WOYWW 551 - Merry Christmas everyone!

Merry Christmas to everyone who is part of the What's on your Workdesk gang (and anyone else who may be reading!).

Well this week turned out to be even more challenging than last week - I was diagnosed with pneumonia and Strep Throat and have been living on soup and not a lot else as I can't swallow anything solid. I also can't breathe properly, especially if I lie down so sleep has been in short supply. I am now on antibiotics and feeling a little better (yesterday was the first day I didnt doze off during the day) and am hoping to spend the day with my in laws. This is not actually my desk, but the dining room table - they are napkins folded into flowers and filled with party poppers and chocolates ready for the Christmas Dinner table.

Alex and I celebrated Christmas at the Christingle Service, which was lovely and atmospheric with a packed church, sadly my only service of the season.

So that's it from me today, short and sweet and I will leave you with these daft photos of the three of us to say Merry Christmas to you all.
With love and God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 550 - the pre-Christmas edition!

Another Wednesday in December and another glimpse of my desk courtesy of Julia (the creator of the What's on your Workdesk Wednesday phenomenon).

To be honest this week has been a bit of a write off - Alex was ill with a temperature of 103 for three days and then gave the lurgy to me!  Hence the box of tissues on my desk. I have been ill for five days so far and although I am slowly improving, I am still not well and am beginning to get fed up.  It is a proper flu and I have felt truly revolting. Anyway, enough moaning, here is my desk - I have managed to fill the lovely little stockings that Jan made with little chocolates and a candy cane ready to decorate the Christmas table.  You can also see my little diary, my mug of tea and my box of tissues (This is my fifth box of tissues since Friday - someone turn the tap in my nose off please!).

That is all from me for now... not up to writing any more. I hope all your Christmas preparations go well and that you all have a wonderful Christmas Day next week. Stay well and warm!
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 549

Welcome back to my blog for the Wednesday blog hop around our crafting community courtesy of Julia (her blog has all the details)

My desk is looking a little more chaotic than normal as I have been working on getting my bullet journal/daily journal up to date and adding penwork and stickers - just photos needed to finish it off.  On my desk you can see little stickers (lots), some Christmas papers and stickers, my journal, a mug of tea and various pens and my little pencil case. There is also a Christmas card at the back from a crafting workshop I attended with my Girls Night Out group from church last week.

14 of us met in the church lounge to create one card from a pack that Sue had put together - needless to say we all went our own way with some following the design exactly, but others doing something different

This is the picture of all the cards together (the one on top right is the original design)

I thought that I would also share the other crafting desk in our house - this is Alex's desk.  At the moment, he is having fun drawing cartoons, using some of Gran's colouring pencils which is lovely. He tends to draw in the last hour before bedtime as a way of calming down.

Finally, Alex and I popped into town at the weekend to sample the delights of the Christmas Market (Bratwurst and donuts) and here is a photo of Alex in front of Santa!
Have a wonderful week everyone,
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxx

WOYWW 548

Welcome to my blog!  I am back again after a crazy week last week involving several nights of working late meant I failed to post.  As usual I am joining in with What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday - check out Julia's blog for details.

Here is my desk - all clean and tidy because I have been doing my crafting electronically.  Each year I make a calendar for my Mum containing photos of all the family from the past year, so I have been sat at my computer collecting all the photos together. On my desk are a few new decorative items from our trip to The Harry Potter Experience at Warner Brothers Studios last Thursday - a miniature cuddly Hedwig, a Hogwarts Express and a Knight bus!  Finally, it wouldn't be my desk without a mug of tea, which is currently being drunk.

The other reason there hasn't been a huge amount of crafting is because I was preaching at the all age advent service on Sunday and there was a certain amount of preparation involved.  The talk was split into two, with the second part involving children opening some presents which needed preparing!  This was my first all age service/preach and there were definitely some lessons learnt - the most prominent of which was 'Do not help to lead a vigorous action song immediately before you have to talk'!  I was so hot, sweaty and out of breath that it was hard to talk - the first part came out in gasps!  (Mental note to self : Get Fitter!).  That said, I did get good feedback overall so it wasn't all bad.

I am going to finish with a few of the photos of Alex and me from Hogwarts in the Snow last week - it really got us in the Christmassy mood.

Have a wonderful week everyone,
With love & God Bless,
Caro
xxxx