I love to reminisce, good times and happy moments are worth talking and laughing over from a distance of an hour or many years, for sure. I'm a scrap-booker, so I have created a sort of provenance for my collection of memories, that's buying into retropsective isn't it? My birth sign is Cancer, which means I will remember for centuries little tiny details that others don't and worse, it means I can hold a grudge for a lifetime too. Although in my forty something years I must say that I've learned very well that holding a grudge is a pointless exercise. Considering my birth sign and my incredibly wobbly hormones, it is then a surprise to me and lots of others that I can't bear the retrospectives that take place now, just as the calendar brings us a new year to fill.

I have no idea why, I don't think they're mawkish or sentimental, I don't think they should be discouraged, I mean - where's the harm in hearing the top 10 singles (that ages me!) of the last year just before we blare into the next? I dunno. I get really fed up with it. I understand you can't really make good TV or Radio based on music or celebrities that haven't yet been written, invented, blahdy blah, I just prefer to look forward; how many times do I want to have the last year raked over in how many guises? Is it my age? Could it be the security of place and people that I'm lucky enough to be surrounded by? Perhaps that security means that I don't feel a need to remember old times, for better or worse? Certainly could. Although I have no problem telling my child that crisps were less than 10p a bag when I was her age and going to the cinema didn't cost 3 people twenty quid and need weird glasses (but I grant you, the weird glasses do cause the most fantastic effects!)

So perhaps I'm selectively retropsective. Hmm. As I've cruised around blogs this week, I've come across a really lovely bunch of retrospectives - favourite 10 cards of the year and so on. I've enjoyed them enormously. Of course I haven't even contemplated a similar post for this blog - it would take me till next Christmas week to choose, apart from anything else.

Of course, if you were to back me into a corner and deny me gin and tonic for a couple of days, I'd admit that the best part of my crafting life in 2010 was the blogging......so maybe I do need to become a fan of the retrospective. Then I can have an exhibition. It would be an empty space, bright yellow perhaps. And I would invite you to wander around and imagine all the wonderful things I was going to make, just as soon as I finished typing about them. See I'm all about the future.

Happy New Year; may it be all that you want it to be. May you have the strength to make it what you want it to be.

What's On Your Workdesk this 5th day of Christmas?

Mine is a work surface in a different room today.We've been royally entertained this Christmas by family and friends who have stepped in to make what was a fraught week a whole lot easier. This is my therapy of choice for Tuesday, and as I type, we're contemplating an early breakfast and a rush about to do a couple of jobs at work before friends arrive for lunch. I should point out I think, that despite the history of work desk disasters involving clearing up, my kitchen is made spick and span after each 'session' ...it's part of the OCD thing in the left side of my brain..I can't do anything in the house if the kitchen isn't clean and tidy. And as it's the smallest kitchen in Christendom, that's no great effort I can tell you!

I made a massive pavlova and Miss D made some more mince pies. A bit predictable, but hey - our friends like a nice chewy meringue!

Show us what you're up to this day of five gold rings then - either on your craft desk or elsewhere - it's fascinating to see what you do on 'days off', and of course for some in the UK, this is a back to work day....bah humbug! Photo, upload to your blog and link in here...I'm still fighting to get around last Wednesday's desks, so forgive me, you may get a double whammy visit this week!

Since this is the last work desk Wednesday of 2010, please accept best wishes for a truly happy New Year, I hope 2011 brings you peace and security and allows you time for crafting!

On the third day of Christmas..

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! Oh sweet Groundhog Day, we're about to go to Mr Dunnit's family home and start again! But it's OK interweb, I'm ready, I can take it!
I thought you might like a brief insight into the glamour of a real blogger's Boxing day, as a sort of reality check against the previous days warm and rich family gathering. To make sure I deserved another day off today, I swept, hoovered, washed and then waxed the wood floor in our bedroom. You can't tell from the threshold, let alone from here, otherwise you'd be looking at a photo! This morning, it took me a while to work out why my knees feel bruised when I did my routine of crawling under the tree to turn on the lights! It's all glamour. How come I feel like this - that I need to offset the lovely with the erm, less lovely? Is it a gene? Have I, deep in my psyche got an inherited work ethic? Is it like pudding, you only get the nice stuff after you've eaten your greens and cleared your plate? Or is it a back log of outstanding jobs that makes me do these things on holiday days. Or maybe it's guilt. Mr Dunnit laughs and says it may be guilt, but it's just an overdue job really. Do it or don't do it. Philosophy I cannot possibly subscribe to - whatever the day....I'd do nothing!
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Christmas Eve shopping hints

