What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 830

Hello Everyone,

This is so late. I try to write this post on Tuesday evenings but yesterday was such a beautiful day, and we have had so few beautiful days recently, that I stayed out in the garden way too long. All that fresh air was so good for me that I slept like a log, woke late, and I've been chasing my tail ever since. 

Not the best photo of what's on my desk now that it's daylight and the sunshine is poring in on what is going to be my next project. As of later today I will be joining in Shimelle's new class. I may have mentioned before that I have challenged myself to use up all the lovely but neglected paper collections/kits that have accumulated somehow - I wonder how! - in my craftroom. Shimelle's very timely class, a follow on from last year's This Year's Story, aims to help me do just that. Use it up!!

Threatening to topple over on the right hand side of the desk is a pile of pages removed from my very first album. Not just removed but rescued. The album was amongst the boxes stored in the shed since we moved into this flat/apartment. Turns out the shed is very damp and so are the contents of the boxes that still remain.  I intend to replace the shed with a new one soon but in the meantime I need to empty the remaining boxes, many of which are full of crafting stuff. Such a shame.

Not still in the shed is this lovely box of enamel dots. I spent an hour or so sorting through them on Sunday. It was a cold rainy day so I had no reason not to. I'm still trying to get the craftroom organised to perfection but it's proving an uphill task. This is a much smaller room than the one I had in Ayr and it also has to double up as the very occasional guest room. Apart from anything else, I'm struggling to get rid of stuff. I've already gifted a gazillion stamps to a beginner crafter and I've still got more to house somewhere. Just not that awful damp shed. Not the worst problem to have given what's happening in the rest of the world today!

Pages made recently:

06/2025 - They Met at the Dancing

I was inspired by the Making Memories, 'Tie the Knot' patterned paper to record how my late parents met in 1945. The layout is based on a Scrap-a-Sketch No. 128, Jul/Aug 2024 and the papers are from Ella Bonella's 'Cherished' kit. Everything else, including the fussy-cut flowers, is from old stash.

07/2025 - Hello Massachusetts

This was the work in progress on last week's desk. Another trip down memory lane for me as I record the trip Alan and I took together in 1996 motoring from Rockport to Plymouth on the Massachusetts coast. Alan, a Mancunian to the core, was delighted to discover Manchester-by-the-Sea. It made him chuckle because, of course, Manchester, England, is nowhere near the sea. 

The sketch the layout is base on is from a 2013 issue of Scrap 365 magazine - sadly now no longer published. Papers from the same Ella Bonella kit as above and also as before stickers and embellishments from old stash. 

This is the view from the craftroom window. Have you ever seen such narrow steps? They need to be broadened for safety's sake. Another job for the future. 

That's about it for this week. Like this post, comments will be late. I have a garden which still needs a lot of work so that's where I will be this afternoon. To see more creative workdesks pop over to Sarah's blog, Sarah's Craft Shed. If you don't already do so, feel free to join in the fun and show us what's on your workdesk this Wednesday. You'll be made most welcome.

I'll leave you with just a few photos taken in the garden yesterday.

Spanish Bluebells

Pansies

Clematis 'Elizabeth'

Aquilegia

Take care everyone,

Elizabeth