Wednesday work in progress adventure

 As I loaded my YouTube Watch Later list this morning, I noticed that two of the videos are titled #WorkInProgressWednesday.  I expected them to be related, but they're not.  I have a personal "rule" that if two unrelated people tell me to do something, that's my sign that I'm really supposed to do it.  Last week I spent some time with a friend (masked, and mostly six feet apart).  One of the things we discussed is having too much pretty paper, and as we made plans for another visit, she said, "We'll have some of that paper used up and can share our projects."  Lisa My Eclectic Life challenged us at the end of July to #UseThatPreciousStuff over the next few months.  That just happens to be what's on my work table this week:

 This is what's left of the first designer series paper "stack" (48 pieces of double-sided paper!) I bought, Sweet Pea (2010 Occasions mini catalog).  Some of it is "precious", including the last three sheets of Taken with Teal card stock it coordinates with.  Some of it (notice all the pink?) qualifies more for #NoPaperLeftBehind (started by Daniella Hayes)  because I don't like it and found it harder to use.  Both are being made into cards - here are some of the first ones, using the bigger pieces of paper:

And, two I already mailed away:

So I'm keeping up pretty well with #createveryday2020 and #keeponmaking this week.  There are three more cards in progress at the end of the work table, but just now it's cat-lap time.  Unlike people telling me to do something, it only takes one cat!

a WOYWW Jingle Belles Festive Friday adventure

I woke up this morning with the same earache, stuffy/runny nose and scratchy throat that kept me home yesterday.  After I was showered and dressed I realized that I was just sick enough to be miserable and only marginally productive, so I stayed home, reluctantly, again.  I took a photo of my workspace and went to work on the final project for tomorrow's Wacky Watercooler Blog Hop:

It's kind of dominated by ATCs that I've been making; I still need three more.  Finished ones at the far left, stamp at the upper right corner of the pad of grid paper, and the sunburst mask I used for the latest one.  On the grid paper are the ink pads and a mask for that last blog hop project - you can see it here tomorrow at 9pm EDT!  A few leftover Hexagon Hive bits that may be useful eventually, some framelits and printed samples at the far right.  There's a blank canvas and easel that were too small for the project I had in mind, but they'll be used for something someday.  You can also see a canvas in the window - it's one my daughter painted when she was first learning to paint by copying famous artists.  He never got his wings, but he always makes me smile.

After I finished that, I logged on at the computer.  Thinking that a Christmas card project would help me feel better, I checked some challenge blogs - and what to my wondering eyes should appear {heh} but a  card I made last week named as a shooting star at 'Tis the Season!  That totally made me feel better! 

I took it as a "sign" that I needed to use that sweet Jingle Belles sketch one more time for the Festive Friday- inspired gingerbread and holly card that's been bouncing around my brain all week:

stamp sets - Scentsational Season (retired), Christmas messages; ink - Chocolate Chip, Versamark; Stampin' Write marker - Versamark; Stampin' Emboss powder - clear, white; card stock - Cherry Cobbler, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi; designer series paper - Holly Berry Bouquet; 3/4" chevron ribbon - Chery Cobbler; Big Shot with Scentsational Season (retired) and Oval Collection framelits; Stampin' Dimensionals

I'm feeling quite a bit better, now and looking forward to getting back to my other desk and computer tomorrow, but I'll be back here in the evening for the blog hop - please stop by again, won't you?