boxes.

Ok then, here it is    help!!!!! 

Now to link up with our host for Wednesday Julia at Stamping-ground blogspot.com

If you visit please leave a comment I do try to read all your posts but sometimes they are read on my Kindle and commenting is difficult. Have a good week.

WOYWW 425

Yes Ladies I am still alive and kicking, sorry I have missed two weeks posting but what can I say with the weather  being so hot nothing has been on my desk that is worthy of a picture or comments.

We are still baking in very high temperatures but needs must and seeing as I have booked a Christmas craft stall in November as well as the Dames in Spain fair I really need to get cracking with some more makes.

So on my desk today is a fabric Christmas tree, I made some of these years ago so thought I would make some more but try to simplify the design. I am going to leave off the decorations on the triangles and also the wooden support across the bottom row of  triangles to make them quicker and cheaper to make.

This was one I made in 2011 hangs perfectly on the light fitting!

Also the felts came out for Christmas stockings!

You have to think of your furry friends when it's hot. My two love this fan blowing on them. Can't understand why they lie on the rug and not on the tiled floor when it's hot.

So that's me done for this WOYWW off  to the doctors this morning had a blood sugar scare so have been seeing the nurse for testing three times a week, the doctor will deliver her verdict this morning. I have tried to control it by diet so hope she is happy. 

Now to link up with Julia at stamping-ground.blogspot.com. who hosts our postings every week.

WOYWW 422

Good morning to WOYWW from a sunny Spain. Our weather is still very hot but not as humid so easier sleeping.

Thank you Lunch Lady Jan for choosing me to receive the lovely bag, up to Tuesday morning it has not arrived, but then I am still waiting for a sun dress by daughter posted 10 days ago. One lives in hope it will arrive before the weather changes haha. I did once receive a Christmas card posted beginning of December in March.

So we have a special desk this week because it is Wimbledon, so a table  facing my television, love my turntable tv table that I can swing round so it can be seen from fireside chair or computer or anywhere in the room.

What is on the table today well still preparing for Christmas. I found all this felt in my stash so thought I would cut out some Christmas stockings and decorate with left over pieces.

Also made this week three more aprons for the Christmas stall and that's about it. Have been out and about with my friend Terri who is here for three weeks from her home in Lanzarote.

 Today is my sewing/knit and natter group and afterwards we have a lunch, think I have said before we put 1€ into  the pot each week and when we have enough it buys us lunch and tomorrow is the day.

Will leave you with these two photos. I thought the cat was scattering the wood chips on my plant pots, but it turned out to be a female blackbird and my cat sat watching her. The photos aren't very clear because they were taken through mosquito netting on the window. You can just about make out the bird centre front of pot.

Now to link up with Julia at stamping-ground.blogspot.com

Hope you all have a good week, will try and get round to reading all before the weekend.

WOYWW 421

Good morning from a very hot humid Spain. We are experiencing extreme temperatures for this time of year. Goodness knows what August holds for us.
I and my friends are nervous of fires as a few years ago we had serious fires and had to abandon our homes. Being a Girl Guide I am now prepared and have the cat carriers, food, water, and important documents to hand just in case.

So with the heat and my daughters visit and also a friends visiting from Lanzarote this week, I have not returned to craft mode yet, but found this broderie anglaise material in my stash and thought I could make a cool top for myself. It will be rectangle folded in half sides sewn up and a hole for my head to go through. Sounds easy enough but.....

It is white but the table underneath is cream.

Off to my knit and natter group this morning, then home to make some puff pastry savoury swirls to take to my Woman on Wednesday group (WOW) it's all W's on Wednesday as we are having a closing party, the bar where we meet is not having their lease renewed so we will have to find another bar or that is it. There are not many bars that want us this time of the year but are glad of our custom over the winter months!

So now over to Julia who seems to be having a great time in US. Reading her post it is such a small world. Have a good week one and all.


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