WOYWW

Well I've not done this for a long time due to the fact I'm at work normally, but yay for the summer holidays and 6 weeks off!
Some things don't change though, my desk is still a mess....and a big mess at that. And this isn't all of it either!

You'll see 2 boxes that I'm playing with, my pig radio, my sewing machine that has actually been used more this week than in all the years that I've had it (about 8!), cones of wool, some scraps of fabric from the bits that I've been making with the sewing machine - see previous post for details - actually there's too much rubbish on my table even for me, so once I've got the house full of housework done, I might tidy this up a bit again and than try and fit in a bit of blogging. If only BT would sort our internet out so that we can both go online at the same time and take phones calls, I could get back into the swing of blogging and hopping once again...and thats something else I've got to do today, chase them up as a manager was supposed to be getting in contact over a month ago!
Oh well, I'd best post this and say hello on the Stamping Ground http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/2011/07/whats-on-your-workdesk-wednesday-112.html and get cracking or I'll run out of time to do anything.
Take care and I hope to get round to some of you soon
Sam x

WOYWW 15th September

Holy cow batman - is it really that long since I've managed to squeeze in WOYWW?!! Crumbs, really I hadnt realised it had been that long since I was snooping round peeps desks and letting you do the same.
Well in my defence a lot has been going on. I've been crocheting like a mad person - ok like the mad person I am - as my good buddy Clare wanted me to make this cardi for her from a pattern in the Womans weekly. That is now complete even though I did have a wobble right at the very end as I doubted my ability to be able to sew it up! But after putting pics up of the completed cardi, another friend said that she wanted one in black so a great big bonus and a large smile on my face.

You can most probably see the latest order that I'm working on (another pink baby blanket), a beanie style hat that I made yesterday,

general mess from making hubbys cards the other day (I just can't do tidy whatever I do) oh and the last shot is of my wool tub plus several bags of wool/yarn. I've also got some more in the spare bedroom that I found in the loft from when I bought my (sadly neglected) knitting machine.
Also, last week, I started my new job of "Lunchtime Supervisory Assistant" otherwise known to you and me as a dinnerlady. So my day is well and truly broken up now, and to add to the changes, we are moving next month too so I may go a bit quiet again.
Anyway, I'm here this week and will do my best to get around to some of you but alas I dont seem to have as much time with the work thing going on but I'll try.
Now I'll link this as soon as Miss Julia has posted, so if you feel like joining in and showing us your crafty mess or tidyness (I know there are some of you out there) please pop over to The Stamping Ground AKA WOYWW.
Take care now and I hope to see some of you guys later
Sam xx

WOYWW 28th July 2010

Wow another week gone already. Time flies when you've got new toys hehehe. Anyway nothing has really changed on my table, everything is still pretty much as it was as my card making mojo appears to have gone on holiday (2 weeks ahead of me I hasten to add!!) and no sign of it coming back as of yet. So instead I have pushed everything out of the way so I can fit my new toy in there instead for the time being. Yes it's a little notepad with a disc drive and external hard drive....so that is where I sit and yap to my hearts content now without my hubby bugging me for the computer so he can play his games. BLISS!

So my workspace isn't really the table at the moment, it's my newly aquired tub for all my yarn, crochet hooks, knitting needles, sewing needles (big fat ones for sewing wooly stuff), books and patterns and the stuff that I've already made in a separate little bag. I think after my holiday, I'll have to buy another tub to put my makes in. As you can see, I started to make something else late last night, hopefully I'll have that finished today, but until it is, you'll have to wait to find out what it is for.

