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wow this is addicting, I get excited on a tuesday evening and try to make my desk look industrious and creative for when I come home from work to do the post.  Dont suppose I'm no 1 today, LOL

Thanks to everyone who visits and leaves a comment I love hearing from you all and try to get back to snoop at yours too, some peeps I cant seem to leave a comment so sorry about that.

This week I am altering a jewellery box I got in our local charity shop for £1.50, Ive only just started, Ive gesso'ed some of it and have pulled the nasty pink lining off, was sat last night trying to pick off the remains of it, got the wardrobe side done and one of the drawers, doesnt come off easily, grrrr.
Sat and watched BB whilst doing it, anyone else watching, I've watched all the others so in for a penny in for a pound, I've got a strange thing for John James for those in the know!!!  In my minds eye I have a great vision for this piece, luxurious inside and journal effect painting on the outside, whether it will turn out like that is another thing, LOL.

Also on the desk my order from 3d jeans arrived today some alcohol ink and two u/m rubber stamps, that are cute but quirky.

Spot the pride of place Kathryn Wheel ATC, have sent her one of these below and the other is for the lovely Julia, to thank her for my easel.

Happy WOYWW'ing everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Well what can I show you this week, for a start I havent re-organised my craft space I have actually done some crafting, finished off my sisters birthday card ( it was yesterday) only put it in post today, why is it so hard to find somewhere that sells the large stamps, grrrrrrr  She'll never know (LOL), sent her a piccie of it and she was dead chuffed, (phew), also did journal page and made the ma in laws birthday card, both of these are in main view of desk photo.

Thank you to everyone for all their kind comments on my workspace and the sad demise of card shop, it is quite irritating as only local shop to do Tim Holtz and ranger stuff, and they had the most phenomonal sales, well worth getting out of bed early for, now I have to buy online which of course I dont mind, but always feel as paying postage need to spend more to make it worth the while!!!! (crafty logic).

Im sorry to everyone I dont get to see each week, but am trying to work my way aound everyones posts, but no way can do 90+ blogs, as Im too nosey and end up looking at everything else as well, so Im doing  20 or so a week, depending on time.

Also in photo is my altered WOYWW easel, see I have been busy this week, think it might be a wee bit dark but had great fun doing it, also on desk are the new inks from Dyan at Art from the Heart, would highly reccomend they are luscious, in fact used them on journal page background.

Photo's all taken last night as had to work today, I know its such a cheek isnt it, dont my employers realise its WOYWW, and Im needed elsewhere,  LOL

Have a good one everyone and thanks you for visiting......

Oops nearly forgot link, here it is WOYWW

Journal Backgrounds

Enjoyed doing this, using lots of Kate Cranes techniques, check her out here,  just cant quite think of the journalling yet, gotta be something along the lines of when one door closes another one opens, but that is as far as the brain cells have got . . . I'm loving my sequin waste, perhaps a wee bit overboard on it, but hey ho, also used my new Eco Green Crafts paints, got 5 from the craft barn and they are  really yumptions to use.

Am really proud of this one, love the colouring and have drawn in the lines using my wavy ruler, all ready for the journalling, again thats as far as the brain cells have got again, its the heat I reckon, moves all thoughts apart from "HOT" from my brain.This one has words on, what a miracle, not many mind, but better than nought, LOL, love the model picture, have had it for ages waiting for it to be stuck somewhere.

This one just evolved from me mucking about, first made a quilt of colours from my DI pads, just pressed on, then added water and let it run around, then added loads of pics, added some of Dyans letters, then doodled away, found it quite hard to stop myself, kept seeing more bits I could do.

Hope you are all having a great weekend, got Dyans new InkSprays yesterday so gonna play with them later on.

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So on my desk today we have my attempt to make my sister's birthday card, its on the 6th July but have no idea when she will get it as she is working in Saudi at the moment, and to send post there, you might as well throw it in the bin and save the hassle, so will send it to her home address, though I could send her an email with a photo of it, yes I think I will do that, haha problem solved.

For those eagle eyed about you will notice that my desk has been re-organised again, now having only done it the week before that could be called obsessive, but I have a grand excuse.  And it goes like this, a local card shop has given up retail selling and classes and was selling of all its furniture, and below you will see the wonderful set of shelves I got, which display all my paints and things lovely, perhaps if I can see and stroke them more often I will actually use them, now that took the place of another shelf set I had, so I ended up moving that onto my desk (aka dining table), I think its worked out lovely and will now try NOT to rearrange area again, (well defn not this month).

I also today received my WOYWW easel, so thank you very much Julia, you are so kind to have done that, am now thinking of ways to personalise it and am thinking some metal tape, dont know how it will work out, but I shall post it for you to see in the future. Also stolen someones brillinat idea for using bulldog clips to hold scissors and such like.

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Happy WOYWW to everyone.......   :)

Wahayy its WOYWW

Well as you can see it's nice and tidy, but not a lot going on, so I thought I would give you a 360 round my craft area, its in the conservatory at the back of the house, when I started crafting I had a magazine rack and everything fitted in there, as you can see things have progressed significantly since then, about 5 years I reckon since the obsession began. 

As you can see I like to be tidy and enjoy tidying things up into their right place, love cruising the local charity shops for shelves and things I can use to store things, and of course I love a good craft sale, the big chest of drawers is full of other things like finance stuff (yeuk) and old sewing stuff, lots of spare material for things I was going to make and never got around to, I was never a natural at sewing, but lo and behold on my 21st birthday (last year . . LOL) I got a sewing machine just like my sister, i was so unimpressed with it, but I have learnt to appreciate it over the years. The drawers have seen better days and one day my OH will get around to realigning the drawers, not holding my breath for that one to happen.The sewing machine is the piccie is a mini one so much quicker and easier to use for crafty stuff, and I love a VW camper van, should have been a surf chick in another life.  The pink cupboard was another charitiy shop find for £2, was a wardrobe for a dolls clothes, needs a shelf and perhaps some grunging up, but I love it, next piccie shows the hatch to the kitchen and my wall of art, video cases have all my unmounted stamps in and are organised in categories, you can never have enough stamps, two drawers full of wood ones and another drawer with Tim H stamps

and finally back to the desk and an old TV stand that holds the things I use a lot, my laptop, my heatgun and the minstrels, hehe.  Hope you enjoyed the 360, follow this link to get to WOYWW so you can go and nosey around more worktops.