What's on your Workdesk Wednesday

Good morning everyone, writing this post this morning is very distracting as I have five burley men erecting scaffolding so they can do some work for us! (and breathe ;))

So my photo today is for the lovely lady Julia who runs the Stamping Ground blog and WOYWW. She made a comment about my desk... 

"I don't get it - I publish my mess weekly and yet you say it's too embarrassing for you - now is that you have higher standards or I've no pride?!!"

...so this week I'm going to show her what mess really is lol 

and yes, a good proportion of that lot was on my desk, probably some of it for months so now you see why I couldn't bring myself to show it :) It might, however get that way again as I really don't have the time to spend tidying up at the mo ;) 

Yes Julia, that was my daughter's IPad mini in the pink case. it can be bought from ebay. It's actually cut out and foiled rather than sparkly but it's very pretty and it reflects the light beautifully.

This is my desk just now, eek lol

Thanks for dropping by :)

What's on your work desk Wednesday?

Good morning from our very soggy corner of the world, I hope you are all ok.

I can't believe it's so long since I took part in this..it has probably been because my desk has just been such a tip I was too embarrassed to show it, yes, this has been tidied  :)

The cards you can see are to be finished and packed for Friday and the seating plan is the next thing on my list.

Pop over to Julia's Stamping Ground and see some more desks from around the world :)

Thanks for dropping by xx

Show me yours.....

and I'll show you mine!!! I mean the photo of my desk :)

This was taken at two o'clock this morning when I was putting these 50 wedding invitations together. I hadn't realised how late it was so I gave it another half hour and fell into bed!!

If you visit the Stamping Ground blog run by the lovely Julia it explains what is going on and how you can join in with the participants of What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday #195. I'm sorry I didn't comment much last week but I was struck down by the lousy flu bug and spent more time asleep than I did awake. I'm ok now apart from the cough which still hurts my chest :(

Thanks for dropping by and having a look. Please leave me a message so I can return the visit. xx

What's on yours?

Good morning world! It is early but I have loads to do so I thought I would ease myself into my day gently by posting my desk. Not literally as it would take too long to empty and wrap up but today is What's on your workdesk Wednesday #193 (organised by Julia, boss lady of the Stamping Ground blog) so here are my photos :)

 As you will see, I managed to get the side of my desk cleared to house the Ebosser and as you will also see, the boxes to make my Kanban DT samples are on the floor next to my desk! I have some wedding invitation samples to make today, there are copies of them on the Ebosser but first I need to try and get said machine working. I used it on Saturday after getting my plates stuck and getting them out again with a mallet (!) as advised, I used it on Monday and it worked fine. I went to use it yesterday with my new box die,which you can see on the picture below, and..............zilch so then it was a quick run through everything I could think of but still nothing so it was out with the trusty Big Shot.

This is my WIP basket.....blank cards with printed backs ready to make into cards, stray card bags, finished cards and anything else that ends up on my desk but doesn't have a home.

Right I'm off to find my instructions of how to bully the Ebosser into working, back soon :)

TFL x

PS the car ISN'T on  my desk lol

What's on yours?

It's Wednesday again already and today is the day we get to travel the world without moving from our desks. Mine is ready for my next wedding stationery order so although it's still not as tidy as I would like it, I have got room to work!

Balloons? They were on the tables at a wedding open evening I did last Thursday evening and the couple who do the balloons usually leave them behind and the hotel disposes of them. I wanted to match some ribbon to the beautiful teal colour of the string (which are hidden behind my overflowing basket) so he said to just take them

Right, that's it for now. If you want to know all about the What's on Your Workday world tour (!) then hop over to Julia's blog, Stamping Ground and all the info you need is there. My aim this week is to try to get all the way round all of the desks.....watch this space! :)

Back soon with the new sketch from Kathy's Waffle.
Thanks for dropping by.

WOYWW

Another week has passed in the blink of an eye so no one can have listened when I asked for 2013 to pass a little slower than 2012!! :) However, I have now revised my working week and my new timetable will begin on Sunday (even though I don't work Sunday) which is the start of my week. 

Anyway, you are here to look at my messy desk (again!) and boy, you won't be dissappointed lol. See what I mean

 The space on the far right of my desk is in the process of being cleared, believe it or not, in order to house my Ebosser as there is nowhere else for it to go where I have access to it all the time. I think this is a lot to do with why I haven't got to grips with my Craft Robo as I have to put it away all the time. :(

There you are, I told you it was messy.

If you think I should be embarrassed by the state of my desk and want to know why I'm not and am blatantly showing it for all the world to see then you will need to know that it is the fault of Julia who runs the Stamping Ground blog as she actively encourages it. Pop over to Julia's blog and you will also be able to go on a world tour looking at messy desks as well as some not so messy and even some pristine desks, but I bet there won't be many of those.

Happy travelling and I hope you come back and visit me some time :)
Bye for now

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday?