I won't be here next week as I'll be in Devon camping, so no Facebook, blog or just yapping for me for a whole week. I think I'll just about cope as I've been promised a trip to Hobbycraft, which is fairly exciting for me as I haven't been to one before....who knows what new hobby I'll come out with hehehehe.
Anyway, I'm off for now, and you'll see my mess again in 2 weeks time (and possibly - nay, definitely - some new stash). Hop on over to Julias place http://stamping-ground.blogspot.com/ to join in the fun - or just be nosy and see what stash we all have and what is going on this week.
Take care
Sam x

Just nabbed this.....

and I think it is me to a T

If you fancy one go and check the new buttons out http://graphixanddesign.blogspot.com/2010/07/woyww-new-buttons.html and you can also see the other buttons available too.
Okay I'm going to have my breakfast now (coz I'm hungry now and wasnt earlier) and see if I can get some Deep heat spray on my back coz it's killing me at the minute.
Ta-ra for now
sam x

WOYWW 21st July

Ho hum another week done and I didnt get around to clearing off my table. I did make a pile slightly bigger as I wanted to make a couple of boxes yesterday, so what was on my xcut board is now in a pile and my board is covered again, this time with my CC ultimate (you know the one - first one that isn't as good as the new one hehe). Anyway I've given you some different shots this week and shown you inside my "Made" bag and my bag that has all my yarn in that I have aquired in these past few week. Desperately need a box for that stuff, as my dog Bob thinks that he is a cat and insists on playing with anything  that resembles a ball of string.

I have covered the chicken tub though and that is now working as my table top bin and I also have these boxed coasters that I have made this week too.

I doubt if I'll get around to any of you today as hubby is having a half day holiday and will be home by lunchtime so I'll be losing the computer again so he can play at being a farmer (the job he's just come home from early - makes sense eh?!).I'll get round to at least some of you by tomorrow though so happy snooping and why don't you join in the fun over at WOYWW and show us where you craft your gorgeousnesses.
Take care all
Sam x

WOYWW 14th July and my clever little girl

Oh dear my table is really cluttered this week. I need to move everything before I can make any cards. My blue bag has turned into a white one (the blue one had loads of holes in courtesy of my dog Bob who thinks he is a cat and insists on playing with my wooly stuff). You can see all the mobile phone covers I have made to date - and I'm a very happy girl there this morning as I have had my first sale with my store with one of those..thanks hun you know who you are xx! Erm what else is there - oh yeah the chicken tub. I thought that would make an excellent table top bin instead of my bag that lives on the floor, (something else Bob likes to play with) so I need to sort that out at sometime. There is also some afghan/granny squares that I did yesterday for something else yet to be finished, maybe later today....and then there is everything else that is always on my table, getting shoved forever backwards and upwards.

Hmmm, I think I definitely need to clear some space, but don't expect to see it next week though, I'm sure I'll have made some more mess by then hehehehe.

One final thing. My little girl got an award this week in honour of the Reverend Hanniwells late wife Sara, who very sadly passed away early this year for the most improved in cooking. Here is a picture of her with her trophy and her cookbook prize.

I am very proud of her as she finds so many things difficult at school without an awful lot of help from the TAs. She's now insisting on making her dad an omlette this weekend...uh oh lol.
Now then, you've had a nosey at my mess, why don't you show us yours at Julias place, The Stamping Ground - AKA WOYWW
Take care everyone.
Sam x

WOYWW 7th July 2010

Two reasons why today is very special - 1. it's WOYWW over at Julias blog The Stamping Ground and 2. it's my 4th wedding anniversary today. Anyway no time for mushy stuff ladies (and gents if there are any looking) here is my creativity station this week.

Someone asked about the coke label and was wondering what I was going to do with that - sorry hun it's really boring...it's only a pencil case stashed full of yet more pens. Oh and someone else said about the small tube that was sitting to my left (I think lol), thats really boring too - it's a tube I inherited from my nan with some crochet hooks in. I may make it look pretty with a crocheted cover for it yet but we'll see if I get the time hehehe.
I have to finish off the card that you see on my table and make an envelope for it and another one for hubbys card which you can also see sitting there. My paper and image are there for this weeks coming challenge over at OSAAT (I want to get that done too). Anyway enough jabbering for now - I'm going to get these cards done and then I'll be back with those 2 that you see later on when I've done fannying around with them. Then I might get time to visit a few of you later on.
Take care now and I'll be back soon.
Sam x