Lunch Lady Jan suggested (in the comments after yesterday's post) that my taste might run to Kitsch. I hope so. I couldn't reproduce it here because it's too long, but do go to Wikipedia and read the definition, it's hilarious - especially the bit about gaudy and unsubstantial works of art - so true and so totally within my skill range! Which is why you see the lovely gaudy cakes above - I could not resist them when I was shopping for some goodies for our get together with the Lunch Lady Jan family today. It was sparkly and fun......although the bobbly bits on the cakes are not terribly nice. Actually, they taste horrid..you really shouldn't mix your E numbers, it just never works. But the silver lining here? These characters faces are actually rings for us all to wear with pride over the season. Can't beat that for value and taste!

Lots of you were surprised by my inclusion of Christmas Loo roll in my preparations. See, I might not have all the presents or enough food to feed 30 people over the next five days (but there are only 3 of us, so we'll probably be fine). But last time I staggered down the aisle for cleaning equipment and kitchen paper and loo roll, there it was - the Andrex Winter edition printed loo roll pack. So I bought it. A double whammy of luxury, for this house does not usually enjoy such branding in the bottoms department!

OK my third shopping tip - don't do anymore, unless you need petrol in the car to get to somewhere special tomorrow.....you won't regret doing that today; then you can just jump in the car and go, stress free! This is a tip brought to you by a woman that once drove 40 miles on petrol vapours and prayers one bright Christmas Morning after a dark Christmas Eve. Say no more. She reminds me every year you know, in her generosity.

Happy Christmas.

Christmas Eve Eve Checklist

Present shopping finished ? Er, no

Presents wrapped? ergo, no

Food and drink purchased? No

Got crackers? No

Tree decked and lit? Yes

Cards written and distributed? mmmmostly

House clean and shiney? Ha! no

Oven cleaned as traditionally done for some reason? No

Christmas loo roll in bathroom? Yes

Christmas tea towels, cutlery and crockery in kitchen? Yes

Hall bedecked with bunting? Yes

Camera charged and ready? Yes

Mince Pies made? More needed!

Travel arrangements sorted? weather dependant

Finished work? not quite

Surrounded by people you love? yes

Able to stay warm and safe? yes

Gotta problem then? Absolutely not.

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 81

Gawd, sorry about the lack of Mr Linky - it was entirely a human error..indeed, that human might even have been me....told you I had a memory problem! That's what I get for trying to schedule and be organised!!

The Christmas edition! Good grief already! Do not be afraid or alarmed, do not fall in a faint or choke on your snack, worse, do not spray coffee over the keyboard. My desk is (relatively) tidy!

I don't know if you can tell from the awkward angle, but the basket of stamps waiting to be cleaned is full of....just cleaned acrylic blocks and some other bits waiting to be put away! I know! I'm in as much shock as you are. I didn't enjoy it, there is no therapy for me in the cleaning and putting away, but hey, Wipso, Twiglet, at least when you get here we can just have coffee and chat! I've made a couple more of the tags we made in a workshop last week; but that's all I've done, and it was driven entirely by need. Need for tags, not need for creativity! I'm scheduling this post because I'm doing a Helen, and setting off for work at OhMyGoshO'Clock. Loads to do and not enough hours this week for sure. But by this afternoon, I'll have crept out of work and down to Tidworth for a cuppa with Shopkeeper Gal. One last hit of potential buying before the holiday and a session of diary planning for some more workshops...the fun part of the day, for sure. Christmas Party tonight too - I wonder if that will finally help me to get' in the mood'. Probably. Well that and a pint of Bailey's should do the trick! Happy day bods, stay warm stay focused and it'll all be done....and probably perfect!

My days of torch bearing are over and I'm very proud that I had a chance to play with Amber's designs...she and Pam forced me to consider Digi and square up to some of it's challenges. I have a bit, and I will a bit more, actually. What I need now is a really super and completely fool proof printer!

However, for once this post isn't about me, I wanna introduce y'all to the gal to whom I've passed the Amber Ink torch. If you're a WOYWWer, you will at least have visited Jane at one point or another, and if you aren't, well prepare yourselves for a treat. Jane is a super Digi user and (probably - hopefully) because she's 20 years younger than me, she really knows how to do digi. Jane also has an uncanny eye for colour and cheerfulness and is a precision merchant. In short, her cards are everything mine aren't! You can find Jane at Milliesmarvels Please visit her, you won't have wasted a click.

