What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 460

Afternoon WOYWWers, Friends, Followers and All,

It's Wednesday again and therefore WOYWW day too and I'm glad to report that my desk looks busy because, well, I have for a change been busy.

My mojo has well and truly returned and as you can see my one time clear desk has now got that cluttered look again. Seems I just can't help myself. That pile of pretty paper is waiting to be sorted through to create another scrap kit ready for the second part of Shimelle's class. I finally exhausted the first one - scroll down if you'd like to see all the layouts I made. The notebook is there to keep me right when choosing appropriate papers. There's a pile of photos I want to use next and another of cards made with the leftover scraps. That thing that looks like a tickling stick is my keyboard duster!

Here's close-ups of the cards.

I rooted around in my many boxes of stash and added two Kanban toppers, a couple of greetings, and several gems to the meagre pile of paper leftover scraps. I was also able to use what was left of the punched butterflies and die-cut circles and an aqua rose leftover from the last layout made.

Still enjoying audio books. I finally finished The Girl Who Played With Fire - a long and often grim read but it made compulsive listening - so I moved on to this classic, Animal Farm.

George Orwell's great socio-political allegory set on a farm is another grim read but Simon Callow is a superb narrator. I think this book is just as relevant today as it was when first published. Animals deciding to seize the farmer's land and create a co-operative that reaps the benefits of their combined labours sounds like sense but, as with all great political plans, some animals take a bigger share of the rewards than others, and what should have been animal utopia turns out to be anything but.


Currently I'm listening too The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald.

I was drawn to this title because I've been a keeper of chickens in the past - admittedly, only half a dozen gorgeous pet hens - definitely not the small chicken farm Betty MacDonald writes about. First published in 1945, this book was a best seller worldwide . Some of it is dated and even a bit shocking in parts for our 21st century sensibilities - for example, her unpleasant attitude towards Native Americans is questionable by today's standards.


Finally, Easter is almost upon us so ...

... it's time to leave the dust bunnies be because ...

That's all from me today. I'm off to make a cuppa and a bit of lunch before settling down to check out what's on everyone's desks this week.

Have a lovely WOYWW and a wonderful week ahead.