WOYWW 30th June

OMG I just realised it's the end of the month!!!! Holy smokes batman - where is the year going? Anyway I'm getting back on track these days (I keep getting myself overtired and then I keep thinking the world is out to get me, so I've decided I will stay in bed till the very last minute until things are going smoothly everywhere again) but that is a different story and I am ok, can't say I'm fit and healthy though but I am ok lol. Anyway I haven't been to WOYWW for a few weeks while trying to get my head round things and as I am feeling in a blogging mood again, I thought I'd join in and show off my mess once again.

I dread to think what you guys will spy on the table of terrors but I hope you have fun looking around. I'll get round a few of you I can be sure of that - how many I don't know (depends on whether I feel like an early morning one day lol) oh and if hubby lets me have the lappy or if he goes out for the evening to his mates. Anyway I will try and get around to a good few of you - if I could type faster I'd get round to an awful lot more of you.
Okay I'm waffling now so I'm off to make a start.
Take care everybody peeps
Sam x

WOYWW 26th May

Sorry I haven't been around for a little while but things always seem to get in the way hehehe. Anyway hopefully I've resolved the issue of piccies that wont come up bigger (fingers crossed anyway) so you guys can snoop better and you will also be able to see my new toy now. And no it's not a cricut lol!! Unfortunately I've not had much time to play with it because the lappy I installed the software on is taking forever to do anything so I definitely think that it's terminal for the old Toshiba.
Anyway here are the latest piccies of the mess on my desk.

I have loads of things buried on there somewhere that have been started and need to be finished today so I best get on and find them so I can get them done.
Happy snooping and join in the fun HERE .
Take care peeps.
Sam x

WOYWW 5th May

Blimey, where is the time going people. Another month over and another week at WOYWW AKA The Stamping Ground. I've had a bit of a change around since my last visit to WOYWW as I now have a new toy - of course it's buried already so I'm gonna let you be nosey to your hearts content and see if you can spy it.

The card you can see will be in my next post and it gets 2 birds with one stone and a couple of challenges too. Once I've posted that, then I have to start on another card requested by my FIL for his brother in law. Problem is I don't really know anything about him so I could get lost in my stash trying to find something suitable. Hopefully I'll have more time to get around some of the other mad lovely ladies that take part as I always seem to run out, but we have had a very busy couple of weeks at OSAAT and it took me all week just to do the comments on there.
I hope you'll join us and have a good old nosey about.
Take care all
Sam x

WOYWW 21st April

Nooooo!! It's another Wednesday and I didn't get time to pop around to anyones blogs last week, well here's hoping I will this week now my youngest is back at school and peace and quiet reigns supreme once again. Anyway as we seemed to be doing under the table shots last week if I remember rightly (most probably not knowng me) I thought I'd give you an insight into what lives under mine as well. Im not even gonna bother telling you anything that is there or anywhere - I'm just gonna let you have a good old root around.

I hope some of you that do leave comments on my ...erm how shall I put this...creative chaos but haven't yet been brave enough to do so yourself join in with us this week and show us your stash or your mess...however, whatever we don't mind. Go on you know you want to.... join us mad lot at WOYWW - oh and girls, I mean mad in the nicest sense of the word coz you are all lovely...... and mad especially that SPYDER bird - she makes me pen poor defenceless cats in all day lol she knows what I'm on about!!

WOYWW quicky

Arghhhh! Where does the time go? It's Wednesday already and you will see most of the same stuff on my table as what was there last week! There are 2 new additions tough and they are the upside down ones. They will be revealed a little later along with something else......

