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WOYWW 572 11th Anniversary! A celebration of UFOs.

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? We have now been asking each other that question for a total of eleven years now! Not that I was involved at the beginning, but I've been around for a good few years. We usually do an ATC (Artist Trading Card) swap to celebrate the anniversary but…

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20th May 2020

Cats / Drawing and Painting / Food / House / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 570 Final Florabunda Arrangements

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? This week I completed the final set of the three Florabunda arrangement drawings that I did. Here they are with their Distress Oxide backgrounds. This time I decided to go for a yellow colour scheme. When I had completed the backgrounds I mopped up the excess ink…

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6th May 2020

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WOYWW 563 Bleaching Teabags Again, and Knitted Bunting

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Teabag Bleaching I've been bleaching teabags again! You may remember a few months ago I had virtually given up on this project because I couldn't get a satisfactory result. The other day I had a new idea - to use the Clorox Bleach Pen on the wooden…

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18th March 2020

Bible Study / Bladder / Cards / Cats / Colorectal / Computer / Diet / Digital Art / Drawing and Painting / Fibre and Textile Art / Food / Health Issues / House / M.E. / Mobility aids / Paper Art / Teabag Art / Teeth / WOYWW

2019 – The Year that Passed in a Flash and What I did in it

Time for my annual review at the close of the year. This year has passed so quickly that it has left me gasping. The days seem to have flashed past me like for the hero of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine... For some of the time, it's been more a case of what…

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31st December 2019

Cats / Food / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 543 Teabag Progress, and Winter Warmers

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? My main desk remains neglected and collecting junk. One day, one day... On the table by the sink, my "wet" desk, however, I'm glad to say I've made some progress on the teabag front. Stamping teabags with acrylic paint As suggested on a website I visited, I…

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30th October 2019

Cats / Eating Out / Fibre and Textile Art / Food / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 540 Slippers and Admitting Defeat

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Not a great deal on mine... but I have been busy away from my desk. I've been feeling pretty rough with a cold which started over the weekend, and since I didn't feel much like doing anything else, I spent the time on the recliner cuddling up…

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9th October 2019

Cats / Colorectal / Computer / Fibre and Textile Art / Food / M.E. / Outings / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 539

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? A bit of a mixed bag this week! I have managed to do a bit of tidying in my studio. I've been doing some more experimenting with the bleaching of the teabags, sewn some more teabags, and made further progress on my slippers. I've had some problems…

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2nd October 2019

Fibre and Textile Art / Food / Outings / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 538 Good and Bad

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? Good stuff first... Teabag bleaching I have made some progress with my teabag bleaching project. After doing a bit more online research, I found that you can make a paste with bleach and bicarbonate of soda (baking soda). Apparently the bicarb enhances the action of the bleach…

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25th September 2019

Food / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 537 An Unsuccessful Experiment, a New Tool and Lots of Food

What's On Your Workdesk this Wednesday? A failed experiment The "wet" table in my studio, next to the sink, has been taken up with teabags this week. I have been experimenting, so far with complete lack of success, with using bleach on these teabags. I have got literally thousands of teabags so fortunately…

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18th September 2019

Cats / Colorectal / Food / Health Issues / Outings / Teabag Art / WOYWW

WOYWW 530 Cooking, Country Show and Kitties

WOYWW What's On My Workdesk Wednesday isn't much, but slight progress on last week! Here are my teabag stains on watercolour now that they are dry. They are ready for doodling on, or otherwise embellishing. In the meantime I've been working on my little eco project, and I'll blog about that once it's…

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31st July 2019