Serendipity, I think....

Serendipity is a propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated.

This is what Wikipedia has as a meaning for serendipity. And it's as good a description as any, especially as Wiki goes on to say that the people who do these things have found this to be one of the ten hardest words in the English language to 'translate'. How interesting. Well, I thought so.

So today, amongst other jobs, I decided to sort out an area of work space that you've all seen but never noticed. At the right edge of my desk, sits my basket of stamps - you know the ones that are perpetually waiting to be cleaned...well tucked between that and the side of my stamp shelves is my Scor-Pal. This means there's room for various bits of paper that aren't scraps for general use but that I need or want to keep.

One of them has been my faithful spray paper for oh, I dunno, about 3 months probably. As you can see, it was temporarily the desk protector for snowflake spraying, but it has other layers added since, including a magnificent glitter spray that you can't see.

All fascinating Julia, but how do you get from that recycled envelope to Serendipity? Ah well you see...turns out it's not a recycled envelope, despite appearances. I picked it out of it's home this morning - and because the intention was to tidy and not actually use stuff, I happened to turn it over and realise.....it's unopened and full. And that would be where I put my Tax Return - on my desk for attention.

The serendipity is of course, that I've found it in time. Now, after I've finished here, I'm going to launch a full scale and exhaustive search for my memory, which is apparently, entirely absent.

With a little help....

This gorgeous Christmas card was made using one of Amber Ink's digi stamps, from the Fish Wishes range. I sincerely hope that Amber and Incredimombo don't mind, but this card was made by Shopkeeper Gal, not me. See, there was a commission. Harry is getting a fish tank for Christmas and his Dad wanted a card to put some money in.....because what's a fish tank without fish and the chance to buy the stripey and colourful ones of your choice are definitely part of the gift, huh? Well, Shopkeeper Gal was desperate, a chrissy, gifty, fishy card? help! So I printed the swordfish and bubbles and just look at the result! I was lucky enough to be in the shop today when Harry's Dad collected it - he was so, so pleased. How great. How rewarding for all concerned huh. Amber - you really rock this designing thing!
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What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 80

Wow. A whole lot of everything this morning; in fact as you can see, I couldn't even find a forgiving camera angle to help me out!

Last night's glass of orange juice now looks very seedy and I think despite the industry, there's a general look of 'all over the place'-ness. Amazing really, because when I sat down to make up the baskets and generally finish a couple things off, the mat and the desk were clear! Ah well, proof if you need it that you don't wanna sit next to me at a crop!

You can see a set of dies that I borrowed from

Shopkeeper Gal , a jar of glitter

flakes from the cosmic shimmer range - am currently in love with the embossing powders from that range so thought I'd have a play with these too -after all, I've had 'em awhile! Traces

of foil from a workshop and a further card making session, and note the sophisticated way I protect everything when I want to spray shimmer mists - just cover it all in paper! Recycled paper and draught sheets from work though, so not as wasteful as it sounds!

So, there's no shame, bare all for us and share your desk..no doubt the fascination for me is seeing what everyone's making, and where you do the making. Join us do - photo your desk, upload to your blog and link here. We'll visit. Slowly probably, but hey, it's what the days between Wednesdays are for!

OK, another baby step..

Well, Mr Dunnit has turned into the one who's the most keen to get Christmas underway chez Dunnit. Today at lunchtime he rang me (office to office, so no major romantic effort!) and suggested we go fetch a tree. So we did. And as an aside, and a bit of humbug - golly, 'fresh' trees seem much more expensive this year!

Now you must understand that the lounge room is in absolutely no state of readiness to receive a tree. I make this comment purely so that anyone out there who thinks that I've suddenly got it all together can breathe easy - I haven't. But today's idea to purchase is for a variety of reasons I think; his foremost reason is that we need a few days to allow the tree to acclimatise - from freezing cold shed to our conservatory and then into the warm and badly lit lounge. Hopefully then it won't instantly dehydrate from shock and become a naked folksy type tree! The second reason: I think he thinks that I'm thinking (are you with me?) the longer I put it off, the less likely we are to 'do ' much toward christmas. He's wrong, but hey, it's getting me some attention! And third - we are experiencing some horrible work pressures and it's really easy to forget that there are other, more important things, and I'm convinced that this subtle preparation for Christmas is his therapy. I have considered an intervention, where I force him to take up paper crafting as a therapy type hobby- we all know it would work - but I can't. I don't share my stash well, and I don't really want him to know how much I've got! And anyway, who would make the rocking horses if he got into paper and glue? So..by the weekend I'll probably have finished the wrapping that is all over the floor where the tree will be going, and hey, might even have tidied and hoovered sufficiently to 'put up' the tree. Or not. Perhaps Mr D will do it himself whilst I languish in a coffee shop on another Christmas shopping expedition. Stand by for news of Christmas miracles!

