WOYWW 241

Well what a mess my desk is today. Not much has been happening over the last few days even though it should have been.  A half day of extreme gardening last Friday left me with a very sore finger and painful back. So all those cards I needed to do before I go away on Thursday are still only part done.   I do have another small excuse for  the chaos. Like all true crafters  I am ridiculously excited by the silliest additions to my craft arrangements. On Monday hubby put  a shelf in the cupboard. 

Only been requesting it for about 3 years but it has made a huge amount of difference to the storage potential and so things have had to be rearranged,  and different boxes sourced to make the best use of the extra space.  Behind my Big shot I now have embossing folders altogether and dies are on the right in the transparent box. And there is still room for more. Yeah!

 So a closer look at the desk.
A new butterfly embossing folder on the left, another elephant card for a little girl, the beginnings of a card for a friend whose birthday is Saturday and two almost finished cards for posting before we go away. 


Happy WOYWW everyone.
Chris.

WOYWW 240

Well Happy New Year everyone, hope you all had as good a time as we did. 4 days in Germany, a masked ball on New Year's Eve and a cold to bring home as a souvenir.

It was suggested that we did fancy dress as well, but gettting the masks and the posh frock and DJ there was enough for us, and no one else wore fancy dress so it didn't matter.
I did have some more pics of the holiday, but they are on my phone and the battery is almost flat.

So what is on my worktop today?
Well unfortunately my worktop contains several bereavement cards, three of them and a birthday card,  and I have another two bereavement cards to make in the morning.
At the back you can see a pink elephant, no I haven't been at the juice, tempting though it might be, well I have a bit but not that much. Pink elephant was a template for a birthday card for a one year old.

You can see elephant better here and some die cutters I was using to make cards. I particularly like the corner cutter but didn't realise that it cut the mesh but didn't cut out the piece as well, but it wasn't difficult to cut out the shape.
There is also a set of Sizzix border dies which are also some of my favourites at present.
If by any chance you're wondering what I am on about and why this post is called WOYWW, pop over to Madame Julia who hosts this wonderful forum, open to anyone, when we can snoop at other crafters worktops and see how wonderful their creations seem to be compared to our feeble efforts, but it encourages us all being part of the 'family' who visit most Wednesdays.

Well I must be off, cards to make, ironing to do, brute to feed and the hairdresser is coming to try and make my hair look less like a bad wig and more like normal hair. Miracle worker she will need to be.

Bless you all and hope 2014 will be good for you.
Chris

Birthday goodies

Busy packing for five days on the Rhine, or near it anyway,  but thought I would just post a picture of my Birthday goodies.  Almost want to stay and play instead of going on holiday, but not quite.

Plenty of time in 2014 to play when I have had a good rest

Happy New Year all

WOYWW 238

Well a bit late for Wednesday, so Happy Boxing day.
My worktop contains my rather limited haul of craft bits, but Birthday on Saturday so hoping for some more goodies then. Trouble is OH refused to buy me much in the way of craft stuff 'because there are cupboards full already'. Of course, but I still need new things to inspire me and the stuff in the cupboard is wonderful insulation on the outside wall!
So there are only a few distress ink, a mask and an embossing folder and at the back is a beautiful pergamano Christmas tree I was given by Margaret from Glitter and glue.

Better pic of the tree here, it is very beautiful and must now go back downstairs and take pride of place on the mantelpiece.
On the right of the main pic are two masks for the masked ball we are going to on New Year's Eve in Remagen in Germany, at the end of a five day holiday, so won't be here next week so will wish you all a Happy New Year now, and then go and make turkey soup.
PS if you have just arrived at this page and are wondering who 'all' means, just pop over to Julia and look at all the desktops on show there and you will see who the 'all' are, my wonderful WOYWWer friends.

WOYWW 237

Well having been away delivering pressies to daughter and family in Cardiff. The doll house is now under wraps in their garage and we have our dining room free for Christmas day. However having been away,  the work top has nothing exciting on it except clutter.

So for a bit of interest I'll show you a card I made for a friend, carefully edited to remove any identifying detail like his full name under the train.



Anyway as my desk is so uninteresting I suggest you pop over to Julia's party where you can probably see lots of more interesting desktops than mine. 
Happy Christmas to you all
Chris

WOYWW 236 again

I'm sure this is cheating and headmistress Julia will tell me off, but for all those who were stunned to see my worktop clean and clear at 8 am this morning, it didn't stay like that for long. As some of you said, it is a wonderful wrapping space. By three this afternoon this was the scene, it is improved a bit but still more pressies to wrap, but now waiting on the Post Office for deliveries.
So a double WOYWW from me this week, but this one's not poetic.

Thanks for visiting
Chris

WOYWW 236

A POME  
with apologies to Pam Ayers

The cardmaking frenzy is over,
They're all finished just in time
There's tall ones and short ones and square ones,
And some have a corny rhyme.

So I've put away the glitter, 

And I've tidied up the glue,

The holly dies are neatly filed,

The festive paper too

The Christmas stamps all cleaned, 

Are organised is their store,

And the inkpads, gold and silver

Stacked neatly in their drawer.

The Christmas box is back again, 

beneath the spare room bed,

I've finished all the Christmas cards

I'm ready for my bed.

So that is why there is nothing on my desktop today, except of course the picture was taken Tuesday evening and by Wednesday lunch time it will be covered in wrapping paper, and string. 

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