EDOW (Easily Distracted on Wednesdays) ... or any other day

In a previous post I mentioned having done a 'Serendipity' evening at our local stamp club. That was when we used lots of our scraps of card and paper to make a kind of masterboard which we then went on to stamp and embellish to use on cards, ATCs and other projects. Most of us in fact spent most of the evening just doing the masterboard bit. So I brought home several sheets to play with. However, I've only just got around to trying to use them, and on my desk today are two pieces I've cut with a jigsaw die ready to use on cards. To the left is another piece I've already started to cut to make ATCs. In the middle is a little heap of stamps I've been using recently. If you are reading this post, chances are you got here via Julia's Stamping Ground blog where you will get directions to visit other Wednesday workdesks.

I would have posted this earlier, but succumbed to yet another distraction. As I was loading my photo, She-who-must-be-obeyed started miauling loudly and insistently. She wanted to get into the shower room (one of the few rooms in the house that she hasn't managed to open the door to herself). I always leave a bowl of water in there for her. She likes to drink in different places around the house. Dripping taps are especially attractive, and I always leave the loo cover closed - just in case. Anyway, here she is asking , no demanding that the door be opened.

As I took the photo I noticed that the lovely sunshine outside was casting a pretty shadow of the climbing rose just outside on to the shower room door, and the next time I looked I saw that Daisby was bird-watching from the window !

What distracted me from using my Serendipity masterboard was the need to make some ATCs and to use my new Oxford Impressions stamp set.

And then Tim Holtz came on telly last week and distracted me from the new stamp set, and made me get out my bright coloured alcohol inks and embossing folders to play with.

And I had quite a few sessions with these. Stamps: Tim Holtz, Lily of the Valley, Dyan Reaveley, Sheena Douglass, Crafty Individuals and Crafty Secrets.

And of course now all of this is distracting me from what I really should be doing on this lovely sunny afternooon - a spot of gardening in the company of the snowdrops, crocuses and irises that are now hinting that Spring may be around the corner.