#189 is now live on Julia's blog, The Stamping Ground, if you would like to take a look and find out more about this phenomenon that is taking over the world ;). I usually forget about it until it's too late in the day to post my picture but this week I thought I would give everyone a giggle and a tip on how to keep warm. I'll be good and show a photo of my desk first though, after all, this is what the post is for :)

 I've spent the last few days making Mother's Day and Valentine's Day cards and am in the process of cleaning up to start on my new wedding orders and samples now my orders have arrived. Things always seem to take longer in the first couple of weeks of January as the suppliers catch up after the Christmas period. Talking of Christmas, has anyone started their 2013 Christmas cards yet? 

And this is my little pet who lives under my desk. There is an air brick under my window but it's under the floor in my craft room and my poor legs freeze! As you will see we bought quite a thick mat to go on the floor on top of the carpet but it hasn't made any difference as it is the space under the desk which is cold. Hubby thought this might do the trick and bought it for me as a prezzie at Christmas. It is thermostatically controlled so heats my feet really well :) Now my knees are cold but my feet are lovely and warm so my next purchase will be a small fleece to go over my knees.  My youngest daughter says I look like old Granny Grunt with it, especially when I'm knitting lol,

Right, I'm now going back to work and will leave you to go on the world tour with WOYWW, happy travelling and thanks for stopping by here.

Thanks for stopping by xx 

What's on your Workdesk Wednesday #179?

What's on your workdesk Wednesday  is the perfect place to spend a couple of hours to see what crafters around the world are up to! It's organised by the wonderful Julia from The Stamping Ground blog for all nosey people to join in with :)

So onto my desk.......a few people have mentioned the view from my desk so I'm going to show that instead of my desk today. It isn't as brilliant as some people think, it's only my front garden which is in desperate need of a make over lol. Also I was sat watching a robin scaring a blackbird out of 'his' wild rose bush the other day, you can see him right in the middle of the first picture.

My desk is positioned right in front of the window for maximum light and you can just see my lap top in the bottom of the photo. So there you are, not quite as lovely as it appears.

See you later. xx

What's on your work desk Wednesday....

is here again folks! I can't believe I haven't blogged since Friday..and I was doing so well and managing to post every day (I think) :) Not to worry. I've had a busy start to the week, I don't seem to have stopped but also I don't seem to have achieved much. I do have some cards to show thou as well as my scruffy room. It took me all afternoon today to tidy it up (again). I had only made five cards and totally destroyed the room again. I did keep a tiny space to work in again though. I'm onto samples and a stationery order again this week so it should stay relatively tidy as all my bits are neatly placed in a basket so I won't need to half empty every box I own lol

So now I will reveal my devastation :)

And here is one of the cards which caused such chaos lol (I'll add the rest later.)

I'm off to bed now, thanks for looking and I will be back later to start hopping around the blog world. Should you want to join in with us please take a look at The Stamping Ground and all will be revealed.

PS I forgot to say that I will be submitting this to the Daring Cardmakers challenge for this week as their theme is
'Don't Worry, Be Happy' 
I'd like you to make a card / project containing some 'happy', whether you choose a sentiment such as Happy Birthday or Happy Christmas, or a card that has a happy theme to it!

WOYWW #142

As it is now Wednesday, and even though I took my photograph on Tuesday, I will be working on the same order all day this should count as my entry into the What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday #142 challenge for this week. 

So what is the strange looking creature? I'm sure there will be a couple of people out there who don't know what they are so you will have to call back and visit me to see the finished result :)


If you would like to know more about what this challenge is about then please click on the link above and have a mooch round Julia's blog and see what we're up to.....after you've had a mooch round mine of course! lol


Righteo, it's bed time now so I will be back soon.


Night and thanks for visiting my blog.  xx


Ps. For those who are interested, the mini album is in the post below this one.

WOYWW #141

Wow, not only can I not believe that Wednesday here again (I'm sure someone is pinching a couple of days whilst I'm in bed!) but also how much WOYWW has grown since I started showing my desk about 6 months ago. I made a claim to myself last Wednesday that I would carry on all week and visit all the participating blogs. Well it didn't happen, I gave up last night and had visited well over 100 but not being able to sit at the lap top 24/7 (life got in the way, oh, and so did crafting). I'm still pleased with myself though. Will I manage it this week? Who knows, we are away at the weekend (while the kids are home alone, yay)


If you're not too sure what I'm waffling about, take a look at Julia's blog, The Stamping Ground where she explains all, however, you do need to be of a nosey disposition to take part lol 


Righto, on to my desk this week

It's a bit tidier than it was on Saturday I'm making a 6" x 6" album at the moment and these are the snippets I'm using for it.


Have a wonderful day and don't work too hard :)

What's on your workdesk Wednesday

is here again and it's to go for a nosey around the desks of crafters from all over the world. Don't know what I'm wittering about then take a trip over to Julia's fab blog, The Stamping Ground for all the details.

I shall try to do better this week, I spent far too much time reading the blogs I visited last week and didn't get round many blogs at all. This week I shall visit quickly and make a note of the blogs I want to revisit then I can do it all at my leisure :)

Thanks for visiting.