Welcome to my weekly contribution to What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday (WOYWW) linking up with Julia and fellow deskers via Stamping Ground as usual.
I can actually show you what I was working on yesterday, as all my samples were safely in the post by the time I took this photo and I was working on a tag (surprise, surprise).
Socially distanced on the other side of the desk, Eva was working on Groovi projects. It was a beautiful day, so no problem keeping the door and window open, and there are plenty of sanitising sprays and gel available to us as you can see. It was a slightly shorter session than before, as Eva's class has moved earlier in the day and I had to pick up my son from college at 2pm too. Still we had a thoroughly enjoyable morning crafting together. Happy WOYWW. I'll be round to visit tomorrow morning on my next day off. Sorry Karen but I am still unable to comment on WordPress blogs, but I do visit.
Today's blog post is a little different. I am not sharing a step by step, although I have taken plenty of close up photos of my finished project, because the idea is not mine but belongs to Maria Moorhouse. I do have her permission to share pictures of my finished project I can highly recommend her monthly workshops at Shrewsbury, Catterick and Preston where she shares ideas for cards and mixed media projects and she will be holding a Groovi workshop in January in Shrewsbury for the first time. We always complete at least four card projects during each workshop.
Although I finished this project at home, I took everything that I needed to finish it away from last month's workshop with me and had completed the bulk of the work there.
It is an Advent Book and holds chocolate gifts for December for my son and his girlfriend who hosted an amazing family firework party at the weekend.
I can't recommend Maria's workshops highly enough for value for money and fabulous ideas. She can be contacted via Facebook if you would like to book a place or find out more about her workshops.
I will be doing some speed crafting over the next couple of weeks to enable me to share a blog post every day (my aim until at least the end of 2017). I seem to spend longer and longer on my days off completing school work and as I cram most of my crafting into Tuesdays and Saturdays (when there's no home football match) I have to complete at least three projects at a time to keep up. I do try and craft after work for half an hour to help me unwind, but do not always finish projects in that time. I don't see crafting as a chore, but my mojo doesn't always play along when I want to complete something.
Anyway; on with the desk sharing, otherwise Julia will not be happy with me (to see more, visit our leader over at the Stamping Ground, where you'll find links to desk heaven)!
My side of the desk shows my new light box which will hopefully help me take better photographs of my projects. It has an LED strip across the top and plugs into my laptop via a USB cable. I had just made a start on some ATCs for a swap (T is for ...) and had my folders of Claritystamps out in the background.
On the other side of the desk, Eva was using some of my Groovi plates and my Light Wave to do some more parchment work. She was travelling light as she could only stop for a couple of hours, although as you can see, she bought biscuits with her!
I must dash; I have three sets of books to mark and more lessons to prepare ready for work tomorrow and Friday. I hope to have time to visit a few desks before I have to get started, although it may well be the weekend before I get to everyone. Thanks to everyone who visited last week, with or without comment!
I can actually show you what I was working on yesterday, as all my samples were safely in the post by the time I took this photo and I was working on a tag (surprise, surprise).
Socially distanced on the other side of the desk, Eva was working on Groovi projects. It was a beautiful day, so no problem keeping the door and window open, and there are plenty of sanitising sprays and gel available to us as you can see. It was a slightly shorter session than before, as Eva's class has moved earlier in the day and I had to pick up my son from college at 2pm too. Still we had a thoroughly enjoyable morning crafting together. Happy WOYWW. I'll be round to visit tomorrow morning on my next day off. Sorry Karen but I am still unable to comment on WordPress blogs, but I do visit.
