I have a desk! WOYWW 807/27

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, I pray this one brings thousands of thanks to each one of you who sent prayers, a card, and supplies.

I havent posted since Hurricane Helene came through my Town, in Western North Carolina, USA, and changed all of our lives.

I'm finding it important to focus more on what I have not lost, than what I have.

I have not lost my life, family and close friends and pets all safe.

I have not lost my faith, my world wide friends of community, and support.

(I did lose my home and much of my belongings)

I had a plan to get back to each individually, and that went the way of my life BH(before Helene). I moved several times, before finally getting stable housing Nov 1- and these cards were my touch stones in each new space.

There are no words to express how much the support, friendship and generosity of my on line art communities mean to me- to all of us.

Art saves live, and heals, and united in our WOYWW community, we care for and with, each other.

I have shared these cards and some of the supplies with many other artists, and pray they will find the strength of community in them that I do.

Much of the paint and paper when into our child play pop ups while our schools and daycares were closed. I know there were prayers in every stroke of the pen and brush.

(if you don't see your card, a little artist, may have taken it for their own!)

Thank you!

WOYWW 798-If you can't make a mess....

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...you can't make anything!

I'm usually a tidy crafter, and with travel and tying loose ends of all my work duties, it's creating in fits and starts.

It will all come together, and in the meantime, i'm embracing my own messiness and enjoying thinking about the joy in sending and receiving holiday cards.

God(ess) bless our Postal Services!

Thanks for visiting.

Comments and questions warmly welcomed.

WOYWW-791- Be with those who help your being

Its a theme!

Lots of travel to be with grandchildren, who are the ones!

there is almost always time to make a Brave Girl Card,

and lots of coloring with the littles!

Keep this in mind as you listen to the news of the day, and take some time for your desk, fellow deskers and when in doubt, take a nap!

Comments and Questions Warmly welcomed.

WOYWW-785/5-15th Anniversary ATC swap and New Beginnings

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A bit of a staged photo- gathering most of my ATC swaps and cards I've made after taking a very fun and inspirational 

Online Card Class on embossing folders.

In addition to the class we had an active FB group to keep the learning, sharing and inspiration going between sessions.

I love the making new friends part as much as learning new techniques.

I am happy to be here with our new Desk host Sarah, and hope to do some visiting as I have a day off today!.

Comments and Questions welcomed.

More than one way to plant a seed. Brave Girl Cards.

Most every day I take what is left on my desk, and make a Brave Girl Card- 

an Artist Trading Card (ATC)

that is to be given away or traded.

It is my practice to give them to someone I dont know well, or meet on the street

offering them a piece of my self to help me to be brave, and to help them to be brave.

I've planted a lot of flower and veggie seeds, and they found their way to my desk and a new life as 

Brave Girl cards.

Front

 
Back

Calligraphy stamps by Suzanne Cannon

Front

The leaves are a napkin from BFF Chris wonderful dinner party!

Back

How does your art and your practice weave together?

Comments and Questions welcome.

WOYWW 780- 15th Anniversary on the 15th!

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15 on the 15th!

Keeping in the culture aside from the ATC's this is totally unstaged.

It is what is on my desk this Wednesday!

Thinking back over all we have been through together.

On one level sharing our desks and creative journeys...

On the heart level, sharing our joys and sorrows, births and deaths...

the pandemic!

And here we still are, sharing in ways we never imagined possible when we first picked up our crayons, and sharing as folks have for centuries, 

exchanging addresses and sending of pieces of ourselves, today in the form of

Artist Trading Cards.

This is what peace looks like!

The crowned one is for Julia- because !

One for my forward person, and I  think I am trading with a few other folks- let me know for sure, and if you would like to trade leave a comment and we'll see what I have.

I think the theme for this year is

Don't Wait.

For someone to send you flowers, share a kind word, read that book you've had in the pile for ages, take a walk...you tell me.

Thank you all dear deskers for the 15, and here's to fifteen more.

WOYWW 778- I just forgot to remember!

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What is WOYWW?

Julia has reminded us about the upcoming 15th anniversary! and ATC swap.

As soon as I read the post, I remembered I had forgotten, even tho I look forward to it each year,

and right after that thought, I got an idea- sneak peak on the left.

One for my person forward, julia, LLJ, Twiglet and Annie.

Shout out to my BFF Chris who welcomed me as ever when I was traveling. I came home with one of the napkins from our delicious supper and someone else will enjoy it soon as well!

Long story short- I bought the newest gadget -The Glue Press- and was really liking it, but the press didnt set right in the holder.

I reached out to the manufacturer and they suggested user error.

Then the tiny tube that delivers the glue fell out of the top.

Had a good chat with the glue folks, and 

Shout out to Simon Says Stamps, for sending me new glue bottle tops, no questions asked!

Now I am a happy gluer, and it was just a dodgy bottle cap all along.

Yay customer service!

Thanks for visiting!

Comments and questions welcomed!

WOYWW -772- Cure for Spring Fever? Card Swaps!

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I usually put the photo of my desk first, and I fudged today as I want this to show up in shares.

Read on...

Not much to see on the desk!

Cards have gone on their merry way.

A coin and stamp collection shop opened in my Town, and they have a bin of non collectables that feed my mail art habit!

some digital stickers I better hurry up and use, and the stencil from the card.

The cards were created for a swap. I dearly love swaps, and I'm beginning to have more time for them again.

This one was in a digital cutting FB group, and only three of us so very doable.

You can read all about it 

here

Challenging to be at the desk with this glorious spring weather!

Thanks for visiting!

Comments and questions warmly welcomed!

WOYWW-765-Seeing Red!

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Valentine, galentine, palentine, what ever...I'm having a ton of fun making and getting ready to give them away.

I will be sure to put some in our

Free Little Art Gallery (FLAG)

The PO raises it prices, and lowers what it allows on envies, and still, what would we do without them?

My BFF Diane signs her cards heart garden, so off one of those heart gardens and envies go to her!

Post about them here

Let's all go out and love some more!

Hearts Ahoy! thanks for visiting and I hope to do much of the same.

If you dont see my comment, its one of those mysteries of digital life!

Comments and Questions answered from the Heart.