On my desk today

Some gorgeous fabric cut into hearts waiting to be sewn and stuffed with lavender and teeny scraps of fabric.

A bag of fabric scraps waiting to be chopped up into teeny pieces for stuffing the hearts. It is sitting on a nice pile of cardboard that is waiting to be turned into tag backs!

And in a complete Blue Peter moment - here are some I made earlier!

I have a lovely swatch card from paper-and-string so I can get round to choosing some felt colours for an idea I have!

They were also having a deco tape sale so I grabbed some for me and did you know that Santa also shops there? Apparently he bought some tape for the girls stockings. He likes to be organised that Santa!

And of course no desk would be complete without a stuffed cow called Moo-ey!

On my desk....on a Wednesday

As ever my work today is not on my desk but was photographed on the kitchen floor this morning in the mad rush before the school run! And it's not typical work (sewing or papercrafts) but the more boring task of sorting and finding new homes for things in my bursting craft room! I've had a trip to Sams you see :) Sams is my local scrapstore and they offer everything from fabric to paper, plastic containers to mod rock with lots of other things besides. It's a wonderful tresure trove of bits and pieces and is wonderful for sparking off ideas. Because the stock changes so quickly (local businesses donate everything) you never know what you are going to get each time you go. I use that reason as an excuse to go as often as I can! Anyway enough waffling - here is what I bought.

A wallpaper sample book - the fabric has mainly been ripped out but the wallpaper is still intact. Here are some of the patterens below.

Some bubble mailers will be made from this paper and maybe some gift tags too. I also got some swatch cards with little fabric swatches in.

These are the perfect size for my business cards :) And gorgeous bright colours too!

I also found a little group of oddities that will come in useful somewhere - but not quite sure where yet!

I got a whole bag full of these horse cardboard pieces - they may be turned into gift tags if my punch will go through them!

These will be for mixed media work.

These are going to be decorated by the girls and have photographs put in them and magnetic strip (also from Sams) stuck on the back and will be Christmas presents :) And these glitter things below - no idea what I'm going to use them for but I couldn't leave glittery things behind could I?

I also got some yummy fabric - Sam's has fabulous fabric!

I also got 2 bags of this lovely ruffle stuff - badges and rosettes are calling me with this I think!

I also got some wadding for a quilt I'm making, some magnetic strip and other bits and bobs that aren't worth photographing. Oh and all of this little lot cost me the princely sum of £5 :) Happy Lynsey now :)

On my desk....on a Wednesday

I'm busy making things for the craft fair on Saturday but strangely I'm not at all stressed about it at the moment. I did however want to make sure I made some peg bags to take with me as lots of people have asked if I made them before at fairs. I'll bet no one wants one this time around!

That is them half made in the foreground of the picture - my dodgy sewing machine is in the background!

Some are vintage fabrics and some are reclaimed from the scrapstore - none are made from new fabrics :)

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On my desk....on a Wednesday

My desk today should have been the kitchen table that you can see here. I say should have been because I didn't actually do any of the work I'd intended as I spent most of the day sorting in the front room to get it ready for the weekend when Anya is having 2 birthday parties. Also Matt was feeling a bit better today so he sat in the front room and read the news stories out to me from BBC news whilst I was tidying. Yes we do know how to live!!!

So I was planning to turn that pile of cardboard into the backs for my gift tags and this was actually done whilst I was cooking tea - good multi-tasker me!

These gift tags need photographing and stringing but this didn't get done today.

My paper trimmer needs fixing and then those lovely pages of nursery rhymes can be turned into envelopes - again that didn't happen today but I'm hopeful for sometime this week. Although I'm sure on Friday they will be bundled into a box and hidden from guests view in our bedroom!!

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On my desk....on a Wednesday

Well technically this isn't my desk or even my substitute desk (the coffee table) but is instead the chair next to the coffee table. The coffee table is strewn with stuff and I can't be bothered to sort it out yet :)


It's Anya's birthday on the 11th Nov so I am busy making invitations for it. She wanted fairies for the girls invites and pirates for the boys invites. Well fairies I can do easily as you can see and I do have some lovely pirate die cuts from this lovely lady but they are earmarked for boys birthday cards so she couldn't have any of them! I rummaged around and came up with cars but she didn't like them and then eventually I found some bats. Haven't got the foggiest idea what I am going to do with the bats but I'd better get my thinking cap on as one needs to go out tonight to the aforementioned lovely lady :)

Right off to make vegetable soup tonight for tea while my poorly little girl has a snooze and my poorly husband joins her.

