WOYWW 286

This is my desk... actually this is my desk yesterday evening while I was making an envelope to wrap a scarf for my friend's Mum who is having her 80th birthday this weekend.  

I decided to make a little post it note holder while I was sitting there... she might find that handy as she has a much busier diary than most people who are half her age! ;)

Oh and I also had a tidy up in the corner of the scraproom, so bit by bit I am finding things and homing them properly!  It could take a while but I will get there in the end! LOL

If you are wondering why I am showing you my desk then pop over to Julia's and she will explain it all, then join in and have a good nosey at all sorts of wonderful crafts! 

WOYWW 4th April 2012

Here we go again with the blog hop through the crafty desks of the world!!  If you aren't sure what I am talking about then you really need to pop over to the Keeper of the Desks and find out... and ask where you have been hiding yourself for the last couple of years!!

This is my desk at the moment... yes, you could say not a lot has changed since last week but honestly I have been working on the tutorial every spare moment!! Chris was home from site for a few days and left lunchtime to return to work, so hopefully I will get this finished in the next day or two... 

I have had to deal with plumbers installing new taps and sinks in the bathrooms... mannies coming to measure up the rooms for new carpets and floor coverings because we are putting the house on the market in a month ready for us to leave Canada in July/August.... so the nightmare begins... packing up my scrap room and selling all the furniture.... urgh... I am dreading it.  On the plus side, I am going home!!  It will be nice to be in my own home again... its been 4 years and I am ready... just got to get through the intervening nightmare, pack and arrange the shipping and go to Michaels and buy everything in sight because I won't have that anymore!! ;)

WOYWW 28th March 2012

Good grief... it can't be!!  Wednesday again?  Look what I found when I was out shopping yesterday?  I had to pick them up... love the packaging with all the doodling on it... almost an ideal snack for a scrappy person, don't you think?

This is my work desk at the moment... I making another of the Less Patient books with the drawers so that I can write a tutorial for it... it could take me a while!!

Sitting together on the sofa behind me are the cats... unusual for them to be up close and personal with each other so Pandy must have been feeling the chill and searched Tom-Tom for the heat!!  I know it is now officially spring and at home in Scotland they are enjoying a veritable heatwave... here in Calgary it is not so spring-like... had snow yesterday so obviously Mother Nature didn't get the memo about spring arriving...

I had a tidy up in the basement this week... and moved the furniture about a bit so both desks are next to each other now.

and my little lounge bit behind me now looks like this...

Here's the full on version... computer desk to the left, scrap room at the rear and lounge bit to the right.

If you are wondering why I am showing you my scrap space... pop over to Julia's to find out the details and the linky list of lovely crafty places to visit.

WOYWW 21st March 2012

it's Wednesday again already????

aren't they brilliant?  Chris found them in Michaels when we were shopping and popped them into the trolley for me.  They look great in the windowsill of my scraproom - I took them down for the pics because the light behind in the window did weird things to my camera.  

This is what my desk looks like at the moment... I am making 7" x 5" circle journal pages for a swap group I am in and I didn't have any envelopes that were that size... so as I happen to have quite a bit of spare 12 x 12 paper sitting in the corner (ahum... quite a bit... read tonnes) I decided to make use of some of it to make the required size envelopes for the pages to be posted off in. 

I think they look pretty good and cost me nothing... and who doesn't like to get pretty mail sometimes?  I have even bought lovely big international stamps from the post office for them... (and why am I telling you this?  because here in Canada if you want to use a postage stamp you pay 5% extra)!!!  Yep... how insane is that?  They always print out the postage at the till and stick this piece of paper on everything... but I really did want some of those pretty stamps and I am sure the swap ladies will enjoy them...

and at the back of my desk is the lovely WOYWW badge that arrived in the post today!!  Thank you so much Julia, I will wear it around town and see if anyone recognises it but at the moment it is sitting on my noticeboard in rather good company with my G45 badge!!

If you are wondering why I am showing your desk... well, I guess someone out there may not have heard of the wonders of WOYWW so just follow this link to the desk of  chief inspectors of desks the world over and check out this noseyness fest of craft desks that covers the entire world.

WOYWW 15th February 2012

Happy Valentines Day... I can say that because here it still is... for a few more hours at least!! ;)  So now to show what is on my work desk today....

Hmmm, yes, it looks a little manic... in the front bit is a canvas I am working on... I tried painting on it but it was not good so I have now just about managed to cover all signs of my artwork with paper and ribbon and stuff!!  It just needs some rearranging and sticking down... at the back is a pile of matchsticks because I am trying to do a tutorial for the little book of secrets... anyone know what to do with loads of matches, please tell me!!

This is what I woke up to this morning... which was a bit of a surprise as its been quite mild lately and I was getting used to not having snow!!  My friend and I had arranged to go get some retail therapy so I was out early and got it all put to rights before she arrived!!

If you look at the two photos you can see that the sun has moved across the houses opposite... yep, it took 45 minutes of shovelling to clear it all away.  

Whilst out shopping I found this noticeboard... nice one eh?  Shame I didn't have it last week so that I could have done some proper names for Donna's Paris photos quizz... typical. 

Oh and this teapot fell into my basket... I know... it has nothing to do with scrapping and Julia will probably be around to kick my butt... but it is fab, isn't it?  and I always have a cup of tea near my work desk!!  LOL

and this is what Chris bought me for Valentine's Day... yay!!  Now I can open it and have a play... just as soon as I have rescued the canvas... 

WOYWW 8th February 2012

Our esteemed leader of the desks, Julia,  has really got me moving this evening... its only teatime here!! :)  So another week has disappeared but I do feel as though I am back into some form of groove and creating again.

