Hello and welcome to my contribution to the the celebrations for the 9th anniversary of WOYWW; the weekly sharing of all things desk, hosted by the amazing Julia over on The Stamping Ground. This is a real community of bloggers, lurkers, and the curious from all around the world. I am a relative newcomer as I have been blogging for less than three years, but I have been made to feel so welcome. If you are thinking of taking the plunge, jump on in, the water's lovely!
Part of the tradition of WOYWW is to make ATCs to swap on the anniversary. My desk this week shows the happy post that I received a couple of weeks ago from Nikki (Graphix and Designs) in Canada, who is far more organised than I am. I have saved their gorgeousness for this week. My ATCs are all made, the envelopes are written and all ready to go to my swap partners. Once I know who my PIF is I will be on the case there too. If it is one of the people with whom I have already arranged a swap, I will add an extra ATC into the envelope. These will go into the post this afternoon after I have been to my hospital appointment. I apologise in advance for the lack of accompanying card/goodies, as it has been a rush just to get the ATCs finished in time, having had a horrible cold last week.
On the other side of the desk, Eva was playing with Pixie Powders and over stamping with Archival inks. Nothing quite like messy hands lol. Happy anniversary everyone: here's to the next 9 years!
Hello fellow deskers and welcome; to know more and stalk check out other people's desks visit The Stamping Ground and our hostess Julia. My second blogiversary was yesterday (see HERE) and I am running a competition to win one of the tags that you see on my desk. You just have to comment on the anniversary post expressing an interest and I will announce a lucky winner chosen at random on my birthday next Tuesday.
As you will see by the shot of the other side of the desk, I have my crafty friend back to keep me company. She has been making up for her absence by visiting me twice already in the last week and will be joining me again on Friday! She has been working on some parchment flowers and getting to grips with the art of white work, although she coloured her own parchment using Pixie Powders.
Today I celebrate the second anniversary of my blog. It has been a steep learning curve, but I have enjoyed every minute of it. I have made so many crafty friends, most of whom I've never met in person, through the online groups that I've joined via my crafting and have grown to over 200 followers. Welcome and thank you to you all. For this special occasion I have decided to run a competition. The picture shows many of the tags that I have created over the last two years; they have all been shared on my blog during this time. There have been others that were given to people that I admire such as Barbara Gray and Sheena Douglass and fellow deskers on WOYWW for the 8th anniversary. I don't know how many people will be interested in winning one of the tags but if you would like to choose one to be sent to you, just comment on this blog post, expressing your interest and I will announce a winner picked at random on my own birthday this time next week.
Thank you again to everyone who has joined me at any time on my journey, especially Eva who often keeps me company in the shed and Barbara Gray whose own daily blog got me started in the first place.
On the other side of the desk, Eva was playing with Pixie Powders and over stamping with Archival inks. Nothing quite like messy hands lol. Happy anniversary everyone: here's to the next 9 years!
