WOYWW 534 - hot hot hot!

I know I say it often but this week has flown by and I still havent caught up with everything, not least because it is so hot and I'm not sleeping - peri-menopausal hot sweats plus hot nighttime temperatures are a BAD combination!  Anyway, enough moaning, the reason you are here is because it is Wednesday and time for WOYWW - see Julia's blog for the details.

My desk has seen a little action but not a lot due to the aforementioned catching up after the holiday (house cleaning and tidying, washing, work etc). You can see my mug of tea, the latest 'pocket page' which is my new version of scrapbooking (sorry about the glare - the details are below), various stickers, peel offs etc, a fineliner, and some books on the right. My aunt very kindly sent me a copy of the Shack and The Hiding place - books I have been meaning to read for years, so I will be reading them hopefully.

This is the latest pocket page from my 2019 book - my brother, and the cousins and I all having fun at the fair in May. 

It has been very quiet around here as Alex has been off with church to 'Soul Survivor' in the boiling heat, 

where he has been worshipping with over 8000 other teenagers! 

He gets back today, and I have barely heard from him, but I know that he will have had a wonderful time.  I can't wait to hear all about it.

In the meantime as a relief from the heat I have been wild swimming at my local plunge pool - it is so lovely to stand under this waterfall,

but I have missed my crazy swimming companion - going solo is not the same.  That is all from me for now so have a great week everyone,

With love & God Bless

Caro

xxx

WOYWW 533 - the holiday edition!

I am back from France and sadly back at work, but it is time for showing my desk at home as part of 'What's on your workdesk Wednesday' - see Julia's blog for details and how to join in should you wish to.

Here is my desk in a very tidy state having unpacked and put everything away after my holiday.  I have taken the photo from slightly further away than normal so you can see both sides of the desk. To the right is a book I have bought for my course at the School of Ministry (for Church of England), and a tantalising peep of a little bag from Kathy Franz (more on that later).  The left shows a pile of things for scrapbooking (not put away after last time), and at the back you can see my ipad and my new mug from France.

This is the close up of that mug - I have been looking for a large mug for ages, ever since the one I brought back from Crete was broken, and I found this one in Concarneau. I love it!

These are the contents of the lovely parcel that Kathy Franz sent me as a thank you for the WOYWW 10 year anniversary badge I sent her.  Two lovely crafting related badges, a gorgeous little tote bag from the Stamp & Scrapbook Expo that she attended when we were at the WOYWW 10 year anniversary crop and some lovely Harry Potter papers which I will put to good use!  Thank you so much Kathy!

Talking of Harry Potter I have finally put up the photos that were taken last year when Alex and I went to the studio tour and so completed my Harry Potter corner of my desk (for now!).  There has been no crafting in the past two weeks I'm afraid, but I hope to remedy that before next week!

 As I mentioned earlier, I was in France last week and had a wonderful time and took far too many photos to show here, but thought I would share just a few. It was a brief but wonderful holiday with my family (somewhat bitter sweet as we had booked the holiday before Dad died) in Brittany - lots of swimming, body boarding, kayaking, eating, exploring etc. 

 

Hopefully that has given you a brief taster of our week.  The three cousins had such fun together as did the rest of us. I am back at work again so crazy busy, but will endeavour to visit everyone in the next few days.  Have a wonderful week.
Love and God Bless
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 531 - a fleeting visit!

Well, I am back from my hols and ready to show you my desk again as part of the wonderful What's on Your Workdesk phenomenon (courtesy of Queen Desker, Julia).

 This photo was actually taken on Tuesday evening as I am back at work this week.  On my desk you can see my bullet journal/diary with my mini printer as I am printing out photos to stick in. You can also see a wine label at the back with my brother's name on it - it is his birthday this week and I am trying to decide whether to use it as part of his birthday card or to stick it on a bottle of wine for him (probably the latter as I think he will appreciate it more!). You can also see a lovely fresh mug of tea (this mug holds about a pint). To the far left of my desk I have finally moved the pile of project life things - I found somewhere to store them, at least temporarily.

The only crafting I have achieved in the past two weeks has been to finish the Index card a day challenge.

In total I made all 61 index cards, although the last few were finished a little late. 

Here are all 61 in all their colourful glory!

The reason I was missing last week was because I took Tim and Alex to North Wales for a week in this cottage.  The weather was mixed but we still had fun doing a mixture of different things, active things for Alex (leaving Tim sleeping in the cottage) and more sedate things that Tim could manage despite his health (boat trips, cable car and tram rides). It is always a challenge to juggle the two different needs of my 'boys', but we had a good week overall. Here are just a few of my favourite pictures.

Alex is now having a week with Mum down in Somerset where he is driving the tractor and playing with her puppy JayJay, while I am back at work.  It is VERY quiet here at the moment LOL!  I couldn't resist sharing this photo with you of him jumping into one of our local wild swimming spots (He is the leaping figure in green shorts!) in the peak district taken the day before we went to Wales.

Have a great week everyone. I will be missing again next week (taking Alex to France, but leaving Tim as he can't travel that far), but will try and visit everyone today if possible
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxxx