WOYWW #272

Happy Wednezday, Crafters!

Welcome to What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday (WOYWW) whereas the magnetic Ms. Julia Dunn hostesses our hop and wherein we show off our deskesses. It's fun and addicting and I hope you can join in!

So everyone knows about Spring Cleaning, of course. Of course! In the Olden Days it was a Big Production as the furniture was moved out to the lawn so the carpets could be rolled up and taken outdoors to be beaten. Little Pomeranian dogs had to be kept indoors because of their weak lung capacities. Servants were warned not to confuse them with dusters. People also had their annual baths and before the sun was even warm on your back, you were already chopping wood for the next winter. 

Over time, modern appliances brought more relaxing springtimes for womens and a lot of us turned our attention to the drinks trolly. Oh, settle down. I'm only kidding. Have a drink. We do still continue the tradition of Spring Cleaning to this day, only it's a Smaller Production without the need of neighbors eyeballing our furniture on the lawn.

Which brings me to how time is flying this year. Ern?

Although the calendar says August, I pretended it said April and got up to some Playhouse Spring Cleaning these few days passed. You may remember how dirty my TV and windows were, so those got a wash. And instead of wood, I axed a bunch of paper.

So this is what I'm currently working on at my desk:

 

It was nice to move everything out on the lawn and make the desk spiffy clean. I didn't find any money, but I did find enough dust to make a bunny and a cup and a half of sequins.

(The sharp-eyed will notice that I was obviously the victim of a robbery since you were last here. I mean, obviously. It's the only pliable explanation.)

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Some of you may remember how happy I was when I got my new drawers last September. Fresh elastic will do that to a girl. But the truth was, while I was happy about the new drawers, I had squalms. I mean the papers all fit and I certainly liked them better corralled in the drawers rather than achoo and scrunched in the trays, but, well, it wasn't all that user-friendly.

With weak and thin-skinned granny hands and a bad back, how stoopid was I to establish a system where I had to bend over and lift up and leaf through 500 sheets of paper to find the one I wanted?! And, people, I have several drawers of the schtuff collected since the last century.

Not any more.

The cool thing about joining in the WOYWW hop is that it is so nonjudgmental when it comes to our craft spaces. We are sometimes horrified in equal parts by how messy / neat we keep the areas where we all do our crafty magic. But we understand that all of us are creative, no matter the condition of our desks!

Personally, the hamster and I have so much clutter and chaos happening up in the party in our head, that we work best under Neat and Orderly conditions. Thus, here now are my patterned papers cut into either 6x6 or 6x12 sheets, sorted, and tabbed.  

One hopes that now that I can flip through and easily find revelant patterns, I will actually use my pretty papers. I'm sure this was the reasoning behind the invention of the 6x6 pads that you can pop in a drawer upside down for easy leafing.

I even made a card in celebration: 

I really like this card because it's multinational and involves friend ships. I made it for my friend Kim as a thank you card for driving to Hero Arts recently. And the pp is from the factory store we visited. The sediment and image are from American Art Stamps, but they came to me in the mail from the United Kingdom, stamped off by my friend Gay, so all I had to do was color and mat them. Gay gets the award this week for BEF: Best Enabler Friend, because I've since purchased this stamp and a few (cough) others from AAS.

So that's the news from around the Playhouse. How you doin? 

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