What a week for WOYWW

Today I have been playing with my new printer

and good quality paper.

I am trying to make some decent cards

to sell in The Collective Store.

I am not as good as my fellow

WOYWW card makers.

You can see their 

great work here.

I have had quite a week.

The evening that I posted my last WOYWW

my eldest daughter came down with severe food poisoning

and no, it wasn't my cooking.

She is very slim and after hours of it coming out of both ends

(if you know what I mean),she became very ill.

I ended up taking her to the hospital where they gave her 2 litres of saline

and some intravenous medication to stop both ends from going.

I had to play nursemaid for a few days and now she if perfectly fine

and eating like a horse again.

Whilst all this was happening,

my mother-in-law fell down a flight of stairs

and gashed her leg so badly that it needed

surgery.

With all this happening, I didn't end up getting around

to anyone on WOYWW

and for this I apologise and would like

to thank everyone for their lovely comments last week.

As you can imagine, I didn't get much artwork done 

in the last week, but I did finish my bugs yesterday.

The best thing is that I didn't blow up the oven.

Here are my cute little fellas

and some close ups.

I had a great time destroying my old computers insides

to get the bits for the bugs.

I found it strangely therapeutic, as if I was getting it back

for all the times it drove me crazy.

Speaking of driving you crazy, how do you put up

with those cutting and folding machines for cards.

I have been going nuts!

Even though it has a ruler

I can never cut straight and when I cut it

the back gets a big lumpy bit.

When it comes to the double sided tape
that I use to put the picture on, 

I get stuck, the desk gets stuck

the wrong bit of the card gets stuck

but I never seem to stick the bit that needs it.

You needs two sets of hands to do this.

(I tried using my mouth but that made it worse)

I tell you, doing the painting is the easy bit!!

To end today, I will share some really happy news.

My girlfriend, who lives in England 

is coming here for a holiday on friday.

She is going from the freezing snow,

that many of you have over there at the moment,

to 30 degree heat, sorry to rub that in.

I may not get much art done again next week

but I know I will have fun 

and lots of cake!