WOYWW - 347!

I thought I would join in with Julia's What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday this morning... this is my scrap desk and I have Chris' mini book of his 40 years of working with Fluor and all the countries he worked in during that time... I am as far as Canada so the end is in sight! 

I started this book about 12 years ago so have been adding in all the overseas assignments from that point on... South Africa, Saudi, Canada, Australia, Netherlands...

oh and I thought I would show you my other desk... this is my computer desk so where I waste the most of my time!

and I am giving you the complete tour... this is the desk just inside my sun lounge next to the scrap room... and it has my sewing machine on it but it is a handy place to overflow onto if I have someone to come and visit and play.

Pandy and Tom-Tom say hi!

Looking forward to visiting lots of desks to see what everyone is up to!

T on Tuesday

I am joining Elizabeth for T on Tuesday and as you can see this particular Tuesday has been designated as sort the ribbon stash out.... again.....

the ribbon on reels aren't too bad but these always end up at the bottom of the large box and I forget to search down that far when I am looking for a particular sort or colour.

and this canvas storage box is full of larger ribbons and lace and ric-rac

and I am hoping that it will be 'a piece of cake' as it says on my frothy coffee mug.... but I think it may take a while....

oh and we finally got some of the masks back on the lounge wall!  I have kept the numbers down this time and made it into a feature piece rather than try and display every mask I own.  Yes, the picture at the top of my blog was my lounge wall previously.... 

and this it with both the uplighters and downlighters on... think it looks quite nice! ;)

Looking forward to visiting all the T ladies between ribbon sorting!

T on Tuesday

I am joining Elizabeth for T on Tuesday with a photo from last week... it was my 60th Birthday on the 4th January!  This is me in yellow with my much younger bff Louise... our two boys have been friends since primary school. Chris arranged a lovely meal for me with friends and Christopher and we had a lovely evening.

Louise, Sarah and Chris...

and my son, Christopher, who drove for an hour in horrendous rain to join us for dinner.

I have to admit that I failed at the outset of this year... said I would blog regularly and this my first post! LOL   I have been busy honest... putting away Christmas and then my birthday and then starting the diet...

yes... back on the green smoothies for breakfast... 

and I have done some scrapbooking!

This was a page I did for a class I taught to a group of ladies on the 6th January.

It was a lovely class, the 15 ladies were total non-crafty types and they had such fun putting their pages together.

This is the slide out tag for the details of the photo.

and a scrap page of when Chris and I visited Lake Louise in Banf in Alberta when we were living in Calgary. 

I know... and it really feels great to be getting back into crafting mode again after such a long time of feeling mojo less and drifting in the sludge of too much stuff, too many jobs around the house and trying to find a new routine.

T(ea) on Tuesday

I am joining Elizabeth and Bleubeard for T on Tuesday with a cup of tea... nothing fancy, just plain old breakfast tea.

When I was shopping last week I found this black tin with the Keep Calm logo on it and picked it up to go with the one the one from Bridget in Australia.  The Christmas tree tin is a revolving music box shortbread biscuit tin I got in Marks and Spencers for half price... gotta love a bargain!

I made these two mug rugs for a friend for Crimbo... love that material, perfect for T on Tuesday!

Tree is up and I am ready for Christmas.... well, nearly ready for Christmas.... will be soon... sort of... mayb.... ;)

Will be around to visit the other T ladies after breakfast..... 

T on Tuesday

I am joining Elizabeth for T on Tuesday and showing off my new toy.... a new Tassimo coffee machine and today I am enjoying a Costa caffe latte in my Keep Calm mug that Chris bought me when we were in Brisbane.

I sat last night and made a set of cards, just quick simple ones that can be adapted for lots of different occasions.  They are a present for a friends Mum for Christmas as she loves to send snail mail.

This is a new Sissix die I bought this week so I am giving it a good try out!

Shiny butterflies are very hard to photograph... this looks a lot nice in real life...

Another shiny version... it looks lovely when its sitting on the desk, honest! 

Cut these butterflies from a delicate see through paper and they look like lace now.

So that is me, now need to make them a box or a folder to keep them in... should keep me busy for an hour or two this morning!