WOYWW #169

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday?

I am just going to accept that the world is spinning out of control and that's why Wednesdays comes around so quick. 

Finally all the stockings and lifesavers counted by the volunteer hubby, knitted and provided by wonderful friends Selena Walden, Julie Collins, Ruth Kelly,  Penelope Dickens, Anna Holcroft, Shirley Gerrard, Mary Fenton and her merry knitters-Dawn Gardiner-Fay Godden-Heather Mortlock-Irene Martin-Joyce Martin-Molly Condely

THANK YOU LADIES

you are awesome and so generous

These goodies are for the Stockings for Soldiers Project being sent overseas to the deployed who can't come home for Christmas

Hubby and his food of course he is a shy participant (mad at me for taking is photo).

We'll I'm off to hospital tomorrow, they said I could watch the operation on a tv screen yay I have always wanted to watch my operations and finally they have said YES.

Thought I'd share this joke with you all

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Stockings for Soldiers

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3000 Christmas Cards made as at 1st August 2012

Many of you know that I make cards and contribute to the military that are deployed overseas. This year I am going onboard and coordinating the card section of  
Stockings for Soldiers Project 

co-ordinated by Selena Smith and Michelle Potter
on behalf of our Soldiers based mainly in Townsville, Queensland.
Last year they sent out 1550 boxes to our Military.
This year they are sending 3000. In the small way that I can contribute, I will be making Christmas Cards for the deployed.

You are very welcome to contribute as well. You can send your cards to me no later than the 31st August 2012 so they can be forwarded onto Selena and Michelle to start the public signing process.

The cards need to be 10cm x 10cm single sided, i.e no folds  so they can be hung on metal walls/lockers with magnets (do not attach magnets to them-the recipients will put it on themselves). Decorate the front only. 

Here is a video via Channel 9 about the boxes that were sent in 2011 which is the first year this has been done.

Department of Defence Media about the soldiers receiving their 2012 packages here
This is where the packages were distributed to in 2012
Video of 2012 packages being distributed.
ABC TV video of packages being received for 2012

Feel free to EMAIL me if you have any questions

A huge THANK YOU to contributors

Aileen Flynn

Anna Holcroft

Anne-Marie Slattery

Carolyn Passfield

Dell Armistead (for organising 8 July stamp up day) with Sara Wise, Marcela and Elisa Bonilla, Shirley Gerrard and Bridget 

Dianne Slade

Evelyn Poole

Grace McAndrew

Jean Considine

Jenny Hubbard

Kathy Duffy

Laisie Murphy

Linda Aldred

Nola Murdock

Penelope Dickens

Shirley Gerrard

Virginia Purdey

Wendy Camplin

Mystery contributor

Bridget

Orange Friday 001

Orange you glad it's Friday (on a Sunday hahaha) is a new meme by Sarah Bettey  

Can you spot the orange stocking?

I've been knitting these stockings for Stockings for Soldiers Project that sends a box of goodies

to Australian Soldiers deployed who won't be coming home for Christmas. Amongst other goodies are these miniature stockings that are smaller than a pen and holds a packet of life saver (because they save lives). I also coordinated the Christmas card portion this year. 3000 military soldiers will benefit from this wonderful project. Other items included in the box are Anzac Biscuits, Rum Balls, Jila Mints, Minties,  Nuts & Bolts, Eucalyptus Lollies, Chuppa Chups, cocktail Aussie flags, Puddings, majority of which have been handmade or baked by volunteers all over Australia.

The colours for the stockings are Red, Green, White and Gold (yellow), I just had some orange wool and was testing all colours and it happened to be this Meme.

Wander over to Sarah Bettey's blog to see more Orange blogs

WOYWW #168

Whats on your Workdesk Wednesday here already!!!

My desk today is half empty, thats because my turn to host Tuesday night stamp group will be next Tuesday so I made a headstart on the cleaning process. You can see the stockings I am sewing up for Stockings for Soldiers Project 

As for food, I just had to share these Nuts and Bolts for the same project above, they are just the yummiest of snacks I have ever made. The recipe is in the previous post if you'd like to make it and be warned that it is addictive

More Nuts and Bolts Recipes I found
Recipe 1
Recipe 2
Recipe 3
Recipe 4

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Nuts and Bolts

I just had to share this Nuts and Bolts recipe which is just so yummy

500g Box Nutri-Grain
3 kg unsalted mixed nuts
2 x 35 g packet of French onion soup (or Dukkah- add to taste)
1 ½  cups Olive Oil
5 tsp salt and lemon pepper

500 g pumpkin seeds, 
Extras if desired or available - home-grown rosemary, dried fruit, cayenne, cumin, 

 muscovado sugar

Preheat Oven to 180oC
Line 5 baking trays with baking paper
Combine ingredients in large bowl and toss well to coat
Spread well over trays and bake for 15 minutes (or cook in a Wok) until crisp, 

checking and stirring every 5 minutes.

