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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I am so excited about the Ai these past two weeks.  Yesterday I did the one above and below.  The left side is a before and the right side, the finished piece.  I loved the tree, but wanted to get rid of the roots.  The bottom third has lots of lovely texture, I just kept working at it in PSE `until I was happy and I was very happy :)

I did several angels before I decided on this one.  He is described as illuminating the earth.  This is another before and after.

The text in Revelation mentions an army, led by Jesus, of every tribe and nation. The first image gave me an army of bald headed white men!  The second try gave an army of  women with long hair and the third gave me an army of black and ethnic people.  So I used the heads of people from all three!

I have finished my Revelation journal, but decided 9 more pictures would be too much, so half the pages this week and half next week.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

We have been to a couple of garden centres with my MIL, the last one had some lovely decorations I bought two, but I could have bought several more.

I have done several more pages in my Revelation journal, accompanied by a few more Ai images.

This last one wasn't right for my purpose, but I did like it, it reminded me of an old cigarette card.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

I have been busy with Ai, it's proving an ideal occupation for the state of my health at the moment. 

The left hand image is a combination of two Ai images and a grungy layer in between in PSE Although the open book image was what I was after the text apart from the title was gobbledygook! So a little erasing of the text covered by a grungy layer, sorted that out.  The other two images I used a direct quote from Revelation and was very pleased with them.   There are seven angels with trumpets in Revelation and this time Ai did not want to play. I tried over several days with varying degrees of success.  I just wanted two wings and one trumpet per angel!😆

I will be adding more pages tomorrow.

We have my dear MIL staying with us for a few weeks.  Her doctor wanted a biopsy organized while she was with us for a lump she has. He sent a letter for our doctor and photographs.  We had an appointment yesterday, the doctor knew nothing about the letter till she looked at her notes! She then said we don't do that here and suggested she go back to her own doctor!  What in the whole of Wales a biopsy cannot be organized!  My MIL also has a lump on her head which the doctor was asked to look at, she declared it a family event to treat with baby oil and pick it off!  

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

I had a great afternoon yesterday, a belated birthday present from my sister, lunch and painting a piece of pottery, which I won’t get back for two weeks, I think they only set the Kiln up when there are enough pieces.

That’s not the only arty fun I have had this past week.  I watched a tutorial by Helen Wells which involved painting a sheet of a jug and flowers and then using the ideas on a second sheet.  I rounded up some jugs and sketched 3 different ones. Helen’s were more abstract. But I was happy with mine.  

I did several pages of my Revelation study and decided to add inset pages  so I did some collage on them. The back of the book still has the flap, ready to add on more pages. which I think I will need and then I can put a cover on.

My delivery from Temu arrived, several stencils, some black and white  washi tape. And several pairs of gloves, some chunky ones which I ordered for several people, only to find I was one pair short!  So I need to make another order.  The grey gloves, my daughter and I wear practically all the time, they stop my hands hurting. Amazon sell exactly the same thing, but they are more expensive!

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.  

Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying:

     To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and             honour and glory and power, for ever and ever.

My granddaughter and I agree that Ai is not art, but this one I worked very hard on.  I am doing a study of Revelation and I had the idea about doing a quick Ai picture of a scene in Revelation.  I had to change the size to make more room for the fish.   There were a few deformed birds and fish I had to deal with and then I decided to add angels!  

I don't think the "i" should stand for intelligence. more "idiot"  First look the angels at the bottom were fine, and then you see that some are using the trumpets as ear trumpets and they faces are screwed up.  I asked for realistic faces and white dresses.  Several goes later, getting there, but I asked for them to be singing - and got big fat lips. 😄.  More work in PSE, giving them singing mouths, and two wings where they only had one, to get to my final piece.

This is my study of Ezekiel.

I am still struggling with Vertigo.  I had an appointment Monday and loose ear crystals has been ruled out.  Back on the medication!

I got back to the car Sunday morning to find water everywhere!  Monday and Tuesday mornings were spent on the phone with the car insurance company.  First it wasn't covered, then their systems went down, they promised to get back to me - did they? No!  So now it is covered and we have an appointment this morning to get it fixed.

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

Finally finished my house book.  I did two house tags Monday morning, but mucked them up so binned them in frustration!  Instead yesterday I made a folded tag of the 23rd Psalm and I made a tiny cross with the Our Father on.  They need some ribbon on, but as long as I get the hole in the right place it won't take long.

Playing with Ai again.  I wanted a spooky house, but not necessary Halloween.  The last four were very dark, but a bit of Photoshop Elements did wonders

It's probably breaking copyright, but this was on the Doctor Who FB page.  I know there are one or two Doctor Who fans amongst us.

