Hello lovely deskhopper friends,
I've been a busy girl! My desk is a mess, a crafty mess.
I'm making ATCs. I've been saying that I would like to have a go at ATCs since the New Year. Now I am making some. I am using teabags and doodles and the purple you see is a cut up basmati rice canvas bag.
Earlier this week I have been making greeting cards with decoupage. The back grounds and the decoupage images came from a kit, but then I added my own bling and ribbons and brads etc. I think they turned out rather well. Here are a few. (All without sentiments as I like to do that at the last moment):
I have yet to add the twine on the 'baking' card.
like I have done on the 'suitcase' card.
That's it from me. I'm linking up with Julia's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday where we all show our (messy or not) desk.
Have a great week,
Happy WOYWW,
Lisca
Hello lovely friends,
Thank you for visiting me again. Today I'm linking up with Elizabeth at Altered Booklover for T for Tuesday, where we all post something together with a drink related item or subject. My drink related things will come up further down this page.
First my postcard. It is one that I have sent recently:
It is an image of the Alhambra, the beautiful palace of the last Sultan of Granada (13th century). It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is stunningly beautiful. We live about an hour's drive from Granada city, which is of course the capital of our province and we have to go to Granada for administrative reasons sometimes but that is no hardship. It is a lovely city. Not too big. The old center is all walkable.
Lets not forget the drink related item. Here is a funny about making tea:
If you have been following my blog, you will know that we are building a newbuild next to the old cavehouse. The top flat is nearly finished and we have moved in just over a week ago. I have showed you the kitchen already but as my DH is now going to decorate the office/craftroom, my computer needed to come into the living area and I needed a desk. We phoned the carpenter and he came and made me a lovely little desk at the end of the kitchen, all in the same wood. I love it:
I'm pleased a punch as they say.
I'm also near the teapot (under the tea cozy) and the cups. Ahah! Here is the drink related bit!
Our cups are proper 'buckets'. I like my mugs big. The clock that you can see hanging up is a real find. It is a clock, yes, but it is also an electronic scales! So handy. In Europe recipes use weight (grams and kilos) not cups. So to bake a cake I need scales. In stead of rattling around in a drawer, my scales are now hanging within reach. So handy! I love it!
I'll leave you with an image and quote that I really liked:
Have a wonderful Tuesday and a great week,
Blessings,
Lisca
Good morning girls and boy (that would be Arnaldo)!
It's Wednesday again and for me that means getting up that little bit earlier before I go to the gym to post this. A post that shows the world my desk. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, this is a blog hop peeping over people's shoulders to see what they are making/crafting/creating/messing about with. Julia at Stamping Ground has all the details).
This is our new living quarters, that we have moved into last week. It is a large kitchen and living room all in one.
That was the kitchen last week, before my desk was ready. The carpenter put my desk in on Monday and yesterday I moved my computer onto it, and this is what it looks like now: Tada!
There is nothing on my desk though. All my craft stuff is downstairs and I haven't done much crafting lately.
You can see we have lit the stove. It is pretty lousy weather here today, excuse my French. It's cold and raining. The rain is a blessing, mind, as it rains so seldom, the farmers are dancing a jig around their plots!
I have been going to art classes so I can show you what I have done there:
(if you take offence at seeing a naked man, then stop right here because there is one coming up in a moment)
I copied this from a statue. She has her arm over her head, which looks a bit weird I guess.
And here is the above mentioned young man:
No, we did not have live models, lol.(Oh what a shame!) Again it was a picture of a statue (Greek?). My teacher liked it very much and wrote "Muy Bien" by the side of it, which means "well done".
I will leave you with a photo taken a few days ago near where we live:
It is the Sierra Nevada with almond trees in the foreground. The Sierra Nevada has a ski resort (just outside Granada). The mountains don't look so high but we live on a high plain (altoplano) at 1200 m altitude (3600 ft), so that is deceiving really.
Have a great week all of you. When I come back from the gym I will start doing a few visits.
Blessings,
Lisca
Good morning!
This week has flown by! We always say that don't we. I think the older you get, the faster time flies!
I'm extra excited today as we are going away in our camper van later in the morning. We will have dinner (at about 2pm) in a nice restaurant on the way. So no cooking for me today.
This is my desk this morning before I prepare stuff to take with me to the camper.
I had printed out some photos of my grandson and I was experimentally laying them on the 12x12 paper. In the background you can see the provisional shelving. There is a thermos of ice cold drink and the yellow book on the left is my Spanish dictionary which I'm using less and less now that I am more fluent.
By my dictionarey are a few pieces of printed paper left over from the lay out that i finished this weekend:
The piece of Kraft paper sticking out from under the layout is my attempt to a zentangle that I saw on Shoshi's page recently.
The house build is coming on nicely. Here is a photo of our house from a distance. I've tried to annotate it, I hope it's not too small.
The entrance to the cave house is by the vine. That is a small court yard and the main entrance is there. The cave house itself obviously is not visible as it is built inside the 'mountain'. Where it says 'roof terrace', is the roof of the cave, which has earth so I'm growing plants as you can see. The terrace is also the street level at the back. The apartment at the bottom is not finished. We park our car there at the moment. That apartment is all on one level so that is for when we are old and grey.... The apartment at the top will hopefully be ready at Christmas. That one has an upstairs bedroom. I don't mind at the moment as we are both fit and well, thank the Lord.
I'm linking up with Whats on your workdesk Wednesday, organised by Julia. Want to know more? Go to her blog:http://www.stamping-ground.blogspot.com.es/
Have a good week everyone and I will try to visit as many of you as I can, but I usually take all week to get through the list as I love reading and looking and clicking on what you are all doing.
Blessings,
Lisca
PS... Look what I just found!
Those of you who read my WOYWW post last week will know that I had lost a little birdie. I've just this minute found it! (on my desk, which I have turned upside down... don't ask me...)