Anyway I'm hoping to get Stitchys Attitude made up later on as well, but this is now and this is or was my desk earlier today. I've even made some more mess since then as I've completed the 2 upside down beauties and had to root around everywhere to find stuff, (I mean in my drawers on the table as that got all my little odds and ends in).
Oh just so you all know - the tall grey thing is my OTT-LITE folding portable lamp...not that it goes anywhere but hey ho it helps me craft in the evenings.
Right I'm off to take my dogs for a walk as my daughter is sitting here pouting coz she wants to go. Do they not realise crafting is a matter of life or death??!!
Anyway, I'll be back later with my reveals so til then ta-ra. Oh and I hope you'll join us at WOYWW aka the stamping ground.

WOYWW 7th April

It's Wednesday again and I didn't forget this week lol :) . And true to form my workspace is buried under everything. I do have a few things on the go, mainly from my mate Stitchy. You can buy her digis and others too from the store http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop/ and now we have multi currency so you don't have to pay in US dollars.

As you can see, I'm only brave enough for one picture this week as the rest is in even worse a state than this little bit. I will be clearing a space in a while so I can make a few bits.

Take care and try not to get buried on my table too. Hope to see you there.

Sam x

WOYWW - a sewing machine?

Yes first thing this morning (6.10am) there was a sewing machine on my table as I had to sew in a patch on my jeans last night. I've had this sewing machine for about 8 years now and used it about 3 times....terrible ain't I? I only bought it back then because I had to make my eldest daughter an angel outfit for a nativity play. Can you guess I don't sew by hand - only because they cramp up if I do which is a pain as I quite like cross stitch but it'd take me about a month to do a bit the size of a small bookmark.
Anyway onto my mess this week. There is a fair bit of mess to the right of the machine as I had to clear a space for the beast, oh and I was asked what the tall grey thing was last week. That is my OTT-LITE daylight foldaway lamp. You can't beat them for crafting in the evenings.

Oh and just to prove I do actually know how to use my sewing machine, here's a piccy of the patch all sewn on and doing what it's meant to do on my leg (yayyyy it hasn't broken yet lol).

Okay I'm now off to have a bit of a nosy around everyone elses workspaces now. So if you want to join in the fun,pop over here to the Stamping Ground and have a peek.
Take care all
Sam x

WOYWW - there is a table there honest!!!

Well I've been missing in action for the last few weeks - possibly buried under all my stuff and to be honest I did clear this off again just the other day but it only takes me a minute to make a mess hehehe. You'll see all sorts of works in progress here at the moment along with the new Stamp-it freebies that came with my mag this morning. There are loads of digi stamps printed off ready to colour and make into loveliness (I hope) and a few that are already coloured that are in the process of being made into cards at the mo. I may even have one to enter in a challenge later on tonight - whoo hooo. I haven't entered any challenges for ages so it feels good to be getting the time to do some now.
Okay then onto my mess - I can see the poor ambulance service being run ragged in a short while, so if you are of a certain disposition (in other words you are one of these NEAT crafters) please look away now.

Thanks for stopping by my mess, I hope to visit some of the other girls too (I hope Susie is here this week - she always makes me feel better hehehe - luvs ya Susie!) Oh and if you would like to join in the fun you can do so HERE
Sam x

WOYWW #3

I'm back again after missing last week as I was feeling too good. As you can see I'm well and truly back on form hehehehe. I've made such a mess as I've just finished my DT card for our new challenge at OSAAT and I've got loads of bits that I've coloured ready to make into cards and stuff just lying around.
Anyway enjoy rooting around my mess and I'm gonna try and get around to a few of the other more organised ladies out there to see if I can figure out how they do it.

Take care peeps
Sam x

WOYWW take 2

Well I'm back to do battle again with our Susie Sugar and I think I win hands down again. If you look closely you'll see my card from my last post.
Oh well here goes nothing.

As you can see I've done a series of photos going round to where my lappy is and there's more odds and sods in that little set of drawers and my CDs are on top of that - I need more......and to rob a bank!!!

Why don't you join in the fun at Stamping Ground and show us your mess - or tidiness (I have heard there are some tidy crafters out there you know - I bet they like housework too - only joking ladies heheheehe).

Take care til later

Sam x