What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday # 798

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

Gosh, nearly forgot it was Wednesday again. 

We are deep in the throes of renovating downstairs to create an open plan kitchen/diner/lounge. It will suit us better going forward and when (eventually) it is just Kevin and I here. (He won't be able to hide in the living room while I am cooking). Also much better for get togethers now that the family is getting bigger both in numbers and physical size!! 

It's gonna be about 6 weeks in total in stages - I'm already frazzled. 

In between I have been retreating to the craft room but I am mainly occupied sorting the kitchen cupboards. This is my desk.

Don't ask. It is for a steam punk themed swap. I put it aside for a while, now I don't know where I was going with it. 

Anyhoo that's it for me. Off for a nosey.

Love n hugs

Cindy xx

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #797

Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

Hello all, I'm back again. Just got back from a family holiday in Spain, 10 adults and Lionel who has just turned 18 months.  Or should I say Lionel and his 10 attendants. 

With one thing and another there has been no crafting for me lately - I should be prepping for a craft fair on Saturday but frankly can't be arsed and the thought of standing outside for a whole day has no appeal so I have cancelled. 

Missing the sun already and been back less than 24 hours. 

So all I have for you is holiday photos. Will try and get round everyone this week.

Love n hugs,

Cindy xx

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #793

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

Well, have I been feeling sorry for myself or what? We finally get some decent weather and I tweak my back (no idea how) and have been unable to do anything for the last two weeks. Plans cancelled left right and centre, couldn't  garden, couldn't stand, couldn't walk, couldn't go out, couldn't even do anything in my craft room. I did watch a lot of the Olympics. But I am feeling better now and nearly back to my normal almost functioning self.

I have nothing to show, the desk is pretty bare as the back went just after I'd had a tidy up day, so I have pulled out some gelli prints. Did these well over a  year ago. Can't quite think what they were for, some ambitious project I'm sure. Colours are nice. 

So that's me checking in. 

Hope you are all well. Love n hugs Cindyxx

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #791

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

A different desk pic for me this week - it was too hot in my South facing craft room to get in there yesterday afternoon so I decided to start a bit of crafty sorting - starting with my many copies of that old favourite 'Craft Stamper'. 

Before regretfully assigning them to the skip I had a quick trundle through to remind myself of forgotten techniques and projects, removing a few pages to keep and possibly act on. The page in front of me caught my interest - you'll see why if you look closely. Next month's craft class project sorted I think.

We had a bit of a family 'do' at the weekend as we all met to celebrate Little Splodge's christening. He was an angel during the service and we all decanted to a local park for a celebratory picnic. There were so many of us it looked more like a small encampment than a family get together!!

Well that's it from me, hoping to get round a few peeps before the heat forces me out of my room again. Enjoy the glorious weather, drink water and laze about. 

Love n hugs,

Cindyxx

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #788

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

Here's my desk: 

Yes, I am that sad person who writes when they last re-inked their ink pads. 

But I am pleased to report I have been doing some crafting that wasn't a card.  This is for a (very overdue) swap for someone I'm pretty sure has no idea about WOYWW so I'm taking a chance and posting because there is diddly squat else here to shout about.

Sorry to have been away but the last couple of weeks I was getting a bit overwhelmed (mainly with fun things to do so don't get all concerned for me) and unfortunately something had to give!! 

Still haven't resolved the weird photo saving/uploading problem but for now I have found a work around. Resolving it will have to wait until I have time (ie never) or when the workaround stops working,

Have a great week, 

Love n Hugs Cindyxx 

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday 785

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

sorry I was awol last week but I was away with my sisters. Much fun was had, but my desk is in a much neglected state so here are a few photos from that last card class. My ladies  fell in love with the Bokeh idea and did themselves proud. 

Unfortunately I can't seem to upload any new photos right now so I shall have to post without and see if I can edit later as I think this may take some time to resolve. (My computer appears to be saving my images with a .jfif extension, I am just pushing the same buttons I usually do. The server is rejecting them. Any ideas?)

I also can't seem to capitalise the first letter of the second paragraph....

Have a great week from me, sitting here, refusing to let this stress me out.....

Cindyxx

What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday #783

 Morning deskers, welcome to our weekly Wednesday Blog Hop WOYWW which is now being hosted at Sarah Brennan's blog. Here's the link for that lovely lady - Sarah's Craft Shed - pop on over and join in, see what it's all about and join in yourself.

Oh dear.  Views of my desk at 10.00 pm on Tuesday.

Now, both these surfaces were absolutely clear at 10.00 am, no mean feat as I did a craft fair on Saturday and then was out and about all day Sunday. However it took by my estimate less than an hour to reduce my tidy craft room to this horror. In my defence I had to prep for my card class on Friday and had started pulling things out of boxes willy nilly as I tried to pin down exactly what I was going to do. It's gonna be a large class (10 currently signed up) which brings it's own challenges in regard to materials and tools but I am trying to work round that. We are going to try and do a bokeh effect background like this.  

Would you believe that despite my vast number of stamps I could not find a suitable floral silhouette stamp the right size/orientation? So am having to improvise to create my own 'cluster' which is why I pulled out so much stuff.

Sigh.  I'm sure we will manage, there's always a Lavinia fairy!!!!

I'll just finish with a couple of photos of my little splodge, who will be with me tomorrow. Just love him to bits.  

Have a great week!!