Are we nearly there yet?

Oh boy, there's still a lot to be done in this house before Christmas takes hold. You know there's the point where it's easier to keep going because you know it'll work out? Well, I'm not there yet, although I think we're at the point of no return....at least we'll have gifts for our family and friends - and if I concentrate really hard, I may even get some cards posted. See, I know lots of people now don't bother with cards, or send e cards, but I can't break the habit...despite the rush and the pressure and the writing in them part of it, I love to make cards and I love to receive them. So I judge that others do too.

Yesterday Mr Dunnit and I shopped. We went to Basingstoke, got there about 3pm, parked without difficulty, and then joined the dwindling crowds. Because I have left it later than I like to, I did have some ideas, so we actually did pretty well, and I think I can handle the rest in fits and starts! Although I did discover that just wandering around looking at stuff, without a clue what to buy for someone (anyone!) is very very bad. All I seem to see is stuff that I'd like very much. And that was without dragging him around Paperchase too. I'm getting strong in my old age! And slow apparently, I really need a week off. Anyone else - I could write you a note!

So, the glass mat..

Helpfully, my particular mat is labelled so I don't forget what it is. It's by EK Success and I didn't buy it - it was a demonstration product that I was allowed to keep when I foolishly lost the job. It's one of my 'must have' tools too, I would cheerfully shell out for another if this one met a nasty end. Although I can't imagine it will. It's a great surface to work on, totally flat and totally cleanable - not very often you understand, but when the need arises, I stick it in the sink and scrub it.

It doesn't blunt the blade - it's the paper and card that blunt blades - after all, you don't actually use the blade on the glass, huh. The self heal mats are great, but this is for me, a step up. No healing to be done for sure, and occasionally my teenier projects slide when I'm cutting...because I've not allowed room to hold them. But the glass doesn't absorb the energy that I put into cutting like the self healing mat does - the blade will never stick in the mat and the cutting is therefore a bit easier I think.

As for breaking it..well I dunno, I think you'd have to go some; it's tempered obviously, and I use it as my heat gun base too - although sometimes that causes condensation on the mat surface which is a minor annoyance. It sits on my desk, and once a month it gets passed to my tote for transport to a crop and back. That's not to say that I haven't dropped it, but it's hasn't been from desk height, and I can't say if it's landed flat or on a corner - these things happen so fast!!

I like the grid - I occasionally remember to use it for lining straight stuff up too! So there you have it, my glass mat and thoughts thereon. The best use this glass mat has is that it forms the border/barrier of use-able space on my desk. I can see that once the mat is covered in stuff, the whole desk top needs to be sorted, So it's a closet barometer too!

I'm not a snob about it - I use it and love it, I don't mind if you've got a self healing mat and love it, there's no tool-up-man-ship here, this 'review' is just doing what I do best - talking about myself!

Just look at this..

No, it's not WOYWW two days late (although that is conceivable, this week!). This, dear interweb, is a 3 dimensional ATC made for me by Donna. What an incredible artist. See, she wanted to thank her followers and invited us to request a themed ATC...so being a complete commitment phobe, I said I'd love an ATC, but had no idea what theme, perhaps she could interpret one from what she knew of me on the blog. WOW. How much work! Thanks Donna - I love it - right down to the ribbon tied on the door handle - it's a stable door see, and sometimes I need it to be open but not swinging around...if you know what I mean! And look, you can see my ATG monster, my red sellotape holder at the back..amazing detail, and the 'to do' list - for once there's something on it that I've actually done! How kind and time consuming a gift is this, so ttoally appreciated.

I was going to blog about my glass cutting mat - it's absence from my WOYWW desk raised a few questions so I thought I'd 'review' it. I'll do that tomorrow instead...meanwhile, please absorb the flavour and impact of my micro desk!