My friend Michelle Rose said she adds curry powder and mustard powder, I'll try that this weekend and report back on how it compares

You'll have to halve the recipe to make a smaller amount

WOYWW #167

Sorry about the word verification, I had a lot of unwanted spam the last few weeks so I put it on and that seemed to have worked and scared them away.
What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday

I have a good reason to be MIA for the last 2 desk viewings

The Olympics were on, what a wonderful 2 weeks that was.

Also my desk just looked the same because all I was doing was collating and counting and gathering   Christmas cards for the Stockings for Soldiers Project I am co-ordinating. Then they were short 2000 stockings so I started knitting miniature stockings as well for them. So my desk just looked the same for 2 weeks which are what the pictures below are of.

These cute little stockings took me an hour to make one and hold a packet of life saver lollies in it, the pen is to give you an idea of how small they are...Cute huh!!

 I started knitting neck scarves as well, I will post pictures of the ones I have done so far, they are truly addictive and so easy to do. You can see a multicoloured scarf to the left hanging on the chair, and a white Nelly Bobble one and behind that is the variegated green/blue one I am sending to my sister in New Zealand

And of course I have to eat through all of this hahahaha, this dish is curry chicken and Puff pastry because I ran out of Indian bread

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WOYWW 163

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday!

Well mine is a total mess, I attended a wonderful Clayton's Stamp Camp on the weekend, health wise it was a disaster, I became nauseous and light headed and had to leave after 3 hours on the first day. When I returned the next day I forgot the goodies bag we were given so I just sat and watch and talked and relaxed. So my desk for the last 3 days have resembled a mess of cardstock being painted black drying out ready to make my Technique book.

I love what was done and can't wait to do all my ATCs using all those techniques and showing you the end results.

Opps I just noticed a non craft item thrown on top of the pile of Jo Sonja paints, a Canberra Raiders Beanie, hubby had just returned from a footy game by the team he follows-sadly they lost.

Things are heating up for me in the craft part of my life, deadlines are creeping up for the Christmas cards as I want to finish them off by the end of August so I can go onto doing other craft stuff, and then there are the OLYMPICS starting next week-how many of you like me will be glued to the TV? I'm already glued to it with the Tour de France!!

OLYMPIC LANES on England's roads....and the taxis can't drive on them? What other dramas will there be?

I've received more Anniversary ATCS, took photos of them, now I am hunting for those photos and ATCS, will put up a separate post when I find both.

Food glorious food. Dinner last night was wontons in soup form yumm

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WOYWW 162

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday again (amazing #6 again on the list)
Love how all the comments past say how not messy my desk is, believe me it is but I have promised myself to tidy up after a certain round so I dont have stuff piled up on top of everything else like I used to and that drove me absolutely crazy.

My desk has had many transformations since last Wednesday, too many to take photos of, each hour I was crafting it was changing. You can see the stash of stamps to the left ready to put to ink pad. Can of air near the punch ready for another background technique. Cards you saw in a pile the previous weeks is now in the wooden holder in front of the tv. Looks like a footy of some sort was on tv. Have been staying awake to watch the Tour de France. Sustenance of chocolate and mandarin and nuts close at hand lol

Here are more cards done for Stockings for Soldiers Project 600+ plus done over the weekend with the help of many generous card makers

Michael Jackson from the lovely Carol Clements

ATCs still arriving in the mail, sorry i cant remember who they came from, I took the photo and stored them safely and now I will have to hunt them down to give them credit, if its yours let me know in the comments and I'll put  your name to it

Food glorious food, I had very boring meals this week, mushy soups. But I was busy making homemade wontons. I will post the recipe and how to fold those wontons this week. As you can see the desk doubles for anything, I just throw a teatowel over the craft stuff hahaha

And I wanted to show you that Chinese cooking is one pot as well, this was fried rice made in my electric frying pan. Again recipe coming this week

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