A not so creative week for WOYWW

Before I start on my week

I would like to thank Bridget for

helping me to get rid of my 

word verification.

Until she let me know, I had no idea that it was even there

on my comments and of course I had no idea how to get rid of it.

Bridget spent some considerable time

emailing back and forth until the rotten

thing was gone.

If you have encountered the nasty devil on my blog, I apologise

but it shouldn't rear its ugly head again (I hope).

This week has not been good for me, creatively speaking.

It seems every thing I have touched has gone wrong and

I can't seem to think of anything to paint and on top of all that

the jeans I fixed with an iron on patch have split further down.

 Okay, so maybe it's time to get a new pair but with me being short,

they will need taking up and so they will sit in my room for months before

I absolutely have to take them up, so what's the hurry.

Here is my desk today, complete with all the failures for the week.

Yes, that is a teabag in a dish of water.

Probably the biggest mess up this week.

I decided to try and tea stain the picture,

not the best idea on ordinary paper,

especially when you don't know what you are doing.

As you can see, the paper has curled up and the stuck on words

have come unstuck, plus waterproof
archival ink pens aren't waterproof.
I found that out the hard way.
 

It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I will let it dry and try to stick the words down again.

I also tried to draw up some ideas for cards and a painting

This is for the card, supposed to be two ladies at a cafe,

not looking too good yet

and here is my plan for a painting

 It's very hard to see.

There is a groper (fish) and he is 

in the dark water with just a few

water ripple patterns showing.

He will be on a canvas

60cm x 90cm

or 2 feet x 3 feet.

I did do a nice little journal page last week.
I used the butterfly from an IA challenge
and added a poem.

Last of all just a flower for a card

I blame the form slump on my friend Angie who
visited from England.
 
She led me astray for two weeks,
making me go out and have
cake and iced chocolates
everyday for two weeks.

How am I meant to get back to painting,
when I am suffering severe
chocolate withdrawals.

Let's hope I can get over this withdrawal soon,
before I ruin my entire journal. 

To see some people who really are creative,
hop on over to Julia's Stamping Ground and
see what people have on their desks
all around the world.

I'm going to patch up my pants again!!