Wednesday, 25 February 2026

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!


Wednesday, 11 February 2026

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! 


Wednesday, 4 February 2026

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.