WOYWW #385 and a Sugar Skull, Fun Mail and projects in the works

Welcome to Wednesday and WOYWW!  I really look forward to WOYWW and visiting the desks of other crafters!  If you want to play along visit Julia at Stamping Ground and she will fill you in on the details.

My desk today!  Just wanted to share some stash I picked up at Michael's a couple days ago…I paid 60% off again and used a 20% off on everything including sales items.  The 3 bottles of alcohol ink was $3.99 and the 3 bottles of spray was less.  All the Tim Holtz Ideology was less then $3 a package.  WOW!  I couldn't pass it up!  I know…I am a hoarder but look at all these good deals.  The stamps were  $1.99 to 5.99 depending on what it is.

 Now this is my desk today!  I have been working on the Sugar Skull as promised and I am actually finished with it!

"The done deal!"  Any suggestions of anything else that needs to be done?  

I started some more clean up work and sorting of various bling and gems in order to start this project.  I decided I was tired of having to go look through drawers and racks every time I needed bling/gems of a certain color so I bought a couple $5-12"12" D-ring binders and a package of various pages to store my stuff in.  It isn't perfect but it is a start and cost me about $20.  I will buy better folders etc as time and money allows…I won't be buying bling.  The desk display thing was really starting to get on my nerves because I couldn't get anything out of the cups because it would knock the bling packets off.  I am going to keep the big Clip-it in the background for the bigger and product specific sets.  Here is what the books look like so far!  

I go to Starbucks once a week and when I went in a couple days ago the barista called me a 'frequent flyer that needs a head'  The head turned out to be a Sugar Skull cookie that my husband ate because I have Celiac and no gluten in my life.

I got some more happy mail this week…this time from swaps that I am participating in.  The Wicked swap on ATT a Yahoo group was 6 ATC that spell out WICKED!

remember the WICKED Pocket Page I made a couple weeks ago?  If not click the link and check them out!

Some Halloween tags using the 'ghosting technique' from the CreativeblockStampers Anonymous a Yahoo group!

mine is the one in the middle top!

Lastly a couple cards!  The first one is from Ann Wood from Paper Crafting Swappers a Facebook group!

And the second was from another ATT Yahoo Swapper Kathy Rohm.  Awesome cards.

Okay that is it from my desk this week.  Just wanted to share with those who want to know that I went to the pain management clinic today and had the second set of injections in my spine…got a horrible headache from the deal and spent the afternoon in bed despite the narcotics I took.  The nurse warned me it was a possibility so…I was prepared.  I was also fitted with the Rolls Royce of back braces that I was told to only wear if I was doing physical activity that would aggravate the the slide of my lumbar vertebrae!  WOW!  Life is grand!

Enough now…I have already gone over the limit of a limited post that Julia tries to keep us too…I always fail cause I am such a sharing and caring person…hhahahaha!  Thank you for visiting my desk and leaving a comment.  I will visit your desk soon!

WOW! WOYWW!

Wednesday really seemed to roll around fast this week!  Must be because I have been busy with doctors appointments, lots of crafting, and fun stuff around the house.  Oklahoma is known for severe weather and tornadoes but this past Sunday we had a 5.8 earthquake with the epicenter about 100+ miles north of where I live…close to where Deeyl lives near Pawnee OK.  We are all okay but the environment protection agency has stepped in and forced the Indians to stop allowing fracking and waste water well injection into a new fault line that has developed up there.   It is not a good deal so if you hear the Indians are on the warpath in Oklahoma it is probably a true story.

I have been having a lot of fun making stuff the past week.  I posted about some layouts and cards I made just before this post.  I also posted about some tags and ATC's for a swap on Yahoo groups.  I started a box/basket of projects I need to get finished so will be posting more later.  On to my desk!  Why are we posting about our desks?  Go check out Julia at Stamping Ground cause she has the details ready and waiting under the WOYWW tab...

My desk this week…It is actually a little neater as I continue to organize and sort stuff out.  I am sorting through boxes of 6x6" recipe cards, various cards, chipboard books etc.  I have decided to get rid of a lot of stuff so I can have room for the new I am making.

 The big picture of at the desks and boxes…it was a mess when I took this picture but it is all picked up now.   I was at coffee the other day talking with a friend about all my craft stuff and how overwhelmed I sometimes feel.  I have always felt I wanted/needed my stuff right at my finger tips but now I am not feeling that need anymore to the point it is an issue.  I think one of my first changes is the reorganization of past projects like cards, ATC etc.  Donating all the cards to either a nursing home or to the organization that sends them over to deployed servicemen to use to send home is a good option.

 One of the 3 boxes of cards I have made.  Some are so old the glue has started to let loose so I am gluing as I go along.  They are still in new shape just sat too long.  I think I am going to make it a policy to give away the cards as I go along and not hoard them!

The clear box to the left is a box of 6"x6" recipe cards that I made for card swaps when I first started doing paper crafts.  I think I will make up recipe books for the kids for Christmas this year and give some of the others away to good homes.

I think my next project for organization is my dies and cutting machines.  I have physically relocated the machines for easier access but need some system to store some of the dies and stamp sets together.  Stay tuned I am a work in progress!

That's about all I have to report for this past week.  I hope everyone has a great week!