WOYWW 778

Welcome, I started the following info 2 days ago and wanted to share with you. We've been thru 2 days of weather issues.  Our area is safe, had heavy rains and lots of water standing, but parts of Iowa and Nebraska had bad destruction with tornados.  Took me about an hour to get my computer up, electricity out for a very short time, but connections lost could not be reconnected easily. 

More info about our Wednesday desks  on Mr. Linky  HERE at STAMPING GROUND BLOG

Welcome, Sharing some info on mail in all of  USA. getting ready for our ATC exchange. 

With all the mail issues in the USA  here is some help.  No SQUARE envelopes. extra fees for you  and also at the receiving end.   No TINY envelopes they get lost in processing  IT took mail from Iowa to ge Arizona over 20 days to arrive ............8 days within the State mail.   lack of full time help, I have at least 4 xmas cards never arriving 2 within the state and 2 Easter cards. SO I AM FRUSTRATED. 

Sizes for Letters

You probably have a picture in your mind of what a "letter" is. Possibly you're using a standard No. 10 envelope for your letter, so that's easy to picture. However, if you decide to create a mailpiece with its own special envelope or if you are designing a piece that will be folded to letter-size, be sure to keep in mind the following size requirements for letters:

Dimension	Minimum	Maximum
Height	3-1/2 inches	6-1/8 inches
Length	5 inches	11-1/2 inches
Thickness	0.007 inch	1/4 inch

To be eligible for mailing at the price for letters, a piece must be:

• Rectangular
• At least 3-1/2 inches high x 5 inches long x 0.007 inch thick.
• No more than 6-1/8 inches high x 11-1/2 inches long x 1/4 inch thick.

First-Class Mail letters that have one or more nonmachinable characteristics will pay a nonmachinable surcharge. Customers can be unpleasantly surprised that they must pay extra postage when, for example, they mail a square greeting card. The Postal Service charges extra postage because mailpieces that are rigid, square, or unusually shaped, often jam postal equipment and are difficult to process. This costs the Postal Service time and money—and may also damage your mailpiece.

Very little  desk time, tried to find Graduation rubber stamps as that's what is next around here. 

My DIL came for a Friday night stay as she has a Home Decor business from her home making wood items  Was so fun to have her visit and see all her great makes at a Market to Market show in a town about 20 miles away on Saturday  .  They live about 3 hrs away from our home so she had lots of travel time and setting up for a few hours, Was a long hard day for her.  But my hubby and I enjoyed our time browsing around had having her here.  

Hope you all are doing well,  Not sure what my day will be like, Dentist appt early and a list.

Sylvia/LittleTreasures    
 

#777 What's on Your Workdesk

Welcome.....it's a windy day but warmer temps 70's Posting Tuesday as we have company from Arizona coming.

Never got any of the garage started for cleaning/organizing. He did finish up the Corn Planting and I worked to get the Bedroom downstairs presentable as my DIL/? will be spending Friday night and leaving early for a Market to Market show aways away.

She has a Home Decor business at home, she creates so many things from wood 

My 2 desks,   Making more of the little snipits.

and getting ready to make graduation cards.  

Ready for all the action? It's thru Mr. Linky on Julia's blog 

The online auction provided me with some oddities..Metal pieces, hoping to stitch to some bits of fabric.

160 Workbasket magazines from the 1950'2/60's  Just the cutest little ideas. All at $3

And some $1 tiles 3 sizes and about 7 boards of 6/9 pieces on each. Tearing off the backgrounds for some collage works. 

And my 3 grand daughters now 14, 11, 10 not sure where they were going but soon to be back in the USA.  

Enjoy a wonderful week, thanks for all the fun visits.  

Sylvia/LittleTreasures. 

 

#776 What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Welcome and I missed you last week, it was a fast one. Something everyday and I've not caught up.  The day we share our desks thru Mr. Linky at Ms. Julia's Blog

 

Besides computer glitches, phones changing  set up I'm behind. Mostly with getting ready for family visitors in a few weeks and then FINGERS CROSSED. Military family headed back to USA.  (hoping the mess with destructive countries it doesn't change things) XXX

I love  area on line auctions and found some real treasures. But all the magical ideas in this head of mine can't keep up. I scored LOTS of FUN things and hope to share if I can transfer ALL the Photos soon. 

My desk: (the reason for the post ! )   Making some clusters from scraps on a tiny table 

I ended up scrapping the t.P. rolls idea for a journal...several came apart at the folds. But I did some stitching on a few pieces ...Seems I was into 'Tiny" creations on what little time I had to have fun.

And I cut up some tattered doilies and tea dyed them. The top is crumbled paper I didn't get pressed out in time, so will re wet it and try again.  

Well Mr. Hub, is off to the field, worked grown 2 days and now planting corn. Rain is predicted  WE had terrible high winds So he cleaned up the mess of broken branches and this big limb.  With the temps of 80 I want to clean our garage...so much stacked through winter and I am sorting and maybe doing an auction on the stacks I don't use. It's a 3 stall so It's a big challenge !!!   maybe photos next week. 

