WOYWW or What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday...

It is a beautiful morning here, pretty hot already so TomTom and I decided that it would be a good day to walk to the beach.  TomTom is more doglike that cat... he thinks taking a walk with us is completely normal!

He runs along finding spots of shade where he can...

and heads for the beach umbrellas because fur coats aren't ideal in 35 degrees!

Which brings me back to the cool airconditioned house and the scrap room... and what is on my desk today.  Actually its a bit more 'where is my desk today' than what is on it... it was sold and collected yesterday so this is pretending to be my desk this morning.  I am making up the kit for the final scrap class this weekend.

I think I have it all ready to go... and can now pack the rest of the stuff up!

This is what we are going to make in class!

Here is the inset of the wall hanging, I love the Zutter Hang It Alls, they are so much fun!

I had such huge problems last week with blogger and trying to leave comments, so if you didn't get one from me... it wasn't from not trying but that they never appeared and I got kicked out Google every time I left one... Chris finally changed IE over to Chrome and that improved things but even today Blogger is messing about with the photos and some are coming out but others aren't.... so sorry if this post is a mess!

Go check on the list of girls at Julia's place... I never realised how many lovely nosey people there were in Bloggerland!! LOL

A Little Retail Therapy...

I went into Jubail this morning and popped into one of my favourite shops, Big World.  Big World is sort of like a 99p shop but the stuff is better and the prices are lower! LOL I thought I had better stock up on ribbons and other bits before we leave here in a couple of months.

Look at all those lovely ribbons and flowers and threads... to be seen on a mini book near you soon!!

I love these bracelets... they look fab hanging off the spine of a mini book.

oooh, and I found these!!  Aren't they lovely?  Would have neither the skill or the patience required in making them so they are a brill find!!

I also found a set of three trunk type boxes which are going to be great in my scrap room at home and they are so pretty, I really don't have to do anythign to them!

I decided the biggest one was great for the ribbons I just bought!

Zutter's are giving away Hang-It-Alls Kits on the Bind It All blog, just a couple of days left to get your name down for a chance to win some!!  I haven't managed to get my mitts on any of these yet but they look like they will be heaps of fun for beyond the page stuff!  Leave  comment and you may win!!

On the Move Again...

Well, after 5 months of living in the villa on the beach, we are moving again... down the road to another compound called Pearl Beach. Its a smaller house and I can't see the sea... but the beach with its own coral reef is just a five minute walk away so I don't think I'll moan too much! LOL I'll certainly miss Odie and Efty, my neighbours, we have become very close and spend large chunks of the day in each others houses... well, that's me in theirs... Odelia makes frothy coffee in the morning and I pop in to chat and drink mine, then in the afternoon, Brigette makes frothy coffee and I pop in to hers to imbibe and chat!! Heck its a hide life being an expat wife!! ;)

This is a gatefold album I made for Brigette about her two boys. Cosmo Cricket papers, which are perfect for the theme and I used the Zutters rivets on the closure and the back to make little feet for the book to rest on. I love hammering those things... its so satisfying!





These are a set of three books I made for us girls as a keepsake of the good fun and friendship we have enjoyed in the past few months. Used Luxe and Daisy D's papers in black and white with red as the accent colour - definitely one of my favourite colour combos.

We had a dressing session and tried on the hijab just to see what its like... what a hoot - even Chris couldn't pick me out from the 3 photos (even though I am the only one with blue eyes)!!

I must admit, its one of the things that occured to me when I first came here... once these women are totally covered up... how the heck do their husbands or kids know who is who in the chaos of the supermarket... Chris said I had to keep my cellphone on me, if I got lost he would call me and he would take the one home that was ringing.... Well, one day I was abayah clad and standing in line at the supermarket check-out and I felt this little tug at my abayah... looking down there was this tiny little chap hanging on to my black abayah for dear life... obviously believing that he was holding onto his Mum... imagine his expression when he finally looked up and met my smiling face looking down at him!! I sort of pointed him the direction of another black abayah before he screamed blue murder and he went off and clutched onto her instead!!