What's on my work desk this wonderful Wednesday?

Well, we're now getting to the pointy end of the year and for some bizarre reason, I had signed up for 3 largish swaps and a couple of smaller ones...and with one day left, I think I've got them all done!! Yippee!

I've already posted about the Christmas book that I did for a swap with a group in the US...hopefully it isn't far from arriving on that country's fine shores.

A couple of local swaps entailed making a calendar for 2012 using quirky/sassy sayings for the pages.  This was to be created in an A7 format.  Unfortunately only 6 people signed up, so we have decided to do 2 months each, to make up what should have been 12 people.

So, here are my two pages.  I selected the months of April (which when my birthday falls) and August (that of my husband).  Genevieve, our host can decide which month will be which, but here is month 1.

Do not distrub!

This was then followed by:

Everyone seems normal!

I was also lucky enough to attend a workshop run by Jen Crossley at Scraptive where I made, from scratch, an etched metal book and learnt how to bind pages (signatures) into a book.  After a bit of agonising when things went a bit awry I was happy with my final result...to truly personalise my book, I managed to etch my thumb print onto the metal cover.

Front view

This was supposed to be the side view, but for some reason every time I try to flip it, it disappears off the page!

The final activity I've been working on has been a monthly swap for my paperarts group.  This month's theme was "Mother's sage advice", so the ATC had to have images and quotes that fit this theme...so here is my interpretation...

Mother's Sage Advice...some pretty good advice to live up to, I reckon!

I apologise to some of you regular followers who may also be part of paperarts and I've spoilt the surprise of what this month's ATC might look like, but I'm sure you won't mind too much.

Well, I guess that is enough for this post, I can't believe I've been able to create so much in such a limited amount of time...and my studio is almost there, so next blog might have a picture of my new working area...at the moment I'm using two different areas, one in the house and the other in the garage (which will ultimately be my studio)...so watch this space.

Thanks for stopping by again.  See you next time.
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