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What's on your Workdesk Wednesday!

Well mine is a total mess, I attended a wonderful Clayton's Stamp Camp on the weekend, health wise it was a disaster, I became nauseous and light headed and had to leave after 3 hours on the first day. When I returned the next day I forgot the goodies bag we were given so I just sat and watch and talked and relaxed. So my desk for the last 3 days have resembled a mess of cardstock being painted black drying out ready to make my Technique book.

I love what was done and can't wait to do all my ATCs using all those techniques and showing you the end results.

Opps I just noticed a non craft item thrown on top of the pile of Jo Sonja paints, a Canberra Raiders Beanie, hubby had just returned from a footy game by the team he follows-sadly they lost.

Things are heating up for me in the craft part of my life, deadlines are creeping up for the Christmas cards as I want to finish them off by the end of August so I can go onto doing other craft stuff, and then there are the OLYMPICS starting next week-how many of you like me will be glued to the TV? I'm already glued to it with the Tour de France!!

OLYMPIC LANES on England's roads....and the taxis can't drive on them? What other dramas will there be?

I've received more Anniversary ATCS, took photos of them, now I am hunting for those photos and ATCS, will put up a separate post when I find both.

Food glorious food. Dinner last night was wontons in soup form yumm

Hope on over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see more desks of all descriptions

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What's on your Workdesk Wednesday again (amazing #6 again on the list)
Love how all the comments past say how not messy my desk is, believe me it is but I have promised myself to tidy up after a certain round so I dont have stuff piled up on top of everything else like I used to and that drove me absolutely crazy.

My desk has had many transformations since last Wednesday, too many to take photos of, each hour I was crafting it was changing. You can see the stash of stamps to the left ready to put to ink pad. Can of air near the punch ready for another background technique. Cards you saw in a pile the previous weeks is now in the wooden holder in front of the tv. Looks like a footy of some sort was on tv. Have been staying awake to watch the Tour de France. Sustenance of chocolate and mandarin and nuts close at hand lol

Here are more cards done for Stockings for Soldiers Project 600+ plus done over the weekend with the help of many generous card makers

Michael Jackson from the lovely Carol Clements

ATCs still arriving in the mail, sorry i cant remember who they came from, I took the photo and stored them safely and now I will have to hunt them down to give them credit, if its yours let me know in the comments and I'll put  your name to it

Food glorious food, I had very boring meals this week, mushy soups. But I was busy making homemade wontons. I will post the recipe and how to fold those wontons this week. As you can see the desk doubles for anything, I just throw a teatowel over the craft stuff hahaha

And I wanted to show you that Chinese cooking is one pot as well, this was fried rice made in my electric frying pan. Again recipe coming this week

To see more of this worldwide desk phenomenon check out Julia's Stamping Ground

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HAPPY 4TH JULY to the American Desks.
Messy desk day again!!
How did my desk evolve into this mess in 2+ days? This is my desk/tables set up for making Christmas cards for Stockings for Soldiers Project
which I am the coordinator of the card section

This side of the desk is the stamping side, under the large transparent mat I have tissue paper etc being flattened out. Each bin are cards at different stages of finishing

Then I move to this side and finish off with painting, colouring or adhereing. The white container h oldds cards I have received so far 515 in all so far to make the 3000 requirements in 3 months. The black box holds cut up cardstock ready to be used

This is the breaktime side, when I get tired of making cards I crochet or read and have dinner here

Then within an hour this is the result of the fruits of labour..opps the MnM jar is empty...

I didn't eat it-hubby did!!!

For the food lovers, baked potato, sausages and salad 

(hmm I must put more colour in my salads lol

To see more of this worldwide desk phenomenon check out Julia's Stamping Ground

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What's on your Workdesk Wednesday

Like everyone else Wednesdays come around too quickly.
Well my desk this week was cleaned up for these lovely ladies that came over for our bi-monthly craft night last night. Penelope and Anna graced my table and graciously let me add them to my WOYWW collection.

Of course there is the usual spread of food, notice the chocolate jar is now full of MnM's, none of you noticed the chocolates had gone, I gave it to my daughter. Hubby has already claimed those peanut M n M's.

Simple dinner home made wontons with sweet and sour dipping sauce,

rice, butter chicken and Chinese sausage

Someone asked me last week how I did the backgrounds to my ATCs and I thought I'd share with the rest of you here, it was very easy, I used a spray of aqua glimmer mist and stamped the image up and added the glitter glue-easy peasy.

I had the pleasure of video chatting with another WOYWWer Carol C over in the UK, technology these days is awesome. We chatted on Gmail video so if any of you have facebook or gmail accounts and want to do a quick chat with me someday, let me know.

Apologies to blogs that I signed as #13, had no idea why I did that when I was #3, luckily it was only to those that had visited me when the penny dropped.

So hop on over to Julia's Stamping Ground to see more desks and arts and crafts displays

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So my desk remains as untidy as ever! Have no idea what that tv programme was. Hand towels I have crocheted 12 in all so far, getting really good now. Envelopes with all the ATCs I have received so far. I must have to clean it up because next Tuesday I have crafting with my gal pals, so watch out for a clean desk next week and maybe something productive on it.

