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 It's been a good long while since I played along with WOYWW over at Stamping Ground, but I wanted to show of a new tool given to us (my daughter and myself) by a dear friend. My crafting is done from my bed for the past couple of years, and I'm forever losing just the very thing I wanted, off the side of the bed, or in the bedclothes lol. The Buddy Board has all these lovely strong bungees that fit over the toothed edge, and nothing, just nothing can escape from you.

It was wonderful to be able to get out all the colours I need, and not have to put them away when I'd had enough...only to try and remember which colours I was using when I feel up to doing a little more. It can just stay on the board until all is completed......an absolute little wonder, and such a clever idea. The work surface of the board is A4. You can find it HERE (in UK at least), there is a video link with it.

Image is a little darling by Mo Manning, pencils are mixture of Lyra and prismcolor - oh and an undercoat of promarkers (I'd not put much pencil on him yet)...I always have to lay down a light colour in promarker, then add pencil, otherwise I feel overwhelmed by all the white. Yes, I know I sound barmy, but so it is.

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I can't show you any cards this week as, I'm delighted to say, I've been accepted onto the DT at Cooking, Crafting Camping Challenges Challenges start on the 16th of this month so I've excitedly working on my projects  . As I'm never really doing one thing at a time, I have some crochet to show you. This is one of those baby sacks (please someone tell me what they are really called...my brain has lost the word lol).*** It's for the couple that I made my recent baby card for....so I'd better get it finished soon lol. Pop over to Julia's Blog here and join the fun 

Why does blogger keep tipping my pix on to one side like this!!???!!

***Dorcas's comment of cocoon is right. Everyone who thinks it looks like a hat is also right. It is really nothing more than a large, over-long beanie hat lol. I did have a pattern but only used it for the sizing. The are loads of free patterns on the net, put in a search for free crochet patterns..then cocoon, or whatever else you may be looking for. 

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This is everything thrown on the coffee table again so hubby can photo it for me. I have to gather everything up into a bag and carry it downstairs..hope you don't think it's cheating lol.  Otherwise he would have to do  series of snapshots of little bits and pieces of it on my lap tray through the day lol. 

The images are the new Sugar Nellie, I got them yesterday and started colouring the skin. The babies, as you can see below, only need the hat's coloured. One will be going on a card with the blue and yellow papers - new baby boy expected in about a month. Not decided which, if any of the ribbons I'll be using yet. 

These images are so beautiful and so much easier for me to colour with the shading already on them....such a pleasure to sit and colour in. See part of the die cut has been cut away...you'll see why when I post the card tomorrow lol. 

To join in the fun pop over to Julia's Blog here

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Thought I'd give WOYWW another whirl as I had so much fun last week, you can join in the fun on Julia's Stamping Ground's blog. 

I threw everything together on the coffee table again to show you what I'm working on this week. A spring flavoured card. My image, which only has skin coloured so far, is Summer Breeze by Little Miss Muffet Stamps. You can see her here on her designer, Barbara's, blog - Forgotten Scraps. I've made the paper flowers myself...not sure how many of them I'll use on the card, or decided which of the papers, other than the striped. 

Now below, because I'm never working on one thing at a time (not being able to have all my craft stash in with me), you can see the crocheted roses I've started on. I've some fine gauge crochet cotton, and a few skeins of embroidery yarn. These are the only ones I have as skeins....I cut all my yarns into usable sized pieces ready for the needle...pic at bottom of post.

I only have the one sewn up yet. 

How they look before sewn into a rose. 

My embroidery yarn storage. Strips of card with holes punched down the edge, and the colour numbers against them. When making a project I make a separate punched card and put all my selected colours on it to keep them tidily with the work. 

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This is my first time ever unveiling of WOYWW. I don't strictly speaking have a work space...in the sense of a desk or table. The pic above is the coffee table in the living room where my beloved bigshot lives. Here you see all the bits I've been using for a gold on gold card I'm making. 

Below is my 'lap-tray'. What it really is, is the lid of my largest storage box, I have a cushion on my lap, with the lid on top and it fits across the arms of my chair. This way I can craft in my daughters sick-room. My laptop is sitting on top of it right now of course, as I type this.  See my embossing tool on top of the card...about to be used to score the centre fold...I broke it pressing too hard so glued paper around to fix it.... so!!....it's a good tool!!....been like it for years and still works lol. 

That is my crafting pair of glasses you see right there...I wear bi-focals, but I put this pair on with them and use them like a magnifying lense.

Hopefully I'll be showing the finished card in a few days. This is the main problem. I have to do everything 'piece-meal' (do you have that in America - means one part of the job is done and then passed on to someone else for the next part). I have to get a few bits out, put them away (on my to be put away pile) and get a bit more out - some stuff has to be done in another room...makes the process much longer. Still, at least it means I can craft. 

Below we have a pic of what was on my work space before I gathered all my stuff together. I thought I'm having a picture of that darn cat (I mean darling princess) as that is my very last sheet of shimmery gold card she's sitting on. I'm going to tell you where I got it from because although it looked all ruckled up under her, it came to no harm. It's Craft Creations and called Alchemy Pearlescent, I have to buy more now!!!

She's about 8 - a previously owned cat - and I called her Seri, short for serene as she just has such a serene vibe....until the other cat chases her or my elderly, half blind, harmless yorkie (also previously owned) wonders in reach of her paw...the serenity dents a little then lol.