WOYWW #207 and OMG! It happened again!

It has been an interesting week around the Doswell house (hacienda) with all sorts of fun things going on!

•  Last Thursday I taught a tag class at Scrap that and had a blast creating and chewing the fat with the girls in the class.  
• Friday saw Chuck and I meeting up with a group of Meteorology students from the University of South Alabama, Mobile,  for dinner before they headed home to Alabama after storm chasing a couple days. 
• Saturday I went to the movies with my daughter and saw The Great Gatsby...still an awesome book IMHO!  Such a social commentary of the times! If you get a chance go see it!
• Sunday went out for a birthday celebration with my SIL for his ? birthday.  
• Monday we had severe thunderstorms and our house and tornadoes hit east of us!  We got pinged with some peas sized hail but didn't take any damage from it. 
• This part is the OMG! It happened again!  Tuesday we had more severe thunderstorms and Moore, OK was hit with another monster tornado!  The first one in 1999 was bad enough but this one may be worse in some ways.
  Death toll is at 24 at this time and most are children who were in school!  DH was out storm chasing and here is a picture of what he saw.  Chuck said the noise from where he snapped this pic was horrific so think about what the folks up close heard!  More then scary!

(c) 2013 cdoswell This was taken looking west from one of the four schools that was hit by this tornado.  All the children at this school survived which wasn't so of the Plaza school.  Terrible loss!.

My daughter was also out in her back yard and took some pictures and footage!  Here is a link to her storm video. 

(c) 2013 Heather Doswell taken looking NW of her house

We are all doing okay here at the hacienda and are uber thankful that it didn't hit closer to here either day.  This is the spring in Oklahoma and where some places put up with monsoons, hurricanes, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions Mother Nature gives us the tornadoes and severe storms.  You learn to live with it and cope.  I would take this any day over any of the other options.

Okay moving forward to why I am really posting today...WOYWW!  Welcome to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday!  We share desks and information from all over the world...lots of blog friends/and fiends and if you feel like you would like to share go visit with Julia at Stamping Ground and she will fill you in on how to participate. 

Here it is folks without further ado...My Desk!

I am working on an art journal layout that I am not for sure where it is going or whether it is going anywhere.  

 

I want to learn how to use watercolor pencils better and learn the differences in each brand.  I have Stampin'Up!, Prisma, and Inktensive watercolor pencils that I am playing with.  Each one has a lot of differences.  I watch a video on YouTube that talked about the differences but until I tried them myself I wasn't convinced!

As you can see from this close up picture the green is the Prisma and Stampin' Up! pencils and the paper was totally dry before using the Inktense blue green.  The inktense is definitely an ink in pencil form compared to the others.  The Stampin' Up! isn't as pigment intensive as either one of the other pencils but did well on the backgrounds.  The sunflower is a stamp from Stampin'Up! I used and colored with the pencils. I am planning on free handing some leaves and I think I will twist a vine around and across the pages and stamp some sentiments/messages.  I am also thinking I will use my Uniball white gel pen to define the petals on the sunflowers also...what do you think?

I still have a couple ATC I am willing to swap if you are!  Email me your address and I will send mine back to you!  It is WOYWW's 4th birthday is coming up next week so lets swap and celebrate the date!

Well guess that is it for me tonight.  I apologize (once again) for not making it around to a lot of the blogs that game to visit me.  I promise I will visit you this week and make up for it!