What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 594

 Hello Everyone

Welcome back to my blog.It's been a while. Again. I try to write at least the one post a week, on Wednesday, joining in with all the wonderful deskers for What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday, hosted by our fabulous Julia over on the Stamping Ground. I try, but more recently it's been a struggle. For the moment. Things will improve - eventually. In the meantime, here's what's on my desk today.

I'm debating on how best to use this lovely piece of paper. That flower is just too lovely to cover up. The other bits and pieces may, more likely may not, be used on the next scrapbook page I put together. And that brings me to a problem that has been exercising the old grey matter this week. It's embellishments. They are taking over this craft room. In short, I have too many.

On this tray is just a small sampling. They're sort of sorted into colours - it's a bit hit and miss but it does make selecting those most suitable for a layout easier. It's clear that I have to admit to having far too many. I should stop buying, no matter how tempting. 

And perhaps that should apply to papers too. A few years ago I sorted my papers into colours too but that has proved to be less than satisfactory; especially when making up my homemade kits. The problem is that most are double sided and the main colour on each side can be quite different. More sorting's been done. A much more simplified system this time. All I've done this time is split the sheets into those patterns I consider suitable for using as the layout base and the rest. And it's down to Annie's Crafty Bear to keep the stack in order!

I don't have anything more to add really, no funny, no book - though I've just started listening to Richard Osman's 'Thursday Murder Club' - instead, given that it's October and Halloween is fast approaching, here's my 'and finally' ...

This is Mylo, the most adorable little pumpkin and the latest puppy to join our extended family. He's been adopted into the eldest of our grandson's family. Sadly, the latest restrictions have prevented us from meeting him yet but I can't wait to cuddle him.

Have a great WOYWW and a good week, whatever the restrictions in your part of the world. 

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 592

 Hello Everyone,

Wednesday afternoon - again!  And another chance to snoop around all your crafty desks/tables/floors with the help of Julia, our revered Head Desker, on What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday over on the Stamping Ground. 

On my desk today. The photo was actually taken on Tuesday afternoon. You can see the sunlight was bright, so much so I had to lower the window blind. Such a shame because sunshine has been scarce recently around this little corner of Scotland. There's a latte, there has to be a latte. It's my current favourite tipple. And it's only another partly done scrapbook on the desk. It's for a little private challenge I'm participating in. The background is a messy inky one using the packaging technique and yellow liquid watercolour (a Pinkfresh product). The stamp set on the left is Artisan Textures (from Stampin' Up) waiting to be used on the background too. 

As if by magic, here's the finished page.

Have I mentioned my love of latte? This page makes me happy. The colours, especially that yellow, are so cheerful. Yellow has, up till now, been my least favourite colour. Certainly one I'd never wear! But it's now a colour I use often in scrapbook pages. I can only put it down to all the bad stuff we've been through this summer. The brightness of yellow lifts the spirits. 

And finally:

I can't argue with that!

That's all for now. 

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - Week 591

 Hello Everyone, 

Wednesday again and another chance to take a snoopy look at all your crafty desks/tables/floors with the help of Julia, Head Desker, over at the Stamping Ground. 

And this is what's on my desk today. I had reason ... okay, it's for a scrappy challenge ... to search through my entire stash of 12x12 cardstock and patterned papers yesterday. A mammoth task. I was looking for anything Kraft. There was a time when Kraft was the favoured alternative to black and white scrappy backgrounds but not, it seems, so much today if what I found is anything to go by - just one sheet of cardstock! When it comes to scrapping looks like we're a fickle lot - or is it simply that there's far too much choice available. I know I can't keep up with all the new scrapbooking collections/supplies launched several times a year - not that I'd even try. I digress, back to what's on the desk. During the search I discovered this box of cut-aparts. The victim of one of my many sorting sessions.  Most go back to 2014/2015 but a few are from 2012. So now it's my job to sort through the box and, hopefully, find a use for them on future layouts. A difficult task but someone has to do it. 

I thought you might be interested to know what happened to the home made kit and the Heidi Swapp Color Magic Note that was on my desk last week. 

This great photo of the EM was taken on holiday in Jersey in 1998 ... a lovely memory of one of the many happy days we had on the island. 

And finally, Facebook has been very kindly reminding me daily of the fun times we've had in previous years ... reminding us too of the fun we're missing this year ... and this is today's memory.

I love this photo from the 2017 WOYWW crop of Annie, Jan and Julia concentrating on learning to dumf. Hopefully, we'll all be able to get together again ... some day ... sigh.

That's all for now.