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On my desk....on a Wednesday

Well I know I promised you piccies of envelopes and thank you cards yesterday but they will just have to wait for tomorrow as it's on my desk Wednesday today :)

As you can see I have my painting and glueing things out. I'm working on some mixed media things at the moment and that's what the glue and paint is for. Also the scissors and the remnants of a 1913 novel. And can you see that my desk is still fairly tidy - I'm quite pleased with myself it's just a pity that the rest of the room isn't tidy!

And it's a good job I love this little one so much too. I nipped downstairs to wash out my brush (craft room is in the attic) and gave Tara explicit instructions not to touch anything on my desk. She was happily playing with one of Ethel's tea bags and my teacup so I thought I was safe! Hah! I came back up to find that she had taken some stickers off one of the cards Anya made and helpfully stuck them on the boards I'd just covered in paint! Good job I love her :)

On my desk....on a Wednesday

Well you will see further down the post why I am abandoning any hope of getting crafting done today although I did manage to get those eyes sewn onto the chicken that I talked about last night so that's another parcel off in the post!

So why am I not getting any crafting done today?? Well I got sick of this for a start!

This is the pile of stuff I have to climb over to get inside my craft room - a bit off-putting don't you think?

This is the floor! Did you spot Gertrude the chicken waiting to go back inside her purple plastic box?

And this sorry mess is my desk! So I'm kind of doing a reverse on my desk post because by the end of the day I'm hoping that there will be very little on my desk :) It's just past lunchtime and it's looking a lot better i.e I can get in and there is a floor visible but you will have to check back tomorrow to see if the desk actually looks like a desk!

On my desk....on a Wednesday

Phew Wednesday has come round quickly again!! Here is what is on my 'desk' today. My desk again today is my coffee table as I was waiting for the gas man to come and had to stay downstairs but he has been and gone now.

I have lots of things to do today including making a pile of 28 badges into little badge sets and getting them listed in my shops! You can see the badges at the top of the table in the little pot.

I also have lots of gift tags to make with this pile of repurposed cardboard and damaged books. You can see some paint chip ones there already finished.

I also have a custom chicken to make and a peg bag with the rather delicious fabric at the top there. Busy busy but my Cuteable posts for today are done and I might have a chance at getting a lot of it done :)

On my desk....on a Thursday

....but we can pretend it's a Wednesday though right??

I know it's not exactly a desk but my lap will do nicely enough as a sewing table when the weather is this nice. I couldn't just sit inside and sew - I had to relish the sunshine as it's been a rare commodity in the UK over the past few months! The apron is part of a custom made baking set that comprises a personalised apron, recipe cards, child size baking tins that can actually go in the oven and a bag to put it all in. I'm hoping to get it all finished tonight to send off first thing tomorrow but if not then it will be tomorrow afternoon.

And this was the view from my 'desk' - not too shabby!

On my desk....on a Wednesday

I'm afraid it's very boring today as I have to crack on and get some Cuteable posts written and things listed in my Etsy, Dawanda and Folksy shops. So no creating for me today but lots of computer watching instead.


Hopefully there will be more inspiring things on my desk next week!

On my desk....on a Wednesday

I've decided to join another weekly 'challenge' and this one is 'On my desk on a Wednesday'. I first spotted it over on Curly Pops and thought that it was something I could do easily - not sure I'll manage to do it every week but I'll try! The idea was first thought of by Kootoyoo.

My desk today is actually my coffee table! Here are some gift tags that need the holes punching in them, string attaching and then packaging. There are a couple of sets that need photographing too before being listed in one of my shops.

Here are some more chicken tags - I thought I would stock up on some while I had the tag making things out.

Here are some more of my recycled tags - an old lego box that Matt let me cut up and some paint chip cards rescued from the manufacturer. They are completely recycled too as I use cereal packets etc that are destined for the recycling box as the backing card.

And this book just jumped into my hand at the post office (I officially love my post office because it sells second hand books!) and is destined to be turned into more gift tags. These will probably be going into my Folksy and Etsy shops when they are ready.