WOYWW 458 Flower Factory

Here is my desk this week. Yes, it’s posed, but not for WOYWW!

Last night I laid out all these little flowers and added centres with Stickles, and left them overnight to dry.

I am now at the final stage in my mystery project – the Flower Factory! Last night’s work was the completion. I need to make some leaves now. Here are all the flowers I’ve done this week.

From my Heartfelt Creations “Botanical Wings” die:

Penny Duncan Rose Design (total of 48):

Single layer flowers:

The larger flowers still require centres, and I’ll probably use a combination of brads and gems, and whatever other embellishments I have in my stash.

I now have a deadline to complete the mystery project – next Monday, so I’m pulling out all the stops to get it done. This time next week the wraps should be well and truly off, and your patience with me will be rewarded!

I am feeling very chuffed with myself this week, because, project-driven, I’ve taken the proverbial dust-covers off Sheba, my Cougar cutting machine, after goodness knows how long. Somehow life kept intervening and I just wasn’t using her, and had started to lose confidence which put me off even more, but I had to cut all the rose pieces (5 for each flower) and the single layer flowers, and there was no way I was going to fussy cut that lot! As it happened, after I’d upgraded my Signcut licence, everything went like a dream and I’m right back on track with it again, and looking forward to cutting loads more projects. Silly me for leaving it for so long.

I’m enjoying this little oasis before I go into hospital for my operation. Since my hubby started driving again life has really got back to normal. After next Monday and the mystery project is complete, I can concentrate on final preparations before I’m out of action again, and catch up with everything I’ve neglected these past few weeks.

No kitten photos this week, I’m afraid. I’ve been looking back at some of the early videos of them and I can’t believe how much they have grown. My hubby says we’ve never had such beefy kitties before – they are really feisty and vigorous, and Ruby especially is very hefty and solid! Lily is more floppy and soft – it’s as if Ruby is more firmly stuffed than her sister. They both have really round fat tummies. Ruby continues to behave like a naughty teenager and is most unwilling to be picked up and cuddled by me – if I do manage to catch her, she pushes away and refuses to purr, so unlike her babyhood when she came running to me. My hubby says she will settle down once she gets through the awful adolescent phase, and will probably be a really loving and affectionate lap cat – I do hope so!