Merry Christmas to all!

 2020 is almost over!  I wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  I don't blog as much as I used to but all things considered I get done what needs to be done and happy about that!

My desk this week is pretty much the same as it always is so don't think I will waste time posting a picture...it is a mess with all the crap that has accumulated.  Stormy continued to hold down the fort for me and keeps me on the straight and narrow most days.  Wonder why I am talking about my desk?  It is Wednesday and WOYWW silly!  Check it out on Julia's blog Stamping Ground!

We haven't been doing much but staying at home...too fearful to even get out to go to the pub.  It used to be an every Monday and sometime 2-3 times a week but now we are lucky to get out to go to the Doctor.

Chuck was back in the hospital again with the fib-flutter and has been started on more meds that seem to have more side effects then doing good.  He is having to walk with a cane because of weakness and doesn't feel like doing much of anything!  He is keeping a good attitude!

Christmas is rapidly approaching and I got the kids and grandkids covered but little else.  I got the tree up, the house decorated outside and in and did 3 Christmas themed diamond paintings.  Been having issues with cold and the arthritis I haven't done much in the way of card making or scrapbooking.

Christmas isn't Christmas without Dala Horses!

The Tree is up and the Snow Village is out!

The outside is done and we actually won an award and $25 check for being 1 of 3 houses on our block that was decorated nicely!  Not quite the Griswold Christmas but it was fun to do.  I love Snowmen and we have called Christmas Snowman Day forever.

Snowmen and tree diamond paintings

Okay that is it for me!  Got to get off here and get ready to go to the Doctors!  Never ending as we age it seems!  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

WOYWW

 It is late in the day on Wednesday, November 11, 2020 and I decided to start my WOYWW today.  I will link asap but...I forgot completely last few weeks and that makes me vary sad.  I did manage to make it around to most blog posts but didn't leave comments on most cause I was on my iPhone waiting at appointments etc.  

It  has been an interesting year and even more interesting couple of months around the Doswell house.  Chuck has been in and out of the hospital having issues with his 75 year old ticker not wanting to beat as it should.  Last month they put a pacemaker in his chest and the beginning of this week I took him in cause his heart rhythm was 'beating like a drum' irregular and fast...is doing better today but has to be in the hospital for 6 doses plus 8 hours before he can come home.  Tikosyn...high dollar drug.  Here's to hoping it works.

The kitties haven't been feeling well and both have had trips to the Vet...I sometimes feel I run an sick infirmary in the Doswell house! 

Ankh had a hurt leg and had to go in for xrays and antibiotics...Stormy girl is old and having sniffles and 'bad' days.   Our white kitty Ghost is still missing.  It is getting cold so I am hoping that she has found a good home!

What have I been up to craft wise...a lot really!

I look a class with the Stamps of Life making cards... The three cards were a lot of fun.  The gatefold card is different 

I made some coins for a swap...I used Graphic 45 paper to make the coins...

Also made a postcard using G-45 papers and Tim Holtz dies...

Another swap was for Halloween tags... The first was for what is called 'chunky' tags...highly embellished so it costs more to send so we send them to a moderator to be swapped out.  The second is 'flat' tags...those are sent to the individuals.

I joined a calendar swap making 6"x6" calendars for 2021...my month was December!

I started another new hobby this past month also.  It is called Diamond Painting...a little bit like paint by number and a little bit like cross stitch embroidery!  My daughter introduced me to it because I think she thought I needed something to calm me down since my life has been in such turmoil.  This election, Covid-19 etc has messed with my PTSD and this stuff really has potential to chill me out.

This is the first one I did...I like the sugar skulls of the Latino Dia de los Muertos...a little freaky but a great concept...much better then rotting corpses! It is mainly rhinestones and what they call a partial drill cause most of the canvas is painted and the 'diamonds' accent it.

This is the second one I did is a full drill square 'diamond' picture and it covers the entire canvas like cross stitches...

This is the last one I just finished...it is a full drill circle 'diamonds'.  I was a lot faster to do then the other two.  The circles give a little more leeway for placement of the drills.  It was a lot of fun.  These canvases are small so detail is limited but I like them a lot!  I have already started another one with Heather that is a Snow family using the circle drills. 

Okay I am going to end this right now before I bore everyone to death.  I think I will get dressed and go over to my daughters and do some more on my Snowman family!  Hope everyone is doing okay and life is treating you well.  Hope 2021 is better...this year sucks!

Halloween! WOYWW #272

Woke up this morning with the distinct feeling that I was forgetting something important!!! Hmmm...I wonder what that could be?  Oh right!  It is Wednesday and time for me to get my backside out of bed and get on the computer and write up my WOYWW post.  What is WOYWW?  Follow the link and Julia will tell you the deets but the gist of it is...It is a group of snoopy peoples that like to get together once a week and hop around the world snooping through one another's desks and projects.  Want to join in the fun?  Only place I know where you don't go to jail for stalking and snooping in other peoples lives and desks! 

My one of my desks in all its messed up glory...

This is kind of a tease photo cause I have covered up part of the project I am working on because it isn't done enough to share!  Hang on I will share photos of the orange tree shortly!!!  :-)  I decided it was all September and kids are going back to classes that it must be time for me to start working on my fall and Halloween projects.  I have even been spending time researching such on Pinterest!!! What an awesome time sink!!

Okay what is that orange thingey?

A box I started on last year then set aside to be finished at a later day and I forgot all about it.  Currently it is a coaster box but I am trying to decide if I would like to turn the coasters into a small picture book of Halloween pictures from bygone years!

Up closer!

Closer still!

A better side view!

The box is just a chipboard box I bought covered with Graphic 45 SteamPunk Spells papers.  I die cut the Harlequin edging, bats, and fence with Tim Holtz dies and Coordination distress cardstock.  All the ephemera and metal bits came out of my stash.  Tinsel is TH ideology.

These are the 4"x4" beer mats that are covered with various bits of paper. As I was digging through stuff to find stuff for the project in the works I found this key.  I think it could work as a way of getting a book out of the box!

It is easy getting them out when they are coasters but a little tight in a solid chunk.

One last picture I wanted to share!  My DH took me out to supper last week for beer, brats, and blues at the local German Biergarten, Royal Bavaria, an authentic beer garden owned by a couple from Germany!  Who would have thunk it!  In Oklahoma no less!

Isn't he handsome in that cowboy hat holding that stein of beer.  No one would believe I married him for his brain and not his good looks.  Interested in seeing some good photography?  Chuck has a blog too...his is a professional blog...but it is loaded with all sorts of awesome photography!  Check it out!

Okay enough for me.  I have to get off here and get dressed.  I have an appointment I need to get to at 2:30 and it is getting late!  Hope everyone has a great week and I will try and get by to visit you later in the week!