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

I have started getting symptoms of Vertigo again and I seem to be doing everything at snail's pace.  I have an appointment for an Audio Balance Assessment on the 20th of this month.  I had my diabetes review today and apparently I am doing very well!  

I have been playing with ai again.  I wanted a couple of Bible verse images for a study I am doing on Revelation and also for a little book I am doing. 

I made two books that were on YouTube by Kit Davey

 Accordion Book with Triangular Pockets - YouTube

 https://youtu.be/Sc5KaffEfcs?si=d3wcdIKx0-aOso-G

How to Make a House-Shaped Book from One Piece of Paper - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxGgyujtY_U

I didn't like the house book so I redesigned that, the Accordion book was easy.  Kit used A4 paper both times, I used 12 x 12 scrapbooking paper as I wanted a sturdier book.  

Too many projects on the go!  I can see my printouts are too big.  I wrote down the measurements, maybe I didn't actually look at them !

Next week I hope to have these finished and I will take some more photographs.

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

A rose from my neighbours garden and a caterpillar from our shed, a Pale Tussock Moth caterpillar to be precise.  when my husband first showed it to me I said it looked like a toothbrush!

We have had visitors for the past two weeks and have been out for most days.  They went home on Monday so not a lot of anything got done.  I did make a new book for my Ezekiel study, by sticking scrapbook papers folded on the spine side one inch, together and have added the printed sheets.  This is my third and final book.  The first was was A5 size and I realized the image pages I had created while we were away, would not fit.  The second was a spiral bound book that was too big and bulky, I think the third one is just right!!

 

I need to give it a cover, finish decorating the pages and there are a few more pages to come. 

So that's it for me x

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

We have had visitors all week so we have been out and about.  A quick flavour of what I have been up to this past week:

Albert Docks including me and semi precious stones; Shrewsbury left hand photograph; Chester, the balloon dog seat and my granddaughter in her own outfit with her Cruella de Ville expression!

Fun in AI:

I wanted a sleeping bear to illustrate a little poem, so of course I had a play. Cezanne; Franz Marc; Picasso and Kandinsky styles.

My Ezekiel study included some Freeform pages which I made on holiday to print out when I got home.  To get the images small enough to go in the book made them unreadable, so a change of plan was needed. I bought a weekly planner book from a charity shop which is two inches wider and taller.  Instead of writing it all out again, I am printing the text pages and sticking them in. Then printing the image pages and I shall probably add extra images too.  I shall probably redo the image pages as the resolution wasn't the best.

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Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing. 

Once again there has been very little crafting going on.  I had a seven hour wait in A&E, to discover my heart is okay(ish); my brain is okay, diagnosis vertigo!  Since the pharmacy had closed by the time I left the hosptal, I had another hours wait for the prescription the following morning.

Our friends have come to stay today, so probably not much crafting this week.  My friend always brings me a bag of goodies, that she has found in charity shops ( her favourite past time!).  Today she bought me a new mug; a 12 x 12 scrapbook paper pad, a little stamp set and a beautiful handmade journal.  She is so special to bring me gifts.

The paper is quite pale, but I think you can see the designs. My friend fell and broke her shoulder a few months ago, and getting on the train she fell, bruised, but nothing broken,  She said the Railway staff were wonderful, even upgraded them to first class.  I think she will develop a real shiner in the morning.

I have a hospital procedure for Wednesday morning, a new method of taking cells from the oesophagus, which involves swallowing a tablet which is actually a sponge.  I  hope I will be brave.

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 Welcome to Crafting With Jack and What’s On Your Workdesk Wednesday, a day when we link up to Sarah's Craftshed and have a look to see what everyone has been doing.

Once again, no new crafting to show, I was planning to go into my craft room yesterday, but instead helped my husband with one of the fish ponds.  My job was fairly easy, I sat on a chair while my husband poured buckets of water through a net to catch the fish.

When my daughter said the pond was getting very green I ordered a product from Amazon.  Unfortunately, she didn't read the instructions and just poured the liquid into the pond without mixing with water first.  So we decided to change the water.

The Minnows, I think we have had nearly three years.  They came from someone's large (think lake) pond.

The freshly filled pond.

While we were away the two Koi fish died and the pond apparently smelt awful, so my daughter and grandson emptied the pond.

This pond is on the opposite side of the garden.

I am amazed how big the black fish have grown, I call them "My Boys", but I have no idea of their sex.  So I have four ponds and a big tub filled with water that has waterlillies in.  The left hand side of the garden the other side of the ponds, is my little "wood".

Well that was a different post!