Wishing you all the best, 

#774 What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday

Welcome It's the Day we share our favorite works....from our desks, tables, lap!

Anyone can join up thru Ms. Julia's blog HERE 

Spent some time organizing My dies 

My desk:

I've saved a few toiletpaper rolls and clipped them together to flatten edges. 

I want to make a little cardboard journal and thought this size would be good. Hope I can share a finished one next week  !! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

I also organized my cardboard.....lots of different sizes and tired of having piles of everything on my floor. This wooden organizer has been in the store room forever.  

I have to spend sometime making my 2 Germany granddaughters birthday cards. AND I need to start making a few weeks ahead ....... I hate deadlines. 

The one thing I don't enjoy is making flat ATC's/Cards etc but Mail is so messed up layers don't work so well anymore from our USPS.  
You all have a wonderful week, Hope you have some nice weather and sunshine.

It's suppose to be here later in the week. 

WOYWW 773

It's a Good Morning here,  Sun is out, No Wind, Tuesday's Ice and Snow melted and we are on our way out !  So a quick one and I'll comment mostly later in the day  Fun and beauty with my host and friends HERE

If you are interested in the Journal I created for my Sis's 70th birthday it is now posted page by page  below this post....I could not get the video shared to blogger.  I did post it to Facebook and Instagram with no issues.  Except my clumbsy fingers !

Today I'll share my nephew's 5oth Birthday tag    top is the backside, He maintains the local Golf Course and helps the owners with many projects as they also own a wonderful restaurant  and farm

Front of card  date and year of birth   area he lives  age and a Celebrate stamp 

No Photos of desk was too cold to work down there the past 3 days and nothing's changed.  

I will share a great mailing envelope transformed into a Collage for this upcoming Holiday.  

This is an envelope made from wallpaper. Mailed with this Easter collage to me from a very sweet lady. She had an Etsy shop I purchased Jeanne d' Arc Living Magazines from in Spokane. She had a business Neat Old Stuff. SO many memories of her fun projects. Was the days of mail arriving in really odd form. This is exactly how I received it and was covered with a plastic magazine cover, which accounts for the glare.

WISHING YOU and YOURS a wonderful EASTER. Thank You for your visits and kind comments last week.

Sylvia/LittleTreasures by signature may have disappeared.

Birthday Journal Sister

Well will try to post the pages for the Birthday Journal I made for my Sister.....cannot seem to connect the Video to this blog.

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OH...I awoke and told my precious little cat, up and at 'em..it's WEDNESDAY! Got to get up and get busy.  We have to share our desks for my WOYWW group!  and off he ran !    It's 5 a m  still dark, but our daylight savings time started 2 wks ago and finally got all the clocks changed over and YES we have daylight about 6 am  until sometime after 7 p m.  LOVE IT. 

We have a forecast for FRIDAY thru SUNDAY of RAIN to our south and SNOW HERE! But it should melt quickly, our ground is warm and greening up as we did get some rain last week.  On the go all week. He's needing parts for machinery, as he is preparing for planting season in a few weeks. IF the ground is ready. 

So I haven't been too creative, my DESK!  Using my Gelli plate for some backgrounds. Hopefully today I can do the backside on some. He has appointments so lots of time for me with no meal interruptions !

I am making headway with the sorting and organizing  advertised my 4 bar stools and the SOLD quickly. So gives me much more space. We don't use the down stairs as a gathering place anymore !  Most are not able to do steps. Still provides sleeping areas for when the kids come to stay, but that is few and far between. 

One of my trips to the City I got a really short hair cut !!!! Another I won at the Casino !!!! and We are watching a LOT of NCAA College basketball MEN and Women.......IOWA teams are really doing great. 

Enjoy a great week, thanks for all your visits, Hoping I can share the Video next week.  Many computer and printer issues. 

 

WOYWW 771

OH Yawn....it's late, Will schedule this and be back in Morning. Busy times here, Our Iowa State Women's Basketball played it final Championship game tonight. They lost to Texas. Had a tremendous season with mostly Freshman players.  Now on to NCAA Tournaments. Audi is a girl from our Catholic School who has set Freshman records and is one great player so lots of interest in her success.   Partaking in Stamping Ground Blog

My DESK:  I got the paint tray set up vertically and I am going to enjoy that. Some odd painting on thin cardboard and grocery bags.  Finalized my sisters 70th Birthday Journal and trying to  figure out a way to share the Video. It on my phone.Says it's too big of file to send by email to my home computer/  Any ideas  from my phone  to here?  

.  An ATC for My Sister...

A layered pocket for it 

The back side of card. 

Grandson's 21st birthday pocket...will put in card with $ & gas cards

This is his Birthday Tag  Maps on these show town area they live in  date of birth 

Back side of his card ....We sign it with a note from Grandma & Grandpa Fuzz. (my hubby's nick name)

This is the front of the pocket  used ISU as the Iowa State University he attends  There are 3 pockets in this fold  that is shown by the 2 vertical tiny strips and 1 horizontal toward the bottom. I will take them out when I insert the credit card and money. 

He is home on Spring Break so hopefully we can go visit one of these WARM/SUNNY Days.