Crisis averted!

I am running late with this as we had a family crisis last night: Alex's favourite teddy was missing i.e the one he needs to go to sleep with.  I turned the house upside down trying to find this bear, which I KNEW had not left the house.  An hour and a half later, when we were all beginning to despair and Alex was in tears, I finally found him.  Where?  In my crafting bin under my desk in the study, hidden under various sheets of paper.  He must have been dropped in by accident when Alex and I were crafting yesterday morning.  What a nightmare! One traumatised small boy needed a lot of cuddles and comforting after that, but at least the crisis did come to a happy end. Anyhow, here is my desk as my contribution to the great desk blog hop that is WOYWW.  As you can see I am still working on my printers tray which dominates my desk. My craft mat is half hidden underneith it, you can see some new charms which I bought to complete the project, my lovely hot mug of tea at the back of the desk, along with the paper pad I have mostly used on this project.

Compared to last week, every compartment now has something in it...I am now in the process of starting to stick things down which is where it gets exciting.  I promise I will show you the complete version next week.

Other crafting projects this week have been scrapbook pages...I am simply MILES behind and really need to catch up.  This first page followed this weeks Creative Scrappers sketch and the Lasting Memories challenge of doing something about me!  When I was a teenager, I did a few modelling gigs and so when my father-in-law gave me his leather jacket, Tim decided I should strike an 80s style pose across the car and pretend I was modelling again, hence this photo and subsequent layout.  All very silly, but good fun! I am entering this into The Crazy challenge 'Lace or pearls' challenge as I used a lace punch for one of the borders on this.

The other layout that I made followed this weeks Pencil Lines sketch, which I adapted into this gorgeous Fancy Pants patterned paper by drawing the frames around the patterns. Instead of the triangles shown in the sketch I added little tags, and peel off orange stars to go with the patterned paper.  I was quite pleased with how this turned out.  I am also entering this into Pollycraft's 'anything but a card' and Simon says stamp 'spots or stripes' challenges. That is all from me for now.  Have a great rest of the week everyone.
Love,
Caro
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