A real life, real time Blog Hop

THE WOYWW POST IS THE NEXT ONE DOWN..not quite two posts on one day, but this post was late going up because of a scheduling error. Of a human kind, naturally!

Ah, there you are...have you arrived from Julie's blog - lastminutecrafter? If you haven't but wanna be a part of this blog hop and stand a chance to win a prize, start of at Shannan's and hop through, easy enough! Go to the Amber Ink blog and enter by posting your vote or leave comments as you hop, there are prizes for commenting = more fun! There's gonna be a vote too, for the best entry, so I 'd better tell you the criteria....

Make a card or project using some Amber Ink goodness and here's the premise:

A seven course dinner for two.

It breaks down a little more easily - the seven courses are the steps or techniques or embellishments to your card, and the two - those are your colour pallet - 2 colours plus a neutral/hint of a third.

So here's mine...and after I'd got my head around the challenge, it turned out to be not so hard as you think - initially I thought 7 courses - jeepers......but actually, you kinda do more than you think, without thinking. If you know what I mean...!

2 Colours of the same ipaper, plus cream as the neutral - check.

And the seven courses go like this....use Distress inks around the edges of the two ipapers (1, check) add one big fat ribbon (1, check), 3 istamped trees (3, check), emboss trees with Cosmic Shimmer powders (1, check), die cut one word from the neutral (but sparkly) colour (1, check). (7, check!) Much easier than it originally sounded. But don't take my word for it, visit the other blogs and be well, amazed.

Here's the blog hop in entirety:

Our Ambassador of Awesomeness:

Shannan Teubner withfeathersandsequins.blogspot.com

Purple Team:

Karin Martin karin-withaniforpaper.blogspot.com

Melissa Czapor melissaccreates.blogspot.com

Stacie Gorse hestiashelper.blogspot.com

Brown Team:

Jackie Randolph papermoments.blogspot.com

Julie Elak lastminutecrafter.blogspot.com

Pink Team:

Julia Dunnit - that's me - You're here !

Blue Team:

Kerri Michaud cardsbykerri.blogspot.com

Orange Team:

Taylor Usry taylorusry.blogspot.com

Wendy Price paperinkandsmiles.blogspot.com

Emily Leiphart www.leiphartonart.blogspot.com

Angela Hathikhanavala www.papercupboard.blogspot.com

Sunghee Chon www.creativityinprogress.com/blog

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 79

Argh, well I'm scheduling this...firstly so our friends across the waters can work out their timings in terms of posting and second because I shall be tackling the mountain of ironing by the time you lot wake up and go to work...I've awarded myself the morning off, I just HAVE to get some things straight!

Alas and alack, this many not apply to the desk tomorrow....the missing focal point is my beloved glass mat. And that's because I took it to the crop on Saturday and haven't quite unpacked yet. Oops. You can of course see the ATG monster as usual, ElElJan says it's a bit like Where's Wally - it's always there somewhere! And talking of ATG..thanks to Mary Anne who sagely pointed out the directional arrows embossed into the inside of the case - I changed the sticky roll without having to photo the thing first - never noticed the diagram arrows!!

And to answer an oft asked question - no, I don't stand on a chair to take these WOYWW pics - I don't put myself out like that very often believe me. But those of you who know me will recall my slender, tall frame which is perfect for hovering over tables at dizzying heights. And those of you that have really met me wil understand that double checking I haven't got my boobs in the edge of the shot involves some contortionist skills. Make of that what you like! Happy Wednesday to you. And if you've time, do track bac a post and visit the Amber Ink blog hop - you'll be wow'ed and WOYWWed!

Show us your desk then, in all it's December glory and/or gore...we want to know how prepared and how panicked you are. You can tell my state of mind. Share yours - upload a pic to your blog, link here and let us visit. No other particular rules - be nice though - reciprocal visits are de riguer!

Saturday: crop, followed by proper cooked supper, parental taxi service, a load of washing and the beginnings of an idea for a card that's been in my head. Sunday, clean kitchen properly, throw hoover round downstairs, finish card, start another, two hours Christmas shopping, parental taxi service and work on new cards. Monday, if you could see the pile of clothes waiting to be ironed you truly would feel two things - sorry for me, and shock at my laziness. But off to work anyway, via short parental taxi service job and rush around Sainsbury's.Honest It's not that I think I'm lazy, but please can I have my weekend again.

