WOYWW? May 6th 2015

Hello Dear Readers and fellow Deskers; i hope that you are all well today and that the wind of yesterday didn’t effect you too badly.  The poor trees out the front of our house were bent nearly double at some points yesterday, t’was a tad windy!
Thank you for all your well wishes last week i am starting to feel better thank you and Wednesday morning after the school run whilst i was desk hopping i received a lovely parcel from Hey Little Magpie to cheer me up what could be better than lots of lovely scrapbook goodies? And….I've even used some of the papers already and made 4 layouts!! Unheard of! Usually i just buy the paper then i think I'll save that for such and such and it never gets used!

{What a lovely happy mess!}
So here is my desk as of 9pm Tuesday Night


So from the door, my to do list with all the jobs ticked off {so satisfying!} the layouts made this weekend, stapler, a few quick notecards on the window sill and a couple of Project Life card kits waiting to be put away. On the other side of the cutting mat is a layout that i want to make but the papers just aren't working for me at the moment. 
I took some advice from the head Desker Julia and i ‘kitted’ my new papers into page kits simply by popping the papers that work well together into bags and it seems to be working as i am using them.  I  got a couple of grab bags of 12x12 papers from Hey Little Magpie {£3.50 for 20} and out of 2 bags there was one paper i didn’t like either side of.  Great brands too Amy Tangerine, Studio Calico, Heidi Swapp to name but a few.

Well that’s it from me today, until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.xx

WOYWW? April 1st 2015

Good Morning Dear Reader, Happy April Fools, no jokes from me today, but seriously how fast is this year motoring along!?

As its Wednesday it means its time for a snoop about the desks of crafters worldwide in the weekly friendly blog hop hosted by Julia pop over and see her if you would like the details.

So lets share my desk, taken as usual on Tuesday evening and actually for a change i have been up to some crafting on it! I have been suffering lately with Fibro fog and being uncomfortable lately in my legs so sitting and colouring has been good as its enjoyable and doesn’t take much energy or brain power and that was what i was doing yesterday whilst Mr.C watched football.

All the essentials on my desk as you can see; DVD player with the Gilmore Girls on to keep me company { I've seen each episode so many times i don’t need to pay attention it just washes over me and is comforting in a way} Another set of Lawn Fawn stamps peeking in the corner next to a new set of Spectrum Noir pencils that Mr.C ordered me as an Easter egg.  We got them from Amazon there should have been 2 packs but although purchased on the same day only one set has turned up thus far – go figure!  I am using a mineral blending fluid to blend away the pencil marks.  It was an enjoyable way to spend half an hour or so and i now have some images ready and coloured for when i feel like making some cards.

{Lawn Fawn – ‘Bugs and Kisses’ coloured with Spectrum Noir Pencils}

We are hoping to treat the girls to a trip to the Cinema today to see Cinderella {and the Frozen short! *smiles*} IF the weather is kind to us and our fence stays up! We have had so much strong wind over the last day that we may have to postpone the cinema for a day in order for Mr.C to fix the fence ….. so cross your fingers for us.

I will try and get round to as many desks as i possibly can tomorrow

That’s it from me today

Until next time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

New Stash!!

Morning Dear Reader, i thought today i would share with you the bits and pieces that i have brought over January.  January was a good month for stash buying as i was lucky to have some Christmas money.

So starting at the top i brought some Spectrum Noir Pencils and some blending fluid on the recommendation of my friend Jeanne so that i could colour and blend with paper stumps.
Some Lawn Fawn Elephant stamps; some bits from when Mr. C and i went out on his birthday – some pencils from Blott that were in the sale for 10p! a couple of postcards including a Charles Darwin one by Quentin Blake and some bull dog clips from Tiger. Some Jelly Bean Alphabet stickers and the Becky Higgins Playful core kit from Hey Little Magpie, i had brought a sample of playful from them before and loved it so much that i brought the full kit.  Its a very happy, colourful kit and it works well with how i want our albums to feel.

Lots of Lawn Fawn stamp sets with their matching dies, and some must have basics from Stampin’ Up! as i wanted to have extras of some must have tools so that i could have them in my scrap bag as well as on my desk; a new pair of snips, a pokey tool, a bone, and a few clear blocks as well as some white cardstock and my favourite crumb cake card stock.

So i am off to play ;) i have resolved to only buy bits if i am going to use it, and not to but more stamps until the ones i have have been shown some ink and love.  and…..so far I've stuck to it :)

Until Next time

Mrs.C.xx