What’s On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 881

 I’m going away for a Crop weekend on Friday lunchtime. What you see here is my untidy desk covered in the ‘suitcase’ of little boxes which comprises my embellishments and ah, ephemera. 

I was checking for a particular thing to add to the LO you can see in the lid. Because you see, gentle Desker, in order to pack for a weekend of cropping, I first have to unpack and put away from the day’s cropping three weeks ago. Oh dear. You can see remnant tubes of white paint from last week, and a new set of embroidery skeins that I found rather cheaply at a charity table top sale. Colours are a bit erm, non-traditional, but they’ll largely be used on felt so I don’t doubt they’ll do. 

Meanwhile, B-J asked to see the LOs…I don’t blame her either, I talk about doing stuff and then don’t prove it. also it will make your teeth itch B-J, the dates are not chronological like your pages!

Please join in over at Sarah’s, and as I recently heard on an Instagram reel….have a good day on purpose!

What’s on Your Workdesk? Wednesday 880

 Big up to Sarah for keeping us going to this lovely bubbly round number!

I have a small amount of action going on - I thought I should tidy and ended up painting! 

I acquired a tray full of out-of-date Pringles from a shopkeeper friend and having rinsed and wiped  the tubs, decided they’d be good for a decoupage stunt at WI. Then I realised that the vibrant red of the pots would take a more covering than a gal can contemplate, so I’ve set about undercoating them in white. The first layer was poster paint and barely made a difference. I rummaged furiously and found all sorts of odd tubes of white acrylic paint, so they’re all now well on their way to being opaquely white. Then they can sit quietly in a box with a couple of packs of natty napkins and some glue spreaders (‘found’ over many trips to a Costa) . They are a back up plan, so we have something to do if a speaker has to make a last minute cancellation. Hasn’t happened yet, so I might even get time to make a sample and test run the theory!

Join us over at Sarah’s for creativity overflow, it’s free it’s harmless, it can be enabling and it’s always inspiring. Have a lovely day!
 

What’s On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 879

Well last week I wrote a post and forgot to publish it. This week I’ll schedule it and try hard not to forget to link it. Seriously, I wish I could find someone to blame…..!

Oh gosh, I found myself needing a sympathy card. It caused me, out of some weird respect, to tidy up and make it in a decent environment. No bad thing, but definitely not how I usually make a card ‘au last minute’, as y’all know! Still, having excavated the desk it may see a bit of action at last…I’ve got some scrapbook layouts that need to be titled and have the odd embellishment added before putting them in the album, so I think that’ll be next. Hope you all enjoyed some down time over the Easter weekend, the weather has been 48 hours of sunshine which I must say has done my inner sun seeker a whole amount of good!

Catch up with us all at Sarah’s to enjoy more desks and chatter. What’s not to like?!

What’s On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 877

I have nothing of interest on my work desk…it’s the same old. Since the card making session for WI, I haven’t done anything at all at my desk; but I haven’t been totally ignoring my er, inner crafter.

This is the coffee table in our lounge area. I fell for the colour of this yarn and needed a reason to own it. My SiL has a ‘feature wall’ in her dining room which is this colour with a silver pattern on it, so I’m making a sort of table runner. Not the full length but bigger than a centrepiece type thing. Turns out the yarn is so thin that I’m using it in double thread mode on 1.5mm hook, it has no substance worked as a single thread, it’s just a silky cotton. Also, I’ve chosen a colour that my old eyes really need daylight for - an hour in the daylight produces twice the number of pieces than an hour by light of lamps and tv! 

Join us all why don’t you, show and tell of your desk space, whatever it is you do…we are fascinated by it all. Links to visit and join in at Sarah’s , see you there!

What’s On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 873

 

I’ve been doing a hurried, panic induced re-think of my contribution to the WI craft evening next week. 

Last night I ‘trialled’ my plan on a couple of willing non card making members during our inaugural Craft evening. Sent me back to my desk really quick! I need to remember that using double sided tape and foam pads aren’t the norm for a lot of people, peeling them before sticking one side down is only obvious if you know. I need to remember that heat embossing is thrilling, needs explaining better than I did - I couldn’t convince them to stop heating once the powder turned shiny, they both thought it was then wet and needed to be heat dried. So long since I showed anybody that I’ve lost the patter! Also the water colour effect I’d used for the image took them an age to do, I think they were classically scared to overdo it or go outside the lines, something that won’t lend itself to 18 people having a go over two hours with other activities to try! Yikes. So I’ve been back to the drawing board and I THINK it’ll work better now. The panic is because I’m away on Friday for a scrapbooking weekend with The Coven and the diary between getting home and the WI evening is well, unforgiving!                                   

Hope you have a super week, join us over at Sarah’s for a look see and/or a join in!

What’s On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 871

 Trumpet blares and bunting waving to welcome Neet home, am so glad to hear of it, no place like it for gentle recovering. 

I took this last night, and it is still like this, frozen in situ until at least tomorrow. I don’t know why, but Wednesdays have become really busy days recently! Girlfriend type birthday cards in the making s you can see. Just love these shoes, a new to me stamp (wood mounted - bliss!). Of course the reason I sat down to make a girlfriend type card is now in a sealed envelope, unphotographed because I forgot. Anyway, answer me this……which way up should the shoes go? I actually woke up thinking about that this morning! The rest of the desk is covered in Easter stuff because I’m still working on some kits for WI next month. Got a willing victim coming to try them out next week so I do need to actually do them! I hope you’ve had a good week, and get a chance to join us over at Sarah’s for this week’s rummaging! 

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 870

This the whoa! edition...I nearly forgot, which is horrible...as is the current desk state, but at least I've been doing something. 

I finally got sick of tripping over the trolley of stuff that I took to Crop over a week ago. That's all tidied into proper places and the trolley neatly folded into its cubby in the garage. The LOs however, are on my desk as you can see... one needed re-gluing (already!) and the other two don't need but I think could do with a title; so now I'm thinking on.

There's a bunch of (unused!) Hero Arts rubber stamps on an Easter theme that I bought from Vinted, and a few plastic bags that give away a little splurge on Temu: mostly dies, but there is the inevitable "what did I order this for" purchase too. In this case, a roll of Easter themed Washi tape. It's not too onerous but I suspect it will take me the rest of my life to actually use up!

The insurance company has written off our perfectly repairable car, so we are out today to do test drives on a couple of replacements, it's tedious and because we were no where near the mind set of replacing a car, its a real chore that neither of us are enjoying. All that just to say that I may be even slower than normal to visit! Meanwhile though, check out the others' desks - you could even join us, a fresh desk is a delight! Sarah's is the place to find a list of inks and stories.