Anyhoo, here's the couple of the cards that were in the secret DT place (my head!), both using digi stamps from Amber Ink - these are ribbons from the Perfect Package set. Coloured with Twinkling H20s again - now I've cracked the box open again, I can't stop using them. And they always remind me of my good friend the Enthusiastic Educator. Honestly, these little pots of paint are genius in her hands.

So how was Monday for you? - what are you planning in this second week of December - anyone ready to write Christmas cards yet? Second thoughts, don't tell me!

Reward: claimed

Oh look, that missing button jar has been found! You were all right; it was in the last place I looked, and it was found when I was looking for something else.


And how's this for irony? It was resting behind the neat boxes of stuff I put on my WOYWW post - this week's, yeah, the post where I bragged that I knew where everything is in the cupboard. I contend however, that in order to know where everything is, I have to know what's in there to begin with, huh! Ah well, all's well that ends well. And the reward? Ah, all day at the crop, pot luck lunch and the pleasure of meeting
Mary Anne. This has been a good day! Keep warm and safe y'all.


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It's beginning to look a lot like - well, you know!

Y'all know about my good friend and supporter ElElJan (Lunch Lady Jan). She who caters at the 2 Scrap Ladies events is also a nimble and imaginative sew-stress. I wanted you to see some of the Christmas stock that she's been selling - of course she has some left and of course if you want to investigate further, you need only email me from the link on the right. Meantime, feast your eyes; how about this spotty furry stocking with a blingy lining - honestly, I could have spotted this as one of ElElJan's creations from 500 yards - it's so her to put bling and mono together. It's lovely; she suggests it's perfect for the sort of present that comes in a jeweller's presentation box...large, nuggety things - you know. Not saucepans.A santa sack - not outrageously huge but perfectly lovely when a stocking is too small but not as pedestrian as the pillowcase that we somehow end up using on Christmas Eve as my grown up child gets into a panic about missing out! This is lined in a lovely contrast as you can see....somehow I can find other uses too - currently it would house the pile of hats and gloves that are strewn about my hall and stairs...now that would be so much nicer hanging off the stair post thingy, wouldn't it. Hmm....
A table runner - ElElJan calls this the table Jogger because it's not as long as some of her others. (Like the one I bought before she could finish unfolding it, for example. Now currently adorning my coffee table and making it look as if I may have given decorating the lounge some consideration already!)

How about the bunting? It's so lovely I can't bear it being in someone else's ownership. And so lovely of Jan because she gave me 2 lengths of each size to festoon the conservatory with. And as you can see, we eat in the conservatory, so it needs festooning and these will be perfect - I love bunting, it's redolent of all sorts of good times, huh! So that's me cheered up on this cold and finally snowy day. It's been a week alright.

Thanks for putting me right about WOYWW - it was 78....I didn't change the prompt when it came up - how fast does it pop up - it must be about 2 seconds after you start typing and another 2 seconds to change it. And I forgot. No wonder it's been a week!

No news on the button jar yet, but tomorrow night looks good for a hunt - I'l be panic preparing for the crop, so most of the cupboards and drawers will be getting a going through again!!

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 77

I may well have one of the messiest desks on this ol' rummage fest, but believe me, my cupboards are in fairly good order. At least, for me. And I know where everything is, which is more than can be said for anything on my desk. And my button jar which has been missing for more than 2 weeks now. I've looked everywhere and decided that someone must have pinched it. I just don't know where else to look. I've declared an amnesty if it's returned. We'll see.
So the desk gives not much away because I'm working on stuff you can't see. I know, doesn't that sound incredibly secretive and DT-ish of me? It does. I sound very important in my head. But really the reason you can't see what I'm working on is because it's still in my head...this table shows the end of one card making session and nothing else, certainly not the beginning of another!

It's Ludgershall Crop this saturday, our Christmas version - apart from the Challenge, Sketch Challenge and all round chat-a-thon, it's bring Christmassy food to eat day. I love it - if you want details because you're within striking distance, let me know! Also safe to travel to this neck of the woods..not one flake of snow has settled. Not one. 18 miles up the road in Basingstoke it's all white and pretty. Nothing here. Strange but lucky!

Crop and snow aside, please show us your workdesk this Advent Wednesday. We like to see what you're doing that we aren't, and what you've got that we might need. Straight forward - photo your desk, upload to your blog and then link to your blog here. We'll visit. Slowly, because there's a lot to look at and sometimes Blogger will simply not allow comments which is very frustrating, but we're checking you out anyway!