I thought I would go from the distant angle this week... for two reasons... the jigsaw puzzle on the desk is a gift for someone who visits and has been owed for many months now so I don't want her to see the details and I am also trying not to stand in a pile of glitter which landed on my chair and floor and... yeah, glitter... so my next task will be to try and vacuum it all up!! Amazing how far that stuff can travel without any assistance at all!!  At the back of my desk you can see the secret drawers mini book which got finished this week (details if you are interested are in the previous post to this).  

What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday 1st February 2012

Oh my goodness me... February already?  I didn't do enough in January yet!! ;)  So here we are with another Wednesday upon us and the phenomenom of people noseying about other work desks, floors, beds etc... don't forget to check out Julia's for the linky list!!

On the side of my work desk this week is my new toy!!  Chris bought it for me when we were in Michaels the other day because my old cutter had started cutting crooked.  We had a couple of vouchers so managed to pick this beauty up for 40% off and 25% off the 40%... which made it go from the most expensive cutter in the store to a very reasonably priced one!! ;)

and it unfolds to use so doesn't take up very much space.

Also on my work desk are the results of a trip to the Home Depot... we were there to get some plumbing bits and I wondered into the kitchen section and found racks of samples for kitchen work tops!!  Wooo hooo... they are fabulous and now all I have to do is think of a way to use them!! LOL (The Home Depot mannie asked me if I was getting new kitchen work tops soon and I said no... but he didn't make me put them back)!!   Then I wondered down the aisle that sells the vinyl siding which coats all the houses here... and promptly took an assortment of those too... and a quick bypass of the Martha Stewart paint chips and I was set up for serious playing materials all for free!!

Aren't they pretty?  I can see them on a canvas with letters... a little mini book.... oh lots of ideas are floating about but suggestions are always welcome!!

What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday 18th January 2012

This is what I have at the moment... and it is Tuesday evening here so I have -49 degrees C with the wind chill to look forward to while everyone is waking up in the UK!!  Aaaah!!  I was taking the garbage out this evening and by the time I had wheeled the two bins to the edge of the road I couldn't feel my fingers anymore...  so I think hibernation with the two cats for company is the answer!!

A friend sent me this... it made me laugh at least!! 

So this is what my desk looks like... another book for the swap I am in so you'll have to wait to see the finished articles once they arrive back in the UK... that is if I ever manage to get out of the house to mail them!!

Don't forget to check out the linky list at Madame Julia's abode!!

What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday - 11th January 2012

Where did that week disappear to?  I have been busy making some books for a swap I am in... the first one is finished but I can't show it to you as it supposed to be a surprise for the recipient.

So it is hidden underneath that white sheet of paper.  I went with Julia's trick of standing on a chair to take the photo... it does make it a different viewpoint when seen from the ceiling!!  You can see on the desk at the front a teeny weeny little book that I am playing with... I am trying to teach myself how to sew signatures properly... it would have perhaps been smartest to learn on something a little bigger but I love how it has turned out and now I know that a normal size book will be a piece of cake!!

Isn't it cute?  All sewn and stitched by hand... 

This is the front cover and as you can see it is teeny!!

I forgot to add the photo of the gorgeous Doone art doll that arrived in my mailbox last week... she is lovely and resides hanging from my windowsill.... so far the cats have ignored her which is brilliant!!

Don't forget to go over to Julia's for the linky list... and I promise to get more visiting done this week... straight after I shovel the driveway of the snow... it's a bit nippy out there at the moment at -11 degrees C.

What's on You Workdesk Wednesday 4th January 2012

Happy New Year!!  I have been a bad blogger... I sort of disappeared into Christmas and having Chris home and haven't even played at my desk with anything so had nothing to say that would be slightly interesting to folk!!

Tom-Tom looking slightly bemused with the amount of wrapping paper and ribbon to play with...

and Pandy checking out the goodies that may be available to steal when I am not looking..

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and a lovely New Year and I know that many returned to work this week.  My decs are down and put away and I am trying to get used to that bare dull look of the lounge which is the after effects of removing all the bling and twinkling lights.

The only thing on my work desk is my Christmas Journal.... and oh ye of little faith... all my little tags fit!!  Just some writing up and maybe a bit of tweaking here and there to do!!

Oh and it is my birthday today!!  Another year older and hopefully wiser...  I plan to make a trip to my local scrap store who give you a discount on your birthday... yay!! ;)

These are my present from Chris... $50 gold coins... one for each year I have been in Canada.  I have just reminded him that I spent 5 years in South Africa and Krugerrands are quite pretty... ;)

Don't forget to check out the linky list to crafty desks held by our wonderful leader, Julia!!

What's on Your Work Desk Wednesday - 20th July 2011

Here we are with another Wednesday creeping up on us!!  Don't forget to go and check out the linky list at Madame Julia's for loads of inspiration.

 On my desk is some chipboard which is about to turn into book covers... and at the back left you can see my latest storage spinny thing which Chris got me.

 To the right of my desk is a set of drawers and some more storage... I had a move about during the week but  I am not sure it is going to stay like that as I miss the flat surface for putting stuff down whilst I am working.

and this is a sneak preview of a book I have been working on... this is my page about the show we went to last week - Wicked.  It was... well, wicked, really!! LOL  The only downside to the evening was that this man who had to be at least 7'6" tall came and sat down in front of me... and he had big ears... so I spent the first half giving myself a crick in the neck trying to see around him!!  It just goes to show that you can pay $118.00 for a seat and not be guaranteed a view of the stage!!  Chris was a true gentleman and swapped seats with me for the second half so I had a clear view and he had a crick in his neck!! :)