ATCs I have received so far!

Ann Redfern

wonderful first attempt Ann!

 Sandee Setliff

 Morti
WOW I want to know how you made the letters in this ATC! I love the name of your house.

 Wanda Stivison
Gorgeous unusual atc made of fabric.
Thank you for your beautiful note! 

 Kay Hammock
thanks for the lovely card you wrote in for me

 Ann Betcher

FOOD!!!  some of you have gone hungry because I didn't post any food photos the past few weeks, sorry but I was on a diet hahahahahaha 

Dinner was mashed potatoes, feuillette of wild mushrooms and green beans with beurre noisette and almonds. You will find the recipes HERE

I saw this online and thought I'd share with you all seeing that the majority WOYWWers are from England/UK. I had to laugh because that's exactly the type of summer we had here, a failed one. 

So run on over to Julia's blog to see this weekly domestic/crafty phenomena

Recipes

Green beans with Beurre Noisette and Almonds

400g green beans topped and stringed (French beans)

pinch sea salt

1 tbsp chervil chopped ( I never put this in because I can't buy it)

1 tbsp tarragon chopped

1 lemon juiced

80g butter

1 garlic thinly sliced

30 g almond slivered

pepper to taste

In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook the beans until just done, drain and hold in a warm place. Sprinkle beans with herbs. Hat butter in a saute pan until it begins to foam (this is the Beurre Noisette part), add almonds and garlic. Continue to saute until nut brown, add squeeze of lemon, slat and pepper. Add beans to pan to heat quickly, toss and serve

Feuillette of Wild Mushrooms

(Feuillette means pastry but I didnt make the pastry bit)

4x puff pasty 6cm x 10cm

1 egg (yellow part for egg wash) or melted butter

400g variety of wild mushrooms

30ml extra virgin olive oil

40g butter

1 sprig thyme

1 clove garlic chopped finely

sea salt to taste

lemon juice to taste

pepper to taste

3 tbsp continental parsley

30g creme fraiche or cream whisked (I didnt put this in)

Cut pastry into squares. Brush top melted butter or egg wash and cook at 180C until puffed and golden. Wash mushrooms quickly, tear or slice into even slices. Heat oil and butter together, add mushrooms, garlic, seasoning and thyme, toss to mix. Saute on medium heat until just cooked, turning up heat to evaporate liuqid if necessary, taking care not to burn garlic or it will be bitter. Add squeeze of lemon and toss parsley through mix. Serve mushrooms on top of one piece of pastry. top with creme fraiche, then other pastry.

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Well that was one fast week that came and went, what with all that ATC 3rd Anniversary excitement of What's on your Workdesk Wednesday, and the Queen's Golden Diamond Jubilee (As corrected by BJ)!! I had to tape it and am still watching the celebration. 

Did you all watch the Transit of Venus? A once in a lifetime view.

So this is my desk this week, a new craft, a dear friend of mine Sandra sent me and adorable hand crafted-crocheted-hand towel with topper and I fell in love with it. After asking her for a recipe which she didnt have, she told me to just look at it and crochet-welllll that's an ask and a half cos I cannot crochet without a pattern to save my life. So after hours of trial and error this is the results.

 Received the following gorgeous handcrafted ATCS from 

Vonny K

  Janet

 Sandee from the Hills of North Carolina

So run on over to Julia's place to see what else gone son in the world of crafting desks

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What's on your Workdesk Wednesday!

I was still trying to finish off my ATCs for 2 swaps, finally got them done so now I can post to everyone that wanted one. What a surprise I got yesterday, an ATC from May's Happy Daze all the way from the UK, that was some speedy post. It has a cracked glass technique over the photo and I love the ATC size envelope it came in.

A new addiction to my messy table, Emma my youngest who came down for a quick visit 3.5hrs drive all on her own, at night, she did get lost but I didn't know that. Love you Emma

For those of you curious about how many ATCs I made that was on my desk, it was 108 altogether so if you still have spares and want to swap just drop me a line. Having said that I need snail mail addresses for the following people that wanted to swap or wanted one of my ATCs Neet, Mark Gould, Angie Shozzy, Tuire Flemming, Trish Inky Beads, Vickie Okienurse

I am also swapping/giving to the following people Ann Bletcher, Anne Redfern, Janet Batten, kathie Garyson, Lorinda Fraser, Mary Mcmillan, Maxine Diffey, Morti, roslyn McGechan, Vonny Kennedy, Wanda stivison, Mark Gould, Angie Shozzy, Kay Hammock, Ramona Vincent, Sam Hall, Sam Hall. 

Last week so many of you asked what and how to do the Hairspray Technique so I thought I'd share the website here that I got it off, its by INK STAINED RONI, enjoy and let me know how you all went if you tried it out.

FOOD!! We had nachos thanks to Emma's request but in all the excitement I forgot to take a photo, sorry folks. 

So run on over to Julia's place to see what else goes on in the world of crafting desks